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Bye-bye coal — solar tops coal in U.S., and more to come. Clean costs less.
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No one has more fun in a parade than Joe McNamara and no one has better garb than Kasim Yarn.
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As America celebrates 250, we’re marking 254 years since bold RI colonists burned the dreaded HMS Gaspee and sparked America’s path to independence. Happy celebrating, RI!
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Bye-Bye 👋🏼
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Yesterday went by, and the MAGA DOJ/IRS filed nothing to defend the Trump slush fund/tax amnesty “settlement” in the Trump versus Trump case, hiding behind Trump lawyers’ bare-bones denial. Now on to further proceedings. Next filing in a week by the retired judges.
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Stay also denied by DC Circuit. Name comes off tonight. Watch here:
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There are many outstanding questions about President Trump’s longtime close friendship with the sex trafficking pedophile Epstein and a possible Russia angle, and the American people deserve answers.
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Even with all the attention on this, Trump’s DOJ is STILL not releasing to the public a number of docs related to this accuser: agents’ handwritten notes from the interviews, license records, and a law enforcement report. They never investigated “Suspicious Activity Reports.”
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The Trump administration did not provide Jane Doe 4’s interviews willingly. It was thanks to clever reporting from Roger Sollenberger that the world figured out the MAGA DOJ was hiding claims about Trump, and only under enormous pressure, the DOJ released SOME of the missing information.
link:https://sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/fbi-interviewed-trump-accuser-epstein
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Jane Doe 4 told the FBI she was nearly run off the road and said that strange men would call and harass her. Other Epstein accusers have described similar stories of threats and intimidation, including having their cars chased off the road:
link:https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/us/jeffery-epstein-witness-intimidation
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There are other little things. We know Epstein was a pianist and gave money to causes related to classical music. Jane Doe 4 remembered that he liked classical music. Jane Doe 4 seemed to remember that Epstein had a brother. Epstein did have a brother.
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The big accusations are impossible to corroborate without talking to other people but many of the details do check out. Post and Courier did some great shoe leather reporting on this:
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html
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The FBI spoke with the Trump accuser 4 times, and asked for more. The FBI doesn’t do that when they think someone isn’t telling the truth. And indeed, according to Julie Brown’s reporting, an FBI source said agents found the accuser to be credible. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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We know thanks to Post and Courier that Jane Doe 4 received a settlement directly from Epstein’s estate. Someone there thought she was credible.
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-estate-hilton-head-teen/article_a58fcca8-ba02-4303-91df-35665fd69a36.html
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It’s worth reviewing Jane Doe 4’s allegations about being sexually and physically assaulted by Trump as a minor after being trafficked by Epstein:
link:https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-s1-5737562/justice-department-missing-epstein-files-trump
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Bloom’s firm represented Jane Doe 4, the woman who accused both Trump and Epstein of assaulting her when she was underage, as well as another Trump accuser in 2016.
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Lisa Bloom, who likely knows as much as anyone about the credibility of the accusations against Trump, says “the man who is mentioned probably more than anyone else in the Epstein files should be subpoenaed to testify: Donald Trump.”
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyer-for-donald-trump-sex-accuser-13-demands-president-testify-under-oath/
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We have a President who is petrified of the truth getting out about his long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Many questions remain. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html
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Countdown: Today’s the day! Let’s see what the corrupt and misbehaving MAGA DOJ has to say under oath about its “fraud on the court.” Who will sign the pleadings? What will they say? Will the investigation continue? We’ll keep watch.
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Rhode Islanders know the therapeutic feeling of being out on the water. Great to see Gnome Surf Therapy helping more people experience that for themselves. Bravo!
link:https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/10/31/surf-therapy-mental-health-gnome-surf-sara-shukla
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What is the taste of Senate Republicans for another Bove-style cover-up to ram a MAGA nominee through committee while a federal court investigation is pending, without awaiting its results? Time will tell, but the Bove precedent is an ominous one.
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The Blanche “fraud on the court” complaint arose out of what I call the Trump “cop-beaters slush fund,” which even Republicans hate (or are afraid of), so the “fraud on the court” investigation could exhume buried bodies of that rotten scheme.
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“Fraud on the court” is deadly serious, and can lead to sanctions in the case, referrals to the bar for attorney misconduct, and referral even for criminal investigation of possible fraud, perjury and obstruction.
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Where Bove had a pending contempt of court investigation, Blanche has a pending “fraud on the court” investigation. In both cases, federal judges saw evident misbehavior and began the process of investigation.
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The Judiciary Committee deliberately blinded itself to potential contempt of court by a MAGA judicial nominee, and rushed forward in the stay window. Will that “fixeroo” be repeated for Todd Blanche in his confirmation hearings?
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The Committee could have said that we needed the contempt findings in order to determine the nominee’s fitness for high judicial office, so we will hold off on confirmation until after the contempt hearing produces a factual record. The Committee did not.
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The “administrative stay,” customarily a very short-term intervention, in this case lasted four months. In those four months, Emil Bove was rammed through the Judiciary Committee and into a Third Circuit judgeship.
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When the judge scheduled a hearing to look into whether contempt of court had been committed by the MAGA DOJ, two Trump judges on the DC Circuit court suddenly stayed those contempt proceedings. (The dissent is worth reading.)
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When Trump thug lawyer Emil Bove joined the MAGA Justice Department, he quickly became involved in three instances of likely prosecutorial misconduct. One of them caught the attention of a federal judge as potential contempt of court. 🧵
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This is the pickle a stubborn, erratic and corrupt president creates for Republicans.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/11/house-vote-fails-extend-controversial-wiretapping-law/
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Climate change used to be a bipartisan issue. There’s some Rhode Island history here. I’m headed to the Senate floor to give my 308th Time to Wake Up speech.
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Hormuz problem predicted by U.S. intelligence for years; but POTUS evidently did not have the intelligence to process the intelligence. Says a lot also about his circle of suck-ups ignoring the intel to please the boss.
link:https://youtube.com/shorts/riUq9FTShZk?si=vkBCF14ykK1PKyJQ
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Countdown: MAGA DOJ has three days left to respond to “fraud on the court” charge. If they did that, there can be sanctions in the case, bar discipline, even criminal referrals for perjury, fraud, obstruction. They’ll need to step carefully!
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If the President prefers a corrupt and wildly partisan incompetent running DNI to having 702 authorities extended, that is 100% on him. There is no honest argument for this appointment.
link:https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2026/surveillance-tools-expiration-bears-down-on-senate
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Countdown: this Friday, the MAGA DOJ has to respond under oath to a federal court concern that DOJ slush fund lawyers committed a “fraud on the court.” I’ve never heard of senior DOJ folks ever accused of such a thing. Four days left!
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Nice to see the realization spread that Ukraine is actually winning. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/05/u...
link:https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/05/ukraine-russia-war-putin-zelensky-winning-drones-front-battlefield-peace/
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This is how he compensates his gang of thugs for disrupting the elections this coming November. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-jan-6-rioters-attacked-police-payouts-anti-weaponization-fund-rcna348457
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Senate Republicans to Trump: “Don’t worry, we’ll protect your filthy slush fund, with just enough ‘hall pass’ votes not to make a difference.”
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Bad enough to say “pretexts are fine as long as you’re going after black voters”; worse when the pretext is exploded, and the Court still blocks. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-alabama-voting-rights_n_6a22b848e4b0a18aef0b7ba7?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
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We may need the business execs to also convince Trump officials to stop poisoning the well on permitting reform with illegal regulatory interference. Everyone is sick of that.
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Only after complaints from big corporations roll in does this administration begin to reconsider stupidity. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/05/how-big-business-tech-ai-softened-trump-new-green-card-policy/
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Genius move by Trump calling Thom Tillis a “loser” while he needs his vote. Maybe some choice words for Cornyn too? newrepublic.com/post/211450/...
link:https://newrepublic.com/post/211450/trump-tillis-todd-blanche-ultimatum
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Do understand the concept of the “hall pass.” thehill.com/homenews/sen...
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5910606-gop-senators-trump-white-house-ballroom-amendment/
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I will not concede that Ukraine should give up ANY territory to Russian invaders, particularly when Ukraine is so obviously winning, and Russia is reduced to terror attacks that murder civilians. Remember the punditocracy on Ukraine having “weeks” to survive? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/05/ukraine-recent-wins-give-trump-chance-make-putin-end-war/
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Punchline from UK: “climate change-driven flooding … has the potential to trigger a destructive shock to the housing market that could ripple across the wider economy.” Time to wake up?
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Even with their own corrupt fossil fuel stooges in key Trump positions, the market just doesn’t support this rotten program. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/05/trump-holds-oil-lease-auction-alaska-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge/
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The unthinkable has happened. DOJ lawyers in RI are under federal judicial scrutiny for misconduct, and the longstanding “presumption of regularity” is lost. www.cbsnews.com/news/rhode-i...
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rhode-island-judge-justice-department-transgender-care-investigation/
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Pulte has no business at DNI, interim, temporary, part-time or otherwise. Period. Bad enough to weaponize Americans’ banking data; give him intelligence data and the damage to our Intelligence Community’s reputation will be profound. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5911508-six-republicans-vote-no-on-fisa-extension/