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You get energy affordability by getting off fossil fuel. Clean energy is least expensive on the grid. Clean energy has less “negative externalities” (pollution). Get enough clean energy and you get free electricity periods of the day. Our offshore is 9 cents/kwh in 18-cent grid.
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The Trump cabinet is like a Halloween party, dressed up as firefighters and nurses but not firefighters or nurses — just costume. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/bessent-takes-us-growth-agenda-message-to-g20-summit-in-asheville
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Whatever Trump/Russia is, it’s facilitating this behavior by Putin, putting troops and allies in peril. Must be big. www.ft.com/content/6cf3...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/6cf367bc-95b0-4f1f-b149-a25684adefc3?shareType=nongift&syn-25a6b1a6=1"
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It’s time Congress passes my CEO Act, which would apply an excise tax on companies with a worse than 50-to-one CEO-to-median-worker pay disparity.
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As American families face a cost crisis, CEOs rake in hundreds of times more than their average worker, and don’t seem to care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/ceo-worker-pay-ratio-us-analysis
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Farmers and truckers across the country are reminded every day at the fuel pump that “Ballroom Trump” and his crooked cronies conned and betrayed them.
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War criminal Putin flaunting his newest yacht camouflaged as a “salvage ship.” We should be working to seize this damned thing. youtu.be/3oUp81DmW0U?...
link:https://youtu.be/3oUp81DmW0U?si=egx18W4UkF8JSURB"
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Remember the zettajoule. If you don’t know what that means for oceans, look it up. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/climate-crisis-nepal-floods-india-caribbean"
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Yikes. Even the PolluterPage tees off on Trump’s Venezuela Oil Scam, comparing it to “The Godfather.” Once again, the Trump administration goes “gangster gong show.” Someone will pocket some mighty change, you can bet. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-the-oil-in-venezuela-f3e584f3"
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www.unep.org/topics/energ...
link:https://www.unep.org/topics/energy/methane/international-methane-emissions-observatory
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Want to take a look yourself? Here are websites that show satellite imagery of U.S. methane leakers. ⬇️ data.carbonmapper.org#1/30.8/50.5
link:https://data.carbonmapper.org/#1/30.8/50.5
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It matters when huge methane leakers get busted by satellites. Of course Republicans in Congress went out of their way (changed Senate rules!) to protect our worst methane leakers (aka their stinky fossil fuel donors). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/31/turkmenistan-methane-leaks-un-alerts-mars
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“Let Data Reign”? Seriously? I think billionaires are already reigning quite enough, thank you.
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What is it about Trump that gives the Republican justices such spines of foam? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/supreme-court-lets-trump-keep-building-white-house-ballroom"
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"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Thank you, and RIP, Wendell Berry.
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Almost as fixed as Pirro and Burgum’s fake prosecutions of American citizens, to humor their boss’s mad fixation with “VANDALS!” thehill.com/homenews/adm...
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6061024-trump-reflecting-pool-renovations/"
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We act like nothing’s happening but when they’re gone we will regret it. They are the oceans’ nurseries. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/c...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/climate/coral-reef-recovery-time.html"
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Eeew. Career FBI agents must be grossed out by this. When standards fall, it stains everyone, not just the johns and thieves that creepy Patel lets in. One day even Blanche will be sick of this. www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-can...
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-candidates-prostitutes-theft/"
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We’ve dawdled long enough. Put seizures on a steady schedule to address legal fears early (not likely a war criminal wins, but Belgian bankers are anxious). US should do its $5 billion too. www.ft.com/content/6d27...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/6d272811-8d26-46f0-ae24-abed61aa1bf3?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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This damned dark money is a toxin in our body politic and for the health of our democracy we need to GET RID OF IT. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/politics/the-least-transparent-midterm-how-dark-money-is-washing-over-the-2026-election.html"
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They’re trying to explain subtraction to Secretary Hairgel. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/military-leaders-warn-hegseth-against-extending-iran-war-operations/"
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When Trump blocks clean energy, he raises your costs. Period. Worse, he’s doing it on purpose, to steer your money to his cronies’ expensive fossil fuel plants — a payback to his big donors, at your expense. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/lcoe-lazard-clean-energy
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We too should seize the Russian assets we hold frozen.
link:https://euobserver.com/233219/seize-russias-frozen-e210bn-for-ukraine-now-while-eu-unity-lasts/
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Guess whose side the Trump administration is on?
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/business/energy-environment/diesel-prices-iran-war-oil.html
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They blew the munitions on Trump’s botched war with Iran, leaving our ally Ukraine exposed to murderous assaults by Vladimir Putin, bomber of children’s hospitals (and Trump buddy).
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/the-russia-ukraine-air-war-has-entered-a-new-deadlier-phase-6d15cce1
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Republicans want to build a commission so they can sneak in benefit cuts without taking responsibility for them. They have no legislation; Democrats do. We could fix Social Security now, but Republicans want to pretend cuts are presented by a “commission.”
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/20/fixing-social-security-needs-bipartisan-commission/
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Americans are picking up the tab for Trump’s costly tariffs.
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Important new report from Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab showing how the fossil fuel industry drives opposition to state climate superfund legislation.
link:https://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/climate-superfund-bills-in-the-u-s-states
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Zettajoules. Look it up. Your future self will thank you.
link:https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/ocean-heat-record-el-nino-22400114.php
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Left out punchline: Clean energy is lower cost; Trump “ban” effort drives grids to high cost plants of (drum roll) corrupt fossil fuel donors.
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/trumps-big-beautiful-law-was-supposed-to-kill-clean-energy-it-didnt
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Confirming what they have tried to deny: tariffs do raise costs for Americans.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/trump-beef-anger-01046346
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Bullying doesn’t always work; dumb bullying even less; TACO dumb bullying least of all.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/23/us-canada-breakdown-shows-limits-trumps-aggressive-trade-strategy/
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Fix health care and make the uber-rich pay some damned taxes, and you’re off to a good start.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/22/debt-surpasses-40-trillion-bill-washington-spending-comes-due/
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The fact is that Trump added more debt than Biden, and Republican presidents have added more debt than Democrats. By lots.
link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-joe-biden-debt-blame_n_6a884099e4b02b0e964797bc?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
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If this is Todd Blanche doing Bozo Removal can we hope that Bozo Kash Patel is next?
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/ed-martin-leaving-justice-department-01046018
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“The lies spewed and the amount of death and destruction caused by Big Oil in the pursuit of riches puts Big Tobacco to shame.”
link:https://ecori.org/burn-notice-greed-lies-and-devastation/
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Trump, his family, and his billionaire cronies are all getting richer, directly profiting from the higher costs your family is fronting every day. In case you had any doubt, Trump is the most corrupt president this country’s ever known.
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California is doing impressive things with clean energy. I hope the EU notices!
link:https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/clean-energy-serving-california/tracking-progress-toward-100-clean-energy
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Bravo to Cranston PD’s Crisis Intervention Team for this achievement! I was glad to deliver the federal funding needed to make this life-saving training possible for Cranston’s finest. www.cranstononline.com/news/cransto...
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www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
link:https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ClimateWarningsNOV25.pdf
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This omits the many warnings of a “Great Climate Insurance Collapse” recession. That danger is real.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/08/10/when-americas-budget-will-break-disastrously/
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Add up this, his threat to bomb Oman, the endless Iran mess he made, Greenland, and his weird NATO-hating and Putin-loving, and it should be increasingly clear to Republicans that the guy’s just not all there.
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6034269-us-south-korea-military-exercises-cut/
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That realization came slowly: “Now he looks as if he doesn’t know what his next move is. He’s uncertain. He doesn’t look . . . competent.” www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-starting-to-look-precarious-a6e90770
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The corrupt fossil fuel/Trump axis is deliberately damaging U.S. clean energy competitiveness, letting China run off with markets where we should be challenging them. Pretty unpatriotic. www.iea.org/reports/ener...
link:https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-technology-perspectives-2026