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I wouldn’t put it past Trump to bomb a power station in Iran just to give Vladimir Putin cover for his relentless energy terror against Ukraine. s2.washingtonpost.com/473e494/69d4...
link:https://s2.washingtonpost.com/473e494/69d41fd3770ff71a44bacb68/5972c092ade4e21a8483291a/4/13/69d41fd3770ff71a44bacb68
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The East Bay Bike Path is a Rhode Island gem that was in need of some repair. @reed.senate.gov and I secured federal funding for new bridges that once again allow riders to smoothly traverse the entire East Bay.
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For Sale: Trump gives data centers “some PR help” with a “pledge” that has no binding enforcement mechanism.
link:https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/energy-industry-greets-white-house-data-center-deal-with-a-shrug/
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Trump is looking around at the mess that he’s made and is trying to figure out how to throw the election.
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Good article. I visited the same factory and was equally impressed.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/30/ukraine-russia-putin-zelensky-drones/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=week_in_ideas&utm_term=jtk-flex-day
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Pope Leo challenges “the abuses that crush the weakest among us, the idolatry of profit that plunders the Earth’s resources, the violence of war that kills and destroys.”
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My intel is that Trump administration used Orban to help sabotage the EU’s Russian-assets-to-Ukraine deal. More Trump/Russia.
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/operation-save-viktor-orban-us-donald-trump-deploys-jd-vance-hungary/
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Wishing a very happy and peaceful Easter to all who celebrate!
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Post and Courier doing good work catching Trump/Epstein Files gaps. Well done. www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-wit...
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-witness-jeffrey-epstein-sc/article_5a467072-e68c-44fa-91a5-7b509ff6949c.html
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TrumpSpeak: “hoax” means real for sure; “full confidence” means start packing; “obliterated” means still there.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-military-strikes-trump
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It would be nice to have a president who did NOT combine the mental acuity of a geezer and the temperament of a toddler. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/02/us-iran-war-strait-hormuz-future/
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Now will the press finally concede that this is and always has been a 100% Republican dysfunction-caused shutdown? Come on, folks. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/house-dhs-funding-shutdown.html
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My guess is that Patel is next to go. He is DOJ’s Lewandowski: jets and partying not popular; lying to Congress not resolved; astounding incompetence.
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It’s easy to be out-muscled by the thug muscle of the fossil fuel industry, but it’s really a shame barely even to try. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-...
link:https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-ski-industry-is-oddly-quiet-on-climate-change/
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At the end, the whole shutdown was completely unnecessary and 100% caused by Republican dysfunction. 🧵
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Key text: the U.S. has “failed to sanction a single new tanker under the current administration.” More Trump/Russia.
link:https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-inside-russias-shadow-fleet/
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Some rare good news. Kudos, Uber.
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Just like clockwork.
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Bondi fell into the Trump Trap, giving up her integrity to keep her job, and looks like she now will leave with neither.
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About time they figured it out. So much unnecessary pain and hassle when this was our offer all along. “Yes to everything except the ICE/CBP bits that everyone knows need reform” — what was so hard about that? What was the point of holding all the rest hostage? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-announce-plan-end-dhs-shutdown-tsa-airport-delays-rcna266286
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Someone ought to tell President Trump...
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This is the woman whose FBI 302s were “mistakenly” withheld by MAGA DOJ, and interview notes still withheld. Some transparency.
link:https://newrepublic.com/post/208341/new-details-13-year-old-donald-trump-accuser-epstein
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Begging the question whether Trump, 79, is in full control of his mental faculties.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/trump-words-iran-war-churchill
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In Trump’s dirty energy scam, families pay the cost.
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This is what happens when cranks, thieves and sycophants run the United States government.
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/03/trump-us-power-iran/686567/
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Add another half-billion to the tab of Trump’s Crazy War, and chalk it up to Putin. Interesting how Putin gets away with that. Why is Trump the submissive one, in that one relationship?
link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/29/how-iran-destroyed-500m-battlefield-nerve-centre-at-us-base/
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Curious: A. What was her business there? B. What was his business there? C. Did they take the bedroom jet? D. Who paid for it?
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noems-alleged-lover-corey-lewandowski-fired-in-middle-of-exotic-getaway/
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Boom! “Over the last several days, Ukraine, using drones and possibly a new cruise missile called the “Flamingo,” knocked out approximately 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity in one night.”
link:https://bobhomans.substack.com/p/bomber-command-without-bombers
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Thank you, everyone. It buoys us to know you have our backs. This was wonderful.
link:https://www.reuters.com/pictures/scenes-anti-trump-no-kings-protest-across-america-2026-03-28/
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When you’ve busted out an organization and need to feign “renovations” to cover that you’ve run it into the ground, you get this.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/03/26/kennedy-center-layoff/
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If they want to blow up permitting reform, making this nonsense national would be the way to do it. Rule of Law must fall before Fossil Fuel? What has fossil fuel pollution done to Great Salt Lake, “Greatest Snow On Earth”?
link:https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2026/03/27/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-get-out-of-court-free-card-00848882
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Why does Trump love a guy who bombs maternity hospitals? Trump/Epstein/ Russia?
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-drones-kill-four-ukraine-damage-key-infrastructure-maternity-hospital-2026-03-28/
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Trump is propping up Putin, who is losing, raising again Trump/Russia/Epstein.
link:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/putin-losing-ukraine-war-trump-oil_uk_69c509d0e4b081f8eb150b42
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Has anyone swept the Speaker's office after this incursion by Russians?
link:https://thehill.com/policy/international/5803437-luna-russian-delegation-meeting/
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Had Biden gone on a mind-wander like this, the press would be all over his mental capacity.
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/sharpie-calls-bs-on-donald-trumps-rambling-pen-story/
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This story is off base. All along, Democrats offered to fund ALL the other parts of DHS. Republicans held TSA and the rest hostage.
link:https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/g-s1-115366/senate-dhs-tsa-deal
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Mucho hogwash. Offshore wind demonstrably less expensive than fossil; ask the grid. Trump pays back fossil donors by blocking cheaper competition. www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
link:https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2026/0328/total-energies-trump-wind-farm
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But if you ask Republicans, the real crime was Jack Smith investigating any of this.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/25/trump-classified-map-private-plane/
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Since they've corrupted our executive branch under Trump, it becomes more important than ever to claw back for consumers their crooked excess profits.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/business/energy-environment/natural-gas-prices-lng-shell-exxon-war-iran.html
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Is this that he just lies, or is it mental fatigue?
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Do we need to consider whether the “absurdly incoherent” statements of the President reflect some form of mental incapacity? He seems to have stopped making sense.
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/donlad-trump-strait-of-hormuz-allies-befuddled/
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Lyin’ Lee Zeldin deceived Congress, the courts, and the American people. I’m calling on him to go.
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If the Republican-controlled House screws this up, there’ll be no way for the press to pretend Republicans have not always owned this shutdown.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/27/dhs-funding-house-tsa/
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Here we go again. If this were Biden, they’d be talking about age and mental fatigue and whether the President can keep track. Trump, nearly 80, gets a pass.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/26/i-have-no-idea-trump-allies-iran-00847304
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From a legal perspective, the FBI’s raid of a Fulton County election office doesn’t pass the smell test. From an intelligence standpoint, it becomes even more suspicious. @markwarner.bsky.social and I unpack the red flags raised by this search in the latest episode of Making the Case. 🔗⬇️
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No wonder this foul industry fights and lies and corrupts to protect its rotten free-to-pollute business model.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research
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If this were Biden, there’d be a paragraph in there on his age and mental capacity; Trump always gets a pass, even in stories suggesting mental fatigue.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-iran-talks.html
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Sue and settle/pay to play/public $$ to MAGAloons. Reeks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-25/doj-agrees-to-pay-ex-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-in-settlement
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Joe Biden won the election in 2020. If a future judge can’t admit that, what’s left?
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