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“His motivation for Operation Epic Fury is at least partly to deflect from his tribulations that cannot be made to disappear: Operation Epstein Fury.”
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/03/trump-iran-war-emergency-powers
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Trump fossil fuel flunkies’ “national security” pretext for polluters is wearing thin. It went 0-for-6 on offshore wind, and letting coking facilities pollute locally for “national security” reasons seems quite the stretch.
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/trump-administration-ends-coke-fenceline-monitoring/
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Why does Secretary Noem’s “deportation jet” need a fancy bedroom?
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The stance of the nine law firms that caved under administration pressure may be hard to explain to clients who may face high-profile litigation against that same administration. “We cave under pressure” is not a great motto. Just sayin.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/opinion/law-firms-resistance-trump.html
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No lectures please from the clowns who took down the counter-terror expertise of our U.S. government. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/patel-fbi-national-security-division-firings-iran
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Much like his corrupt attack on offshore wind. If at first your illegal order doesn’t succeed, try, try again.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/trump-law-firm-orders-reversal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVA.-feV.SepnvpB1qDlu&smid=url-share
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Russia is losing in Ukraine, “paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and … in decline as a major power.” Trump is the one propping up Putin. One must wonder why. www.thecipherbrief.com/russias-war-...
link:https://www.thecipherbrief.com/russias-war-ukraine
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Why are Democrats afraid to talk about climate, when so many people already connect the dots between fossil fuel polluting emissions and their family’s financial costs? Home insurance is a HUGE cost for so many families, and getting worse fast!!
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"Trump the Wheedler” resembles the man in Gulliver’s travels who spent “eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers.” And note: “the systemic stupidity and toadyism that tyranny breeds.” Meaning Putin or Trump? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/27/trump-putin-russia-zelensky-ukraine-war/"
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I pray there is a plan beyond “Wagging the Dog” over the Trump/Epstein files saga and a bungled economy. It’s time to follow the Constitution, which gives the War Power to Congress to declare, precisely because of dangers from an unhinged executive starting a “Wag the Dog” war.
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My heart is with the men and women in uniform whom Trump has put in harm’s way. I wish our armed forces every battlefield success.
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“Stop Work” Trump has now become “Start War” Trump. This President is making all Americans less safe.
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Because it threatens fossil fuel’s free-to-pollute business model — the biggest subsidy in world history. Even a crack panics them.
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Trump fossil-fuel thuggery in action. Very few U.S.-flagged vessels involved; near zero measurable effect on U.S. economy; yet Trumpsters go berserk.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/02/trump-delayed-a-global-carbon-tax-now-he-wants-to-finish-the-fight-pro-00799842
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Trump is mentioned more times in the Epstein files than Voldemort is in the Harry Potter series. In fact, Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files more than Voldemort, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore COMBINED.
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“Entanglement in fishing gear and vessel strikes are the leading causes of North Atlantic right whale mortality, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and marine scientists everywhere.” And we have the whale corpses to prove it. ecori.org/all-the-righ...
link:https://ecori.org/all-the-right-moves-needed-to-save-these-endangered-whales/
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We are actually behind the public on climate, and we need to shape up, stop sucking, and get into this fight.
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In sum, we have real, winning economic messages about cost and corruption. 65% of Americans already think climate is affecting their costs. That’s public opinion in its natural state, no thanks to us.
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The Great Climate Insurance Collapse portends real danger. Do we not want to be warning about that? It could happen soon.
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To get really grim, there’s every reason to expect the spiraling insurance crisis to cascade into a mortgage and home values crisis that clobbers the economy like 2008, or worse.
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The fraud and corruption are powerful messaging targets, the public hates dark money, and our climate story improves with a villain in it.
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Finally, we are where we are because of truly villainous behavior by the fossil fuel industry, through its massive climate denial fraud operation and its associated dark-money political corruption operation.
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But 92% of Texans are concerned about the cost of home insurance — a tip-top issue — and 66% already connect the dots to climate change. Let’s communicate on that.
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Look at Texas, where electricity generation has gotten cheaper over recent years because low-cost wind and solar surged onto its grid.
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Tell that story, or its wildfire sibling out West, and link it to the fraudulent climate denial operation Republicans run with their fossil fuel donors.
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Florida has a tottering insurance market, mortgages at risk of becoming unavailable unless they can be dumped on Fannie and Freddie, homes that can’t be sold, and the worst decline in property values of all fifty states.
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Add the many expert (often fiduciary) witnesses from my Budget Committee hearings — financial alarms are screaming.
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Fed Chair Powell is useless on climate, but even he sees a near future in which entire regions of the country are unmortgageable, with big hits to banking and the economy as a result of this cascade (look up “systemic”).
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In some places, it’s unobtainable without massive expense (like a new roof) or even at all, in which case your home value falls because no insurance means no mortgage means good luck finding a buyer.
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More powerful in many places is homeowners insurance, a big part of family budgets, one whose cost is skyrocketing.
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Our communications should explain this racket to ratepayers. Once they see the scheme, it’s hard to unsee it. Plus, no one likes being scammed.
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It’s a purposeful scheme to pay back Trump’s big fossil fuel donors using ratepayer money, hoping ratepayers won’t look past their utility bill and understand why that cost is going up.
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That raises the grid price, electricity rates go up, consumers pay more, but fossil fuel interests cash in big time, by billions.
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Start now with electricity rates, being purposefully driven up by Trump. Why? Because when they stall clean energy, the grid must reach up the “generation stack” to fossil plants that would not otherwise be running.
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Until his very last speech, there was no sense of combat, no talk of villains, no warning of consequences (use of “existential” doesn’t count). So we lost four years.
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The Biden administration was particularly bad, hoping to “friendly” its way through climate upheaval with “green jobs” talk, corporate tax incentives and squishy bromides about the environment.
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Let me offer a slight rebuttal on climate politics, beginning with us (enviros and Dems) having done a terrible job on climate communication for a long time. A legacy of bad work is not reason to stop work, it’s reason to do better work. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/clean-green-energy.html
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it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files..."
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“If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement…
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"[Y]ou have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump's actions and cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.”
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Patel fires agents but won’t disclose his own grand jury testimony in that same matter, instead repeatedly lying to lay false trails.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/fbi-agents-fired-classified-documents-kash-patel-toll-records
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Take a second look, why don’t you. apnews.com/article/epst...
link:https://apnews.com/article/epstein-justice-department-trump-793e47b09863f5a55e54040c891291d8
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The excess heat is coming on by the zettajoules. Look it up.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/chronic-ocean-heating-fuels-staggering-loss-marine-life-study
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Trump minions lie about cost and blockade clean energy. Result: your costs go up and fossil fuel makes more money. Crooked deal.
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Put battery and low-cost solar and wind together, and you have inexpensive clean energy fossil fuel can’t beat. So they cheat.
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/chart-grid-battery-installations-soared-2025
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As President ‘Stop Work’ Trump brags about a year of chaos and corruption, he will be met by a dedicated union worker whose livelihood was upended to allow Trump to serve his fossil fuel billionaires.
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Rhode Island union workers like Mr. Kilday have done much to secure America’s clean, affordable energy future, even as the president does everything he can to keep families chained to dirty, expensive fossil fuels.
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Thomas Kilday, a union worker from the Revolution Wind project, was on a work boat the first time Trump halted the project. The second time, he was home awaiting his next four-week shift. Tonight, he’ll sit in the audience as Trump boasts his commitment to fossil fuels.