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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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Home insurance rates are rising — and climate is the culprit.
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No surprise. MAGA DOJ feeds info to Republicans to prop up false narratives; won’t answer basic questions from Democrats.
link:https://www.courthousenews.com/doj-may-have-disclosed-secret-grand-jury-material-to-congress-violated-judicial-gag-order-in-trump-classified-documents-case/
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The “SAVE” Act is designed to make voting a hassle.
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This clarifies that (a) Democrats offered to open up other DHS components (like TSA), and (b) Republicans did not agree and Trump wouldn’t.
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What we have been offering ALL ALONG is to fund DHS components like TSA, FEMA and Coast Guard — no conditions, just yes — and finally Republicans have moved in that direction.
link:https://wapo.st/4rNogFr
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This is Trump’s payback to his corrupt fossil fuel donors. Every clean inexpensive energy source he takes off the grid moves the grid back to marginal polluting fossil plants that would otherwise be off line. Billions goes from ratepayers to big donors. It’s a scheme. www.npr.org/2026/03/24/n...
link:https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5684158/trump-takes-aim-at-windmills-despite-increasing-energy-costs
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The corrupt billionaires controlling the Republican Party need the SAVE Act.
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More evidence of the Trump/Russia/Epstein triangle.
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Hard to find a single thing Trump does that doesn’t help Vladimir Putin and the fossil fuel industry. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/23/iran-war-us-lng-exports-taiwan-trump-asia-natural-gas"
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One way to help would be to get assurances that DOJ and the marshals sworn to protect our federal judges will investigate behind the mere utterer of the threat whenever there is evidence of orchestration, coordination or conspiracy – something they have refused to say despite many requests.
link:https://www.law360.com/publicpolicy/articles/2452769?nl_pk=8a19be73-f775-450b-b253-1226979ad5fa&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=publicpolicy&utm_content=2026-03-20&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=5
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Does this settle the question of which party is holding TSA funding hostage to get other stuff? Remember Democrats’ offer on TSA funding: “Yes. No conditions.” Could it be any clearer?
link:https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116275668825285445
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Epstein claimed to have given insight on Trump to the Russians.
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Sunday night update from the Senate:
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“Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.” Amazing the things Trumpsters have to say trying to stay aligned with Trump’s “wildly vacillating pronouncements about the war.” @politico.com
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Even with Trump helping Putin, Ukraine keeps winning. Over 3200 Russian casualties in just two days; 2200 likely fatalities.
link:https://open.substack.com/pub/bobhomans/p/3230-russian-casualties-in-the-last?r=5k2b5q&utm_medium=ios
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The so-called SAVE America Act is about as un-American as it gets.
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A good piece by @senangusking.bsky.social.
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At $100/barrel that means EVs saved around $84 billion last year.
quote:at://did:plc:uewxgchsjy4kmtu7dcxa77us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhck5pqy7n2p
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Republicans stand by this foul man.
quote:at://did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlkjhpqbs2k
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Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.
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Democrats are willing to fund FEMA, no conditions attached, even with wackadoodles like this in supposedly grownup jobs. But Republicans want the hostage, and won’t accept “Yes, with no conditions” as our answer. It’s 100% on them.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-violent-rhetoric-teleported-kfile
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Shows how the oil industry runs the world, and the Trump administration for sure. Total stooges.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/20/iran-oil-sanctions-trump/
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Remember the Democrats’ position on funding TSA: Yes. No conditions. Just yes. Hard for a minority party to offer more. Republicans won’t take yes for an answer because they want the hostage.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/03/20/tsa-security-dhs-airports-lines/
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Republicans drive up home insurance costs by pretending climate change isn’t real — a service to their fossil fuel funders; a huge disservice to their constituents.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/us-home-insurance-prices-set-to-keep-rising-with-severe-weather
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Americans are getting squeezed at the gas pump as Trump’s War in Iran sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors. This week, @khanna.house.gov and I reintroduced a bill to curb this profiteering and provide relief to consumers.
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The MAGA system for intimidating judges.
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Her explanation was no explanation. Other than involving Trump in the mess.
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“Blocking permits for new clean energy keeps cheap supply off the system,” which forces grid to high-cost fossil units, revenue to Trump donors. Scam.
link:https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/electricity-prices-rising-how-to-fix-utility-regulation/
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Methane polluters should be held to account. Instead, Republicans help them pollute. Fossil fuel money corrupts America.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating
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Republicans don’t want to fund TSA.
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Fossil fuel flunkies go into panic mode over obvious fact that their energy is dangerous, polluting, and whacks consumers with huge price hikes.
link:https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4490218/strait-of-hormuz-choke-point-rotten-fruits-green-policies/
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Polluters, and freeloaders too — to the tune of a trillion dollars. How much political corruption protects that grift?
link:https://www.iea.org/topics/fossil-fuel-subsidies
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Here comes the Great Climate Insurance Collapse.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-15/california-insurance-crisis-hits-even-homes-facing-lower-wildfire-risk
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Whiz kid.
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The Trump administration not appealing the decision throwing out its “stop work” order is a good sign for permitting reform progress, as wild swings in oil prices remind us that inexpensive, homemade electrons that do not depend on foreign cartel pricing are a national security win.
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Getting rid of dark money would be one good start. Paying their damned taxes would be another. We can do both. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/billionaire-curb-power-movement?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
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Is Epstein’s in-house accountant covering something up for Trump? These depositions are under oath. The Trump accuser’s lawyer disclosed to @postandcourier.bsky.social that she did indeed receive a settlement from Epstein’s estate, of which Mr. Kahn is both executor and beneficiary.
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They should keep an eye out for side deals and “kompromat” that would explain the Trump Administration persistently favoring the corrupt murdering tyrant Putin. www.politico.eu/article/germ...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-blasts-donald-trump-lift-russian-energy-sanctions/
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Doofus doesn’t know I came on the board at the same time as his marauders. As for “silence,” who put public members on mute in board meetings? www.thedailybeast.com/richard-gren...
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/richard-grenell-throws-a-fit-on-way-out-door-of-kennedy-center/
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Like a mob bust-out gone wrong, Trumpsters’ looting of the Kennedy Center has put it out of business, and now it needs to be “closed for renovations” as cover-up. No surprise he’s being replaced. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/03/13/kennedy-center-richard-grenell-resigns/
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How is this not simple?? We are fighting over reforming an out-of-control ICE. We have agreed to fully fund, no conditions attached, TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard and more. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lawmakers-dig-in-on-dhs-funding-impasse-9452c4c9
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More Trump/Russia: Rubio went to stump for Orban; Orban is blocking Ukraine $$ for Putin. www.ft.com/content/34df...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/34df20f9-487b-4cb6-9dc9-d676d959d1ed
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Republicans ought to rename their “SAVE” Act.
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Recycling, when done right, is good for the planet and keeps local taxes down. I’m very pleased that the funding to replace Providence’s aging, hodgepodge recycling carts comes from my bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act.
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Homan can start by telling us what happened to the $50k the FBI reports paying to him in a CAVA bag in a bribery sting.
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Trump: “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.” Translation: “We” = Trump’s big fossil fuel donors.
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5780543-us-oil-prices-trump/
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More freedom for Russia from sanctions; more revenue for Russia to slaughter Ukraine. Whatever Trump/Russia/Epstein is, and whatever Trump/Kushner/Witkoff side deals exist, this is a disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-russia-oil-sanctions.html