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Americans see the billionaire-funded rot with their own eyes: creepy dark money, a captured Court, climate denial fraud — all rampant.
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Economist magazine cover: “Degradation in Progress” at DOJ. That says a lot.
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No words for this.
link:https://youtu.be/ZjQvm56_D_8?si=MgqTd00H_JhmoU_r
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As Americans struggle with cost increases in a full cost-of-living crisis, here are three of the ways the Trump administration is raising your costs:
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More than 60 years ago, Hofstadter wrote this article. It stands up pretty well.
link:https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
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“Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that “new ideas” would be needed to bring an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.” New idea: stop propping up war criminal Putin.
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Right-wing special interests spent hundreds of millions to capture the Supreme Court so that it could rule against ordinary Americans time and again.
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This is why corporate America sought policy guidance about climate risk, which prompted the fake “anti-ESG” response from fossil fuel’s denial apparatus. The corporate sector caved at first, but climate risk is real, and so is fiduciary liability.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/pension-funds-try-to-come-to-grips-with-scariest-climate-scenario?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDY0NzAzNSwiZXhwIjoxNzg1MjUxODM1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSTFUUzdLSkg2VjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxQzUwMjBGNDk0Mzk0M0ZBQTA2OTRDREM1MTg5RkU1RiJ9.35vrz2gze5qH4VFa5m6_CJDdrRx9fCVZhd_wp-xM828
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Oh, MAHMA — Make America Have Measles Again.
link:https://wapo.st/4pDO5Zm
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Maybe helping to coordinate Russia’s election interference for Trump?
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/20/kash-patel-fbi-russia-trip-01005078
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Senator Moreno objected.
quote:at://did:plc:qqixzm5pwprzdnkbh2hglpax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6ngtbpy22l
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I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this simple truth: climate change portends a cascade of financial market collapses that would destabilize the national and global economies.
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Looks like more Trump corruption. Will any Republicans in Congress see or care? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/top-treasury-tax-official-ousted-after-clashes-with-white-house-over-irs-audits-60d5b1df?st=FTVqW4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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“Nothing to see here, folks,” says corrupt fossil fuel industry.
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Some easy starters: inbox for ethics complaints; screeners to sort; lawyers for fact-finding. Nothing there is hard. Indeed 50 for 50 every state supreme court has figured out how to do it, so it’s quite obviously not that hard. www.ms.now/connect/watc...
link:https://www.ms.now/connect/watch/above-the-law-scotus-can-t-seem-to-figure-out-a-basic-ethics-code-2506956867968
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PolluterPage gets one right! www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-save-america-act-elections-voting-7cc3fe5b
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The AI data center “race to the bottom” worsens our real climate perils. In a decent world, the industry would agree on safety standards. The billionaires and putative billionaires behind these projects could easily afford to be responsible. They choose not to be.
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Oh, really. Corporate propaganda has polluted judicial retreats for decades, but when it’s climate science, PolluterPage objects. www.wsj.com/opinion/judi...
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/judicial-impartiality-is-under-threat-5ee0de72
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Senate Rs backing Blanche will have more egg on their face than a McMuffin.
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Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump’s campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he’s dragging his party down with him in the midterms.
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In the recent heat domes, wind and solar saved the day. Trump’s attacks on wind and solar aren’t for you, they’re for his big corrupt fossil fuel donors.
link:https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/grid-edge/clean-energy-grid-heat-wave
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National Geographic does Rhode Island. Well done!
link:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/summer-road-trip-rhode-island
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Senator Banks objected.
quote:at://did:plc:qqixzm5pwprzdnkbh2hglpax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqppoc6fqc2e
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Blanche showed complete blindness to the MAGA DOJ’s misconduct.
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I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this one, simple truth: Florida’s insurance market is gravely stressed by climate risks.
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Trump blocking low-cost solar drives grids to higher-cost fossil fuel units, so Americans pay billions more for power. But those excess billions go to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. It’s a corrupt scheme to fleece ratepayers to pay off donors.
link:https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/solar-costs-jump-18-remain-cheapest-generation-build-lazard-says-2026-07-13/
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Blanche claims to “welcome our questions.” Well, maybe he should try answering them.
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By forcing votes on nominees like Blanche, Trump is dragging Senate Rs down with him.
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23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.
link:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-ocean-temperatures-are-entering-uncharted-territory-climate-scientists-say/
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Blanche’s word has no credibility with me.
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All that extra money Trump is making families pay by stomping on low-cost-to-drive EVs (never mind the damage to U.S. auto industry in international competition, where EV sales are soaring and China dominates).
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2026/07/13/heres-how-much-money-ev-drivers-are-saving-your-state/
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Good TACO, this time.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/14/oil-prices-jump-after-trumps-threats-strait-hormuz/
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Rubio, three weeks ago: “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway.” Trump, yesterday: the U.S. will charge a 20 percent fee on maritime cargo through Strait of Hormuz. So much for the principle of freedom of navigation. China is watching.
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Well, I told you to watch the Florida proceedings about whether a “fraud on the court” was committed in the slush fund case, and we now have the federal judge’s decision, and it’s a doozy. Here’s how she framed the question: 🧵
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In the last week, Ukraine has “sanctioned” roughly 100 shadow fleet ships carrying Russian oil. Shadow ships are burning; Russians are seeing gas lines and fistfights for fuel. Ukraine is winning.
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These Ukrainians are remarkable; they make me proud to be a human being — which is precious right now looking at our leadership.
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraines-most-potent-weapon-is-the-soldiers-who-refuse-to-quit-bdd145fe
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I am stunned and saddened to hear the news this morning. Lindsey was a giant in the Senate. No one loved being a Senator more, or was more energetic. The Senate will be a lesser place without him. I’ve lost a dearly cherished friend.
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This fossil fuel stoogery won’t age well. The industry is betting its credibility on a proposition its own scientists thirty years ago told it was WRONG. There will be a reckoning. Shareholders should beware.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/07/07/can-you-help-us-us-oil-execs-turn-to-trump-to-topple-europes-climate-rules-00987782
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Trump screws up ANOTHER reflecting pool? More shoddy work spotted at the Kennedy Center.
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Climate change is front and center in the affordability crisis — and Democrats ought to talk about it.
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Why we need permitting reform, and why we need to stop Trump’s corrupt blockade of American solar and wind (hint: he does it to force U.S. grids to buy expensive fossil power from his crooked donors, even though your costs go up).
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Let’s not forget the permits blockade, which delayed low-cost clean energy projects, forcing electric grids to revert to expensive fossil units. Costs went up for consumers, but those extra billions all went to Trump’s fossil fuel donors.
link:https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-energy-bills-could-rise-most-after-trump-policy-changes-12167762
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Former NOAA chief scientist: “The stresses that we see today are only going to get worse because heat waves like this ten years from now will be over 40C.” Or you can believe Big Oil.
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McKibben goes with the zettajoules!! (For scale, entire human energy consumption = 1/2 a zettajoule.) Time to wake up.
link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/an-inconvenient-moment-for-an-extreme-global-heat-wave
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Hurray for the humanitarian decision to license Patriot missile technology to Ukraine, to help protect their civilians from murderous Russian bombardment. We may learn from seeing U.S. and Ukrainian Patriot construction side by side.