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Incompetence Check: El Paso airspace closed so CBP could shoot down a party balloon? You truly cannot make this stuff up.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/trump-administration-el-paso-airspace-closure-questions.html
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After two weeks of negotiations, it’s clear the Trump administration and Republicans are not serious about reining in this goon-squad violence against American citizens.
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MAGA continues to gin up violent threats against judges. Trump U.S. Attorneys were just asked to investigate judges for impeachment.* MAGA DOJ still refuses to confirm it will investigate orchestration of threats.
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This shameful abdication—an economic, moral, and political failure—will harm Americans’ health, homes, and economic well-being. It ignores scientific fact and common-sense observations to serve big political donors.
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Long article, but I appreciate being seen as the strategic fighter.
link:https://newrepublic.com/article/205821/democrats-need-now"
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On the very day that Republicans vented about telephone toll records lawfully gathered by DOJ of senators contacted by the 1/6 plotters, MAGA DOJ tried to indict senators for exercising 1st Amendment rights. The hypocrisy is unbounded.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-democrats-illegal-orders-pirro.html
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Yesterday in Judiciary, Senate Republicans performed paroxysms about a supposed “Speech or Debate” intrusion, from standard toll records search, which happened because their phones were called by January 6 conspirators. SOP.
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All Noem had to do was tell the truth.
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This is the fossil fuel industry corruptly using its fossil fuel stooges in government to harm their cleaner, safer, cheaper competition.
link:https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/02/09/revolution-wind-developer-records-10m-q4-impairment-from-trump-suspension-order/
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Gerrymandering has been a Republican effort all the way back to Redmap; when a blue state punches back, ‘PolluterPage Lite’ steps in.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/07/virginia-redistricting-referendum-new-map-democrats/
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The biggest fraud ever perpetrated in America:
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If that’s true, fire the damned staffer.
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-frantically-blames-staffer-for-his-racist-obama-video/
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NYT’s conservative columnist endorses our Bivens Act to rein in ICE AND protect elections from Trump interference.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/trump-nationalize-elections-midterms.html
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In New Orleans, checking out home fortification programs that are allowing residents to afford homeowners insurance. Climate change is driving up insurance costs and pushing homeownership out of reach here and across the country.
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Masked ICE agents are acting like they’re above the law. We must enact real reforms that ensure accountability from the top down. Listen to my new episode of Making the Case:
link:https://youtu.be/2Sl5-HTyft0
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SCAM: By delaying or blocking clean energy, they force the grid to run expensive fossil fuel plants. You pay more for electricity, but the money goes to Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors. Trump pays his donors back with your money.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/climate/wind-solar-projects.html
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When King George tried to bully Boston into paying unfair taxes, it did not go well for him. Trump trying to bully Boston’s Harvard University steps into that history. Stand strong, northern neighbor!
link:https://newrepublic.com/article/206113/trump-spirals-crazed-fury-harvard-humiliates-badly
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Offshore wind would make our grid more reliable in the winter, and reduce costs. Trumpsters lie about that to cover up the scam they’re running.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/02/04/study-offshore-wind-may-ease-new-england-grid-stress-00762648
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The hits keep coming: NY grid confirms, “in the absence of new [blocked clean energy] resources coming online, older and more costly [fossil fuel] generators are being dispatched more frequently, resulting in higher wholesale prices.”
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Ukraine knows something about Russian intelligence operations too. euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/03/e...
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We need to get this right. The economic benefits from eliminating carbon pollution are huge.
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The Billionaires Bill worked! Billionaires made over $1.5 trillion dollars last year; more than 20% richer!! The looting and polluting continues…
link:https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-billionaires-workers
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The legendary Marty Baron says: “Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left … a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post#:~:text=The%20Amazon%20founder%20bought%20the,forced%20it%20into%20severe%20decline
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My EV is fun to drive, reliable and inexpensive to run; good to know they measurably help my neighbors’ clean air too.
link:https://grist.org/solutions/evs-are-already-making-your-air-cleaner/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=401794113&utm_content=401794113&utm_source=hs_email
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Is Trump finally figuring out that the Koch operation (Leo/McGahn) really picked “his” Supreme Court justices; that Trump was their chump. Trump the chump! Hysterical.
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Poland has a long history of dealing with Russian intel operations. The Trump/Russia connection is real and the Epstein files have blown it open.
link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/03/epstein-was-probably-a-russian-spy-says-poland/
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Oh, Aaron, there you go saying the DAG got the law “wrong.” You forget, he’s a Trumpster, so whatever Trump wants to hear is what’s “right.” In other words, the MAGA DAG MAGA-nailed it! Give the boy some cred.
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-doj-goon-todd-blanche-gets-law-wrong-in-bonkers-live-interview/
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When climate change makes homeowners' insurance unattainable, houses unmortgageable, and reduces incomes, jobs, and economic growth, the costs of complacency become existential. I’m headed to the Senate Floor for my 304th Time to Wake Up speech.
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They may smell some disciplinary issues coming on.
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Former Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist joins the chorus on climate property risk.
link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2026/01/21/when-actuaries-see-the-future-climate-risk-insurance-and-your-wallet/
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“If you are somebody who has previously dismissed talk of election interference as overwrought, we understand where you are coming from. Yet we urge you not to assume that the past will repeat itself.”
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/trump-midterms-election-security.html
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If true, this could explain a lot: Epstein’s mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trump’s submissiveness around Putin.
link:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15516349/Epsteins-sex-empire-KGB-honeytrap-Paedophile-financier-Putin-Russian-girls.html
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America is facing a looming economic crisis that few people are talking about: a housing market collapse driven by increasingly devastating natural disasters. Senator Sheehy and I agree that preparedness should be bipartisan.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/opinion/housing-market-extreme-weather-climate-change.html
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Bondi’s attack on Judge Boasberg summarily dismissed. This was one of several MAGA attack vectors: House impeachment filings; Senate “suspension” letter...
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-departments-misconduct-complaint-against-judge-boasberg-gets-tossed-2026-01-31/
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This Black History Month, we celebrate the contributions of Black Americans, who have long been at the forefront of our nation’s pursuit of equity and justice for all. There is much work ahead in that fight.
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When climate-driven insurance hikes and cancellations come to your door, who should pay?
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXUD9jzJgk&feature=youtu.be
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The Fulton County raid smells to high heaven of the dark work of Trump’s secretive Weaponization Working Group, which Tulsi Gabbard claims to have “stood up.” That would explain her improper presence at a supposedly domestic law enforcement scene.
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wide-ranging-group-us-officials-pursues-trumps-fight-against-deep-state-2025-10-20/
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I would add to Will’s column that the risk of corruption grows explosively as unchecked executive power grows.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/30/trump-firing-executive-branch-supreme-court/
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American businesses have for years propped up “worst climate obstructor” U.S. Chamber (aka #ChamberofCarbon). Corporate leadership now has to be found overseas. Way too many U.S. CEO lips on Trump’s rear end.
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/andrew-forrest-australia-fortescue-trump
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One thing to add to Carini’s column is that in the offshore litigation CT and RI AGs alleged in court filings hundreds of millions in consumer savings, with sworn affidavits. ecori.org/dont-blame-r...
link:https://ecori.org/dont-blame-renewable-energy-for-escalating-electricity-costs/
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$31 billion in extra utility costs, much of it driven by climate perils caused by fossil fuel pollution; much of it caused by fossil fuel minions in Trump administration blocking and delaying low-cost clean energy to reward Trump’s fossil fuel buddies.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/01/29/utilities-sought-a-record-31b-in-rate-increases-last-year-00752839
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Administration pretext of “national security” to stop offshore wind now 0-for-4 with 4 federal judges, including a Trump appointee. 0-for-5 if you count the first Revolution Wind “stop work” order thrown out months ago.
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Looking to Davos corporate elite for leadership is like looking to squid for spines.
link:https://time.com/7353478/davos-climate-leadership-end-fossil-fuel-era/
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What will lower energy bills is getting Revolution Wind up and operating, delivering 9.9 cent/kWhs into an 18 cent/kwh grid. Trump is messing with that to keep us buying higher-cost power from his big fossil-fuel-buddy donors.
link:https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/01/30/plan-to-lower-ri-energy-bills-puts-two-mckee-priorities-at-odds/88418997007/
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“Police chiefs who have spent half a decade trying to persuade a skeptical public that officers would curb their use of violence are contending with widespread alarm over federal officers ushering an innocent man into the snow in his shorts, arresting a 5-year-old and killing U.S. citizens.”
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/its-all-just-going-down-the-toilet-police-chiefs-fume-at-ice-tactics.html
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The Economist magazine, with a world-wide audience, steps in hard against Trump/Noem’s violent embarrassment of our country with ICE’s goon-squad behavior. It’s remarkable, and sad, that Trump’s America looks like this to the world.
link:https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/01/29/ices-impunity-is-a-formula-for-more-violence
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The overheated and false rhetoric from the right, likely designed to interfere with Judge Boasberg’s investigation of MAGA DOJ contempt of court, fell apart completely when reviewed by an independent judge.
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New England offshore wind isn’t “eventually,” it’s now. Vineyard already sends energy to the grid; Revolution weeks away after weeks of illegal blockage by Trump; and it’s less expensive. Revolution is 9-cent/kwh power into an average 18-cent/kwh grid. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/cold-weather-power-outages.html"