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:-) bsky.app/profile/real...
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Hot but joyful Bristol Parade gets a nod from D.C.! Bravo, Bristol!!
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5954506-july-fourth-somerset-ky-bristol-ri/
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Sweet story! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyi1...
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyi1aikvY5Q
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Notwithstanding fossil fuel propaganda, huge increase in awareness of climate health dangers.
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You're likely worth billions, or planning to be. Don't think we won't remember that you don't want to clean up your own mess. You can afford it. You just don't want to. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
link:https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-plants-us-data-centers-be-major-source-climate-change-linked-emissions-2026-07-01/
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@jimacosta.bsky.social looks at where it all began – Rhode Island! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRRb...
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRRbwQjbOnk
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So don’t look at the explanations, a fog of reverse-engineered nonsense to get to a desired result. To understand this Court, you need to ignore the fog and look at the patterns of outcomes — not what they say, what they do. www.vox.com/politics/494...
link:https://www.vox.com/politics/494282/supreme-court-illegible
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Nice to see people catching on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/birthright-citizenship-dissents/687799/
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Nature can really pound you when you ignore her rules. Like how climate upheaval works. www.nbcnews.com/video/thousa...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/video/thousands-evacuated-from-national-mall-due-to-weather-266181189957
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Trump destroyed the teams at DOJ dedicated to going after kleptocrats and oligarchs like Putin, right off the bat. It was the first of many favors. Trump/Russia is no hoax. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
link:https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/putin-100m-yacht-flees-arctic-161731229.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG_hDgaxUfaPhAs6cpBxwf69gN5-d0u-M0kxKlcnDwrzxG8yOr3N_OzNpZILOelwKvXXGYHZpi1Nmzf6bT33R7A3tfs6TysVSv4ukLDzav1F85K-MfXNIIQPd-c-0QrlKq6xzcJnGwKp-O1FBmPKEQPJ2hdwm3_JY0y04naZYtIY
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And yet he’s pals with Putin. Go figure. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-extols-america-rails-communism-us-250th-celebration-2026-07-04/
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Nice to see the work under way at Mt. Hope Bridge.
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Always a joy marching in the nation’s oldest continuous Fourth of July parade in beautiful Bristol. Happy 250th birthday, America!
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Sometimes you win when you don’t. Little Cape Verde’s performance against Messi and the Argentinian team was one for the ages. Bravo!!
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Nothing to see here, folks. Keep believing fossil fuel.
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New ocean temperature record set as fossil fuel keeps dumping zettajoules (look it up — big-ass number!) of excess heat into the ocean every year. “Nothing to see here,” say the polluters. They lie. marine.copernicus.eu/press/press-...
link:https://marine.copernicus.eu/press/press-releases/copernicus-marine-and-copernicus-climate-change-daily-global-sea-surface
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Grateful for the generosity of my (part-time) constituent, Taylor Swift. Wishing her and Travis a joyous wedding celebration — even if it’s not here in Rhody!
link:https://turnto10.com/news/local/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-donate-1-million-rhode-island-community-food-bank-july-2-2026
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A little reminder about Republican Billionaires’ Bill: “extend[ed] roughly $4.5T in tax cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations and the wealthy over 10 years” while “addi[ing] a projected $4.7T to the national debt over the next decade.” Had enough? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-medicaid-snap-one-year-rcna351211
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Feeling the Heat? Europe’s heat wave “was so intense that in a stable preindustrial environment … it would have been the kind of freak event the region could expect about once every 26,000 years.” Fossil fuel caused it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/heat-wave-europe-america.html
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Leaving Trump as Putin’s hole card, with explanation required of why this is the one relationship in which Trump is the submissive. What is the kompromat, or what is the bribe? Trump/Russia is no “hoax.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-russian-reckoning-5c3abd6f
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Corrupt lounge lizard Trump flying on his gilded Qatari jet to honor trust-busting outdoorsman Teddy Roosevelt pins the irony meter to the peg.
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The geniuses at ICE just arrested a Catholic nun, who practices as a nurse, as she was walking to church. Our Republican colleagues think they need even more money. Had enough?
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/01/ices-arrest-nun-heading-church-fuels-bipartisan-backlash-south-texas/
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Todd Blanche has betrayed DOJ’s ethical standards.
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For most of our American history, Congress set up agencies and commissions to deal with complex and specialized questions. We made them expert, independent and often bipartisan. Every single one of the fifty states has done the same at some point. It worked. 🧵
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Joined @reed.senate.gov to see progress on Westerly’s Tower Street Community Center today! We secured federal funding to build a new community hub that we hope Westerly residents will enjoy for a long time to come.
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Amazing that the Trumpiest extreme of the extremist wing went with Trump even on something clear as this. It should have been 9-0, but then so should the presidential immunity decision, and it was 6-3 for the extremists’ anti-constitutional invention.
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Another anti-democracy decision by the extremist wing of the Court, privileging even more the power of big money, just as the big-money interests that assembled this Court wish; just as the billionaire-funded flotilla of amici instructed.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/campaign-spending-supreme-court-ruling-00980450
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Civilizations fail when resources fail. For them, in a simpler world, it was sub-Saharan aquifers. For us, in a complex world, it’s climate stability. Climate stability is an essential resource for human well-being.
link:https://www.wildmanlife.com/the-forgotten-castles-of-the-garamantes/
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Once again, SCOTUS makes the pro-corruption decision. Regulatory decisions that have for decades been trustworthy are now amenable to political fix by a president’s henchmen, in this dark-money political world.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/29/supreme-court-expands-trumps-power-over-federal-bureaucracy/
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Republican senators who vote to confirm Blanche are deluding themselves if they believe he will do anything but accelerate the weaponization of the justice system.
link:https://www.contrariannews.org/p/todd-blanche-should-not-be-confirmed
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Supreme Court decides Congress has no power to put restrictions on positions Congress creates (once again reversing precedent). Building an imperial presidency and stripping power from the people’s representatives is a hell of a way to celebrate the 250th. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
link:https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-blocks-trumps-fed-firing-but-allows-removals-at-other-agencies-350c8cf4
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When Moody’s is posting trillion-dollar flood loss warnings, might it be time to start paying attention? Insurance markets are already staggering. Mortgage and real estate markets follow. The warnings are real and many.
link:https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/physical-transition-risk/us-flood-risk-a-country-level-analysis.html
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You can’t claim to “appreciate things” as you sacrifice them.
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Trump is having tourists arrested over imaginary vandalism.
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Another unprepared and unqualified Trump nominee.
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If he was out to deliberately poke a stick in Leader Thune’s eye, he could hardly have done better. Add the Pulte/702 fiasco. Add the Blanche vote, after his Trump/Epstein Files disaster and his slush fund mess. Add Reflecting Poll and JFK disasters. It’s piling up.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/24/trump-abruptly-cancels-signing-bipartisan-bill-affordable-housing/
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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: climate change poses a threat to home values and the mortgage market.
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link:https://aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/exxon-ceo-lee-raymond-is-dead-his
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The orange Dear Leader can’t abide that he blew it (blue it?) at the Reflecting Pool, so he invented a fake “vandalism” narrative, and now Park Police are having to arrest harmless tourists to puff up the phony narrative, Soviet-style.
link:https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/reflecting-pool-iran-impotence-trump/
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The next generation has cause for complaint.
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That didn’t last long. Iran first won the negotiations and then broke the deal. This “no respect” administration is pathetic.
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Still laughing at the celebrity roster at Obama Presidential Library, as Trump gets Kid Rock. Cracks me up.
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Another telling “slush fund” pleading by MAGA DOJ: they refuse to commit in court to Blanche’s promise not to pursue it. Funny how often in Trumpland stuff they say vanishes once they’re under oath. Lying is fine and dandy until then. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
link:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617.93.0.pdf
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Late yesterday, the court posted the attached reply of the challenger judges on Trump and MAGA DOJ committing “fraud on the court” in their rotten slush fund/tax amnesty “settlement.” 🧵 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
link:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.94.0.pdf
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Blanche vote will test the poodles. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/19/trump-iran-deal-reveals-flailing-terminal-presidency/
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This is not okay. I don’t think this has happened in the history of our U.S. Attorney’s Office. www.wpri.com/target-12/ju...
link:https://www.wpri.com/target-12/judge-asst-u-s-attorney-violated-duty-of-candor-in-ice-detainee-release-case/
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Marking Juneteenth with the opening of the Newport Historical Society’s Edward W. Kane & Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History. The new Center puts a spotlight on an important, under-told part of Newport’s history.
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It’s simpler: blocking low-cost clean energy diverts electric grids to more expensive fossil plants, raising costs but driving billions of dollars from consumers’ pockets to Trump’s big corrupt fossil fuel donors. www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/edit...
link:https://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/editorials/article316176245.html
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As his presidency fails, Trump would rather pull Republicans down with him than fail alone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/18/trumps-spat-with-senate-republicans-once-again-disrupts-their-agenda/