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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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Now compare that to their Texas gerrymandering response…
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/20/texas-gerrymander-redistricting-midterms-backfire/
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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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link:https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XVHbnF2RlO2SyS1XT94oU?si=GLnlGdODRYeg3QTqDDFeSw
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link:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unaccountable/id1691954283?i=1000748602415
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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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A White House spokesman is free to lie that “offshore wind is the most expensive source of energy,” but in court when the states asserted huge consumer savings, the administration was conspicuously quiet. There are consequences for lying in court.
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Low-cost wind would displace high-cost fossil, so by delaying it and raising your rates, they steer money to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. Payback to cronies, with your dollars.
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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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Add inexpensive clean energy to the grid, and some fossil fuel power plants JUST DON’T RUN, they’re idled. Fossil fuel pushes Trump’s goons to BAN CLEAN ENERGY to keep money coming in to their obsolete, expensive, polluting plants — and YOU PAY FOR IT.
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Remember: when expensive, polluting fossil fuel plants come on line, the most expensive one sets the price for the ENTIRE GRID, which means consumer costs go WAY UP. You pay for this mess, and your costs are raised ON PURPOSE by Trump and his corrupt fossil fuel donors.
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Again, YOUR prices go up, and Trump’s fossil fuel donors pocket the money (it’s billions, btw).
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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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Wait til Trump figures out that Leo’s little buddy Mark Paoletta is in the White House, right now, at OMB. Paoletta was even in the Leo/Crow/Thomas painting! This is rich.
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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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Senate hearing on impeaching him/letter to Speaker Johnson; DAG Blanche “war” speech; Trump judges’ “administrative stay”; and much internet menacing — all to stop his hearing on MAGA DOJ contempt.
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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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Ordinarily, if this were actually law enforcement, there’d be a chance for a judge to examine all this in whatever charges were brought. If this is just Kash Patel seizing records for Trump’s election monkeywrenchers, that day may never come.
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Then you add in the supposed “retirement” of the FBI Atlanta field office SAC as this raid was being prepared, and the warrant for a Georgia search coming from a U.S. Attorney in far-off Missouri known for election denial, and the stink gets worse.
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/trumps-doj-2020-election-search-warrant-fulton-county/685817/?utm_source=apple_news
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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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When billion-dollar decisions can be made by executive stooges, instead of through independent agencies following administrative procedures, corruption avenues becomes superhighways. Congress should have a say in that.
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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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Trump administration did not deny that in court, instead falsely saying renewables are more expensive in forums where lies have no penalty.
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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/