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Maybe we can learn something from the puffins.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/17/how-puffin-symbol-climate-crisis-hope
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Setting aside the illegality of the thing, the worst part is the roll-over by Senate Republicans as Trumpsters take this legislative power away.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/bill-essayli-disqualified-overstay-role
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Not to my knowledge.
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Trump’s fossil fuel donors are making a fortune off his war, for sure. They are also making a fortune off his clean energy blockade. In both cases, you pay for it.
link:https://sg.news.yahoo.com/trump-brags-u-making-fortune-030001811.html
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What we need here is for the “high ambition” countries to gather outside the UN process that gives polluter countries a veto. Together, they’re an economic force sufficient to change industry behavior. But they need a better venue.
link:https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/plastic-industry-bookkeeping-plans-hide-chemical-recycling-harms-critics-say/
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Nowhere near enough for them to approve simple repowerings. We await real signs of regulatory good faith.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-28/trump-s-permitting-bill-pus-puts-wind-projects-in-the-middle
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As the world moves to fast, efficient, fun electric vehicles, Trump is obstructing the development of this technology at home.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off-limits-americans/
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Remind me, what bills have they passed that reduced fossil fuel’s carbon emissions? And where they were on the destruction of the methane emissions program? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/27/midterms-congress-climate-conservatives-republicans-01130762
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This brought to you by your friends in the fossil fuel industry.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/climate/nearly-all-of-the-worlds-shallow-coral-reefs-are-now-critically-endangered.html
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They ignore the irony of the present FBI Director, “Poodle Room” Patel, regularly lying to Congress.
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/fbi-prosecution/689138/
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Fossil fuel at work destroying life.
link:https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2026/10/marine-life-dramatically-declined-in-gulf-of-mexico-in-years-after-bp-oil-spill-study-finds.html
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Student anti-corruption protests sweep Vucic out of office in Serbia. People everywhere are sick of corruption. Our turn.
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Same on electricity: blocking clean power drives up bills but his fossil fuel donors “make a freaking fortune.” Theme there, maybe?
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Rest of sentence: “off American consumers.” Who does Bozo think is paying that “freaking fortune”?
link:https://www.businessinsider.com/high-gas-prices-donald-trump-oil-companies-midterm-election-2026-10
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“I’m Jeffrey, Don’s best friend.”
quote:at://did:plc:kedvdkznoq3svejtdgrv2nmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myrsxhff6s2d
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Along with free “We’re a bunch of crooks” bumper stickers. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
link:https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
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Bravo, Lula!! Thank you, Brazil!
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Look how many Floridians get that climate change is driving their home insurance crisis. Big majorities; nearly half of Trump voters!
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Hillary Clinton too sees Trump/Russia/Epstein:
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“We have likely seen just a sliver of the evidence they have that shows they’ve spent decades knowingly deceiving the public about climate science, climate harms, and their commitment to climate action.” More truth to be uncovered. Stay tuned.
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And that is what’s left for these corporations to defend in the Suncor case.
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I held a Budget hearing on what our investigation found in the records of the industry. But sometimes, what wasn’t found was just as important as what was.
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The algae scam was one episode uncovered in a sprawling investigation conducted by @raskin.house.gov 's House Oversight Committee and my Senate Budget Committee back in 2024. Millions of pages documenting decades of denial and doublespeak from Big Oil.
link:https://www.budget.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc/fossil_fuel_report1.pdf
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“The goal was not to create a viable alternative energy source, but simply, as one internal memo put it, to make consumers ‘[b]elieve ExxonMobil is committed to helping solve climate change.’”
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@raskin.house.gov and I exposed ExxonMobil’s massive “algae biofuel” ad blitz—which they spent more on than the research itself.
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Big Oil used to pretend climate change wasn’t real – then they pretended they were part of the solution. 🧵
link:https://aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/new-documents-show-just-how-much?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4981170&post_id=220702728&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5k2b5q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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“We have likely seen just a sliver of the evidence they have that shows they’ve spent decades knowingly deceiving the public about climate science, climate harms, and their commitment to climate action.” More truth to be uncovered. Stay tuned.
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And that is what’s left for these corporations to defend in the Suncor case.
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I held a Budget hearing on what our investigation found in the records of the industry. But sometimes, what wasn’t found was just as important as what was.
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The algae scam was one episode uncovered in a sprawling investigation conducted by @RepRaskin’s House Oversight Committee and my Senate Budget Committee back in 2024. Millions of pages documenting decades of denial and doublespeak from Big Oil. www.budget.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
link:https://www.budget.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc/fossil_fuel_report1.pdf
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“The goal was not to create a viable alternative energy source, but simply, as one internal memo put it, to make consumers ‘[b]elieve ExxonMobil is committed to helping solve climate change.’”
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. @raskin.house.gov and I exposed ExxonMobil’s massive “algae biofuel” ad blitz—which they spent more on than the research itself.
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What government by billionaire gets you.
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The “ice cream window” is open at DOJ for MAGA to drive up and get taxpayer money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-22/capitol-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-for-police-assaults-want-us-payouts
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Last fact, #10. If we don’t address climate change, this only gets worse. Regions becoming uninsurable and unmortgageable is predicted. A “coastal property values crash” is predicted. Elsewhere, wildfire risk creates the same economic danger. Time for us all to wake up.
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Fact #9. It’s a cascade, like dominoes. Climate risk wipes out insurance markets, which wipes out mortgages, which wipes out property values (unless you’ve got a zillionaire paying cash), which wipes out the economy — a “systemic risk.” Look it up. It’s not pretty.
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Fact #8. Even Trump voters know something’s up. Most Floridians, including nearly half of Florida Trump voters, blame the home insurance crisis on “climate change making storms and hurricanes worse.” And they’re right. That’s the problem causing this.
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Fact #7. If you can’t get insurance at all on your home, then buyers won’t be able to get a mortgage on it, and that will hammer the value of most homes. Only cash buyers will remain. Another hit to Florida property values.
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Fact #6. If you stay in Citizens, you should know that two-thirds of its Hurricane Debbie claimants got nothing for their claims — zero dollars. Hard to say it’s real insurance when most claimants got zero payments after a hurricane. Be prepared.
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Fact #5. If you end up in Citizens Property, it can spin you off to local private insurers with questionable ratings, many of which have gone bust when claims came, leaving homeowners stuck in Florida’s state claims guarantee fund, with taxpayers on the hook.
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Fact #4. Many Floridians can’t get home insurance at all. If they can’t, and have a mortgage, the bank can “force place” insurance and add that to their mortgage payment, hitting family budgets hard — to pay for insurance for the bank, not the homeowner.
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Fact #3. Insurance costs getting that high drives down property values, and Florida leads the country in declining property values. Some Floridians are trapped in homes now worth less than their remaining mortgage principal.
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Fact #2. Most major insurers, and the leading ratings agencies for insurers, have pulled out of Florida, leaving many homeowners in a desperate struggle for affordable insurance that will actually pay claims when disasters strike.
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Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market: Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵
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Creepy billionaires want to run our country through political stooges. We can stop that. www.theverge.com/tech/1014252...
link:https://www.theverge.com/tech/1014252/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-analysis"
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The fossil fuel industry pollutes for free. But in the rest of the world, nothing is free. People are dealing with climate-driven price hikes for home insurance, food, and other basics. Polluters should be paying these costs – not the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXU...
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXUD9jzJgk
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In a nutshell: we’ve driven past all the exits to climate safety except pricing carbon pollution; economic shock looms as markets predict the disruptions ahead in our climate reality; and an axis of climate evil is steering us toward disaster. These three facts must guide us.
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(I'd add that the public would rejoice if we got rid of the dark money that is corrupting our politics for the billionaire donors. Pass the DISCLOSE Act, and we put an end to that evil.)
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Spotlight fossil fuel’s dark money corruption and climate denial fraud operations — don’t tell the Little Red Riding Hood story without the wolf. Put the villains in every conversation. Their free-to-pollute subsidy is $700 billion, so they will fight. We must fight too.
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Listen to markets. The cascade from insurance market collapse to mortgage market failure to property values crash and recession is widely predicted by top insurers, banks, regulators and investors. Abrupt, “systemic” economic collapse looms. We need to warn and prepare.