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“Trump’s video-game war “excursion” has turned a dying clerical regime into a tight-knit military regime that has now tasted the enormous power of controlling the Strait of Hormuz.” (Credit Sidney Blumenthal)
link:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-war-saved-iranian-regime
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This is not just a dagger to family finances; it’s a price of corruption. Fossil fuel pays billions to Republicans to ignore all of this. So they do.
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Climate risk to insurance collapse to mortgage meltdown to property values crash. How often have I warned? And so many others?
link:https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15768045/zillow-listings-florida-real-estate-price-cuts-crisis-begins.html
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Big Oil is using Trump's war to drive up prices and rake in record profits. In just the first three months of 2026, BP made $3,200,000,000. That’s over $266 million per week. $34 million per day. $402 per *second.* My Windfall Profits Bill would return those profits to you.
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Trump wanted Comey charged and Blanche is desperate to stay on the job.
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Amazing graphic of US drought crisis, reaching beyond “extreme” into “exceptional.” New levels of extreme weather from fossil fuel pollution.
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This month, we stand with Armenians around the world in recognizing the Armenian Genocide. We remember the over 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire and reaffirm our commitment to Armenians whose culture and sovereignty remain under threat.
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Trump is killing U.S. auto competitiveness to pay back his big fossil fuel donors. Good thing he didn’t take big bucks from harness-makers. To compete internationally, we need to make competitive vehicles, not ones idiotically designed for maximum fuel consumption.
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U.S. auto companies compete in world markets, unless we want to be like the Russian Lada, only sold domestically because it sucks.
link:https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/10630/catl-electric-car-batteries-930-miles-range-four-minute-charging
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Trump is paying off big corporations, with taxpayer money, to stop inexpensive clean energy, forcing the grid to buy more expensive polluting energy from Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors. It’s a racket, raising costs on purpose, to enrich political donors.
link:https://www.eenews.net/articles/interior-announces-end-of-two-more-offshore-wind-leases-2/
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I want to see the Judiciary Committee strong. But it’s setting dangerous precedents.
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The parallel crash danger is climate risk crashing insurance markets, which crashes mortgage markets, which crashes property values, which crashes the economy, 2008-style. Climate denial is getting increasingly economically dangerous. Indeed, it’s already begun.
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Instead of managing an orderly adjustment, we now face the prospect of an abrupt one — in common parlance, a “crash.”
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This is the “carbon bubble” risk that we’ve irresponsibly allowed to grow, in order to serve the political interests of the fossil fuel industry and protect its inflated pricing and excessive profits.
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The stranded assets of those producers quickly achieve negative value, workforce shrinks suddenly, revenues collapse, and economic shock cascades into the larger economy.
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That race to a new market-based price, from the artificially propped-up OPEC price, will likely strand expensive producers like the United States and Russia.
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Cartel pricing only works when members stick to it. Once defection begins, it makes sense for other producers to follow. The defector sets their own new price, the market is attracted to that lower price, and other producers have to abandon the inflated cartel price or lose sales.
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This is commonly referred to in economic publications as the “carbon bubble” bursting. Look up “carbon bubble.” It has been well warned of for decades. (While you’re at it, look up “peak oil.” The concepts relate.)
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The rub is that Gulf nations can profitably sell oil well below the price that Big Oil requires to be profitable in America. It becomes in their interest to unload inventory — as much as possible, as much as they can sell at their preferred price — racking up sales while they still can profitably.
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Everyone needs to think through what this could mean. OPEC props up an international oil price that makes U.S. oil production profitable. As the world economy approaches “peak oil,” the logic to defect becomes inexorable: selling what you can while you still can, at some point makes economic sense.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/29/the-guardian-view-on-the-uae-quitting-opec-whatever-importers-pay-the-price-of-fossil-fuels-is-too-high
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Senator Ron Johnson objected.
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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: sea levels are rising.
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“Project,” quadruple “dissent,” and no “respectfully” are a strong signal of being truly fed up. Deservedly.
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Today’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act” discards decades of binding Court precedent – including a ruling from just three years ago – and big bipartisan majorities in Congress in a project to suppress Democratic votes and tilt elections for Republicans.
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In addition to jeopardizing the voting rights of millions of Americans, the Callais decision is just more proof that billionaire and fossil-fuel dark money built this Supreme Court to obediently serve the political interests of the Republican party.
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In doing so, the Court effectively rewrote the Voting Rights Act as enacted by Congress and ignored a mountain of factual findings, substituting its preferred facts to reach this desired outcome.
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Today, the right-wing Supreme Court supermajority finished what it started over a decade ago – in Justice Kagan’s words, “a judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act.”
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The captured court is delivering for its fossil fuel captors.
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“We must also reflect on our shared responsibility to safeguard nature, our most precious and irreplaceable asset.” Thank you for your advocacy for our planet, Your Majesty.
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“We ignore at our own peril the fact that these natural systems, in other words, nature’s own economy, provide the foundation for our prosperity and our national security.” - King Charles III
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Note the common theme across DHS funding, the reconciliation bill, and 702 extension: all three are tangled up in internal Republican squabbling. This is NOT partisan division, this is Republican incompetence. Get the news right, please.
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For instance, Zeldin is neck-deep in the conspiracy to stall clean energy, driving electric grids to more expensive fossil fuel units, raising electricity costs for customers, but sending billions to guess who? Trump’s big corrupt fossil fuel donors!
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Of course he is. This administration is run by corrupt fossil fuel billionaires and Zeldin is their obedient stooge. One more indicator of the depth of the corruption.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/25/zeldin-cabinet-trump-epa-00887902
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Trump/Russia keeps happening in plain view.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/23/trump-putin-g20/
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Clean energy remains cheaper than fossil, and Trump’s war on clean energy (to help his fossil fuel donors) will keep hiking customer electricity costs.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/04/24/cost-of-building-us-gas-plants-spikes-66-report-says-00889658
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Coal keeps fading as renewables climb, even as Trump raises electricity costs by forcing expensive, polluting defunct coal plants back on line — part of his payoff (with your money) to his big fossil fuel donors.
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Blame this on the U.S. fossil fuel industry death-grip on Trump and Republicans. www.politico.eu/article/fran...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/france-drops-climate-from-g7-environment-talks-appease-trump-administration-us/
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Thank you Thom Tillis for calling BS on this. (As did a federal judge, btw.)
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/24/justice-department-fed-powell/
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Guess who’s missing that market surge as Trump hobbles American EV progress? Trump is sending China an engraved invitation to stomp our domestic companies, all for his corrupt fossil fuel donors.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/electric-car-ev-sales-mainland-europe-petrol-prices-iran-war
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Poodle Patel writes the stuff himself.
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Then that extra heat powers up stronger typhoons and hurricanes. Then home insurance costs explode along coasts, thrashing mortgage and real estate markets. Look at Florida.
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This is what happens when the corrupt fossil fuel industry’s emissions add zettajoules of excess heat to the oceans (look it up).
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Blanche is going to tire of this. It gets worse as Patel gets deposed under oath in the FBI agents’ lawsuits, and as he has to answer questions under oath in his own lawsuit. Wait til his detail is questioned under oath about his behavior.
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-patel-contradicts-own-lawsuit-in-car-crash-briefing/
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Under Trump, Republicans can’t get enough corruption. Bipartisan shell corporation disclosure legislation gets sacrificed on the Oligarch Altar.
link:https://www.law360.com/articles/2467623/house-panel-votes-to-gut-corporate-transparency-act
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Vengeance for SPLC putting the Klan out of business?
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/southern-poverty-law-center-says-targeted-trump-administration-rcna341237
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Trump: “Nobody’s laughing!” World: “If we’re not laughing it’s because we’re horrified and disgusted.”
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/fragile-donald-trump-79-insists-no-ones-laughing-at-him-in-all-caps-rant/
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A captured Court is delivering the goods for the billionaires who captured it. Sadly, most Democrats slept through the capture.
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Legislation, regulation and litigation about climate, all a sacrifice to protect fossil fuel’s $700 billion pollute-for-free business model.
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(Of course the Court blocked rules that would have disclosed the coordination among fossil-fuel front group “amici” flotillas.)