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As climate change takes out the places and activities people love . . . . buckrail.com/in-hot-water...
link:https://buckrail.com/in-hot-water-first-ever-voluntary-fishing-closure-takes-effect-on-snake/
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Subtraction is such a novel concept. Who could have predicted? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/30/shrinking-weapons-stockpile-is-testing-pentagons-sweeping-new-strategy/
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They don’t want people to see what a wreck they’ve made of the place. Empty, echoing, failed — a mob bust-out gone wrong.* *What do I mean by that? Usually gangsters tried to keep the place going for a while as they looted it. This was a botched job. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html
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BTW, you want litigation, do terrible claims payment. In the aftermath of disaster, do people want lawsuits, or quick fair claims payment? Fail at the latter, you get the former. Screwing customers more by denying access to lawyers is a lousy solution, except for insurers (donors).
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After Hurricane Debby, the state-backed insurer zero-dollared more than 2/3 of Floridians’ claims. It’s their position that more than 2/3 of Floridians are fraudsters entitled to nothing? Or is Florida’s political elite covering for insurance and fossil fuel donors?
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Florida officials say it’s not climate change but their own citizens’ massive fraud that’s driving the home insurance crisis. Nice, huh? Here’s how many Floridians get zero dollars after an insurance claim:
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Blanche had to lie, and lie about lies, and walked himself into box canyons of lying. They’re hiding documents, pretending they don’t exist, which would only worsen the collusion. The truth will out.
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9. The documents behind the scenes between the White House, “Trump’s lawyers,” and Blanche’s crooked DOJ as this collusive scam was cooked up, will be telling — likely damning. We’ve demanded the documents be preserved. No shredding, kiddies. www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release...
link:https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-and-durbin-demand-doj-preserve-documents-on-trump-family-tax-amnesty-settlement-and-jan-6-cop-beater-slush-fund/
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8. Either way, the federal judge found collusion and sent her decision to NY Bar authorities, where Blanche already faces a complaint. Their investigation could expose the tangled web. The judge reserved decision on “fraud on the court”; she too could investigate. And the Florida Bar.
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7. If he doesn’t enter an appearance, and the “Trump lawyers” appeal for him, it’s a new chapter in the collusion. They have to practice in that court, and one of Trump’s lawyers has already been referred for bar discipline there, so they have their own problems to worry about.
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6. It gets thicker if someone appeals. Blanche (very weirdly) filed no DOJ pleadings in the case, probably to evade disciplinary action for the collusive “fraud on the court” problem he has. If he enters an appearance to appeal, BOOM, he’s solidly under the court’s authority.
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5. The slush fund was established in a document negotiated and signed between Blanche (signed by his stooge) and “Trump’s lawyers.” Where are the communications around that, which Blanche says he didn’t have? Where’d the deal come from? Was it immaculate conception?
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4. He pretends he’s had no communication with “Trump’s lawyers.” Strange, since someone for DOJ “negotiated” the “deal.” Strange, since Trump’s lawyers spoke for DOJ in a pleading. Strange, since the federal judge found there was “collusion,” which takes both sides.
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3. Tillis and Cornyn trying to extract an actual end to the slush fund and the Trump tax fraud amnesty, and being rebuffed, proves that the promise was false. Trump wants BOTH, and weasel Blanche is stuck with his client’s decision. So he squirms. And lies.
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2. For instance, all Blanche said was that the Fund was dead and would not be set up. How do you weasel around that? Add one more collusive codicil to the crooked deal, and there’s a brand new vehicle for the $$$. “Hey, I said we wouldn’t use ‘the Fund,’ and we didn’t.”
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1. Everybody hates both Trump’s crooked slush fund AND the crooked Trump family tax fraud amnesty, so Blanche weaseled a false answer that the slush fund was “DEAD.” But he wouldn’t put in writing. That’s a tell in general, and with lawyers’ weasel words in particular.
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . . .” AG nominee Todd Blanche is snarled deep in a tangled web of his own making, and he and Republicans are covering up the messy tangle. That won’t last. The mess is too thick. The stink is too rank. 🧵
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Sleepy Ol’ Trump wasn’t nodding off, he was checking his eyelids for leaks, ve-e-ery carefully. www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-reacts-trump-nap-lindsey-graham-funeral_n_6a690f6de4b098352c2fb748
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Just what America needs: more billionaires spending more money on more political influence. Are we not sick of this yet? My DISCLOSE Act will help cure the billionaire-fueled rot. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/elon-musk-midterms-republicans.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share&utm_source=semafor
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Looting consumers AND the planet. Such good people. www.fastcompany.com/91581113/big...
link:https://www.fastcompany.com/91581113/big-oil-profits-are-soaring-while-extreme-heatwaves-scorch-the-planet-this-summer
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Oh, my. The fossil fuel industry lying and dissembling and pretending it cares about its climate upheaval dangers — what a surprise. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072026/exxonmobil-isds-challenge-eu-carbon-capture/
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So much for the ‘respect for precedent’ stuff they spout at confirmation — this is called auditioning. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
link:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ho-suggests-justices-should-reverse-same-sex-marriage-ruling
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This confirms how committed Corrupt Trump and Weasel Blanche are to defending their cop-beaters’ slush fund and Trump tax fraud amnesty. Should be easy to reassure those two senators, if Blanche were sincere about what’s dead.
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There are three big problems for Blanche with crooked Trump deal he incubated: (1) the slush fund for cop-beaters and MAGA-loons, (2) the Trump family tax fraud amnesty scam, and (3) they pulled it off through collusion and possible “fraud on the court.”
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Trump telling Zelenskyy to “end the war” is like telling the homeowner to “end the burglary.” Maybe it’s on the burglar?
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When polluters run EPA, this is what you get. Corruption. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072026/justice-department-environmental-enforcement-has-collapsed/
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Republicans just took down the Blanche vote for tomorrow. Shows how truthful Blanche was about the slush fund deal being dead, that he couldn’t even convince Republicans. He’s a slippery weasel, and that was a slippery deal.
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Think how much dark money corruption and climate denial fraud Big Oil can get up to with this half-trillion-dollar windfall (from you, btw). www.woodmac.com/press-releas...
link:https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/wood-mackenzie-mid-year-outlook-oil-and-gas-industry-cash-rich-but-capital-cautious-as-nearly-half-a-trillion-dollar-windfall-fails-to-trigger-a-spending-surge/
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Trump’s subservience to corrupt fossil fuel forces is killing our U.S. auto industry in international competition (spoiler alert: China is the big winner). www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trumps-isolationism-is-losing-the-great-ev-race
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My friend Dr. Ramos was a Townie legend. He touched so many lives over his many years as an educator and public servant in East Providence. Rest in peace, Izzy.
link:https://turnto10.com/news/local/dr-isadore-ramos-remembered-trailblazing-leader-devoted-east-providence-neighbor-educator-athlete-racial-justice-july-28-2026
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"Trump talks about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” but the real problem is “Trump Debasement Syndrome,” when his suck-ups debase themselves for office, power and loot. To wit, Blanche. youtu.be/kWaB6k8F824?...
link:https://youtu.be/kWaB6k8F824?si=QYHbnHVQyhSNQ139"
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Americans see the billionaire-funded rot with their own eyes: creepy dark money, a captured Court, climate denial fraud — all rampant.
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Economist magazine cover: “Degradation in Progress” at DOJ. That says a lot.
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No words for this.
link:https://youtu.be/ZjQvm56_D_8?si=MgqTd00H_JhmoU_r
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Dirty trick for the last two: Trump’s big fossil fuel donors make billions extra — from international fuel prices going up more than domestic production costs, and from getting to run expensive fossil fuel units clean energy would have idled.
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3. Trump’s reckless war on clean energy raises your electricity costs. Clean energy is usually the lowest-cost energy on the grid; when it’s stalled, grids go to higher-priced fossil fuel units, raising costs for every electron on the grid. You pay more.
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2. Trump’s reckless war on Iran raises fuel and fertilizer costs for American businesses, families and farmers. He can’t figure out how to get out of what he recklessly started. You pay more because of Trump’s ongoing war.
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1. Trump’s reckless massive tariffs raise costs for American businesses and consumers. If that weren’t true, why are they rebating the illegal tariffs to American businesses? It’s obvious: We’re paying for Trump’s tariffs.
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As Americans struggle with cost increases in a full cost-of-living crisis, here are three of the ways the Trump administration is raising your costs:
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More than 60 years ago, Hofstadter wrote this article. It stands up pretty well.
link:https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
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“Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that “new ideas” would be needed to bring an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.” New idea: stop propping up war criminal Putin.
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I’m reintroducing my Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act to help restore the Supreme Court to the proper independent body it was created to be.
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Right-wing special interests spent hundreds of millions to capture the Supreme Court so that it could rule against ordinary Americans time and again.
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This is why corporate America sought policy guidance about climate risk, which prompted the fake “anti-ESG” response from fossil fuel’s denial apparatus. The corporate sector caved at first, but climate risk is real, and so is fiduciary liability.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/pension-funds-try-to-come-to-grips-with-scariest-climate-scenario?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDY0NzAzNSwiZXhwIjoxNzg1MjUxODM1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSTFUUzdLSkg2VjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxQzUwMjBGNDk0Mzk0M0ZBQTA2OTRDREM1MTg5RkU1RiJ9.35vrz2gze5qH4VFa5m6_CJDdrRx9fCVZhd_wp-xM828
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Oh, MAHMA — Make America Have Measles Again.
link:https://wapo.st/4pDO5Zm
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Maybe helping to coordinate Russia’s election interference for Trump?
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/20/kash-patel-fbi-russia-trip-01005078
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Senator Moreno objected.
quote:at://did:plc:qqixzm5pwprzdnkbh2hglpax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6ngtbpy22l
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I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this simple truth: climate change portends a cascade of financial market collapses that would destabilize the national and global economies.
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Looks like more Trump corruption. Will any Republicans in Congress see or care? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/top-treasury-tax-official-ousted-after-clashes-with-white-house-over-irs-audits-60d5b1df?st=FTVqW4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink