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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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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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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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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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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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There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵
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This is the kind of thug behavior creepy billionaires and their government stooges resort to when it looks like the people are going to reclaim their power. Democracy? Or government-by-billionaire? That’s the choice. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/23/doj-seeks-block-alaska-senate-result-if-republican-incumbent-narrowly-loses/
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Of course it does. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/supreme-court-student-ids-new-hampshire-midterms
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Always Trump/Russia, Trump/Russia, Trump/Russia. Now Russia is interfering for Trump in U.S. elections. Probably with his blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/texas-senate-race-russia-influence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Every remaining scenario for climate safety shows overshoot, so carbon capture is needed — and so is carbon pricing. Fossil fuel being allowed to pollute for free is now lethal to climate safety. Period. It’s price or fail. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-21/un-warns-major-emissions-cuts-needed-to-limit-warming-overshoot
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We must protect our historic democracy from devolving into government-by-creepy-billionaire. By the people, for the people, of the people. www.politico.com/live-updates...
link:https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/10/22/congress/more-musk-money-01133454
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What is it with billionaires and taxes? What change in his lifestyle would these taxes cause? Would the guy even notice? What, he doesn’t have enough money already? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/zuckerberg-considered-leaving-ca-over-wealth-tax-meta-says-01131087
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Remember their courthouse fiasco? Confusing a high-schooler with a thirty-something? Violating agreement with court and courthouse rules? Threatening a judge (while he was parked in judges-only spot, which to some would be a clue)? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/21/m...
link:https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/21/metro/ice-agents-try-to-arrest-father-as-he-holds-children/"
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Call it a metaphor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Glad she noticed.
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-elena-kagan-accuses-conservative-majority-undermining-democrac-rcna604673
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It looks like it may be worse than just betrayal; it looks like betrayal plus crooked side deals for Trump and cronies.
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/dmitriev-says-russian-wealth-fund-will-work-with-us-payment-diesel-deal-2026-10-16/
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Based on Ukraine, it looks like Trump would have sided with Hitler, not England — no Band of Brothers, no Greatest Generation, no American Century.
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Another cost increase fossil fuel emissions foist on us; add car insurance and it’s worse. For some families it’s worse: no insurance to be had. No insurance means no mortgages, which usually means lost home value.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-20/home-insurance-tops-property-taxes-in-squeeze-for-us-households
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The question of regulatory misbehavior against clean energy does need to be resolved before Democrats will vote for this bill. This misbehavior sends all the wrong signals.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/14/permitting-reform-deal-imperiled-by-move-kill-offshore-wind-project/
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I just love her band. :-) youtu.be/zfaVCiyyqTQ?...
link:https://youtu.be/zfaVCiyyqTQ?si=3qKsHqL2wXRtxpep
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This is lawsuit five by agents. They’re mostly stalled over motions to dismiss, but if they get past that to discovery, Patel is going to have a lot more trouble than from lying to Congress with Republicans who won't call out lies. apnews.com/article/fire...
link:https://apnews.com/article/fired-fbi-agents-lawsuit-trump-patel-maralago-69d3544a73ddcdb54f164807adde85ea
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Always, always, always with these guys it’s the thing that benefits Russia. Trump/Russia, anyone? www.ft.com/content/5435...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/54353d3a-afed-4fec-985a-50f3dfb9be8e?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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The Court That Dark Money Built still responds to dark money, through flotillas of dark-money-funded front groups that file orchestrated “amicus” briefs — and they win pretty much every time. It’s a racket. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/supreme-court-amicus-briefs-investigation/
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Best wishes for full and speedy recovery to Pope Leo as he returns home from the hospital.
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Putin bombs maternity hospitals; Trump claims Ukraine’s attacks on the refineries fueling Putin’s war machine are a “disgrace.” It’s sick. www.bbc.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c58jz174w89ro
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Trump/Russia was no hoax. apnews.com/article/russ...
link:https://apnews.com/article/russia-sanctions-trump-ukraine-e50c561ab805883bb4e484c092d8fadd
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More on the creepy billionaires desperately grabbing at power over our beloved country. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/republican-super-pac-donors-musk-uihlein-yass-01122941"