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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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Of course the roots of the “shadow docket” are in service to the fossil fuel billionaires who captured the Court. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
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Pity that all he can do is read it, and not take it in.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/trump-scripture-angering-christians-00879747
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Not enough to pollute for free; fossil fuel gets Republicans AGs to provide taxpayer-funded free legal service. Ghoulish levels of greed.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/hawaii-climate-lawsuit-dismissed.html
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When you’re on both sides, you can dictate the result. This is the DOJ “ice cream window” that pays off MAGA lawsuits, on conflict-of-interest steroids.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/17/trump-tax-leak-lawsuit/
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Trump/Russia rears its ugly head again.
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Stooge Patel getting sloshed at the “Poodle Room” in Vegas? You simply cannot make this up!! Too good. Start the clock.
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Trump is extracting money from families’ budgets and pumping it to his fossil fuel donors.
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Glad to celebrate the opening of the South Shore Station 3 EMS Facility in South Kingstown today. This new station is expected to save lives by cutting emergency response times by half for the southern part of town.
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Worthy piece, particularly describing Trump’s dark blather as “the photographic negative of the Sermon on the Mount.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-meets-his-match-in-pope-leo-7558687a
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Trump tries to stop this low-cost solar power, so electric grids have to go to expensive dirty fossil plants, raising consumer prices, by (PUNCHLINE) driving money from regular ratepayers to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. But clean energy keeps winning!!
link:https://www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-wind-gas-coal-eia-energy-outlook/817315/
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More MAGA mischief: two MAGA Trump judges again interrupt a contempt inquiry into MAGA DOJ, before the proceedings even take place. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/deportation-flights-trump-contempt.html
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PolluterPage prints piece calling Trump “desperate, deranged”; administration “losers,” and war as “ill-conceived, ill-planned, ill-executed and, so far, failing.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/for-now-at-least-the-iran-war-seems-to-be-failing-832a0e60
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It’s true that a president with significant mental health issues would leave adversaries “on edge.” As America loses.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/trump-mental-fitness-25th-amendment.html
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Trump would rather fight with the Pope than lower costs. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/12/trump-criticizes-pope-leo/
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Decency and democracy win BIG! Trump/Vance/Rubio big LOSERS. Hurray Hungary!!
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Well, at least they’re self-aware. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32
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I wish I didn’t feel that Trump’s team were the dumbest three in the room. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/12/iran-us-talks-ceasefire-vance/