Oh, really. Corporate propaganda has polluted judicial retreats for decades, but when it’s climate science, PolluterPage objects. www.wsj.com/opinion/judi...

Senate Rs backing Blanche will have more egg on their face than a McMuffin.

Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump’s campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he’s dragging his party down with him in the midterms.

In the recent heat domes, wind and solar saved the day. Trump’s attacks on wind and solar aren’t for you, they’re for his big corrupt fossil fuel donors.

National Geographic does Rhode Island. Well done!

Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election.

Senator Banks objected.

Blanche showed complete blindness to the MAGA DOJ’s misconduct.

I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this one, simple truth: Florida’s insurance market is gravely stressed by climate risks.

Trump blocking low-cost solar drives grids to higher-cost fossil fuel units, so Americans pay billions more for power. But those excess billions go to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. It’s a corrupt scheme to fleece ratepayers to pay off donors.

Blanche claims to “welcome our questions.” Well, maybe he should try answering them.

Wrong.

There it is. Todd Blanche is Donald Trump’s lawyer—not YOURS.

Blanche slips! 😬 KENNEDY: Are you and President Trump friends? BLANCHE: I'm his lawyer. Was his lawyer.

Whitehouse to Blanche: "You are wrong. In the history of the DOJ, this kind of criticism by federal judges is unprecedented and it comes from judges of every different political persuasion."

By forcing votes on nominees like Blanche, Trump is dragging Senate Rs down with him.

23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.

Blanche’s word has no credibility with me.

All that extra money Trump is making families pay by stomping on low-cost-to-drive EVs (never mind the damage to U.S. auto industry in international competition, where EV sales are soaring and China dominates).

Good TACO, this time.

1,200+ former Justice Department employees just spoke out against Todd Blanche. These are career civil servants who have actually defended our nation in court under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. Todd Blanche only defends Donald Trump.

Every day, Americans are paying higher costs due to Pres. Trump’s unilateral failures in Iran. I’ve been clear since day one: Trump must change course. Clearly, his son-in-law and golfing buddy aren’t getting the job done. Not in Iran. And not in Ukraine.

Rubio, three weeks ago: “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway.” Trump, yesterday: the U.S. will charge a 20 percent fee on maritime cargo through Strait of Hormuz. So much for the principle of freedom of navigation. China is watching.

Well, I told you to watch the Florida proceedings about whether a “fraud on the court” was committed in the slush fund case, and we now have the federal judge’s decision, and it’s a doozy. Here’s how she framed the question: 🧵

Trump wants to shut down the government in September to force Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, rig the midterm elections, and disenfranchise millions of American citizens. If the government shuts down in September, remember one man was cheerleading for that outcome all along: Donald Trump.

The cost of chaos isn’t paid in Washington. It’s paid by Americans in the grocery store, at the gas pump, and anywhere you choose to spend your money. Trump needs to end his illegal war. Stop the illegal tariffs. And put lowering costs for working families at the top of the agenda.

In the last week, Ukraine has “sanctioned” roughly 100 shadow fleet ships carrying Russian oil. Shadow ships are burning; Russians are seeing gas lines and fistfights for fuel. Ukraine is winning.

These Ukrainians are remarkable; they make me proud to be a human being — which is precious right now looking at our leadership.

I am stunned and saddened to hear the news this morning. Lindsey was a giant in the Senate. No one loved being a Senator more, or was more energetic. The Senate will be a lesser place without him. I’ve lost a dearly cherished friend.

This fossil fuel stoogery won’t age well. The industry is betting its credibility on a proposition its own scientists thirty years ago told it was WRONG. There will be a reckoning. Shareholders should beware.

NEWS: @whitehouse.senate.gov expands his investigation into mismanagement at Trump’s Kennedy Center. Whistleblowers report shoddy work on one of the Center’s reflecting pools and MORE wasted taxpayer money on Trump’s vanity projects.

Trump screws up ANOTHER reflecting pool? More shoddy work spotted at the Kennedy Center.

Climate change is front and center in the affordability crisis — and Democrats ought to talk about it.

Why we need permitting reform, and why we need to stop Trump’s corrupt blockade of American solar and wind (hint: he does it to force U.S. grids to buy expensive fossil power from his crooked donors, even though your costs go up).

And as if cutting Medicaid wasn’t enough, Senate Republicans also refused to work with Democrats to extend the tax credits that kept monthly ACA premiums down for middle-class families. But again, they found the time and money to give big corporations even more tax handouts.

This is a BIG red flag. Ahead of the midterms, Donald Trump FIRED all members of the independent Election Assistance Commission—people confirmed unanimously by the Senate to make sure we have free and fair elections. We can't let Trump rig the next election.

Let’s not forget the permits blockade, which delayed low-cost clean energy projects, forcing electric grids to revert to expensive fossil units. Costs went up for consumers, but those extra billions all went to Trump’s fossil fuel donors.

Former NOAA chief scientist: “The stresses that we see today are only going to get worse because heat waves like this ten years from now will be over 40C.” Or you can believe Big Oil.

McKibben goes with the zettajoules!! (For scale, entire human energy consumption = 1/2 a zettajoule.) Time to wake up.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse explains precisely why Todd Blanche should never be confirmed as attorney general. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The only thing Trump has achieved in this forever war is raising your costs.

Trump claims his economy is working–but for the second month in a row, prices are up, and real wages are down. Why would anyone believe him?

Republicans ended the ACA tax credits. The result? A health care affordability crisis with no end in sight. When Democrats take back the Senate, lowering your health care costs will be a top priority. apnews.com/article/affo...

Hurray for the humanitarian decision to license Patriot missile technology to Ukraine, to help protect their civilians from murderous Russian bombardment. We may learn from seeing U.S. and Ukrainian Patriot construction side by side.

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EPA's air office once worked to protect human health and the environment. Then came fossil fuel crony Aaron Szabo. Szabo will be remembered by the sickness, death, and pollution he helped exacerbate.

Donald Trump’s rambling, unhinged, confused performance this morning was an embarrassment. Serving as Putin's mouthpiece, undermining our allies, and cheerleading for war — that's Trump’s vision for our country. In November, Americans will have a chance to take us down a different path.

The Trump effect: ugly, gaudy, and unlawful.