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U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State.
https://linktr.ee/senwhitehouse
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The Billionaires Bill worked! Billionaires made over $1.5 trillion dollars last year; more than 20% richer!! The looting and polluting continues…
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Trump Delivered 22% Boost to Billionaire Wealth in 2025, But Catastrophe for Working Class | Common Dreams
"After a year in office, Trump and the GOP majority betrayed their promises to working people, instead serving billionaire elites and wealthy corporations," said the executive director of Americans fo...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-billionaires-workers
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The legendary Marty Baron says: “Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left … a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post#:~:text=The%20Amazon%20founder%20bought%20the,forced%20it%20into%20severe%20decline
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My EV is fun to drive, reliable and inexpensive to run; good to know they measurably help my neighbors’ clean air too.
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EVs are already making your air cleaner
A study in California finds that even small increases in EVs lead to measurable drops in air pollution at the neighborhood level.
https://grist.org/solutions/evs-are-already-making-your-air-cleaner/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=401794113&utm_content=401794113&utm_source=hs_email
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Is Trump finally figuring out that the Koch operation (Leo/McGahn) really picked “his” Supreme Court justices; that Trump was their chump. Trump the chump! Hysterical.
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Poland has a long history of dealing with Russian intel operations. The Trump/Russia connection is real and the Epstein files have blown it open.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/03/epstein-was-probably-a-russian-spy-says-poland/
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This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
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Oh, Aaron, there you go saying the DAG got the law “wrong.” You forget, he’s a Trumpster, so whatever Trump wants to hear is what’s “right.” In other words, the MAGA DAG MAGA-nailed it! Give the boy some cred.
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Trump’s DOJ Goon Gets Law Wrong in Bonkers Live Interview
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was roasted for his wildly incorrect statements.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-doj-goon-todd-blanche-gets-law-wrong-in-bonkers-live-interview/
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When climate change makes homeowners' insurance unattainable, houses unmortgageable, and reduces incomes, jobs, and economic growth, the costs of complacency become existential. I’m headed to the Senate Floor for my 304th Time to Wake Up speech.
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They may smell some disciplinary issues coming on.
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Former Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist joins the chorus on climate property risk.
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When Actuaries See The Future: Climate Risk, Insurance, And Your Wallet
Seen through an actuarial lens, the changing climate is not an ideology. It’s a risk management challenge already reshaping insurance, mortgage lending & municipal bonds.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2026/01/21/when-actuaries-see-the-future-climate-risk-insurance-and-your-wallet/
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“If you are somebody who has previously dismissed talk of election interference as overwrought, we understand where you are coming from. Yet we urge you not to assume that the past will repeat itself.”
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Opinion | Trump Could Interfere With the Midterm Elections. You Can Help Defend Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/trump-midterms-election-security.html
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If true, this could explain a lot: Epstein’s mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trump’s submissiveness around Putin.
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Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap'
The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15516349/Epsteins-sex-empire-KGB-honeytrap-Paedophile-financier-Putin-Russian-girls.html
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America is facing a looming economic crisis that few people are talking about: a housing market collapse driven by increasingly devastating natural disasters. Senator Sheehy and I agree that preparedness should be bipartisan.
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Opinion | The Hidden Risk to the Housing Market
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/opinion/housing-market-extreme-weather-climate-change.html
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Bondi’s attack on Judge Boasberg summarily dismissed. This was one of several MAGA attack vectors: House impeachment filings; Senate “suspension” letter...
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US Justice Department's misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg gets tossed
A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a judicial misconduct complaint by U.S. Justice Department against a judge who clashed with President Donald Trump's administration over its move to deport ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-departments-misconduct-complaint-against-judge-boasberg-gets-tossed-2026-01-31/
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This Black History Month, we celebrate the contributions of Black Americans, who have long been at the forefront of our nation’s pursuit of equity and justice for all. There is much work ahead in that fight.
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When climate-driven insurance hikes and cancellations come to your door, who should pay?
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The changing climate is toppling the home insurance market. Who should pay?
YouTube video by Who Should Pay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXUD9jzJgk&feature=youtu.be
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The Fulton County raid smells to high heaven of the dark work of Trump’s secretive Weaponization Working Group, which Tulsi Gabbard claims to have “stood up.” That would explain her improper presence at a supposedly domestic law enforcement scene.
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Exclusive: Wide-ranging group of US officials pursues Trump's fight against ‘Deep State’
A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including U.S. intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Trump's drive for retribution against his perceived enemies...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wide-ranging-group-us-officials-pursues-trumps-fight-against-deep-state-2025-10-20/
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I would add to Will’s column that the risk of corruption grows explosively as unchecked executive power grows.
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Opinion | With this decision, the Supreme Court can and should rein Trump in
A pending landmark ruling will address the president’s power to fire within the executive branch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/30/trump-firing-executive-branch-supreme-court/
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American businesses have for years propped up “worst climate obstructor” U.S. Chamber (aka
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Meet the Australian billionaire bucking Trump on climate
"Even the most selfish political leaders know that there are boundaries to everything."
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/andrew-forrest-australia-fortescue-trump
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One thing to add to Carini’s column is that in the offshore litigation CT and RI AGs alleged in court filings hundreds of millions in consumer savings, with sworn affidavits.
ecori.org/dont-blame-r...
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Don’t Blame Renewable Energy for Escalating Electricity Costs - ecoRI News
The comments scream from our website every time we publish a story about renewable energy: it’s making utility costs higher!
https://ecori.org/dont-blame-renewable-energy-for-escalating-electricity-costs/
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$31 billion in extra utility costs, much of it driven by climate perils caused by fossil fuel pollution; much of it caused by fossil fuel minions in Trump administration blocking and delaying low-cost clean energy to reward Trump’s fossil fuel buddies.
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E&E News: Utilities sought a record $31B in rate increases last year
Growing energy demand and the data center boom drove requests for rate hikes, according to a report from PowerLines, a nonprofit.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/01/29/utilities-sought-a-record-31b-in-rate-increases-last-year-00752839
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Administration pretext of “national security” to stop offshore wind now 0-for-4 with 4 federal judges, including a Trump appointee. 0-for-5 if you count the first Revolution Wind “stop work” order thrown out months ago.
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Looking to Davos corporate elite for leadership is like looking to squid for spines.
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At Davos, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Is No Longer Debatable
Markets have moved on from fossil fuels. Politics hasn’t.
https://time.com/7353478/davos-climate-leadership-end-fossil-fuel-era/
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What will lower energy bills is getting Revolution Wind up and operating, delivering 9.9 cent/kWhs into an 18 cent/kwh grid. Trump is messing with that to keep us buying higher-cost power from his big fossil-fuel-buddy donors.
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McKee's plan to lower energy bills comes at the cost of climate goals
McKee's energy and climate policies are at odds, specifically around a proposal to help lower utility bills.
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/01/30/plan-to-lower-ri-energy-bills-puts-two-mckee-priorities-at-odds/88418997007/
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“Police chiefs who have spent half a decade trying to persuade a skeptical public that officers would curb their use of violence are contending with widespread alarm over federal officers ushering an innocent man into the snow in his shorts, arresting a 5-year-old and killing U.S. citizens.”
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‘It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/its-all-just-going-down-the-toilet-police-chiefs-fume-at-ice-tactics.html
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The Economist magazine, with a world-wide audience, steps in hard against Trump/Noem’s violent embarrassment of our country with ICE’s goon-squad behavior. It’s remarkable, and sad, that Trump’s America looks like this to the world.
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ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/01/29/ices-impunity-is-a-formula-for-more-violence
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The overheated and false rhetoric from the right, likely designed to interfere with Judge Boasberg’s investigation of MAGA DOJ contempt of court, fell apart completely when reviewed by an independent judge.
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New England offshore wind isn’t “eventually,” it’s now. Vineyard already sends energy to the grid; Revolution weeks away after weeks of illegal blockage by Trump; and it’s less expensive. Revolution is 9-cent/kwh power into an average 18-cent/kwh grid.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/cold-weather-power-outages.html"
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Mens Sana watch: Slovakia’s MAGA-leaning prime minister warned EU leaders about Trump’s ‘psychological state’ and used the word ‘dangerous.’
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They wear masks; here’s more on how they spy on you.
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The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters
Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/
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Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an elections office in Fulton County?
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The courage of ordinary Minnesotans also stands in stark contrast to America’s pusillanimous corporate “leadership.” Thank you,
@smith.senate.gov
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Opinion | Senator Tina Smith: I Won’t Vote to Fund ICE Until It Gets Out of My State
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/ice-trump-good-pretti.html
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ICE agents are scanning your face while hiding theirs.
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Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
https://www.wired.com/story/mobile-fortify-face-recognition-nec-ice-cbp/
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I know bad police work when I see it.
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I hear that the price of Trump’s attendance was downplaying fossil fuel pollution dangers, and business “leaders” went spinelessly along.
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At Davos, Talk of Climate Change Retreats to the Sidelines
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/climate/davos-climate-change-trump.html
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Dept. of Not Keeping Stories Straight:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | They don’t give an inch. Even when an American is killed.
For Trump officials, fighting the administration’s enemies is more important than being decent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/28/trump-pretti-shooting-noem-bovino/
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“Key figures in the administration are pointing fingers at one another. Trump is blaming Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. Bovino’s boss Kristi Noem is blaming Stephen Miller, per Axios. Miller is blaming Border Patrol. And Border Patrol is big mad at ICE, per POLITICO’s Myah Ward and colleagues.”
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Bush appointee (and Scalia clerk) demands ICE chief in court: “ICE’s violation of court orders is … extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried and failed.”
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A small community newspaper from a rural area with traditionally conservative leanings lets them have it.
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Editorial: Above The Law
This year, we largely set aside our editorial voice in a commitment to reporting local news without any appearance of partisanship throughout our 190-year-old operation. But lines have become unmistak...
https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-above-the-law/article_a862db8b-2e48-5d97-9243-868ecb716aa6.html
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Noem needs to go, too.
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When the government is lying to you, watch out. “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” Alex Pretti’s parents, Susan and Michael, said in a statement.
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Leader Thune must keep DHS $$ separate, like House did, so we can pass all other appropriations. Everyone sees DHS needs work.
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Reads a lot like “hand over sensitive voter information or the chaos continues.”
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Even the WSJ editorial page calls out the lies! “The Trump Administration spin on this simply isn’t believable. Stephen Miller, the political architect of the mass deportation policy, called Pretti a ‘domestic terrorist.’ He was a nurse without a criminal record.”
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Some get it, but will they do anything?
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Pretty stunning to think that the subject of an order to block destruction of evidence is the U.S. government. It’s TrumpWorld.
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In Battle for Evidence, Minnesota Sues Feds Over Fatal Border Patrol Shooting
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is concerned the federal government may “withhold” information about the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/in-battle-for-evidence-minnesota-sues-feds-over-fatal-border-patrol-shooting-52be59ba
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