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Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

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“It has brand recognition and consumer trust that only Santa Claus can compete with,” Christine Egan, head of CLASP, an international nonprofit dedicated to energy-efficient appliances, told the Washington Post.

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You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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“Kennedy’s form of environmentalism is the equivalent of toasting all-natural marshmallows over a tire fire. It might make for a good photo, but it’s actually poison.” @emorwee.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

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Striking fact: the top ten states with the most to lose from the Republican budget plan to gut the IRA all voted for Trump.

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Is Elon Musk's business empire crumbling? @lockettwill.bsky.social medium.com/predict/this...

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Oopsie -- lawyers at the firm where I used to practice (K&L Gates) sanctioned for filing a brief where 1/3 of the citations were bogus or faulty due to their use of AI.

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"The racism dog whistle here is a bullhorn." Trump said he wants a refugee policy in America's interest, which just happens to be nobody except...white South Africans? @timmiller.bsky.social:

submitted 22 hours ago • 42 comments

Note -- this was a key ask from the Qatari government ahead of the trip. Gifts pay dividends.

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Trump's whole approach to governance is transactional and based on his extracting tribute from those he is dealing with. Whether it is gifts of planes, investments in his personal crypto scams, cutting deals with other nations on tariffs, or getting institutions to bend the knee to his demands 1/

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“Trump’s Middle East trip marked by potential private business conflicts. The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries the president plans to visit this week.” Corruption in plain sight.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

Great event for an outstanding organization -- be there if you can!

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Own goal alert. The Republican budget plan would eliminate billions of dollars of investments and hundreds of thousands of jobs in clean energy and manufacturing, mostly in their own districts. @bradplumer.bsky.social @harrystevens.bsky.social @nytimes.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

The Qatar plane deal isn't the largest example of the Trump Family's corruption and self-dealing (crypto, Jared's Saudi investments, $5 billion UAE resort deal, etc....), but it is the easiest to explain and seems to be breaking through to voters and even his base.

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Todd Blanche, unqualified white male lawyer, is America's new Librarian of Congress; replacing Dr. Carla Hayden, trained & qualified black librarian, fired by a 2-line email. Remember this the next time a MAGA racist says the word "merit."

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Trump & his family have made more than a BILLION dollars A MONTH in 2025, says Raskin "through the new crypto grift...makes the Trump Hotel look like a Cub Scout meeting"

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"Strains bounds of propriety"? How about "shatters every ethical norm of public service"? I truly want to know what the headline writers at the @nytimes.com are smoking, and to what end.

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Destroying jobs, stranding investments, increasing energy costs, adding to climate pollution. All to provide $ trillions in tax cuts to the wealthiest and corporations

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The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡

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Fortunately, it comes pre-equipped with bugging devices and surveillance equipment.

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Spiro Agnew had to resign as Vice President after he accepted more than $100k in bribes. Trump's corruption makes that look penny ante. The Qatar plane is obvious grifting, but this crypto coin scam is even bigger. @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

The grift that keeps on grifting. Good from @rbreich.bsky.social on the ways that Trump's naked corruption is finally breaking through to the public and even his base.

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Wrecking ball aimed at communities, the environment, and clean energy to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate America. @evergreenaction.bsky.social's analysis of the House Energy and Commerce budget bill released last night. evergreenaction.com/press/rapid-...

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So incredibly cruel, racist and shortsighted. Why would anyone ever work with the US in a foreign conflict again?

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Make Waste Great Again. Trump's assaults on Energy Star, LIHEAP, and other energy efficiency programs increase costs for ratepayers and pollution while making it harder for utilities to meet new loads. @canarymedia.com @alisontakemura.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

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Pity the poor oil and gas industry. They bet big on electing Trump, and now they are being crushed by his tariffs, his moves to strong- arm OPEC to lower prices, and the chaos. Did someone say something about leopards and faces? 1/ @washingtonpost.com @evanhalper.bsky.social

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Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, can I get in on your IPO?

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More than half of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin are likely based outside of the US, a Bloomberg News analysis finds

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Quid meet quo. #Corruption

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TFW the grift is too much extreme even for Laura Loomer.

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I am fascinated and horrified by this group of very smart, very rich, very powerful and batshit crazy group of people who would gladly sacrifice humanity and all other living beings at the alter of AI overlords

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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

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On my reading list!

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