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Trump tariffs and green energy rollbacks push household electricity bills up 10% US energy secretary said energy prices could hurt GOP in midterms, but blamed Democrats for price increases

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Seems bad

Draft of White House Report Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations

Gosh, turns out the things repeatedly cited for "RFK Jr makes some good points" were all bullshit, he's not doing squat about pesticides nor ultraprocessed foods, nor will he make fresh food more accessible and affordable.

Huge surprise from a sociopathic con artist in a GOP admin, I know.

Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives

105 million reasons why the GOP intentionally hiked energy costs for their own constituents

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Has he considered making good Star Trek instead

That's what happens when you keep your eyes open

I would rather die than create an account to continue

My post is the screenshot

Trump has long politicized disasters. Now he’s on the other side. Democrats have seized on the administration's cuts to the National Weather Service in the wake of the Texas floods.

Trump just called a reporter "evil" for questioning Texas flood preparedness. "All they want to do is criticize and I hope some day we can be bipartisan," Trump said of Democrats. He has a long history of politicizing disaster response in states run by Democrats. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Missouri Governor Signs Bill Rolling Back Voter-Approved Minimum Wage and Sick Leave

freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sees weather forecasting as a business opportunity—not a public service.

Extreme weather is life and death, but billionaires will put profit over public safety. apnews.com/article/trum...

Time for one of my Professional Political Insights (TM) - Swing district R's will lose seats for intentionally hiking energy costs to fund tax breaks for billionaires. It polls like garbage and the ad practically writes itself.

I accept checks or cash

They used to do this somewhat regularly, at least as recently as the 90s and possibly the 00s. That phrase, in bolded caps, and possibly similar variations occasionally dropped somewhere in the print edition. They might still do it, I just haven't had a print subscription in a long time.

This isn't rocket science, and Tillis knows it. Raising energy costs to fund tax breaks for billionaires will doom the GOP in 2026.

No one ever loss money voting on Susan Collins to wimp out. What are the odds?

New Hampshire reporters: Ask Scott Brown whether he would vote for Trump's budget bill if he was already in the U.S. Senate. New Hampshire voters oppose it by 56% to 33% according to the new UNH Granite State poll.

Industry Energy Demand And Costs Keep Growing. Clean Energy Can Help Industry is the largest energy consumer in the world, but many companies are embracing electric technologies to create truly cleaner products.

Our team at @energyinnovation.org released a report last week, Overcoming All Barriers to Industrial Electrification, which I highlight in my latest @forbes.com article. Plus a quick 🧵!

www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

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Millions in US expected to join ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump Rallies at roughly 2,000 sites planned for Saturday, same day as US president’s military parade and birthday

ICE agents masked detaining innocent people, military oppressing civilians, a US senator down to his knees... When did hate take over the hearts of many in this country? It hurts every day. But for now, let's remember that democracies don't have kings! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Massachusetts Wonders: Why So Many Town Names End in 'Ham'? Massachusetts town and city names are definitely some of the most unique in any state. In fact, there's a good chance that as soon as Bay State residents hear and/or read the name of any of those town...

There's nothing in the history books about the pilgrims naming everything after what they brought for lunch that day

wupe.com/massachusett...

Trump Steel Tariffs Expanded to Hit Home Appliances

Trump is taxing your new fridge at the store, gutting standards that hike your bills just for turning it on, and raising energy costs for the rest of the house with his tax bill. He might as well mug us outside Home Depot and save time up front.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

13 House Republicans urge Senate to scale back clean energy cuts in bill they voted for The lawmakers said they're "deeply concerned" by some of the Trump agenda bill's provisions and called for changes to mitigate "significant disruption" to certain projects.

Probably the time to make this point was when they voted on the bill. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

If Gen Z really wants to dunk on millennials, they should learn about Foursquare and go around saying stuff like, "I hear you're the mayor of this Panera Bread."

I still have 30+ maps stashed throughout my car. If there's ever a mass internet outage, how else would I drive to my friends' houses, honk, and stare smugly at them?

Don’t sleep on this

Can't decide whether thinking I like Trump or thinking I play golf is better grounds for them to fire whoever did this targeting

I have to do it pretty regularly. If you want to accurately reflect his cadence, you need to leave out most of the punctuation and keep the full riff in one giant block of text without lines between