2026 Climate Referendum

Caligula is destroying the country and trying to remake its capital in the image of his own twisted ugliness. He wants to tear down cherished landmarks and erect monuments to himself everywhere. Mad kings will study him for inspiration for centuries to come.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Trump officials awarded Venezuela oil-sale contracts to firms tied to bribery The Trump administration awarded $500 million in contracts for Venezuelan oil sales to two firms with a history of bribery and corruption.

Why would Trump have funneled sales of the seized Venezuela oil through opaque Qatar bank accounts? Maybe to make it easier to sell the oil to firms with documented histories of bribery and corruption. h/t @johnsmillie42.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com
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I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.

Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.

If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Noem:

"An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently."

Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit.

Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

We need partisan mobilization to elect democrats up and down the ballot. This is the solution. No one anywhere should be voting for GOP. Everyone should be voting blue.

The cowards are the republicans that are too scared to stand up to Trump. None of the democrats support this.

No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.

This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

Climate change's hidden price tag: a drop in our income By linking decades of weather and income data, University of Arizona economist Derek Lemoine shows how routine temperature shifts have already become an economic force.

While most economist talk about the impacts of climate change as projections in the future, this professor says global warming has already reduced US incomes by 12% on average. @uarizona.bsky.social h/t @dharna.bsky.social
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More expensive, more pollution and more climate change: this is what Trump is offering with his climate policies. And when climate change hits, it's going to get really expensive. Everyone must do their part today to make sure future catastrophe is that more lethal even if it costs more.

Tariffs: Trump's tariffs make everything more expensive because they're a sales tax on imported goods and Trump is threatening other countries with tariffs unless they purchase and burn American fossil fuels. Here, Trump is trying to make everything unaffordable while worsening climate change.

Because clean energy is so cheap, clean energy deployment will lower electricity costs and therefore, Trump's anti-clean policies, along with keeping expensive coal plants open, will cause electricity rates to go up.

Stopping clean energy deployment: Trump is doing whatever he can to kneecap wind and solar. Right now, wind and solar are the cheapest sources of power and the quickest to bring to market.

electricity costs less than gas and EVs have next to zero maintenance costs. We need to encourage electric vehicle purchases because they will save consumers money, reduce air pollution and mitigate climate change.

Making electric vehicles more expensive: Trump is eliminating subsidies so everyone needs to pay more for electric vehicles. Beyond the subsidies, electric vehicles will save consumers money over the longer term compared with ICE vehicles:

Weakening auto fuel efficiency standards: Trump is trying to roll back auto efficiency standards. Weakening these standards will require consumers to pay more to fill up their tank when buying gas, while polluting more and worsening climate change. Fuel efficient vehicles save consumers money.

Coal causes air pollution, water pollution and yet Trump wants electricity ratepayers to pay a premium to keep expensive coal plants open, increasing their electricity bills.

Here is a list of what Trump is doing to raise prices and worsen climate change:

Keeping uneconomic coal plants open: Mining for coal degrades our natural environment, burning coal pollutes our air and then after it's burned, coal combustion waste leaks into the water poisoning it.

Americans need to pay extra for electricity, for gasoline, for vehicle maintenance because they need to subsidize future climate catastrophe. I call this Trump's Climate Catastrophe Tax. We all need to pay more today to ensure the suffering of future generations.

According to public opinion polls, voters are still worried about costs and believe that Trump isn't doing enough to lower prices.

A review of Trump's climate policies reveals he is committed to increasing prices and air pollution while worsening climate change.

Affordability is right now the watch word in American electoral politics. In 2024 Voters replaced President Biden with Trump because they were concerned about the rising costs of various consumer items like food and gasoline.

Goldman: Until DHS reins in this rogue and authoritarian ICE secret police force, there should be no more funding provided to DHS.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June 2025)