Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

Along with free “We’re a bunch of crooks” bumper stickers. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Bravo, Lula!! Thank you, Brazil!

Look how many Floridians get that climate change is driving their home insurance crisis. Big majorities; nearly half of Trump voters!

Hillary Clinton too sees Trump/Russia/Epstein:

aaronregunberg.substack.comNew documents show just how much Exxon knew—and how hard Exxon liedSo how much more damning evidence is out there?

Big Oil used to pretend climate change wasn’t real – then they pretended they were part of the solution. 🧵

And that is what’s left for these corporations to defend in the Suncor case.

“We have likely seen just a sliver of the evidence they have that shows they’ve spent decades knowingly deceiving the public about climate science, climate harms, and their commitment to climate action.” More truth to be uncovered. Stay tuned.

aaronregunberg.substack.comNew documents show just how much Exxon knew—and how hard Exxon liedSo how much more damning evidence is out there?

Big Oil used to pretend climate change wasn’t real – then they pretended they were part of the solution. 🧵

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The algae scam was one episode uncovered in a sprawling investigation conducted by @raskin.house.gov 's House Oversight Committee and my Senate Budget Committee back in 2024. Millions of pages documenting decades of denial and doublespeak from Big Oil.

I held a Budget hearing on what our investigation found in the records of the industry. But sometimes, what wasn’t found was just as important as what was.

aaronregunberg.substack.comNew documents show just how much Exxon knew—and how hard Exxon liedSo how much more damning evidence is out there?

Big Oil used to pretend climate change wasn’t real – then they pretended they were part of the solution. 🧵

@raskin.house.gov and I exposed ExxonMobil’s massive “algae biofuel” ad blitz—which they spent more on than the research itself.

“The goal was not to create a viable alternative energy source, but simply, as one internal memo put it, to make consumers ‘[b]elieve ExxonMobil is committed to helping solve climate change.’”

What government by billionaire gets you.

bloomberg.comJan. 6 Rioters Pardoned for Assaulting Cops Now Want Taxpayer MoneyNearly 200 people granted clemency by Trump for Jan. 6 charges are suing for US compensation, including dozens convicted of attacking or impeding law enforcement

The “ice cream window” is open at DOJ for MAGA to drive up and get taxpayer money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market: Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵

Fact #9. It’s a cascade, like dominoes. Climate risk wipes out insurance markets, which wipes out mortgages, which wipes out property values (unless you’ve got a zillionaire paying cash), which wipes out the economy — a “systemic risk.” Look it up. It’s not pretty.

Last fact, #10. If we don’t address climate change, this only gets worse. Regions becoming uninsurable and unmortgageable is predicted. A “coastal property values crash” is predicted. Elsewhere, wildfire risk creates the same economic danger. Time for us all to wake up.

Fact #7. If you can’t get insurance at all on your home, then buyers won’t be able to get a mortgage on it, and that will hammer the value of most homes. Only cash buyers will remain. Another hit to Florida property values.

Fact #8. Even Trump voters know something’s up. Most Floridians, including nearly half of Florida Trump voters, blame the home insurance crisis on “climate change making storms and hurricanes worse.” And they’re right. That’s the problem causing this.

Fact #5. If you end up in Citizens Property, it can spin you off to local private insurers with questionable ratings, many of which have gone bust when claims came, leaving homeowners stuck in Florida’s state claims guarantee fund, with taxpayers on the hook.

Fact #6. If you stay in Citizens, you should know that two-thirds of its Hurricane Debbie claimants got nothing for their claims — zero dollars. Hard to say it’s real insurance when most claimants got zero payments after a hurricane. Be prepared.

Fact #3. Insurance costs getting that high drives down property values, and Florida leads the country in declining property values. Some Floridians are trapped in homes now worth less than their remaining mortgage principal.

Fact #4. Many Floridians can’t get home insurance at all. If they can’t, and have a mortgage, the bank can “force place” insurance and add that to their mortgage payment, hitting family budgets hard — to pay for insurance for the bank, not the homeowner.

Fact #2. Most major insurers, and the leading ratings agencies for insurers, have pulled out of Florida, leaving many homeowners in a desperate struggle for affordable insurance that will actually pay claims when disasters strike.

Creepy billionaires want to run our country through political stooges. We can stop that. www.theverge.com/tech/1014252...

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youtube.comThe changing climate is toppling the home insurance market. Who should pay?YouTube video by Who Should Pay

The fossil fuel industry pollutes for free. But in the rest of the world, nothing is free. People are dealing with climate-driven price hikes for home insurance, food, and other basics. Polluters should be paying these costs – not the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXU...

There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵

(I'd add that the public would rejoice if we got rid of the dark money that is corrupting our politics for the billionaire donors. Pass the DISCLOSE Act, and we put an end to that evil.)

In a nutshell: we’ve driven past all the exits to climate safety except pricing carbon pollution; economic shock looms as markets predict the disruptions ahead in our climate reality; and an axis of climate evil is steering us toward disaster. These three facts must guide us.

There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵

Listen to markets. The cascade from insurance market collapse to mortgage market failure to property values crash and recession is widely predicted by top insurers, banks, regulators and investors. Abrupt, “systemic” economic collapse looms. We need to warn and prepare.

Spotlight fossil fuel’s dark money corruption and climate denial fraud operations — don’t tell the Little Red Riding Hood story without the wolf. Put the villains in every conversation. Their free-to-pollute subsidy is $700 billion, so they will fight. We must fight too.

There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵

Three: The death grip of fossil fuel influence on our politics must be broken. In the United States, fossil fuel dark money post-Citizens United has corrupted and disabled climate governance, and climate denial fraud has polluted climate discourse.

So what to do? Defend and expand the global pollution price in the EU CBAM, recently joined by the UK — it’s likely our last lifeboat. Waivers for Canada, Australia and California would be good. Asap, we need a U.S. “polluter pay” price on emissions.

There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵

One: We will fail on climate if pollute-for-free persists as fossil fuel’s business model. Offloading trillions in harm to humankind has always been wrong, morally and economically. It’s now lethal to any prospect of climate safety. It must end.

Two: The leading edge of climate havoc is already upon us in markets. Markets predict. Whole regions are becoming uninsurable, with mortgages becoming unavailable, and hits to global real estate as big as $25 trillion are predicted. Buckle up.

washingtonpost.comDOJ seeks to block Alaska Senate result if Republican incumbent narrowly losesIn a lawsuit, the Justice Department cited confusion over two similarly named candidates, including Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.

This is the kind of thug behavior creepy billionaires and their government stooges resort to when it looks like the people are going to reclaim their power. Democracy? Or government-by-billionaire? That’s the choice. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

theguardian.comUS supreme court sides with Republicans on rejecting student IDs in New Hampshire midtermsVoting rights advocates say directive would disenfranchise young and low-income voters, but Republicans say it’s needed to combat voter fraud

Of course it does. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

nytimes.comCovert Russian Group Targets James Talarico With Baseless Claims in Texas Senate RaceRussian influence operations appear to be stepping up efforts to meddle in the midterms, according to intelligence officials. Most are targeting Democrats.

Always Trump/Russia, Trump/Russia, Trump/Russia. Now Russia is interfering for Trump in U.S. elections. Probably with his blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

bloomberg.comUN Warns Major Emissions Cuts Needed to Limit Warming OvershootThe world can no longer keep global warming below 1.5C and must now focus on minimizing its overshoot, the United Nations said ahead of next month’s COP31 climate talks in Turkey. The US retreat from ...

Every remaining scenario for climate safety shows overshoot, so carbon capture is needed — and so is carbon pricing. Fossil fuel being allowed to pollute for free is now lethal to climate safety. Period. It’s price or fail. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...