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Forcing dirty power plants to stay open would cost Americans billions (www.canarymedia.com)
 

The Trump admin’s scheme to keep old fossil-fuel plants running could saddle utility customers with nearly $6 billion a year in unnecessary costs, a report finds.

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Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil (www.theguardian.com)
 

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives

Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom’s rollout of California redistricting campaign in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

The National Guard can be federalized. Need a state army that's not subject to that.

Do Democrats have a Zohran Mamdani problem? in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Thats normal. People mostly don't care who is mayor of a distant city.

Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom’s rollout of California redistricting campaign in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

I think they're called gravy seals or something

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Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom’s rollout of California redistricting campaign (www.sfchronicle.com)
 

As Gov. Gavin Newsom launched his California redistricting campaign Thursday at an event in Los Angeles, a U.S. Border Patrol sector chief showed up outside with a contingent of armed and masked agents.

Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses: In face of mounting discontent over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump has turned to deflection, denial & downplaying in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 hours ago

A happy ending tends to do that

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Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses: In face of mounting discontent over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump has turned to deflection, denial & downplaying (www.nytimes.com)
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Another Senate Dem Refuses to Participate in Budgeting to Protest Trump’s Power Grab (talkingpointsmemo.com)
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The Downballot’s live guide to redistricting in every state (www.the-downballot.com)
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The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry (www.cnn.com)
Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Because he doesn't want to hear the bad news about his policies causing unemployment

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Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data (www.bloomberg.com)
 

When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.

We simply can't trust government stats after this.

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DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team | “It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.” (www.theatlantic.com)