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Solutions abound when you switch from yelling #climatecrisis to focusing on cutting climate risk. Full #climlifebergen @UiB_IF talk at: revkin.substack.com/p/how-to…
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
🧵McCarthy calls bull on Rubio/Hegseth claims Musk must have unilaterally throttled Starlink/Starshield in Ukraine. Why did the Trump admin declare Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk? “Because, as both Hegseth and Trump inveighed, it would be intolerable for the U.S. armed forces engaged in battlefield operations to be subject to the whims of tech executives providing vital services….So dedicated to this proposition are the president, the secretary, the intelligence services, and the Justice Department that the administration is still fighting Anthropic in federal courts in Northern California and Washington, D.C.
The Starshield controversy presents the same situation. The implication that the administration would cede decision-making about how technology is deployed on the battlefield to Musk, an unelected tech executive, is ridiculous — to say nothing of the fact that it would undermine the government’s defense of the SCR designation in the Anthropic litigation.”
Not Buying the Trump Administration’s Gambit to Blame Musk for Starshield Restrictions nationalreview.com/corner/no…
Susan Collins has called for the kissing cousin slime ads to be pulled by @Senate_Fund but Maine’s right-wing media are loving it.
5. Matt Gagnon: "Honestly, I don't really love stuff like that.. It's a little dirty... But if you're going to be dirty, if you're going to be negative, if you're going to go into the cousin well with Troy Jackson, I suppose you can do us the favor of being amusing.... It is amusing. I'm not sure I woul have made it a campaign ad. Maybe like release the song on YouTube and let it get out there... I don't know..."
Thanks again for all the reminders @elonmusk’s $$$$ @america PAC, but we voted early and blue, for @TroyJackson207 and @dunlap4congress too.
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
"Collins has brought our family into this campaign herself. She has ridiculed us publicly, invoked my children in debates and treated deeply personal parts of our lives as fair game for political attack." Lana Pelletier partner of @TroyJackson207 #MEpolitics
2. It's worth recalling that moment when @SenatorCollins said this to @axios. c-span.org/clip/campaign-202…
National Review's @AndrewCMcCarthy isn't buying Team Trump's blame shifting on Ukraine Starshield throttling.
Not Buying the Trump Administration’s Gambit to Blame Musk for Starshield Restrictions nationalreview.com/corner/no…
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
Susan Collins doubles down on racist “voter fraud” conspiracies. People are legally allowed to have interpreters assist them while voting. #mepolitics
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
SCOOP from POLITICO: A new Trump administration legal move filed late Tuesday targeting the New England Wind offshore wind project threatens to derail the bipartisan permitting reform deal.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: “This is how you blow up a permitting deal.”
Disgusting and predictable. We voted for @TroyJackson207
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
This morning, US envoy Steve Witkoff called indicted war criminal and international pariah Vladimir Putin, "a humanitarian".
Do we all understand that the Trump administration, having overtly abandoned our allies in Europe, including Ukraine, is fully and openly collaborating with Russia?
Do we understand that the diesel oil deal Trump struck with Putin, providing outrageous sanctions relief for Russia, with deadly consequences for Ukrainian citizens, is one of the sleaziest, most unprincipled Trump family enriching, politically motivated deals ever proposed by a US president?
Did you know that in the last 7 days, Putin's missile and drone attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine killed or injured at least 34 children. (That brings the total number of child casualties in Ukraine to over 4,000 since the full-scale invasion?)
Do you get it that Putin's obsession with imposing suffering on civilians & his highly organized attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure will usher in the most brutal winter since the beginning of the war?
Oh, and did I mention that Trump's envoy just called Putin "a humanitarian"? Yeah. He did. Today.
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
GET THEM ON THE GRID
Data center developers have announced the equivalent of 14% of peak US electricity demand in new behind-the-meter gas plants, according to @CleanviewEnergy. A massive pollution impact
Well this is trully wonderful.
Here’s why you drop $250 on a photo facsimile of Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. You get to see him change “immaculate” to the unforgettable “effeminate” and you see him cut the limp “to speak crudely” from one of the novel’s best sentences. And there are such treasures on every page!
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
I am once again asking you to remember that Trump has six times (6!) called for eliminating LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, calling it "unnecessary" and promising lower energy costs instead. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
Right wing Maine radio hosts @HowieCarrShow and @MatthewGagnon endorse @Senate_Fund ads smearing @TroyJackson207 and his family.
Now Troy’s companion breaks silence:
Here's Lana Pelletier from @bangordailynews today: 1/
🧵 On the way to physical therapy here in Downeast Maine I was listening to @MatthewGagnon's morning show on @WGANNews when @HowieCarrShow joined to hail the new @Senate_Fund PAC @LeaderJohnThune ads building on @SenSusanCollins's coy effort to draw attention to @TroyJackson207's family (the second cousin angle). You can hear a clip below.
Howie Carr: I'm glad the Super PAC has taken off the gloves, too, about marrying the cousins, you know?
Matt Gagnon: Boy, are they ever, yeah.
Howie Carr: Because, you know, again, anyone, I don't know how many people still read the papers, but they're not going to read that stuff in the daily newspapers.
Matt Gagnon: No. Right? No, they're not. No, but they're certainly seen on TV, man. I mean, you're right. I was watching some football this weekend, and I got the whole married your cousin, had kids with your cousin thing about 50 times when I was trying to watch the Patriots.
Howie Carr (aping news voice): “Collins seizes on incest issues.”
…But there should still be a line. Collins has been quick to demand respect and decency for herself. My family deserved the same. I stayed quiet because I never wanted this election to be about me. Collins and her allies made a different choice.
So if my name, my relationship and my family are going to be used to tell a story that isn’t true, Mainers deserve to hear from the person who actually lived that story.I know my own life. I know my family And after nearly 40 years with Troy, I know who he is, too."
🧵 On the way to physical therapy here in Downeast Maine I was listening to @MatthewGagnon's morning show on @WGANNews when @HowieCarrShow joined to hail the new @Senate_Fund PAC @LeaderJohnThune ads building on @SenSusanCollins's coy effort to draw attention to @TroyJackson207's family (the second cousin angle). You can hear a clip below.
Howie Carr: I'm glad the Super PAC has taken off the gloves, too, about marrying the cousins, you know?
Matt Gagnon: Boy, are they ever, yeah.
Howie Carr: Because, you know, again, anyone, I don't know how many people still read the papers, but they're not going to read that stuff in the daily newspapers.
Matt Gagnon: No. Right? No, they're not. No, but they're certainly seen on TV, man. I mean, you're right. I was watching some football this weekend, and I got the whole married your cousin, had kids with your cousin thing about 50 times when I was trying to watch the Patriots.
Howie Carr (aping news voice): “Collins seizes on incest issues.”
2. It's worth recalling that moment when @SenatorCollins said this to @axios. c-span.org/clip/campaign-202…
Correction appended: It was a @politico interview of course. Apologies, @jmart!
Martin: Should the circumstances of his personal life and the mother of his children be relevant to this campaign? Is that fair game, do you think?
Collins: I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin. I don’t know whether people know that or not.
Martin: I think you just mentioned it.
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Maine right-wing media have doubled down.
My 94-year-old mother-in-law in Winter Harbor is disgusted and voting (as we did) for @TroyJackson207 so that Collins can't keep giving Trump a pass when it matters (and @dunlap4congress so @MainePaulLePage can relax back in Florida.
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ retweeted
🧵 On the way to physical therapy here in Downeast Maine I was listening to @MatthewGagnon's morning show on @WGANNews when @HowieCarrShow joined to hail the new @Senate_Fund PAC @LeaderJohnThune ads building on @SenSusanCollins's coy effort to draw attention to @TroyJackson207's family (the second cousin angle). You can hear a clip below.
Howie Carr: I'm glad the Super PAC has taken off the gloves, too, about marrying the cousins, you know?
Matt Gagnon: Boy, are they ever, yeah.
Howie Carr: Because, you know, again, anyone, I don't know how many people still read the papers, but they're not going to read that stuff in the daily newspapers.
Matt Gagnon: No. Right? No, they're not. No, but they're certainly seen on TV, man. I mean, you're right. I was watching some football this weekend, and I got the whole married your cousin, had kids with your cousin thing about 50 times when I was trying to watch the Patriots.
Howie Carr (aping news voice): “Collins seizes on incest issues.”
Best riposte.
The rising cost of fuel and other inputs has placed significant financial strain on hardworking farmers, fishermen, lobstermen, and their families. After speaking with both the White House and Secretary Rollins, I am pleased to have been assured that Maine fishermen and lobstermen will benefit from the Administration’s new agricultural relief package.
I will continue advocating for Maine’s fishermen, lobstermen, and specialty crop growers, who are integral to our state’s heritage, economy, and way of life, to ensure they receive the support they need to overcome these challenges.
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Apologies to the commander in chief but…
Sorry to disappoint but we voted for @TroyJackson207 @dunlap4congress @PingreeHannah already here in Downeast Maine. We did vote for the Republican in Hancock County for sheriff. :)