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Must-read thread from Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

The Latest on Line 5 The clock is ticking on Enbridge. In 2023, a Federal Court ordered Enbridge to shut down and remove the pipeline, and the Judge gave Enbridge 3 years to do it. At the time, oil industry experts were clear that with at least 18 months' notice, the industry could adjust and there would be little to no impact at the gas pump. We’re now less than 4 months away, and Enbridge still doesn’t have a decommissioning plan. Instead, they are begging the courts to delay the shutdown order and doing whatever they can to keep the oil flowing, and forcing Wisconsin and the Great Lakes to assume all the risk.

Read this great breakdown about what's happening in Wisconsin in the fight to #ShutDownLine5.

Maybe I’m too demanding but I’d really like a definitive answer on why the United States started a war in Iran and what we are trying to accomplish.

Of course! Now that the eclipse is over the clouds are gone and the Moon is out there all by itself 🙄

US plans to clear-cut in Michigan forest. Some fear for endangered species - Bridge Michigan The US Forest Service is proposing a project in the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that would involve logging, gravel mining expansion and forest restoration efforts.

Heads up, Michiganders in the beautiful, wild Upper Peninsula!

The US Forest Service & the EPA are no longer run by people who care about forests or the environment. We see a thriving, delicate ecosystem. They see dollar signs & layers of opportunity for exploitation.

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The federal government has worked side by side with states to ensure major projects don't harm local rivers, lakes, and wetlands. This rule would only weaken this essential partnership and make it harder for Michigan to protect the water sources our families rely on.

AG Nessel joins coalition opposing EPA rule limiting state water protections Nessel argues this change violates a section of the Clean Water Act

The EPA proposed rule not only runs afoul of the Clean Water Act but upends the very role given to states to protect their own waters.

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An Affordable LIFE means putting people over profit and taking care of our veterans. Oppose the CHOICE for Veterans Act of 2025 (H.R. 3132).
#Affordablelife #MI01 #callieforcongress #veterans #essentialhealthcare #badlegislation #oppose

Low legal IQ

The owners want to close this Colorado coal plant. The Trump administration says no The Trump administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back.

This regime needs to be investigated for taking bribes. Besides Michigan, he is also not allowing a Colorado coal fired plant to shut down after they prepared green energy backups. 🤬 www.npr.org/2026/02/23/g...

Shame on her!

An affordable life is about more than money — it’s about freedom.

We’re not free if we’re crushed by rent, juggling multiple jobs, or skipping the doctor because we can’t afford it.

The fight for an affordable life is a fight for freedom, and for our democracy.

Join me.

#AffordableLIFE #MI01

"Largest tariffs in 90 years" and also "largest trade deficit in 90 years."

Seems like the policy didn't achieve its stated goal.

"When you take the truth and the falsehood and report down the middle, you’re actually not doing the job of journalism." - @sulliview.bsky.social

Wow, all this reinforces that the tariffs were arguably both the most reckless act and the greatest abuse of power by a President in American history.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs

Since the Supreme Court ruled these tariffs unlawful, the money collected should be refunded to the consumers who paid it.

Not to stock buybacks. Not to executive bonuses. Not to shareholders.

If families bore the cost, families deserve the refund.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Michigan should seek asylum

A few random inefficient businesses get helped while we all pay. Not the competitive market we’re supposed to have.

Undocumented immigrants don’t vote
Trump was not “exonerated” re: Epstein
The board of peace is a huge grift
The Melania movie was a bribe
You pay the tariffs
The boat bombings are murder
The ceasefire is not a ceasefire
Ice is not targeting criminals

And on and on

Over the last year, we’ve taken to the streets, and shown that together our voices are a whole lot louder – and we are more powerful – than the Trump Administration would have us believe.

To everyone who has gotten involved, taken a stand, and encouraged your friends and neighbors to do the same:

Thank you.

This is how we win. This is how we take back our country.

I know you’re not going anywhere. And I won’t either.

1. The president is burning up the American middle class with the largest tax increase since the early 1990s, which itself is snowballing the price of everything from coffee to clothes to carpets to car parts.

Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.

One of the biggest tax hikes on ordinary Americans ever.

Colorful poster urging Governor Whitmer to reject the Line 5 oil tunnel; features images of Gov. Whitmer wearing pink and holding a Barbie doll around playful pop-art graphics.

We're running up on the deadline to contact Gov. Whitmer and EGLE to prevent Enbridge's dangerous Line 5 tunnel scheme. 

Send them a message now: https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/decision_watch

John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.

And overturn Citizens United to get their obscene amounts of money out of our politics.

It's the Climate, Stupid The real threat to the Great Lakes isn't an oil spill. It's the daily carbon spill.

We already know that physical oil spills in the Great Lakes are devastating. But what about the daily threat of carbon dioxide polluting our air with fossil fuel infrastructure like Line 5?

Read more: open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

Wow.

"Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23. What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s…

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
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‘Hoping that river smells like home’: Great Lakes whitefish efforts turn to tributaries The experimental conservation project aims to create alternative spawning habitat for Great Lakes whitefish, which have suffered steep population declines.

Thank you Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawas and @nature_org for the continuing work to rebuild my whitefish population 🌊🌊
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