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These 57 House Dems Joined Republicans to Make People in Mobile Homes Pay Higher Utility Bills

--> Not something you should do when "affordability" is your top focus

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January 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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In this new opinion piece, Ana Maria Carreño argues that weakening standards risks stalling domestic production momentum and raising consumer energy costs.

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Rolling back appliance efficiency rules could imperil the US manufacturing boom
The Trump administration’s onshoring ambitions are on their way to being compromised by its anti-efficiency policies.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Cass Sunstein: not the man for the moment
But you believe that all nine of the Justices are committed to liberalism of the sort that you outlined in your book and are trying to uphold it? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I’m not going to name any names, but there is a conservative judge who did read the first couple of chapters of the book and did say, I agree with all of this. Wow. I would just say that I find it very hard to believe, especially with Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who seem to me to be kind of out-and-out partisan Trump supporters. This is completely fair to question. Alito is an extremely careful lawyer and a very precise judge. He is clearly taken with a certain view of our culture that is shared by many of Trump’s supporters. But is it possible to find an opinion in which he says, I’m going to go this way because the President is the law, or anything that verges on that? I think that’s very hard to find. Is there anything in his opinions that shows disrespect for freedom of speech or freedom of religion? I think that’s impossible to find. Thomas is an originalist. He’s the most committed originalist on the Court, who believes the Constitution should be understood in accordance with its original meaning. I don’t like that view much, but you can hold that view and be a liberal in the sense of believing in the rule of law, believing in freedom of speech. He does want to overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, but he’s not the only one who thinks that and that doesn’t make him illiberal. [That decision, from 1964, raised the standard for defamation lawsuits in a way that is seen as crucial to press freedom.] So I do agree with you. There are concerning things about political connections that appear, but in terms of the liberal tradition I’m not giving up on Justice Thomas.
September 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM