The Senator Who Won’t Shut Up about Climate Change: Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse is pushing back on the “climate hushing” trend.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/senator-sheldon-whitehouse-climate-change-hushing-time-wake-up/
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Audacious@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 76d
Sheldon has a series of speeches called The Scheme, which he records and posts on YouTube as video, and on his website as written versions. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/the-scheme-1-the-powell-memo/
The series goes into how the Republicans take over the Supreme Court shortly after the Civil Rights movements in the 1960s, around the time the parties switched. Sheldon goes into how dark money and Citizens United came into being, how it functions and influences court decisions and laws.
Then I found a website that tracks who in office takes dark money. To my great dissapointment, the man whistleblowning on dark money is listed there as taken dark money: https://www.trackaipac.com/congress
That website also follows new and upcoming candidates, but not all of them.
redsand@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 76d
AIPAC is the DNC's biggest weakness. Makes them effectively controlled opposition
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 76d
I am from Rhode Island and I can affirm Sheldon Whitehouse is edit ok.
4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 76d
I am also from Rhode Island, and would like to add a big asterisk: he has taken AIPAC money
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 76d
At the same time let's not forget about the Epstein hushing trend.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
At this point, that's looking like a closed book. They will never release the files.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Plot twist - Epstein was just there to distract us from the space aliens.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 76d
someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Yeah with countries now competing to not be left behind in AI wars, things aren't looking good for the climate.