curated news excerpts & citations
Bloomberg: Six takeaways from two weeks in the rainforest
- The fossil fuel gap is still too wide
- Adaptation has jumped up the agenda
- Trade and critical minerals are climate issues, too
- Political freedom makes a COP comeback
- Forests got money — but not make-or-break support
- The US makes its absence felt
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 22, 2025
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For the president of the United States of America to call elected lawmakers traitors and demand they be arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for making statements he perceives as threats to his policies is bizarre, outrageous, and anti-American. But it is not unprecedented.In 1866, President Andrew Johnson accused Republicans of trying to overthrow the government, called congressmen traitors, and called for them to be hanged.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Politico: Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan
Members of Congress attending an international security forum said Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them to say the Americans did not instigate the proposal.
…Rubio told lawmakers that he was unaware of any plans by President Donald Trump to cut off intelligence sharing or military assistance if Ukraine rejected the terms.
“He told me … he was not aware of that threat being made,” Rounds said. “The intent was to take what had now been publicly discussed in news reports and to allow the Ukrainians the opportunity to respond back to it.”
Rubio, in a late Saturday message on X, disputed the notion that the U.S. wasn’t involved in drawing up the plan.
“The peace proposal was authored by the U.S.,” he wrote. “It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations. It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.”
(Politico more…)WSJ: Trump Says Ukraine Peace Plan Isn’t Final After Criticism It Favors Russia
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NY Times: Trump and Prince Had ‘Disturbing’ Call After Khashoggi’s Murder, Lawmaker Says
Representative Eugene Vindman, Democrat of Virginia, called on Friday for the declassification of what he described as a “highly disturbing” 2019 phone call between President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia after the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
(NY Times more…)
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Bulwark: How Florida—Yes, Florida—Complicates Trump’s Obamacare Attacks
Republicans claim fraud is inherent in the Affordable Care Act. The Sunshine State shows the problem isn’t about the law.
(Bulwark more…)
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Thom Hartmann: “The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink”
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