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Critics Hammer Trump Admin’s ‘Taxpayer Funded Bribe’ to Kill Massive Wind Energy Project

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Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

Wind turbines seen at the Altamont Pass wind farm on January 13, 2026 in Livermore, California. 
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“The most corrupt presidency ever—and it’s not even close,” said one critic.

Critics slammed the Trump administration on Monday after it announced a deal to pay almost $1 billion to a French energy company to cancel its plans to construct wind farms across the eastern US.

As reported by The New York Times, French firm TotalEnergies has agreed to forfeit its leases in federal waters off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, and will instead invest the money it received from the Trump administration into oil and gas projects in the US, “including a facility in Texas that would export liquefied natural gas to global markets.”

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TotalEnergies paid nearly $928 million for the rights to access federal waters during former President Joe Biden’s administration.

The Times described the agreement as “an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power.”

Patrick Pouyanné, the chief executive of TotalEnergies, said that the firm decided to abandon its US wind farm plans due to “practical” considerations, while emphasizing that the firm wasn’t giving up on wind power all together.

“When the Trump administration came to power and began setting US energy policy, we said that we’ll have to reconsider, clearly, these offshore wind project developments,” explained Pouyanné, adding that “we continue to invest in onshore solar, onshore wind, batteries.”

Many critics expressed disbelief that the Trump administration would go to such extraordinary lengths to kill a clean energy project, especially after the president sent oil and gasoline prices soaring earlier this month when he launched an unprovoked and unconstitutional war with Iran.

“Let’s call this what it is: a taxpayer-funded bribe to kill homegrown clean energy and hand the money straight to oil and gas executives,” wrote climate advocacy organization Evergreen Action in a social media post. “Trump is once again making Americans pay more for energy so his Big Oil donors can rake in even more profits.”

Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health, expressed a similar sentiment.

“$1 billion of our tax dollars to kill a clean energy program that creates jobs, just so Trump’s Big Oil donors can make more profit,” D’Arrigo wrote. “The most corrupt presidency ever—and it’s not even close.”

Matt Gertz, senior fellow at press watchdog Media Matters for America, argued that the agreement was a corrupt bargain aimed at hurting the president’s political foes, including the Democratic leaders of New York and North Carolina.

“Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president’s administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge,” Gertz wrote, “using tax dollars to punish people who didn’t vote for his party.”

US Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) said that the deal to kill the planned wind farms was yet another example of the Trump administration making life in the US less affordable.

“This administration just spent $1 BILLION of your money to make sure wind farms don’t get built,” Blunt Rochester wrote. “You’’ll have them to thank for higher electric bills each month.”

Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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‘Apocalyptic Wasteland’ for GOP as Trump’s Iran War Sends Economy Spiraling: Polling Analyst

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Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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“Trump’s numbers on the economy are radioactive.”

As President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional Iran war drags on into its fourth week, fresh polling analysis shows the president and his Republican Party are politically at their weakest point ever in the eyes of the American public.

Writing in The Argument on Monday, polling analyst Lakshya Jain made the case that Trump has created an “apocalyptic wasteland” for the GOP by combining “a cost-of-living crisis with an unpopular war and tariff policies from the 1930s.”

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Jain noted that Trump’s approval rating in The Argument’s latest monthly survey had fallen to 40%, while his disapproval rating has soared to 58%, resulting in the lowest net approval for the president so far in his second term.

What should be particularly disturbing to the president, Jain said, is that disapproval of Trump is being driven by dissatisfaction with the state of the economy, the only area in which he was rated positively by voters throughout most of his first term.

“Trump’s numbers on the economy are radioactive,” Jain explained. “Every major demographic group of voters disapproves of his economic stewardship, including supermajorities of young and nonwhite voters. He’s even underwater on this issue with white, non-college voters, a group he won in 2024 by more than 20 percentage points.”

Voters are increasingly pessimistic about the future as well, as 50% of voters believe the economy will get worse over the next year, while just 37% say it will get better.

To top it all off, Jain said, Trump’s wounds on the economy are self-inflicted, including his tariff policies that have raised prices for consumer goods and his war on Iran that has sent energy prices skyrocketing.

“Trump is doing the exact opposite of what people asked for,” Jain said. “Tariffs have resulted in global economic upheaval. The war in Iran—which began before the fielding of this survey—resulted in an oil shock that has sent gas prices soaring. And Trump’s actions on immigration have shrunk the labor pool, leading voters to partially blame the administration’s immigration policies for exacerbating the cost of living crisis.”

Jain wasn’t the only polling analyst to find Trump’s public standing at a record low, as Real Clear Politics revealed on Monday that the president’s job approval in its average of polls had hit a second-term low of 41.6%.

Trump’s net approval also reached its lowest level ever in polling analyst Nate Silver’s polling average, and Silver said that it could go even lower in the coming days as gas prices continue to rise.

“Still going to be some lagging effects as polls catch up, but gas has increased from $2.93 per gallon to $3.94 over the past month,” Silver commented on Sunday, “and Americans aren’t liking that.”

Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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Rights Groups, Dems Warn of Disaster as Trump Sends ICE Agents to US Airports

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Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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“ICE and other federal agents have already shown the cost to us all when the president deploys them on his whim to act as a domestic policing force.”

Democratic lawmakers and civil liberties advocates are warning that President Donald Trump’s decision to send US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports across the country could have disastrous consequences, particularly given the agency’s deadly conduct on the ground in American cities in recent months.

Trump announced on Sunday that he would be sending ICE agents to airports to assist in security operations, as many Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers have been either quitting or calling out amid a partial US government shutdown that has left them to work without pay.

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Naureen Shah, director of policy and government affairs for immigration at the ACLU, expressed significant concerns about sending ICE to airpots, and she said it could further harm Americans’ civil liberties.

“Never in our history has a president deployed armed agents to the airport to inspire fear among families,” said Shah. “The American people don’t want to live in White House advisor Stephen Miller’s dystopian police state. ICE and other federal agents have already shown the cost to us all when the president deploys them on his whim to act as a domestic policing force.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) also warned of potentially disastrous consequences from having ICE conduct airport security.

“ICE agents at airports will only aggravate delays and lines—disrupting checks, interrogating travelers, dragging parents from children, detaining citizens, brutalizing families, shooting, and even killing,” he wrote. “Brutal, lawless tactics common in communities across the country by masked, unidentified agents, violating basic rights—no way to help TSA or travelers.”

While Democratic lawmakers publicly condemn the move, journalist Rachel Bade reported on Monday that some Democrats believe that the optics deploying ICE agents at US airports will be terrible for the White House and will simply add to the chaos and turmoil experienced by American fliers.

“Great—do it!” one senior Democratic official told Bade. “Let’s fuck around and find out.”

A second Democratic source predicted to Bade that “armed agents at airports will crush tourism and freak people out,” while a third sarcastically requested that the president send fully masked ICE agents to handle airport security.

Bade added that Democrats see the decision to send ICE agents to airports as a panic move by a White House that wants to try anything to get videos of long airport check-in lines out of the news.

Because of this, Bade said, they feel “emboldened” to further squeeze Republicans on making reforms to ICE.

“Democrats say the move shows they’re winning,” wrote Bade. “In past shutdowns, presidents have tried to ramp up the pain during closures, thus putting pressure on the opposition party causing the shutdown. Here, Trump has done the exact opposite, seeking a workaround to alleviate concerns.”

Democratic lawmakers aren’t the only ones predicting Trump’s ICE gambit will blow up in his face.

Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told NPR on Sunday that it was likely that ICE agents would make the situations at airports even worse.

“ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security,” said Kelley, who added that TSA workers “deserve to be paid, not replaced by untrained, armed agents who have shown how dangerous they can be.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, also welcomed the move to deploy ICE to airports, as he said it would leave fewer masked agents roaming the streets to round up immigrant families.

“To me, this does a lot more to slow down ICE than anything,” he wrote in a social media post. “I’ll take that deal.”

Although Trump has tried to pin blame for chaos at US airports solely on Democrats, Punchbowl News reported that the president on Sunday shot down a proposal from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to fund all of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except for ICE, a move that would at least get TSA agents paid and end chaos at airports.

“Trump said no, according to multiple sources,” wrote Punchbowl News. “The president wants Republicans to stay in DC and keep fighting with Democrats over DHS funding and the SAVE America Act, the GOP’s voter ID and proof-of-citizenship bill. Not only that, Trump warned that he’d publicly slam Senate Republicans if they left town for the upcoming recess.”

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Palantir to analyse sensitive financial intelligence data under FCA deal

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PALANTIR has been awarded a contract to analyse the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) internal intelligence data, sparking concerns over possible leaks.

The FCA confirmed on Sunday that the US tech company will aim to help tackle financial crime and identify risks to consumers and markets.

A spokesman added: “We ran an open, competitive procurement process and have strict controls in place to ensure data is protected.”

But Cardiff University’s Professor Michael Levi, an internationally recognised expert in money laundering, told the Guardian that it was “a relevant question as to whether Palantir’s owners might tip off their friends about methodologies.”

He asked: “What are the protocols agreed between the FCA and Palantir about the onward use of things that they have learned in that process?”

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Amnesty International UK’s business and human rights director Peter Frankental said: “Companies linked to human rights abuses should not be given access to sensitive UK public data full stop. First it was our health data, now it’s financial intelligence.

“The UK government is taking an unacceptable risk by allowing Palantir Technologies to embed itself in systems handling the public’s most sensitive information and profit from it at the expense of our privacy, integrity and values. We are calling for a full review into whether it is appropriate to grant this level of access to a company so closely associated with some of the most serious human rights concerns of our time.”

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Campaigners call for unity against racism after arson attack on Jewish community ambulances

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Firefighters at the scene in Highfield Road, Golders Green, London, after an apparent arson attack on four ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community Ambulance service in London, March 23, 2026

Jewish Socialists’ Group condemns those ‘using this appalling incident to whip up more hatred between minority communities’

CAMPAIGNERS have condemned an “appalling” arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances today, calling for unity against hatred and racism.

The incident in Golders Green, north-west London, was being treated as an anti-semitic hate crime by the Metropolitan Police but not immediately as terrorism, the Metropolitan Police said.

Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams, who leads policing for the area, said investigators are aware of a group apparently claiming responsibility for the attack online, but have not yet verified whether this is true.

A video has allegedly been posted on Telegram by an Islamist group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, showing a map of the location where the ambulances were kept and footage of them on fire.

CCTV shows three people in hoods pouring accelerant on the vehicles, which belong to Jewish community ambulance service Hatzola, before setting them on fire and running away.

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