Sheldon Whitehouse
@SenWhitehouse
Followers
564K
Following
1K
Media
5K
Statuses
29K
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State. Ranking Member @EPWcmte
Rhode Island
Joined January 2011
Punchline: the Trump administration is lying about clean energy to hide that its scheme to ban clean energy is really a scheme to drive revenue to big fossil fuel donors; from your pockets to theirs. Don’t be scammed.
8
15
60
Many families continue to go miles for water You can build a well that changes everything for them
1
2
8
Demand is increasing and outpacing supply. Imagine if our supply no longer included all of renewable energy projected to come online. We’d come up short even faster.
2
7
28
Trumpsters lie in no-accountability public statements, but when the lie was challenged in offshore wind court filings that asserted huge cost savings for consumers, they conspicuously failed to contest that.
1
0
2
Yet again, actual data show wind and solar are the least expensive power on the grid (and getting cheaper by the day). So the Trump administration is just lying about that.
27
44
90
Your Jeep deserves more than just a traditional lift kit — it deserves an AccuAir Dynamic Lift Kit.
2
9
87
What do these three people have in common? They have all been found to have been illegally appointed by the Trump Administration to positions leading U.S. Attorney’s Offices around the country. We need real public servants in these jobs, lawful public servants, who are
1K
2K
5K
Health insurance premiums will soon double for millions of Americans unless Congress acts. Democrats support a concrete solution to prevent price spikes, but Congressional Republicans refusal to act will cost all Americans.
280
42
53
“Witkoff and Kushner … are using the tools of the American state in a manner that happens to benefit their friends and business partners, even while they do terrible damage to American allies, American alliances, and America’s reputation.”
theatlantic.com
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
70
808
2K
There is a mariners’ duty to come to the aid of the “shipwrecked, sick or wounded” even if they are enemy belligerents unless there is “serious danger” to the rescuers, as this Naval War College article describes. https://t.co/Ip6Q7Lmtm8
4
10
61
Our AI-powered platform helps you deliver digital innovation faster and with less risk by providing a fundamentally better approach to test automation.
55
93
573
Plus, wouldn’t it be useful to debrief them? Isn’t that what the military customarily does with enemy prisoners? All of these questions presume the legitimacy of the first strike, which is a whole separate can of worms.
4
13
75
When you’ve strung all these presumptions together, the prospect that these two likely wounded men would or could continue their mission on their own or with help from confederates looks like quite a stretch.
1
4
34
It’s not clear that cocaine packages add buoyancy. It would be logical to have contraband not be buoyant so it can be jettisoned and will sink if the boat is approached.
1
2
17
Even if they could call to confederates for rescue, and confederates would come to their aid, wouldn’t whatever help was sent provide another useful target for investigation or interdiction?
1
3
21
Seize the cocaine (if any survived the strike); capture the men. The latest reporting says they didn’t have any radio to call for help. Even if they did, what is the chance the help would come from confederates, versus a general distress call for rescue?
2
5
26
Without seeing the film, it’s hard to know whether the boat could still proceed under its own power even if they could right it. Those who saw the film said the two men were in clear distress “without any means of locomotion,” so likely not, which makes even a righted boat pretty
4
6
28
The city was broke—but not broken. Drop Dead City, the 2025 documentary about NYC’s 1975 fiscal crisis, is out now. Don’t miss this smart, gripping and unexpectedly poignant story of urban survival, now streaming on all major platforms!
0
27
169
When you’re capsized at sea, the first thing you try to do is right the vessel. That doesn’t signal any intention other than to do what any person would do: try to right the vessel.
2
4
39
There’s a lot here that doesn’t seem to pass the BS check. 🧵
theguardian.com
Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources say
45
74
202
Democrats have a plan to extend ACA tax credits and prevent a health care cost catastrophe. Been waiting on @SenateGOP for years and years – they’ve got nothing, and the American people will get stuck with the bill if something doesn’t change quickly.
406
269
793
Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”? https://t.co/bBVSrhHwQp
wsj.com
An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.
597
3K
9K