Drew Hudson
@wealsoherdcats.com
Herder of cats and wrangler of monkeys. Tweets here are my own thoughts and RTs do not imply endorsements or the promise of free drinks.
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NEW REPORT! Trump’s Crypto Connections: a sitting president w/a direct financial stake in a Treasury-backed stablecoin.
Our new report warns how Trump’s crypto ventures pose a systemic risk to the U.S. economy & why Congress should act before taxpayers + our financial system pay the price. 👇
Our new report warns how Trump’s crypto ventures pose a systemic risk to the U.S. economy & why Congress should act before taxpayers + our financial system pay the price. 👇
Trump's Crypto Connections | Democracy Defenders Fund
A new report warns that President Trump’s personal involvement in a Treasury-backed stablecoin creates unprecedented risk to the U.S. financial system, directly entangling a sitting president’s person...
democracydefendersfund.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
NEW REPORT! Trump’s Crypto Connections: a sitting president w/a direct financial stake in a Treasury-backed stablecoin.
Our new report warns how Trump’s crypto ventures pose a systemic risk to the U.S. economy & why Congress should act before taxpayers + our financial system pay the price. 👇
Our new report warns how Trump’s crypto ventures pose a systemic risk to the U.S. economy & why Congress should act before taxpayers + our financial system pay the price. 👇
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New: We estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions. Emissions also grew faster than the economy in 2025, reversing the decoupling of emissions and economic activity of the prior two years.
January 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
New: We estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions. Emissions also grew faster than the economy in 2025, reversing the decoupling of emissions and economic activity of the prior two years.
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New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Finish them.
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Finish them.
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This flows directly from the fact that clean energy is cheap energy. The Trump administrations opposition to cheaper energy sources has raised the cost of energy AND raised emissions. www.canarymedia.com/articles/emi...
US carbon emissions rose in 2025 as coal produced more power
The new data bucked the general trend of declining emissions, as booming electricity demand and higher natural gas prices gave coal a temporary opening in…
www.canarymedia.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
This flows directly from the fact that clean energy is cheap energy. The Trump administrations opposition to cheaper energy sources has raised the cost of energy AND raised emissions. www.canarymedia.com/articles/emi...
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lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”
This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”
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Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
Opinion | The Resistance Libs Were Right
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
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NEW – Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/WqnAVhP
Read here: buff.ly/WqnAVhP
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
NEW – Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/WqnAVhP
Read here: buff.ly/WqnAVhP
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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Legislators in New York and Hawaiʻi are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residents’ property insurance premiums to rise.
Aloha.
Aloha.
States consider suing fossil fuel industry over insurance hikes
New York and Hawaii could expand the legal battlefield and seek to hold companies liable for disasters that cause premiums to rise.
www.eenews.net
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Legislators in New York and Hawaiʻi are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residents’ property insurance premiums to rise.
Aloha.
Aloha.
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Drilling our way to a more expensive future for American consumers. Report from @americanprogress.bsky.social shows that Trump policies would lock US consumers into continued gasoline dependence and higher gas prices, pushing oil prices up by more than 100% by 2050. 1/
Trump’s Climate Attacks Mean Huge Increases in Future Gas Prices
Climate action could save $81 a barrel on the price of oil by 2050.
www.americanprogress.org
January 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Drilling our way to a more expensive future for American consumers. Report from @americanprogress.bsky.social shows that Trump policies would lock US consumers into continued gasoline dependence and higher gas prices, pushing oil prices up by more than 100% by 2050. 1/
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Trump declared a “national emergency” to hide Venezuelan oil revenue. Trump says it's critical to national security. But climate hawks know the truth. This is an illegal war for oil. Tell Congress stop Trump's illegal war for oil —Now. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Trump declared a “national emergency” to hide Venezuelan oil revenue. Trump says it's critical to national security. But climate hawks know the truth. This is an illegal war for oil. Tell Congress stop Trump's illegal war for oil —Now. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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🚨 👀 @smith.senate.gov goes there - won't vote for a funding bill and DHS (unless it reins in the lawlessness).
Repost if you agree @klobuchar.senate.gov & every Senate Dem (and House Dem) should pledge to do the same.
Repost if you agree @klobuchar.senate.gov & every Senate Dem (and House Dem) should pledge to do the same.
Sen. Tina Smith: "I don't know how I could vote for a funding bill for ICE and DHS when so much of what they are doing is illegal, is lawless."
January 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
🚨 👀 @smith.senate.gov goes there - won't vote for a funding bill and DHS (unless it reins in the lawlessness).
Repost if you agree @klobuchar.senate.gov & every Senate Dem (and House Dem) should pledge to do the same.
Repost if you agree @klobuchar.senate.gov & every Senate Dem (and House Dem) should pledge to do the same.
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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It’s past time for Blue State governors from CA, NY, IL, MN, WA, OR, MA etc filling up fed coffers with tax revenues to have discussions on what can a “blue state compact” look like exploring practicable soft secession - ie escrow accounts for tax payers from those states.
What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?
The USDA just cut off ag aid to MN
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
It’s past time for Blue State governors from CA, NY, IL, MN, WA, OR, MA etc filling up fed coffers with tax revenues to have discussions on what can a “blue state compact” look like exploring practicable soft secession - ie escrow accounts for tax payers from those states.
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On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she ‘nurtured kindness’
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
www.mprnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
I know there's too much going on, but we're joining the #ICEOut protests this weekend, as well as the #NoWar #BoycottChevron actions that were already planned for this Weekend. Meet us in the streets: Ice Out, No war, No #FossilfueledFascists & billionaires www.198methods.org/2026/01/09/w...
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I know there's too much going on, but we're joining the #ICEOut protests this weekend, as well as the #NoWar #BoycottChevron actions that were already planned for this Weekend. Meet us in the streets: Ice Out, No war, No #FossilfueledFascists & billionaires www.198methods.org/2026/01/09/w...
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We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
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comments on the succssion to Rep. Julia Brownley, #CA26, following her retirement announcement. District mostly overlaps with Ventura County. Appreciate all she's done for women veterans and all of us. I walked my feet off for her in 2012, and I'm a longtime Vta County resident. 🧵time!
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
comments on the succssion to Rep. Julia Brownley, #CA26, following her retirement announcement. District mostly overlaps with Ventura County. Appreciate all she's done for women veterans and all of us. I walked my feet off for her in 2012, and I'm a longtime Vta County resident. 🧵time!
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Who stands to profit, and who stands to pay, from Trump’s play for Venezuela’s oil?
⬆️Profit: Big Oil + major investors
⬇️Pay: The people of Venezuela, US taxpayers + our climate
🧵 Get into the details with us: bit.ly/4swOFsK
⬆️Profit: Big Oil + major investors
⬇️Pay: The people of Venezuela, US taxpayers + our climate
🧵 Get into the details with us: bit.ly/4swOFsK
Trump’s reckless grab for power, riches, and oil in Venezuela
Who stands to profit, and who stands to pay? “Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see; oil will bring us ruin. Oil is the Devil's excrement" – Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso…
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January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Who stands to profit, and who stands to pay, from Trump’s play for Venezuela’s oil?
⬆️Profit: Big Oil + major investors
⬇️Pay: The people of Venezuela, US taxpayers + our climate
🧵 Get into the details with us: bit.ly/4swOFsK
⬆️Profit: Big Oil + major investors
⬇️Pay: The people of Venezuela, US taxpayers + our climate
🧵 Get into the details with us: bit.ly/4swOFsK
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That’s called soft secession. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
January 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
That’s called soft secession. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It's a small sign but worth noting. Democrats should be only amping up the pressure on this.
No body wants endless wars.
No body wants endless wars.
Big setback for the White House as 5 GOP Senators join all Democrats in voting to start debate on a war powers resolution re: Venezuela.
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
It's a small sign but worth noting. Democrats should be only amping up the pressure on this.
No body wants endless wars.
No body wants endless wars.