Dear friends,
Happy Warnock to you! Hooray for all the phone-bankers, postcard-writers, and donors who helped to get out the vote in Georgia. At long last, the 2022 elections are over.
It should not have been so close, but at least it broke the right way. The additional seat in the Senate may help to neutralize Joe Manchin. Perhaps you saw that his dirty energy bill failed to latch on to the Defense Authorization Bill.
Please call your Senators today and use the script provided by People vs. Fossil Fuels to stop Manchin’s pipeline deal.
Climate action knows no boundaries.
Here are two quick climate actions from NY Renews: let members of the state senate and the assembly know that you want climate justice to be a priority!
Cop15 is underway in Montreal. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau urged all nations to commit to the goal of conserving 30% of Earth for nature by 2030 in the final agreement. His environment minister likened the “30 x 30” pledge to the 1.5C climate target.
Habitat destruction is a major threat to biodiversity.
At the Governor's behest, Arizona has hired contractors to stack
steel freight boxes in a line that spreads west from the Huachuca Mountains, an area known to periodically harbor endangered jaguars and ocelots [coming] from Mexico.
Email the Arizona government to explain why the container wall must come down!
In New Jersey, reports of damage and nuisance from bears led Governor Murphy to retreat from his decision to cancel the state’s bear hunt this year. The bear hunt will not kill the bears who are involved in bear-human conflicts.
The problem is not a bear problem, but a human one, as development encroaches on habitat and people fail to take responsibility for securing their trash.
"This is a tragic day for New Jersey’s black bears," managing attorney for Wildlife at the Humane Society of the US said in a statement. "The coming days will see them gunned down by the hundreds under the guise of a bogus emergency concocted to prevent experts and the public from scrutinizing the astonishing lack of sound science supporting the state’s decision."
Tell Governor Murphy to save New Jersey’s Bears!
Here’s a second chance to save some beautiful creatures:
Sign the Shark Stewards’ petition to stop the shark fin trade that is decimating shark populations.
And now for something completely different:
We have learned to put aside our incredulity, as we live in extraordinary times. We are still finding out what the former president has hidden among his possessions.
In the stranger-than-fiction category, 22 suspected members and three suspected supporters of a far-right terrorist organizations in Germany were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
Which brings me to my podcast recommendation(!): Rachel Maddow Presents ULTRA. The podcast details and documents the unbelievable-but-true story of Nazi plots against the US government involving members of Congress.
It’s an amazing tale, well-told, about a missing chapter of US history, just in case living through this moment isn’t enough of a heart attack for you.
with love,
L