#MyClimateCandidate is smart and operates in the real world, not a perfect world.
✅ Extends nuclear leases
✅ Turns away from natural gas
✅ Acts now, not too R&D driven
✅ Focuses on structural change, not individual action
✅ Delivers a hopeful message, not doomerism
@grist
I know the term “prison abolition” is breaking some people’s brains. The right is already freaking out.
Yet the US incarcerates more than anywhere in the world.
We have more than enough room to close many of our prisons and explore just alternatives to incarceration.
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There are 17,000 federal prisoners who are unjustly incarcerated today. If I am your president, I will give a pathway to liberation the first week I’m in office.
If Facebook finds my scrutiny uncomfortable, here's what Mark Zuckerberg and his team could work on:
—Ending his company's illegal anticompetitive practices
—Protecting consumers' privacy instead of Facebook's profits
—Ensuring Facebook isn’t undermining our election security
Iowans are rightly focused on the Presidential election until the caucuses on Feb. 3, but let's start getting to know the 4 Democratic candidates running to replace Joni Ernst in the U.S. Senate. Here they are:
@FrankenforIowa@KimberlyforIowa@GreenfieldIowa@eddiejmauro
The next president will be a climate change president, whether they like it or not. We must elect someone who can rise to this challenge and meet it with the aggressive solutions it demands.
Let's bring Americans together and lead the world to act on climate change with the many solutions that work for jobs, farmers, and consumers. Here are some: energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, green buildings, . . . (1/2)
New from @ibellamurray: Joni Ernst once again today would only refer to "changing weather patterns" that have slammed Iowa this year with major floods, dodging the science of climate change
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