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Happy Wednesday, Shit Givers.
Turns out a 6 hour kids swim meet in 110 degree weather really takes it out of you for 1-3 entire days. So fun!
Anyways here are some ways to stop climate change.
— Quinn
Be Heard
Fun fact: many US states charge homeless youth actual money for ID’s and birth certificates, which are often required for work, to drive, for access to food, and/or school.
If that sounds insane to you (like of like how we tax tampons), you’re in the right place!
Use WCID and our new batch of state-specific scripts to call your reps!
Pennsylvania: Call and demand your rep support House Bill 0472 (go)
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Be Heard
H.R.1, alternately known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, or “One Big Ugly Bill”, has passed the House and a version is now under consideration by the Senate.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the most comprehensively destructive bill of our lifetimes, all in one big package that’s THIS FUCKING CLOSE to passing.
Fuck Yeah: Hundreds of you have called your reps in just the last week — and we need 10x that over the next week to move the needle.
A reminder of what’s at risk:
To start: 16 million people could be without health insurance in the next ten years (Medicaid and CHIP together provide coverage for over 78 million people, or 1 in 5 Americans)
What else?
11 million people could lose SNAP benefits (a program that helps feed 42 million people every month)
Half a million jobs would be at risk (most of which are in Trump-won states)
The bill “phases out solar and wind tax credits starting in 2026 and kills all of the IRA’s consumer tax credits outright within months”
Millionaires would see a “larger tax cut than the bottom half of Americans combined — with more than $1.5 trillion in tax cuts going to the top 5%”
In total, “households that make at least $1 million per year would receive roughly twice as much in tax breaks as the bottom 50% of the nation combined”
57 million households in the bottom 60% “would see a tax increase or a negligible tax change”
The bill could “(change) eligibility requirements for Pell Grants, which help low-income students pay for college, (cap) how much money students can borrow to cover the cost of tuition, (and) put a college education further out of reach for many Americans.”
And finally, the bill would add at least $3.4 trillion to the national debt
DO IN ONE MINUTE: Click the link, drop in your address, and we’ll pull up your reps, their phone numbers, and a short script for you to read.
Make no mistake — Republican senators and congresspeople actually matter more in this case, because they know damn well how wildly popular Medicaid and clean jobs are in their state, and may already be on the fence.
Donate
In the wake of horrific cuts to foreign aid, an independent fellowship/round table of economists and other people who-give-a-shit sprang together to form PRO — Project Resource Optimization: a curated list of high-impact, cost-effective aid programs at (immediate) risk due to USAID cuts.
Good news: In partnership with the good folks at Founders Pledge, The Life You Can Save, and now Every.org, they’ve just launched a way for donors at every level to contribute to programs from Sudan to Haiti, Myanmar to Madagascar.
Extra credit! Quinn had PRO’s co-founder Rob Rosenbaum on the pod this week. Give it a listen here or on YouTube here.
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Learn/Get Help
Apparently the layoffs will continue until morale improves, question mark?
Anyways — “meaningful careers” continues its reign at the top of our search box. Check out all of our “job that doesn’t suck shit” resource options below!
Invest
You can very easily stop indirectly funding new (!) fossil fuel infrastructure by simply moving your nut to a bank that doesn’t do that, and/or you can directly invest your hard-earned cash in actual climate tech and other climate solutions. Show me the money, team!
I’m off next week so Willow will be running the ship — please don’t nuke anyone while I’m gone, everybody. Just be good to each other. Please?
Thank you as always for giving a shit.
— Quinn
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