WCID: What you can control

Plus: Tuberculosis, candidate endorsements, and crowdfunding research

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Happy Wednesday, Shit Givers.

Huge huge thanks to everyone who joined the Membership last week during our first quarterly Dropkick! We have a hell of a foundation to build on and much, much more to come — and seemingly just in time.

There’s a hell of a lot going on out there, but do yourself and the world a favor: tune out the bullshit and focus on what you can actually control.

Let’s go.

— Quinn

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  • 🇮🇳 🇳🇬 🇨🇱 Donate or Volunteer: Millions of kids don't have access to the education, support, and opportunity they need to thrive. Teach For All is changes that by recruiting diverse leaders from a range of experiences and academic disciplines to commit to teaching at least 2 years in under-resourced communities. (go)

  • 🇳🇬 🇹🇿 🇺🇬 Donate or Volunteer: Invest in women and invest in clean energy with Solar Sister. Solar Sister empowers female entrepreneurs in Africa to kickstart, sustain, and grow clean energy businesses, brining clean energy to rural households. (go)

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  • ☎️ Be Heard: The House approved cuts of over $1 billion from Medicaid and SNAP combined, pushing 10 million Americans off healthcare and millions into food insecurity, laying waste to all of our climate investments and raising the debt. And all to give tax breaks to millionaires.

    Hopefully it goes without saying at this point, but this Big Beautiful Bill is the most comprehensively destructive piece of bullshit legislation we’ve ever seen.


    Call your senators (again and again and again) to demand they protect these vital programs. (go)

  • ☎️ Be Heard: Tuberculosis is a policy choice. The US has a moral and strategic obligation to continue to lift up global communities, particularly when the stoppage of such work means direct harm and death.

    The Administration has canceled 90% of all USAID contracts, which provide essential services and strengthen U.S. alliances around the world. (go)

  • 🛠️ Volunteer: #BreakFreeFromPlastic is a global movement working to achieve a plastic-free future.

    Join more than 12,000 organizations and individuals worldwide who’ve come together to demand lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. (go)

  • Donate: Our 2025 candidate endorsements are live!


    Every year, we curate endorsements from trusted partners to bring you the state and local level candidates who actually give a shit and have a chance of winning the most important races of the year.

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  • Learn about meaningful careers: We have limited time on this rock. Make it count (go)

  • Invest in climate solutions: We have all the solutions we need. It’s time to scale them (go)

  • Do literally anything about affordable housing: Solving the housing crisis is going to take the whole kitchen sink. Find out how you can contribute (go)

  • Get funded or donate: Help fill the funding gap in science research using Experiment. Scientists can use the platform to crowdfund their research, and donors can choose what research projects they want to support. Be a patron of the sciences! (go)

  • Learn: Get proactive and combat misinformation by learning how to spot bogus news stories when you see them (go)

  • Buy: IT products that have a stamp of approval from the world-leading sustainability certification, TCO Certified (go)

That’s it for this week.

Remember — you can save actions for later with an WCID profile!

Thank you as always for giving a shit.

Quinn

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