Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything. They appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda, for their own to obfuscate what the real message is... That is what fascism does. It takes these things, these ideas that are generally acknowledged as questions or investigations or truisms about humanity and life, and they turn them to something else so that they remove the weight of what those things represent.
-- Lilly Wachowski regarding misinterpretations of The Matrix
1.20.25 • Today the United States Climate Alliance delivered a letter to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, making it clear to the global community that our climate work will continue regardless of federal action or inaction.
If you're not familiar with the U.S. Climate Alliance, they are a bipartisan climate action coalition of 24 governors representing approximately 55% of the U.S. population and 60% of the U.S. economy.
To read their letter, read more here or explore their press release on their website. Onward!
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Mr. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
P.O. Box 260124
D-53153 Bonn, Germany
January 20, 2025
Dear Executive Secretary Stiell,
We write as co-chairs of the United States Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of two dozen governors representing nearly 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population, to make it clear to you, and the rest of the world, that we will continue America’s work to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and slash climate pollution.
As you know, this is not the first time we’ve responded to this challenge in the U.S. Our coalition was launched after the President’s decision to withdraw our country from the Paris Agreement back in 2017. Since then, our reach, resolve, and impact have only grown.
In fact, our states and territories are now on track to meet our near-term climate target by reducing collective net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. Our recent progress reflects a wave of ambitious state policies and federal funding enacted over the last few years – and it builds on our coalition’s 15-year trend of cutting emissions while simultaneously growing our economies. We have continued to ramp up our longer-term commitments as well, pledging to reduce GHG emissions at least 50-52 percent by 2030 and 61-66 percent by 2035, below 2005 levels, in alignment with the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution. Most importantly, this action is bringing better health, cleaner air, good-paying jobs, new economic development, and lower costs to our communities.
Our states and territories continue to have broad authority under the U.S. Constitution to protect our progress and advance the climate solutions we need. This does not change with a shift in federal administration. States across our coalition are implementing a suite of policies and programs to secure our net-zero future, including statewide and regional carbon markets, 100 percent clean energy standards, and methane reduction programs for the oil and gas, waste, and agricultural sectors, among many others. We are also deploying billions of dollars to eliminate pollution in our communities and sustain our country’s clean energy boom.
It’s critical for the international community to know that climate action will continue in the U.S. The Alliance will bring this message to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil (COP30) later this year – just as we have at every COP since our coalition’s founding – as we work to implement our climate goals. We are also committed to tracking and reporting on our progress and look forward to working with you and the global community to identify the most impactful ways to do so. The Alliance is proud to publish an annual report each year on our latest action, and we are enclosing here our most recent report for your reference.
We will not turn our back on America’s commitments. For our health and our future, we will press forward.
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
- Charlie Kirk, April 2023, prior to his September 2025 assassination
There was no "implication." What I was saying was that many people died horrible, unnecessary, unexpected, very preventable deaths directly linking to Trump's policies because Trump actively worked to undermine public health and safety constantly, and it's a lie to act like "everyone survived" the Trump administration. That's why I originally linked to this report which supported everything I said. This is nuance which was flattened out in OP's sneering screenshot.
My grandmother's stroke didn't need to be fatal, she was just very poor and scared to seek medical care directly afterward because she knew she couldn't afford it, so she actively resisted going to the hospital at first. She died in her home a few days later and then it was sold to pay her medical bills. I can never go back home. My birth sister's "choice" to go back to work without doctor clearance shortly after terrible medical ordeals was driven by debt desperation, and she worked herself into the grave. My chosen sister worked in the overtaxed healthcare industry while Trump actively sought to gut people's access to healthcare, pushing herself constantly to help people while heavily pregnant, and she had a heart attack during a high risk pregnancy in a pandemic. Then her newborn daughter died as well. These people should have all survived the Trump administration.
"In his 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon had already enlisted FDR's embracing counsel in the service of a less expansive America: 'Freedom from fear is a basic right of every American. We must restore it.' This campaign promise pits 'every American' or 'us,' against darkly unspecified but presumably non-native agents of terror, embodied in any 'them' the quaking voter imagines. Nixon didn't free Americans from fear; he taught his political heirs to relish it. The late 1980s and early '90s was an era of manipulated hate that came to define our national life: to name was to demonize. By the 1992 presidential campaign, a political cartoonist mordantly imagined George Bush inverting FDR's stirring words: sitting in front of a placard reading 'BASH CONGRESS, BASH LAWYERS, BASH HILLARY, BASH CULTURAL ELITE, BASH SINGLE MOTHERS, BASH GAYS, BASH LESBIANS, BASH FEMINISTS,' and so on, Bush growls: 'We have nothing to fear-- but fear it sells.' The president has gone from exorcist of fear to its agent."
- Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves, 1995, University of Chicago Press, p. 2.
- PROTEST. If you have the energy and means, join in with local groups. Lots of protests are being planned for the 30th, both within and outside of the US. (If there is an ICE location near where you live, odds are good that people are protesting there.)
A mass act of civil disobedience is occurring in DC on the 28th; find out how you can participate or help here: https://www.endfamilyseparation.us/
- DONATE. There are lots of organizations you can donate to (or spread the word about if you can't donate personally). Here's a list: https://www.bustle.com/p/12-immigrant-advocacy-organizations-to-donate-to-if-you-cant-stand-trumps-family-separation-policy-9483834/amp
Also, Baby2Baby and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) set up a registry at Target to get necessary supplies to immigrant children in need: https://www.target.com/gift-registry/giftgiver?registryId=64fcdd1a1fa74285a89961925359fcb3&lnk=registry_custom_url
- CALL. Even if you're outside of the US, you can still contact your local elected officials and ask them what they are doing to show support for immigrants.
If you are in the US, and you're in a state that has not withdrawn their National Guard members from the border, call your local officials and ask why not.
Also, call the members of Congress, whether you're in America or not! Tweet at them, email them, leave messages. Let them know that the eyes of the world are upon them.
- VOTE. Sites like Ballotpedia can help you become better informed about candidates-- research your vote! Make sure you're properly registered to vote and know your voting location and date of elections.
