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The most important question in today's world of climate chaos, AI psychosis, and crumbling democracy is: what can I do? Your host, Quinn Emmett is completely unqualified to answer it, so he's calling the people that already are.
If you've got the news, the analysis, the outrage, but still no plan — join us as we figure it out together with long-form conversations with amazing people working on the frontlines, and quick updates responding to today's most important headlines, and what you can do about it, tonight.
220+ episodes. 110+ countries. A bunch of Webby and Signal Award nominations. Zero hot takes.
If you've got the news, the analysis, the outrage, but still no plan — join us as we figure it out together with long-form conversations with amazing people working on the frontlines, and quick updates responding to today's most important headlines, and what you can do about it, tonight.
220+ episodes. 110+ countries. A bunch of Webby and Signal Award nominations. Zero hot takes.
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Today: Move beyond being "right" and focus on taking effective, measurable action, because as Florence Nightingale taught us, caring is shown by doing the basics that work.
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Today: A US-made peanut paste can bring starving children back from the edge of death, and we passed a Farm Bill provision that requires at least $200 million annually for this peanut paste, but only if two specific conditions are met.
What Can You Do:
Donate to UNICEF https://www.whatcan…
Today: President Lulu won in Brazil, which is a win for the Amazon. Celebrate the good news wherever you find it!
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Today: A one-year-old boy was killed after a police officer fired three shots into a car pulling away in a Walmart parking lot in Mississippi, following a call that two women were suspected of stealing diapers. No one should have to steal diapers or be killed for trying to provide for their childre…
For two years something has been missing from *Actually* Pro-Life.
Obviously, you guys didn't even know about it until recently, but the point is, we had these 1,400+ actions we'd been recommending, reviewing, and refreshing for years.
And on the other hand, we had these eight Principles we…
Today: Three children and a 25-year-old teacher in Bend, Oregon are dead in yet another school shooting. Police arrived in three minutes, the school had locks, cameras, and drills and it still wasn't enough.
What Can You Do:
Donate to end gun violence https://www.whatcanido.earth/results/?…
What is the price of exclusion?
Well, if your family paid the price, if your people were ever left out of a textbook you don't need this new book to tell you.
But the title is just the verdict. The book is the evidence. It is the names, the dates, the receipts, and in this case, one family…
Today: We've gotta aim higher than simply meeting a "do not rape" threshold. We've gotta actively work to prevent harm through conversations about consent and concrete actions.
What Can You Do:
Virginians! Vote for Amendment 1
Call your reps to make sure 18 is set as the minimum as for …
Today: Key word in the Trump Accounts promise: eligibility. As in, only children born after Dec 31, 2024 and before Jan 1, 2029. So, children born before 2024 or earlier get zero dollars, even though we already know what reduced child poverty, like the expanded Child Tax Credit.
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In 1904, somebody noticed a sick tree at the Bronx Zoo.
Within 50 years, the fungus killing it had wiped out about four billion American Chestnut trees from Maine all the way down to Georgia.
In 2018, Richard Powers wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, which I loved. He set…
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