I’ll note, too, that an authentic commitment to liberalism and free speech does not require anyone to agree with hagiographic accounts of Kirk’s life to find his murder wholly unacceptable.

And our commitment to nonviolence is doubly tested when we offer such condemnation in the absence of reciprocity. MAGA was silent about—or worse, mocked (in the case of Sen. Mike Lee)—the recent slaughter of Democratic lawmakers.

We are challenged to set a better example for civil society.

Meanwhile, Trump has proposed massive, regressive tax cuts that will create gaping deficits while benefitting the wealthiest people on the planet. Textbook. Oligarchy.

A billionaire President-elect has selected an unprecedented 13 billionaires to serve in his cabinet, and appointed an additional two billionaires to “informally advise” on enormous spending cuts that will most-egregiously harm the ~60% of Americans that live paycheck-to-paycheck.

And he got his way. This is textbook oligarchy.

and threaten a primary challenge against any Republican who voted for a bipartisan bill that was duly negotiated and agreed upon by hundreds of democratically-elected representatives.

- $190M for childhood cancer research;
- funding to develop treatments for premature labor;
- funding for improved sickle cell disease treatment;
- new programs for early detection of breast and cervical cancer.

but don’t worry; we’ll be fine if we fry our Christmas turkeys in beef tallow.

The figure comes from Cook-Patton et al., 2021. Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation.

While the title may imply that restoration shouldn't come first, the authors stress that all these efforts should happen simultaneously and can be highly complementary.

Although restoring forests has by far the largest climate mitigation potential compared to protecting (REDD) and managing (IFM) forests, there are serious challenges: a slower time horizon and lower cost-effectiveness, especially when looking at the mitigation potential at ≤US$100tCO2e-1.