This is a holiday card that I recently received from an old college friend. She's always sent handmade artistic cards, but this one seemed to me to be especially creative and gorgeous. It just filled me with joy.

We are witnessing a poisonous effort to destroy what the vast majority of Americans know is a key pillar of public health.

Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.

Boring. I couldn't finish it.

Also, Midnight in Chernobyl, by Adam Higgenbotham

Fire Weather, by John Vaillant

There is no path to decarbonization without transit.

There is no path to abundant housing without transit.

There is no path to restoring democracy without transit.

There is no "affordability" without transit.

There is no clean energy transition without transit.