Let’s be clear: this bill isn’t the Green New Deal. It’s not even @POTUS’ Build Back Better. This is the Manchin Climate Plan.

And, with our democracy in decline, the strongest possible version of this bill must pass immediately. A 🧵 on why: This bill could significantly reduce carbon emissions & open the door to more ambitious legislation. As of now, this bill includes:
-Commitment to 40% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030
-$60 billion for environmental justice program
-Billions of dollars for renewables

It's hard to put into words what it feels like to be a young person reading the news of today's SCOTUS decision. Our lives will be defined by a crisis that our government refuses to address.

But what does WV v. EPA mean and where do we go from here? 🧵 What did the Court decide today?

They sided with the fossil fuel industry to limit the EPA's ability to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions coming from power plants.

The EPA can still regulate emissions but its power is significantly reduced.

Decisions like WV vs. EPA make it clear just how much the system is rigged against us.

A Supreme Court that sides with the fossil fuel industry over the health and safety of its people is anti-life and illegitimate. This is the result of an organized, decades-long effort by the right. The Supreme Court was bought and paid for by GOP extremists.

The Democratic establishment continues to outcast young, BIPOC, and working-class people.

@KinaCollinsIL deserves this seat. Danny Davis won because once again the establishment fought for a Dem who's missed over 1,000 votes instead of fighting alongside young people.

We need new leadership and they are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening. And it will cost them.

We made it clear the first time @POTUS, you’re going to hear our demands, whether we’re inside or outside of the White House. You haven’t responded.

Now we’re back to make sure you understand us clearly: It’s #NoClimateNoDeal and No Compromises, No Excuses. Our demands to @POTUS: #NoClimateNoDeal. No Compromises. No Excuses. LET’S GO 🗣🗣🗣

The American Rescue Plan - passed by Congress and signed by @JoeBiden will bring badly needed relief to millions of families and begin the long road of recovery from the pandemic.

But both the process and the end product reveal a lot about the state of American governance. 1) The ARP is not enough to meet the scale of the pandemic after nearly a year of government inaction, and was weakened by misguided attempts at bipartisanship.

We need to see continued expansions of our social safety net and further policies that benefit workers.

The GOP can't even condemn the elements of their party that openly rejected the results of an election and incited a violent insurrection.

The time for bipartisanship has long passed, because the GOP has never wanted it.

Let's take a trip down memory lane.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1356969691080781830

In 2009, @BarackObama took office under rather similar conditions to @JoeBiden. The prior administration had completely failed to respond to a crisis. The economy was diving into the worst recession since the Great Depression.

How did Mitch and the GOP embrace "bipartisanship"?

Good! Until the Republican Party deal with those in their own ranks who incited an attempted coup, who spread anti-semitic conspiracy theories, and who say Democratic politicians should be EXECUTED, The Democrats shouldn't even be reaching out to them.

npr.org/sections/coron… One Republican member of Congress in particular peddles theories about the California wildfires being started by Jewish space lasers, says Democratic politicians should be executed, and thinks mass shootings like Parkland and Sandy Hook were staged.

vox.com/22256258/marjo…

Today @JoeBiden announced that he is committing to a historic society-wide mobilization to stop the climate crisis, create millions of good jobs, and roll back centuries of systemic environmental racism.

Many of the things we have been fighting for became a reality including: ☀️Establishment of White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy and National Climate Task Force

☀️Creation of a Civilian Climate Corps modeled after the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps to put people to work in government jobs tackling the climate crisis

Movements elected @JoeBiden. Now, it's time to make sure our demands happen. This first week of executive orders are a heartening start.

But we're not stopping there.
Join our mass call to find out how you can fight for the Decade of the Green New Deal: smvmt.link/kickoff-gnd Representation alone is not enough. We also need the political will to fight for a better future.

Warnock's victory - while historic for being the first Black Senator from Georgia - is critical because Senate control puts survival checks on the table.

Heather Boushey - with her focus on people's financial well-being (and not the stock market) - is the type of voice we need in the halls of government.

https://twitter.com/HBoushey/status/1333418506390540289

We know that @HBoushey will bring an eye for economic inequality - particularly racial inequality - to @JoeBiden's Council of Economic Advisers.

Hopefully, voices like hers will not end up in the minority when the cabinet is fully settled.

https://twitter.com/HBoushey/status/1326949955110625290

We've just endorsed 19 progressive #GreenNewDeal champions!

Across the country we'll be throwing down for these down ballot candidates to ensure we can ring in the era of the green new deal!

Learn more about each candidate below! @AOC has been fighting alongside us since the very beginning.

She has been an outspoken voice in Congress for women, working class people and progressive values. AOC is a co-author of the Green New Deal and we're ready to keep her in office.

Right now, fires are raging across the west coast. Simultaneously, there is a shortage of firefighters.

This is the paradox of our modern economy: extremely efficient at fulfilling all sorts of consumer demand, awful at funding necessary public services.

It's worst in a crisis. Solving a crisis is rarely profitable! But it is necessary.

What does the free market do in a crisis? It exploits. It squeezes every penny, at the expense of people.

California usually deals with fire season by exploiting prisoners, conscripting them for little pay.

Donald Trump: "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" 😬

@JoeBiden: "shoot them in the leg instead of the heart"

That's really the message you have for us, Joe? That's the best you can do? You need to be a lot fucking better, and fast (or step aside). November is coming. We can't afford for you to lose to the most dangerous president in our nation's history.

But right now?
You're an uninspiring candidate. Listen to young people, especially to young black people. We see through the flaws of our society with the clarity of youth. We demand change.

Our country is in a moment of reckoning. It is imperative that we show up for Black lives right now.

Here are some ways you can take action to demand justice and demand a society where #BlackLivesMatter as a part of Sunrise. THREAD: 1. Show up locally. One of the most important things we can do right now is to show up in support of local Black-led organizing. This may look like joining protests, providing jail support & mutual aid, or calling targeted politicians. Protests during COVID poses risks. Stay safe

People advocating for racial justice often get labelled as "too radical"

Damn right we are. The word radical comes from the Latin "radix" (meaning root).

Radical change is the only way to get to the root of the problem (white supremacy), rather than just trimming at the leaves. So is prison/policing abolition radical?

Yes. And that's what makes it such an important goal.

Here are some Minnesota-based organizations looking to get to the white supremacist roots of our policing system and pull them up.

But here's the thing. It's not just cops killing black people.

Capitalism kills black people at a rate cops could never begin to compete with.

For starters, there are grossly disproportionate black deaths to disease, whether it be COVID, heart disease, or diabetes. The median black family owns a few cents for every dollar the median white family owns, which impacts everything from educational quality to medical care quality.

And that wealth difference means white people can afford to move away from black people and hoard public resources

The Democratic Party faces a stark generational divide between younger and older Democrats.

Condescending to these already alienated and frustrated younger voters, as @JoeBiden advisor Anita Dunn did, could cost us the general election -- or fracture the party forever.

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1239389794590961664

This is particularly disturbing coming from Anita Dunn, who -- in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein -- leapt to his defense.

Harvey Weinstein was just found guilty of sexual assault.

Young people are sick of this.

google.com/amp/s/www.buzz…

BREAKING: Following delivery of remarks in front of @DNC on Wednesday, 7 leading youth organizations are issuing the following statement & demands to @TheDemocrats, @JoeBiden & @BernieSanders, & media ahead of Sunday's #DemDebate:

cc: @jaketapper @iliacalderon @DanaBashCNN There is a generational divide in the Democratic Party. But in 2020, Millennials & Gen Z represent the largest voting bloc in the country. To win in November, Dems will need not just the votes of young people and the base of the party, but our energy and enthusiasm as well.

The fossil fuel economy is just the modern extension of settler-colonialism: forcing people off of their land to extract and exhaust the natural resources there for profit.

That evict, extract, and exhaust mindset is part of what's driving us into climate crisis. (thread time!)

https://twitter.com/UnistotenCamp/status/1216079334013751296

This mindset reduces the earth and the people on it to resources to be exploited for profit.

Its practitioners drove indigenous people off of their land at gunpoint (most aggressively in the Americas and Africa), and not just centuries ago, but continuing until now...

Why Bernie?

Here are just a few of the reasons our voter members cited in their support of @BernieSanders... 1⃣ His consistency.

Bernie has been calling the climate crisis “the most important issue facing civilization” since the 1980s, and he’s stood alongside movements fighting it since then, too.