ZERO DAYS TO WASTE: Most know Trump is an illegitimate president* aided into office by Russian military attacks; some think he’s great, for reasons too dull to get into.

But where all Americans should agree if we want any future on this planet: we’ve got to bury the GOP.

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2/ GREAT DANGER: As the theatre of distractions plays on, we can never forget what’s at stake.

Stephen Hawking warned us in 2017: “Trump stance could damage earth.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40461726">https://www.bbc.com/news/scie... @BBCNews
3/ https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😔" title="Pensive face" aria-label="Emoji: Pensive face">”The Paris Agreement tried to encourage every nation to cut carbon pollution simultaneously—like a group of children who grab one another’s hands..Trump has significantly diminished this virtuous commitment to fighting climate change.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-withdraws-paris-agreement/579733/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/... @TheAtlantic
5/ Whales can’t save themselves. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1068923959314276353?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
7/ It’s the environment, stupid. https://twitter.com/millenpolitics/status/1038955670555508736?s=21">https://twitter.com/millenpol...
9/ Before churchy billionaires of the fossilized set made disbelief in climate change the word of god (see #4), former GOP presidents made historic progress on environmental protections. Hell, Nixon gave us the EPA.
https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa">https://www.epa.gov/history/o... @EPA
11/ But under Trump, the GOP plays dirty.

A few headlines.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/h... @NatGeo
12/ Environmentalists will take the wins where we can get them.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/h... @NatGeo
14/ FAIL: “To simply award Trump an ‘F’ does not come close to capturing both the depth of his administration’s assault on environmental protections..all to provide favors to the wealthiest corporate polluters. The totality of anti-environmental offenses is absolutely staggering”
17/ Trump’s tactics are predictable when considering his pals and their common interests. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1128011323416014848?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
18/ And why think of such things as the future habitability of this planet when you can just stay perpetually outraged. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1142071543616299008?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
19/ "We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump& #39;s action could push Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid," Stephen Hawking.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/stephen-hawking-predictions-human-extinction-to-global-warming.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1... @cnbc
21/ Let’s zoom out and go back to the beginning. Russia waged military cyber attacks to get Trump elected. For reference, here are the cliff notes: https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1121689602782183425?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
22/ So why would a nuclear-armed wreck of a nation put money behind a reality tv bozo.

“There’s no way to understand Trump’s relationship with Russia without oil and climate politics—they’re likely colluding to destroy our planet’s climate system”
https://grist.org/article/trump-and-putin-are-clearly-in-cahoots-over-propping-up-fossil-fuels/">https://grist.org/article/t... @grist
26/ Fear of a dead planet.

“We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change..there is no new world, no utopia around the corner. We are running out of space, and the only places to go to are other worlds.”-Stephen Hawking
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/20/15836426/stephen-hawking-colonize-other-planets">https://www.vox.com/science-a... @voxdotcom
27/ We don’t have another planet and we’d muck it up anyway. So it’s critical we make it work here. But who holds GOP accountable.

“Exxon’s Arctic dreams fell apart in 2014 after Obama administration slapped sanctions on Russia’s oil industry”
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/14/13940866/trump-rex-tillerson-sanctions-russia">https://www.vox.com/energy-an... @voxdotcom
28/ The more I investigated Trump-Russia, the more it came back to the oil-war economies. So I got rid of my car. It was one small thing I could do. Not all can do that but what are you willing to do, what sacrifices would you make.
https://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-climate-change-predictions-progress-20190626-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/science/l... href="https://twitter.com/latimes">@latimes @ScienceJulia
29/ Remember when it took decades to put a warning label on cigarettes because Big Tobacco had a seat at the table. We don’t have time to dither on thwarting climate change and yet...we dither.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-interests-have-outspent-environmental-advocates-101-on-climate-lobbying">https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fo... @YaleE360
32/ And then Trump happened. An illegitimately elected president* (see #21) calls climate change a “hoax”, MSM parrots his every phonus ballonus utterance confusing the easily bamboozled, casting doubt where there should be none. GOP deny cuz $https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💸" title="Money with wings" aria-label="Emoji: Money with wings">.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/0... @nytimes
36/ Not a hoax: polar bears are starving.

“Climate change has been damaging polar bears& #39; habitats, forcing them to scavenge for food on land.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-48680630">https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/... @BBCNews
37/ Not a hoax.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦋" title="Butterfly" aria-label="Emoji: Butterfly">

“Human-caused climate change and habitat loss are now threatening North American monarch butterflies with extinction. Increasing carbon dioxide levels may be making milkweed—the only food monarch caterpillars will eat—too toxic.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/12/monarch-butterflies-risk-extinction-climate-change/">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2... @NatGeo
38/https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😔" title="Pensive face" aria-label="Emoji: Pensive face">
“Around the world, sea level has risen by almost eight inches..a rate unparalleled in the last 6,000 years..This small mammal is therefore only the first of many species that face significant risk due to a warming climate, the authors warn.”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/first-mammal-extinct-climate-change-bramble-cay-melomys/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/f... @NatGeo
39/ Dunno about you, but I like a planet populated by all things great and small. I’ve seen orcas off the coast of Washington and marveled at a monarch born on my milkweed plant. The doomsday clock can be reversed or slowed but not with this GOP.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti... @nytimes
42/ Many stories in this thread would’ve buried any other administration. But with all the money propping up reality tv bozo, real news is avalanched all too often by puff pieces. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1133614554183680000?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
43/ I get it. Oil in its various forms used to win wars. Now, it causes cause wars, and cancer, and climate change and extinction. And it has another ill side-effect: it spawns dictators.
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/10/5601062/oil-curse-explained">https://www.vox.com/2014/4/10... @voxdotcom
44/ Gee I know it’s hard to fathom tuning out the consume/obey marketeers on the boob tube for the past sixty years. But pulling up a lawn chair and watching our planet burn has little curb appeal. The GOP has done a hella job misdirecting truth.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/trump-climate-change-deniers-443533">https://www.politico.com/story/201... @politico
45/ So with all the money—foreign and domestic—propping up a real fake president* and his science denier hacks—useful idiots for energy interests—what’s our strategy to give em the boot. The cult of TrumPutin will not go gently into that dark night.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-trump_n_574cf2cae4b055bb11729103">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ste...
47/ Remember that time in the ‘70s when we had a President who was an environmentalist who’s narrative of truth was crushed by the Greed-80s. Ya, me too. President Carter knows the score.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦋" title="Butterfly" aria-label="Emoji: Butterfly"> https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1144640753215238146?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
48/ So we can allow the GOP to illegitimately remain in power, scripting false narratives for Big Oil—and bury the last whale, the last polar bear, and witness the last monarch take flight—or we can bury the GOP. The future is unwritten.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/trump-offshore-drilling-regulations">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019... @VanityFair
49/ I’m with Greta.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦋" title="Butterfly" aria-label="Emoji: Butterfly">

@UNFCCC @GretaThunberghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Purple heart" aria-label="Emoji: Purple heart"> https://youtu.be/VFkQSGyeCWg ">https://youtu.be/VFkQSGyeC...
50/ CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR A LIVING PLANET: “We have not come here to beg world leaders to care..We are running out of time. We have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people”- @GretaThunberg
Photo @anderspangpang
52/ RISE ABOVE: Now that you have the facts, clearly we can’t leave the planet’s future to a party that is immoral, kompromised, bot by oil, in denial and only pays lip service to climate change when pollsters tell them to. RIP GOP—you won’t be missed.
https://qz.com/1632364/kids-suing-the-us-over-climate-change-are-getting-global-support/">https://qz.com/1632364/k... @qz
53/ CODA:

“They took all the trees
And put & #39;em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem & #39;em

Don& #39;t it always seem to go
That you don& #39;t know what you& #39;ve got
Til its gone
They paved paradise...”

Courtesy @JoniMitchellcomhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦋" title="Butterfly" aria-label="Emoji: Butterfly"> https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20 ">https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw...
55/ https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😔" title="Pensive face" aria-label="Emoji: Pensive face"> https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1157362818192007170?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
56/ It’s on us. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1159521663123247107?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
58/ To grasp why the Trump administration* would set us back decades in environmental protections, consider his bosses: two villains who stole our data to steal the election, both climate change “deniers” who by installing Trump served themselves billions. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1157428193583755264?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
59/ And the heat goes on.
https://twitter.com/barbrastreisand/status/1160963265247272960?s=21">https://twitter.com/barbrastr... #BuryTheGop
60/ Nixon gave us the EPA and protections for endangered species. But that was then.

We’ve got #ZeroDaysToWaste to demand #ClimateJustice for all.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1160931874245623809?s=21">https://twitter.com/nytimes/s... @nytimes
61/ THE POETRY OF A FROG: A special I wrote and produced with a brilliant team of scientists on the importance of rain forests. Seems somehow fittinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌎" title="Earth globe americas" aria-label="Emoji: Earth globe americas">. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/techknow/2016/01/costa-rica-journey-jungle-160131083204156.html">https://www.aljazeera.com/programme...
63/ Chivalry’s not dead.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Purple heart" aria-label="Emoji: Purple heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌹" title="Rose" aria-label="Emoji: Rose"> https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1174414895283990528?s=21">https://twitter.com/heidi_cud...
64/ Hope is the thing with feathers. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1174748549889843201?s=21">https://twitter.com/nytimes/s...
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