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Jennifer Trainor's avatar

I just subscribed because you are doing incredibly important work. Thank you! I am mentioning you to every single person who tries to corner me with doom and gloom from mainstream media.

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Eric Kissack's avatar

Bravo. A beautiful essay. Another inspiring year of work. Thank you.

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1st light's avatar

This was a very comprehensive and thoughtful edition. I really appreciate the reminder that the current shitty American government is not the world. It's the tribes that got the dams out of the Klamath and the scientists doing the unimaginable drudgery of vaccine development and people actually going to the villages that make the difference. Thank you.

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María C.J's avatar

My favorite email every year ❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU.

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Joan Fogel's avatar

Great essay. I have shared far and wide too, and also signed up. Best wishes

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Heidi Risse's avatar

I'm so grateful for all the effort you put into tracking this progress, putting into words and sharing it. Hope is something we don't get from the news, but it's plainly there. YOU are doing the hero's work also.

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Kerry Clare's avatar

I’ve been a paid subscriber for almost a year, and your work has meant so much to me. Thank you!

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M Corkett Johnston's avatar

Wonderful stuff. Alas, you sweep under the carpet the only item that matters-our position on the Endangered Species List. Yes, we may @ll be doing well when we disappear from Earth but…

Mike Johnston

Canada

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Nina Darlington's avatar

Thank you for doing this strong work and for setting me straight again and again. When things start to feel bleak, your insightful clarity propels me to a greater perspective. And to optimism! I so deeply appreciate you and your team. Bravo!!!

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Alice Goldbloom's avatar

Your essay is exceptional—important, urgent, angry in the right places, hopeful without being saccharine. And the final section, about the nameless health workers and engineers and activists who actually did these things while we doom-scrolled, is genuinely moving. Thank you.

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Sue C's avatar

Thank you. I tell my friends and family about all this. You do good work and we appreciate it.

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ckbhope's avatar

Thank you! I am proud to subscribe.

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Robin Bailey's avatar

For the past year, I have fought hard to look at the news we get in the US as an indicator of what needs to be corrected when/if the current adminstration ends and into the future. Your words give my oprimism sustenance. Thank you.

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KPez's avatar

I enjoyed your research. I would like to know how the US compares and contrasts to this insofar as human rights and environmental issues are concerned.

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