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Republicans are trying to thwart the president’s power to declare a climate emergency amid record-breaking heat (www.levernews.com)

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From David Sirota’s The Lever

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[–] Atom@lemmy.world 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Nah, Idiocracy had a global problem and found the smartest person alive to fix it. This is much worse

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 3 years ago

Damn... You just recontextualized that movie for me

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