“Ultimately, we want to use less fuel, not more, and so we should be looking at increasing vehicle efficiency more,” he said. “We should be looking at public transportation options.”

The article doesn't get into it much, but an acre of solar panels provides a lot more vehicle-miles than an acre of corn turned into ethanol.

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“I don’t want other young Americans to go through what I’ve been through. And I don’t want to send other young Americans to inflict the horror that I had to inflict on people.”

Polling suggests that most Americans agree with him. So does the feedback he gets day to day. The people he meets overwhelmingly oppose the war; many are furious or heartbroken about it. That includes his fellow veterans. “I don’t know a single guy I served with who thinks this thing in Iran is a good idea,” he told me. Many of those guys are MAGA. “This was one of the reasons they were big Trump supporters — he was the antiwar or ‘America first’ candidate.”

“If I forget thee, O Israel, may I cut off my right hand.” — Cory Booker (D, NJ)

Republicans pushed through a budget plan with a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement after an overnight session in which they beat back Democratic proposals aimed at lowering costs.

The justices sided with Michigan officials, who have raised environmental alarms and pushed to decommission an aging section of the pipeline.

Cache Energy’s pilot project harnesses excess wind power from UMN Morris’ two turbines to heat a carpentry shop and could be expanded across campus.

“It’s really hard to see how little attention this conflict is getting,“ says Jacobs, who is working to reintroduce a bill to prohibit US arms sales to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), believed to be the main backer of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the two warring parties in this conflict. “We are the biggest seller of weapons to the UAE. The UAE is the biggest funder and armer of the RSF, which has been found by our State Department to have committed genocide.”

As the youngest Jewish member of Congress, Jacobs is also vocal in her opposition to much of what Israel and the Netanyahu government are actively doing to Palestinians - even if it costs her friends in her own community. She tells Mehdi that her work on holding Israel accountable for its war crimes has revealed the hypocrisy of many pro-Israel Jewish organizations in the US that claim to stand on the side of all Jewish people. “I had a [GOP] colleague of mine literally make an antisemitic joke about my nose, and barely a peep from these organizations.”

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The wide-ranging discussion touches on some of the biggest stories today, including:

The UAE lobby in DC and how they “literally lied to” Jacobs’ face, according to her.

Why Democrats didn’t stop the war in Sudan under Biden’s presidency.

Whether the US should continue to send so-called defensive weapons to Israel.

How Democrats can earn back voter trust after greenlighting the genocide in Gaza.

The plan for a permanent end to the war with Iran.

Whether California House Democrat Eric Swalwell’s sexual misconduct was an “open secret” in Congress.

Paid subscribers can watch the full interview above to hear Mehdi press the congresswoman on why she hesitates to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide. Free subscribers can watch a 3-minute preview. Consider becoming a paid subscriber to Zeteo to unlock the full interview.

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