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      Michael Bennet speaks to reporters.

      'If We Elect Clowns, We Get a Circus': Congress Narrowly Avoids Shutdown, For Now

      Despite Saturday's reprieve, Sen. John Fetterman warned that "pushing the snooze button solves nothing, because these same losers will try to pull the same shit in 45 days."

      Olivia Rosane
      Sep 30, 2023

      A government shutdown was averted Saturday night after the Senate voted 89 to 9 to approve a stopgap spending measure passed by the House of Representatives that afternoon.

      The agreement funds the government for 45 days and includes an additional $16 billion in disaster funding as New York City mops up from flash flooding following an extreme rain storm. It does not include aid for Ukraine.

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      A view of a flooded street as people walk in New York City o

      Climate Emergency in Action: NYC 'Essentially Shut Down' by Flash Flooding

      "One week ago, 75,000 people inundated New York City streets to demand the president end fossil fuels," said one campaigner. "Now, climate-fueled rains are submerging those same streets."

      Julia Conley
      Sep 29, 2023

      "This is the climate crisis," said youth-led grassroots organization Sunrise Movement on Friday as photos and videos of flooded streets and subway stations in the largest city in the United States went viral across social media.

      The group shared a video of cars struggling to drive through water that was up to pedestrians' knees in Brooklyn, saying the image starkly illustrated the need to both prepare U.S. cities and infrastructure for fossil-fueled extreme weather events and to rapidly draw down planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions that have been linked to stronger hurricanes, rising sea levels, and other destructive changes.

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      ​Young organizers hold up a banner celebrating the "Green New Deal for Schools Summer Camp 2023."

      US High Schoolers Launch Green New Deal for 'Our Schools and Our Futures'

      "Public schools belong to us, and we know we deserve better," said a Sunrise Movement organizer and the youngest school board member in Idaho.

      Olivia Rosane
      Sep 25, 2023

      In the face of right-wing attacks on public schools—including climate education—more than 50 high schools nationwide launched the Green New Deals for Schools campaign Monday.

      The campaign, organized by the youth-led Sunrise Movement, is demanding that school boards and districts act to provide buildings powered with renewable energy; free, healthy, local, and sustainable meals; support for finding well-paying, unionized green careers; plans for extreme weather events; and instruction about the climate crisis.

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