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Oct 2026
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The most important question in today's world of climate chaos, AI psychosis, and crumbling democracy is: what can I do? Your host, Quinn Emmett is completely unqualified to answer it, so he's calling the people that already are. If you've got the news, the analysis, the outrage, but still no plan — join us as we figure it out together with long-form conversations with amazing people working on the frontlines, and quick updates responding to today's most important headlines, and what you can do about it, tonight. 220+ episodes. 110+ countries. A bunch of Webby and Signal Award nominations. Zero hot takes.
Today: A one-year-old boy was killed after a police officer fired three shots into a car pulling away in a Walmart parking lot in Mississippi, following a call that two women were suspected of stealing diapers. No one should have to steal diapers or be... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
For two years something has been missing from *Actually* Pro-Life. Obviously, you guys didn't even know about it until recently, but the point is, we had these 2,000 actions we'd been recommending, reviewing, and refreshing for years. And on the other ... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
Today: Three children and a 25-year-old teacher in Bend, Oregon are dead in yet another school shooting. Police arrived in three minutes, the school had locks, cameras, and drills and it still wasn't enough. What Can You Do: Donate to end gun violence ... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
What is the price of exclusion? Well, if your family paid the price, if your people were ever left out of a textbook you don't need this new book to tell you. But the title is just the verdict. The book is the evidence. It is the names, the dates, the ... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
Today: We've gotta aim higher than simply meeting a "do not rape" threshold. We've gotta actively work to prevent harm through conversations about consent and concrete actions. What Can You Do: Virginians! Vote for Amendment 1 Call your reps to make su... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
Today: Key word in the Trump Accounts promise: eligibility. As in, only children born after Dec 31, 2024 and before Jan 1, 2029. So, children born before 2024 or earlier get zero dollars, even though we already know what reduced child poverty, like the... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
In 1904, somebody noticed a sick tree at the Bronx Zoo. Within 50 years, the fungus killing it had wiped out about four billion American Chestnut trees from Maine all the way down to Georgia. In 2018, Richard Powers wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
Today: Your algorithm may have spent the last week scaring you about the plague, but probably the wrong one. Pennsylvania has reported over one thousand measles cases, with 198 hospitalized and five dead...yet the CDC is only reporting two measles deat... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
After launching What Can I Do to collect all of our recommended actions in one place, we received feedback from you that you still didn't feel like you were participating in collective action. So, as part of a "brain transplant" through the whole platf... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
Today: What does it mean to be *Actually* Pro Life? If political power comes from consistently meeting people's basic needs, and if being pro-life means, as Abdul EL-Sayed said, covering everyone's healthcare, then maybe we should go ahead and do that.... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
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