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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.
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TMIQ Today: A Win For The Amazon
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TMIQ Today: Diapers
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.
- 1 weeks ago14 min
*Actually* Pro Life: Our Positions
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.
- 2 weeks ago2 min
TMIQ Today: Oregon
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 ...
- 2 weeks ago1h 43m
Facts Are Non-Negotiable, Framing Is A Choice
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- 3 weeks ago3 min
TMIQ Today: The Talk
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- 3 weeks ago2 min
TMIQ Today: Trump Accounts
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...
- 3 weeks ago1h 7m
Murder Mysteries, But For Trees
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...
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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.
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