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Hill Heat will be at Netroots Nation June 4 to 6 in Philadelphia. We’re co-sponsoring the Netroots Climate Happy Hour featuring state Sen.Chris Rabb (D-Pa.) on Friday at 5 pm at City Tap House. Drop us a line if you’re going to be there—a full preview of climate-related Netroots Nation events is below.

The second annual 50-Hour Weather and Climate Livestream to Save America’s Forecasts is in its final hours. Call Congress!

Jamelle Bouie is seeking “the reconstruction agenda the country needs,” and wonders when anyone within the Democratic Party will “articulate a broad new conception of the nation’s political order — one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power.”

The answer is: seven years ago, with the Green New Deal.

As Bouie wrote then, “If anything can put socialism in a more positive light, it is Trump raging against it.”

It turns out that Trump vulture-capitalizing the United States is even more effective!

From my perspective, embedding this post counts as a news item:

Here are some Tuesday election updates:

• Green New Dealer Adam Hamawy won the NJ.-12th primary and will be headed to Congress next year.

• State Rep. Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats’ nominee for U.S. Senate.

• DOGEd Forest Service smokejumper and prairie populist Sam Forstag has taken the lead in the Democratic primary for Montana’s 1st.

• “Our evil propaganda worked!” laughed George Correa, who “works at an AI company he declined to name,” at a San Francisco election-night party for opponents of Proposition D, the Overpaid CEO Tax. SF’s billionaire class spent at least $6 million to defeat it. Early returns show the proposition losing.

• Zach Lahn, who has a weirdly incestuous relationship with the Koch Industries political machine, has been chosen by Iowa Republicans as their gubernatorial nominee over a Trump pick.

“Legislation that would make Louisiana the fifth state this year to buffer oil and gas companies from climate lawsuits is awaiting the governor’s signature.”

An unprecedented, but long predicted by climate scientists, fossil-fueled Western drought is “shrinking crops, drying up wells, tightening hay supplies and accelerating cattle herd liquidation across the region.” The wheat crop has collapsed. Wells are pulling air.

“Another warm, arid winter could leave Colorado River reservoirs nearly dry.”

Trump lickspittle Marco Rubio wilted in New Delhi’s fossil-fueled heat last week.

New York City’s population of black-crowned night herons are just one of the many birds disappearing from the world right now, thanks to industrial pollution from pesticides to fossil-fueled sea level rise. More than 110 species of US birds have lost more than 50 percent of their populations during the last half-century. Last year, the annual NYC heron count “was canceled because of bird flu. And on the first day of visits this year, the temperature soared to nearly 90 degrees — almost 20 degrees above typical high temperatures for late May.”

It’s a Netroots Nation Climate Preview!

Friday, June 5

• 9:15 am: No Followers, No Problem: How to Nationalize Any Campaign, with campaigners including the Sunrise Movement’s Aru Shiney-Ajay.

• 12:15 pm: Climate Caucus, room 123.

• 12:30 pm: Fighting Fascism: an Exchange Between the US and EU, with speakers including Benedetta Scuderi, Italian Green member of the European Parliament.

• 1:30 pm: America’s 250th: Harnessing the Anniversary for National Reckoning, with speakers including climate-justice campaigners Anthony Vidal Torres and Jade Begay in 122B.

• 3 pm: Building Long-Term Narrative Power in a Short-Term World, with communicators and strategists including the Climate Solutions’s Kimberly Larson.

• 5 pm: All the happy hours! The Netroots Climate Happy Hour, co-sponsored by Hill Heat, with state Rep. Chris Rabb at City Tap House, the Democracy Revival Center happy hour at Love City Brewing, the Swayable/Human Rights Campaign/Way to Win happy hour at Victory Brewing.

Saturday, June 6

• At 11:30 am: Flipping the Script: Why We Must Talk About Climate to Win Elections, featuring Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), with Climate Hawks Vote’s RL Miller, Michelle Deatrick, DNC Climate and Environmental Caucus, and Ryan O’Donnell, Executive Director, Data For Progress, in 118B.

• At 2:30 pm: Our Political System is Broken. What Can We Do About It?, with veterans of the climate movement, including the Lauren Maunus and Kunoor Ojha of the Democracy Revival Center, the Sunrise Movement’s Aru Shiney-Ajay, John-Paul Mejia of Big Country, Kaniela Ing, Our Hawaii, and Maxwell Love, Hold the Line, in 118A.

Hearings on the Hill:

• 10 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
  The Federal Highway Administration’s Proposed Fiscal Year 2027 Budget

• 10 AM: House Appropriations Committee
  Full Committee Markup of FY27 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and FY27 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bill

• 2 PM: House Energy and Commerce Committee
     Environment Subcommittee
  Examining Legislation to Weaken the Clean Air Act's Mobile Source Requirements

• 2 PM: House Natural Resources Committee
     Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee
  Testimony on Water, Offshore Leasing, and Fisheries Bills, including expanding state-level authority over Gulf of Mexico waters

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