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Jul 20, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
50 years ago today, Apollo 11 landed, a module hatch opened, and a man set foot on the moon. The #MoonLanding was a giant leap for humanity made possible by common purpose (and public initiative!) across a nation striving for the most ambitious possible goals.
As we stand on the verge of a new American era, it has never been more urgent that we summon that ambition again. From devastating hurricanes in Puerto Rico to raging infernos in California, we face the life-and-death challenge of a changing climate and climate disruption.
Climate change is here. It is an existential threat to our way of life on this planet. This timetable isn't being set by D.C. It's set in reality—and the time to act was yesterday. To meet this once-in-a-generation challenge, we must be as bold in our time as Kennedy was in his.
Tackling the threat of our changing climate likely won’t culminate in a single moment—like planting a flag on the moon. But in 50 years, let's be able to look at this season and say that we achieved an extraordinary feat—that we came together to beat the odds before all was lost.

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Ron Mazzoli was a good friend across generational divides for the same reason he was a great legislator across partisan ones: profound decency, great curiosity, unfailing positivity, and an earnest sense of purpose.

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As a fellow at Harvard’s IOP years after his time in Congress, Ron and his wife Helen befriended and mentored a new generation of students, showing us a completely different example than most of what we had seen on TV associated with being a “politician” growing up.
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If you're within reach of Iowa and able to help, please consider signing up to volunteer this weekend. The @UnitedWayCI is doing terrific work to help get people the support they need even during this time of social distancing:
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Two other groups, @aid_ic and @ASJ_BLM, are focusing their movements on getting food and life-saving supplies directly to Iowans in need.

Learn more and, if you can, please donate to support their work:
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Which experts? I don’t know, Senator, maybe the countless medical voices who could have saved you from making this obviously and humiliatingly false and dangerous statement? statesman.com/news/20200710/…
Perhaps voices like that of the top infectious disease expert in the country who has become a political lightning rod, ironically, because he doesn’t do politics? And who is being attacked by your White House allies at an exceptionally bad time? nbcnews.com/politics/white…
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