Chair of @USProgressives, @RepJayapal, celebrates Senate passage of "the largest-ever federal investment in tackling the existential threat of climate change," expected to save families $1,025 a year in energy costs and create millions of jobs: progressives.house.gov/2022/8/congres… Here are a few of the key climate-related aspects of this bill: 🧵

Tucked into the bill are billions of dollars to assist rural co-ops and municipal and private utilities to retire coal-fired power plants and quickly move to renewables, improving air quality and saving lives.

As 75+ House Democrats demand that the U.S. use its leverage to compel the Saudis to lift their blockade on Yemen, Vox details a debate unfolding on whether the U.S. still supports the war and blockade. I argue, yes, in any reasonable sense, it does: vox.com/2021/4/9/22375… (1/x) Since Jan., the Saudis’ military strategy involved quietly imposing a fuel blockade on Yemen while touting its own peace entreaties to the Houthis. But rehashed Saudi ceasefire proposals were political nonstarters “clearly designed to appease the US” (2/x) responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/23/sau…