US citizens: phone your senators at +1 (202) 224-3121 and say not to leave Washington until the Senate passes the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Coastal animals are colonizing floating plastic garbage. This enables them to move to other coastlines, where they did not previously live, and mess up the ecosystems there.

US citizens: call on Congress to weatherize low-income homes now.

Sea-level rise (caused by global heating) is making sea-side towns in Ghana uninhabitable.

Rally for Julian Assange at 3pm on December 18 in Fresh Pond Mall, 186 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, Mass.