From pipelines to refugees, everything Trump does is connected | Kate Aronoff

Too comfortable in their separate silos, activists on the left need to learn that the only way to fight a unified rightwing agenda is to unify in response

Donald Trump is the fossil fuel industry's puppet, and he's spent the first few days of his administration doing its bidding. A former ExxonMobil executive is en route to become the country's top diplomat, and the Centers for Disease Control has cancelled a long-planned conference to discuss the impacts of climate change on public health. And now, thanks to a presidential memorandum, the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines have been brought back from the dead.

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