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Prof @providencecol & @cplusci Strategic Co-Director ✍️ EXTRACTION @wwnorton 📚Resource Radicals @DukePress & A Planet to Win @VersoBooks @jvplive @DemSocialists

Providence, RI

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I’m thrilled to share my new article: “The Security-Sustainability Nexus” in Global Environmental Politics. I analyze the push to onshore lithium mining in US and EU, justified in terms of “national security” + “environmental sustainability”🧵 Open access:

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Rapid PCR tests at the airport cost $250 a pop and insurance doesn’t cover them. Our state government no longer tests unless you have symptoms. PCR results are required for travel. The pandemic has officially become a giant opportunity for price gauging and profit accumulation.

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I just ordered four at-home rapid covid tests online, for free, from a government website that will be shipped to my door by the postal service. It's not amazing or impressive that this can be done now; it's a travesty, with fatal results, this wasn't done months or years ago.

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This isn’t NYC today. This was 1973, just after the EPA was created and before it transformed air and water quality. In those early years the agency enlisted photographers to catalogue environmental disasters before they were cleaned up. The climate crisis is reversing history.

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There are huge protests everywhere in the US against genocide in Gaza, in solidarity with Palestinians and calling for not only a ceasefire but an end to US support for occupation. Yet, I haven’t seen a single article in a major newspaper about what is becoming a mass movement 1/

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Two weeks ago Biden said with a straight face that the United States is the most powerful country in “the history of the world.” Now the Biden administration is claiming they have zero ability to impose any significant constraints on a US client state. Make it make sense

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Biden administration officials say Israel’s counterattack against Hamas has been too severe and too costly in civilian casualties, but they are unable to exert significant influence on America’s closest ally in the Middle East to change its course.

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The redefinition of “anti-Semitism” to mean “support for Palestinian freedom” is one of the most perverse semiotic reversals I’ve encountered in my lifetime.

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The messaging discipline is absolutely incredible. Nothing distracts him from the key points: rising profits, stagnating wages, and escalating class conflict

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Hate to break it to you, but the results thus far are great for Bernie. He won the popular vote; Biden’s “electability” is dead in the water; a candidate w no chance of winning the nom got a boost, further fragmenting centrists. We aren’t victims. We’re winning. Let’s get to work

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The “outside agitator” trope simultaneously denies the authenticity of discontent and the possibility of solidarity

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The same week Trump cut 700,000 from food stamps, @HillaryClinton mocks Bernie Sanders' expansive vision for social welfare by comparing it to a 5th grader running for class president on the platform of "Chocolate milk for everybody." She has no shame & no idea why she lost.

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You won't find this in the mainstream media coverage, but it's literally impossible to imagine this $1.9 trillion dollar relief package without the past year of organizing by Black Lives Matter, tenant orgs, DSA, Sunrise; essential workers going on strike; and the Bernie campaign

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i’m all out of takes

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I don’t think I have ever smiled this hard 😍🤩😍

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Amazing how all of Bernie’s “radical” ideas suddenly sound extremely sensible, pragmatic, responsible the moment we are in the midst of a public health emergency

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I have never once said this on this website, but now that Klobuchar dropped out, and it’s resoundingly clear that the center is consolidating around Biden, Elizabeth Warren, if she wants to preserve her progressive bonafides, must drop out and endorse @BernieSanders for president

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You truly love to see it

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. @JoeBiden does not believe in women’s right to control our bodies. Pass it on

Joe Biden says he still supports ban on federal funding of abortions, after apparent reversal

Joe Biden's stance on abortion came under attack on Wednesday after his campaign confirmed that the former vice president still supports the controversial Hyde Amendment, passed more than 40 years...

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Still not over this matter of fact pronouncement in yesterday’s @FT

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"I'm dealing with a fucking global crisis." - @BernieSanders channeling the collective energy of the world. Truly a man of the people

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Congressional staffers and high-level bureaucrats resigning on principle. High school students walking out of class. Massive direct actions by Jewish anti-occupation activists. White House officials and the Vice President getting booed in public. This feels like something real

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It’s obvious that Biden prefers losing young voters to changing course on supporting genocide. But as brutal repression of student protests unfolds across the country I can’t help but wonder: has Biden considered that these young people have parents who love them and also vote?

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The @FT editorial board denounces the collective punishment of Gaza and calls for a ceasefire. The world’s premier capitalist newspaper is now to the left of US Congress, the Biden White House, and most of the American commentariat.

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the FT editorial board calls for a ceasefire: “Israel’s collective punishment of the 2.3mn people trapped in Gaza — almost half of them children — must stop”

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"Even with a vetted speech" - even though the specific speaker and speech act would be filtered, the mere voice and physical existence of a Palestinian is too much for the DNC to bear. Absolute shame

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Can confirm: The DNC has told the Uncommitted delegates that no Palestinian will be allowed to speak from the stage, even with a vetted speech

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4 years

It’s official: I’ve been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor 🥳

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5 years

Reports coming in from IL primary are mind-bogglingly bad: voters being turned away from understaffed polls in droves, totally unsanitary conditions, elderly at extreme risk. Meanwhile Tom Perez and DNC are scrambling to save face. Shows you exactly what their priorities are.

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As a member of the “Jewish community” referenced here, I find this White House statement on Palestinian solidarity protests at Columbia University completely unhinged, deranged, zero connection to reality. Also just bad look when so many faculty have condemned Shafik’s crackdown!

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Lucas Tomlinson

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BREAKING: White House statement on anti-Israel protests at Columbia University: “While every American has the right to peaceful protect, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly Antisemitic, unconscionable, and

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This is blatantly false, @nytimes . During the Cold War, US orchestrated military coups and dirty wars across the region. After the Cold War, the US promoted harsh austerity policies, unfair trade regimes, militarized drug wars, and parliamentary coups in multiple countries.

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“The cause of the climate disaster is capital” - @petrogustavo , President of Colombia

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There’s a right-wing conspiracy gaining popularity Oregon that antifa caused the fires to wreak havoc on evacuated towns & cities. Some are refusing to leave to “defend” their property. We actually have no idea how deranged and violent the politics of the climate crisis will get

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In Paris, striking ballet dancers & orchestra put on a free performance. The perfect prefiguration of a radical #GreenNewDeal : low carbon public luxury for all, won by militant workers 🌹💃🏻✊🌎

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I’m a Jewish supporter of a free Palestine and your conflation of “the Jewish faith” and the apartheid state of Israel is anti-semitic.

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What I heard resounding in community was that voting yes on this resolution affirmed to my constituents raised in the Jewish faith Israel's right to exist, a view I share as a supporter of a two state solution.

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a specter is haunting the universe

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"Green capitalism" doesn't mean capitalism is internalizing its environmental externalities and becoming "sustainable." It means economic sectors and investment linked to renewable energy, adaptation, or mitigation are new sites of accumulation, class conflict, and geopolitics.

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In just under two months, IDF bombs have destroyed a comparable percentage of buildings in northern Gaza as WW2 allied forces achieved in the space of two years of carpet bombing German cities

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I’d rather public transit be free

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Wait Shawn Fain is just announcing the three strike locations with no warning, so the bosses are unprepared and workers at every plant are constantly organizing? 🔥🔥🔥

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I'm old enough to remember that in lead up to Obama's '08 election, there was *nothing* like this level of awareness on the Left that, should the Dem win, a new cycle of struggle begins on a modified terrain, requiring effective strategies, targets & demands. A total sea change.

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🚨Update: in a massive landslide, Chileans have chosen to rewrite their Constitution. Almost 80% of voters decided to leave Pinochet’s brutal, neoliberal legacy behind and open a new chapter of democracy and equality. Inspiring! 🌈✊

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Solidarity with Chile today; a truly historic opportunity to break free from Pinochet’s constitution — and democratize state, economy, society ✊ #YoApruebo

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In one minute and twenty one seconds this protester explains: (1) how deepening economic desperation feeds into the militancy of the uprising; (2) racial capitalism. Geniuses and leaders are everywhere we look

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I don’t think they’re ready for the rage and radicalization this will unleash

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Workers are striking in multiple sectors and a whole generation of climate activists are getting radicalized with every minute our political system fails the planet and the people. We are potentially witnessing the birth of the collective agents of transformative ecosocial change

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Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble. The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering

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The leaked decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is at once a victory for reactionary forces and a risky gambit that may intensify the already unfolding constitutional crisis, creating a rare opening for mass, militant politics to confront this decrepit, anti-democratic institution.

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How much lithium is needed to electrify the car-dependent status quo vs transforming the transportation system to increase mass transit, walking & cycling? Our new @cpluscp report finds dramatic differences. We can achieve more mobility with less mining 1/

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Respectfully, "racism" isn't a trans-historic phenomenon embedded in human DNA. It is an ideology deeply rooted in colonialism, chattel slavery & imperialism -- i.e. the 500-year history of global capitalism. Also, a tip: don't use the racist term "tribal" when analyzing racism.

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People, in groups, tend to be vicious and tribal--just like all our primate cousins. We make in-groups and out-groups. Racism is the stupidest, easiest, most vicious way to do that. It must be battled *constantly* and forever, every generation. It's not about material needs. /3

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There is no final frontier. Capitalism inherently and constantly produces new extractive frontiers, places & nature to exploit and sacrifice, and it does so at every possible scale. The fantasy of escaping this condition through spatial fixes is the environmentalism of fools.

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Jeff Bezos, hours after flying to space: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is."

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There is a very real risk that politicians from both parties will interpret this summer’s climate disasters and fatalities as a reason to focus exclusively on adapting to extreme weather rather than eliminating its primary cause, carbon emissions from fossil fuels. Don’t let them

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My mom just proposed that she would organize my grandparents, Bubbie & Mel, to vote for @BernieSanders in the crucial swing state of Florida, if I commit to calling them once a week. I agreed. Jewish guilt leveraged a force for social good & political power, you love to see it

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This should be celebrated as a victory, achieved by coordinated pressure from Global South popular movements and governments, with solidarity from Global North based activists. We need the same exact constellation of forces to dismantle climate apartheid.

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Ambassador Katherine Tai

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These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures. The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.

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They tried to bury us; they did not know we were seeds

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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

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BREAKING: 40+ student organizations at Columbia University announce that they are forming a coalition to make Columbia University to divest from Israeli apartheid after the university unjustly suspends SJP and JVP🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Amazing that in 2020, the year that definitively exposed the USA & UK to be failed states, and also the year in which Bolivia pulled off peaceful & democratic elections amidst right-wing violence & deep polarization, that pundits still use “Third World” as a pejorative.

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This is embarrassing. Third-world bullshit. Maricopa has one of the nation's most sophisticated and transparent voting systems. The civil servants inside that building (I was there a few weeks ago) are trying to service our democracy. The idiots outside are trying to destroy it.

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Their worst nightmare is our joyful dream of a just society

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actually it’s sexist to deny workers a $15 minimum wage

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🚨Breaking: Senate Democrats announce proposal to cancel student debt. Ideas deemed too "radical" a week ago are now shaping the public conversation and policy response to Corona. We need to stay in the fight and continue to make our demands heard. This is just the beginning.

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It’s amazing that students travelled across country, exposing themselves/faculty/staff/communities, all to protect Universities’ revenues, & are now blamed for spreading covid & policed in response, even tho we know policing is antithetical to harm reduction. Ridiculous society.

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Student debt is 1.6 trillion The number of homeless students in public schools has increased 70% in the past decade More millennial households are in poverty than those of any other generation David Brooks is a millionaire

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Source, a fascinating article and photos

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

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‘ok boomer’ means ‘ok neoliberal establishment soft climate denialist.’ it’s not about hating old people; it’s a rejection of vacuous, discredited liberalism that offers no way out of intertwined ecological & political crises. tl;dr buttigieg is a boomer. #TikTokPoliticalTheory

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Good morning! (1)The race is tied; tons more primaries. They want us to give up, but we keep fighting (2) 100% focus on Biden: very weak candidate, last gasp of the establishment (3) Sanders can absolutely win moderates by hammering Biden on social security, Iraq War & free trade

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Engels' concept of "social murder" still slaps

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First, am I missing something? Has the NYT, WaPo, etc covered this in any depth? Second, who is keeping track of the numbers? I’m seeing anecdotal reports of thousands and tens of thousands for some of these demonstrations. Is there anywhere these numbers are being compiled? 2/2

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@Vanessa_ABee What’s actually most amazing about this absurd image is the insinuation that Israeli Jews are “alone” right now? The most powerful countries in the world are on their side, financially and ideologically, in addition to their own state and military!

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Historic. Ecuadorians voted to keep oil underground in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, result of over a decade of movement pressure. A climate, enviro & Indigenous victory. And they voted to ban mining in a UNESCO biosphere in the country’s north

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Los ecuatorianos votaron por detener la actividad petrolera y minera en el Yasuní y el Chocó

En los resultados oficiales, con un 95,58% escrutado, el Sí se impone en la consulta del Yasuní. Esa opción también lleva la delantera en las preguntas del Chocó Andino.

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“BREAKING: Global capital accumulation requires ongoing social reproduction of neocolonial world system”

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The only thing scarier than fascism is liberal complicity with it, which both validates fascism and forecloses any possibility of popular front politics thereby isolating the left and declaring open season on the right’s chosen scapegoats and victims. or as @gabrielwinant says

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If you’re a Leftist and you spend more time criticizing other Leftists than figuring out how to build collective power and transform our society, you’ve seriously lost the plot.

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🚨Chile's President Boric plans to nationalize lithium Resource nationalism all the rage in Global South (Mexico, Indonesia, Bolivia) and North ("critical minerals" securitization) albeit from very distinct geoeconomic positions. But there's more to this🧵

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Chile plans to nationalize its vast lithium industry

Chile's President Gabriel Boric said he would nationalize the country's lithium industry, the world's second largest producer of the metal essential in electric vehicle batteries.

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I can’t wait to canvas this weekend in New Hampshire for our next President, @BernieSanders

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Hillary Clinton shows up out of nowhere to do the weirdest things, like endorse the guy who literally said he only cares about Black lives because he's being challenged from the left in a primary

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Honestly think that both the @DemSocialists (26/30 of our endorsed candidates won) and the campaigners behind all the successful drug legalization ballot measures have something to teach the Democratic Party

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It’s starting to drive me *nuts* that professionals who benefit from safety of at-home working (every major corporation is reversing “return to office” plans bc Omicron!) are vilifying teachers + staff for demanding a modicum of workplace safety before they return to classroom.

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This is getting weirder and worse 😬

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I know there's a lot to be scared & angry about right now. But: the right-wing is trying to destroy the postal office, an essential service, a lifeline to rural communities and a dignified, unionized job for people of color & women. It's textbook Shock Doctrine. What can we do?

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I just realized that what makes Bernie so radical is his long-standing belief that something is deeply wrong with America. Unlike almost every politician I can think of, he refuses the myth of greatness & exceptionalism, & the amnesia that says all our problems began with Trump.

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I saw Joker last night. My hot take: (1) this movie doesn’t valorize “violence”; it depicts class war (2) it indicts neoliberal austerity& makes a case for robust social provisioning (3) it empathetically dramatizes 1st person experience of mental illness (4) Liberals are wrong

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“Why aren't we talking about creating 20 million jobs, putting a solar panel on every roof. We need to talk in images and sights and sounds” @AOC nails it: our vision for climate crisis must be visceral, compelling & materially empower working class people

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I’m in Portugal now to research lithium mining; I’ve done the same in Chile + Nevada. All of these places face severe drought linked to global warming. Mining is water intensive. If we don’t reduce mining demand & regulate impact, green tech solutions intensify ecological crisis.

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Pundits can’t fathom the idea that students are simply *protesting genocide and demanding divestment* because they can’t imagine political action motivated by sincerely held beliefs. They’ve probably never experienced the power and joy of collective action. I feel sorry for them

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Fifteen years ago by resounding popular mandate Bolivians voted out neocolonialism & neoliberalism, electing the country’s first Indigenous, socialist president, leader of the militant coca growers union. Today I hope for a peaceful election & another defeat for right wing forces

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Nothing depresses me more than the thought of either Trump or Biden presiding over the coming recession and unfolding crash in oil markets. Oil & gas assets are literally stranding themselves. This presents a historic opportunity to dismantle the fossil fuel sector, likely wasted

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If you’re feeling hopelessness about the genocidal siege of Gaza, just a reminder: you’re not powerless, you’re in fact potentially powerful. To realize that power we must act collectively. Join an org that is fighting to cut the spigot of military aid to Israel. We can do this!

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As a socialist I‘m skeptical of romanticizing small businesses- they can be terrible employers & hotbeds of petit-bourgeois reaction- but it’s so sad that half NYC’s smallest businesses may fail to reopen. This means more corporate chains & devastation for immigrant communities.

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It is irresponsible journalism to publish articles with this framing and not even mention the fact that the United States currently has no plans or policies to meet its stated emissions targets or climate pledges @nytimes

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Thea Riofrancos

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It’s amazing how capitalism makes us unable to deal with COVID-19. Private & unequal healthcare; expensive test kits; precarious workers forced to work; pub policy prioritizes stock market, corporations, econ growth; hoarding & price spikes for basic needs. A truly sick society

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Thea Riofrancos

5 years

Hmmm... something is missing from this @nytimes headline about tonight’s debate... I just can’t put my finger on it 🤔🤔

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Thea Riofrancos

4 years

Some good news for a change

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‘A Slap in the Face’: The Pandemic Disrupts Young Oil Careers (Published 2021)

Students and recent graduates struggle to get hired as the oil industry cuts tens of thousands of jobs, some of which may never come back.

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Thea Riofrancos

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I lost my father, Maro Riofrancos. He was 79. He taught me how to cook, and how to read Adorno & Proust, Marx & Brecht. To love dogs, found objects, Calder, Tati. He was a ruthless critic--including of me. He was volatile, and I'm not sure I ever satisfied him. I love him anyway.

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Thea Riofrancos

5 years

Was the coup in Bolivia a "lithium coup"? Lithium is a key raw material for the emerging renewable transition, needed for EVs & battery storage. I've spent the last year researching lithium in South America & globally, I have thoughts about the lithium coup argument. A thread 1/

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Thea Riofrancos

4 years

I wrote an op-ed for @nytimes . Radical energy is erupting on both sides of the Atlantic. But in US & most of Europe, the left is out of power. What is to be done? Electoral contestation, militant opposition, and organizing that builds popular power 1/

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Opinion | It’s a Tough Time for the Left. But I’m More Optimistic Than Ever. (Published 2020)

On both sides of the Atlantic, the signs of radical possibility are everywhere.

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Thea Riofrancos

2 years

Academics are constantly told their work is only valuable if it’s “novel” + cited; journalists that they’re in competition for “breaking news.” Both fields are marked by inequality, precarity, austerity, entrepreneurial yet materially insecure subjects, & renewed labor militancy.

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Thea Riofrancos

11 months

🚨Breaking: Providence City Council just passed a resolution in favor of a ceasefire! It seems we are the first city in the US to call for a ceasefire. Big thanks to @justinroias @RachelRI @MSanchezPVD and other Councillors. Jewish Voice for Peace - RI filled City Hall in support

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Thea Riofrancos

5 years

Miners in Harlan County, KY are physically blocking a coal train from moving b/c the coal company Blackjewel declared bankruptcy & stole over 2 weeks of their wages & other benefits. This is the same county that saw militant coal worker uprisings in the 1930s and 70s. (1)

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Thea Riofrancos

3 years

Workers have been on strike for weeks at one of Chile's main lithium mines. Many miners are Indigenous & communities support the strike. Labor militants have issued visionary statements about enviro harm. This is the future of supply chain politics, as we wrote in A Planet to Win

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Thea Riofrancos

4 years

everything is terrible except for this soviet communal seltzer dispenser

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Thea Riofrancos

3 months

If Bernie and AOC’s support prove crucial to keeping deeply unpopular Genocide Joe in the race and then he loses to Trump and we get a Republican trifecta I will become the joker

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Thea Riofrancos

11 months

Finally read the letter from the 20 Jewish students who participated in an occupation of @BrownUniversity yesterday (and were arrested), and it’s really beautiful, honestly all power to the youth in this moment

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Thea Riofrancos

4 years

Chevron is complicit in human rights violations, environmental devastation, and the assassination of activists in Nigeria

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Chevron

4 years

black lives matter. words from our leaders:

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Thea Riofrancos

3 years

Just so it’s absolutely clear: thus far the biggest beneficiary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the fossil fuel industry. This isn’t a conspiracy. This is just the effect of geopolitical conflict under the hegemony of fossil capitalism.

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Absolutely jawdropping move in oil. Up 17% in two days. Biggest two day jump since May 2020.

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Thea Riofrancos

5 years

Bernie Sanders will be joined by Public Enemy for a rally called Fight the Power in L.A. that’s it, that’s the tweet

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Thea Riofrancos

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The Israeli military has killed more children in under two months in Gaza than have been killed in *all major conflict zones in the world combined, over all of last year* The mind simply cannot compute such depravity nor fathom the generations of trauma ahead of us.

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