"....climate action becomes a driver of economic rebalancing that favors the working class against the tech oligarchs, fossil fuel companies, corporate landlords, and kleptocratic electeds."
great stuff from @cplusc.bsky.social
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The book "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves", by Stuart Schrader
Really excited we get to launch @stschrader1.bsky.social's new book "Blue Power" on the political autonomy of policing at @redemmas.org tomorrow night! And with Orisanmi Burton!
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![Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreigksp6ynzr4oxga34viyko2fgg47c6262zz7rqj3khvz3y24pz4by)
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
We are so, so small. #Artemis
What a glorious day! Thanks to @johnduda.bsky.social and Meg from @redemmas.org for putting together an incredible climate conference. The book fest brought together a kick ass ecosocialist crew @alybatt.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social among others
We've got an amazing one day of festival of new books on the the climate crisis coming up on Saturday, April 4th...
Free talks kick off at 2pm with @joobilly.bsky.social talking about "Building Postcarbon Futures"
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Promises made, promises kept.
Some unlucky country gets to be the graveyard of the American empire.
“The American economic model, dependent on chronic fiscal deficits, continuous capital inflows, and reserve currency privilege, structurally requires the kind of capital that only sovereign autocracies can provide.”
Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.
66/ WSJ: "Reopening the strait, military analysts say, may require a ground operation to seize the Iranian coastline."
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Are there any prominent voices in Congress or other levels of government staking out this kind of position?
It seems to me this moment calls for acknowledgement that the US immigration regime is in fact a generalized apartheid system, creating less than full members of the polity along racialized lines, and that responding requires not just abolishing ICE, but real liberalization of access to citizenship.
Absolutely packed house tonight to hear how @projectsaltbox.bsky.social is bringing data into the fight against ICE.
Via @projectsaltbox.bsky.social, who will be giving a talk at the store tonight at 7pm: "As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland."
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“Imperialist war does not liberate peoples — it subjugates them. The evidence is found in the ruins of Gaza, Baghdad, and Tripoli, where bombs leveled cities and ‘democracy promotion’ left ashes in its wake.”
“Bill Ferny” works pretty well for many of them
Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1
Oh that’s awful news. Bill was amazing.
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
“I’m gonna produce as much as I can to make their jobs as difficult as possible.”
Writing for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, @jnoor.bsky.social on zine-making vs ICE, including our efforts to flood the city with free anti-ICE posters and know your rights resources.
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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...
Another Abahlali baseMjondolo leader assassinated in broad daylight in Gauteng, South Africa. Hamba kahle Khabazela Mkhize abahlali.org/node/18590/ www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/zwel...
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Coming 4/4: End Papers—our mini-book fest on the climate crisis & capitalism, w/@triofrancos.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social + more TBA
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