Directed at the guy who pulled you in who said I was a "white guy opining". Sorry for causing confusion.

Mamdani Wants to Show That Democratic Socialism “Can Flourish Anywhere” The mayor is using his “100 Days” moment to talk about “the change that democratic socialism can deliver.”

“I was told that you could only be a democratic socialist in northwest Queens. Then I became the mayor. Now, the next question is the state. The next question will be the country. I think this… politics can flourish anywhere because there is only one majority: the working class.”
— Zohran Mamdani

These are conditions ripe not just Revolution but for large scale suffering, starvation and farmer suicides

In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance Google and Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar projects under construction in India are facing backlash from farmers, while the government offers huge tax relief to foreign companies setting up data cente...

I'm not white nor opining on some other. I'm also Asian and stating that the working class of India has significant agency?

Really bizarre QT when you can just check whether or not this is happening. Here's a source:

restofworld.org/2026/india-d...

People are having a difficult time facing reality all around.

‘India is going to face a food crisis’: Farmers panic over fertiliser shortages amid Iran war Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go round

I guess one way of doing something with the land that you can't grow crops on because there's a fertilizer shortage is sell it to data centers, sure

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Indian unions and farmers stage a nationwide strike over interim trade deal with US A broad coalition of unions and farmers in India has held a one-day national strike against an interim trade deal with the United States.

Conditions for farmers there are basically a tinderbox for revolution, and have been for a very long time.

apnews.com/article/indi...

Reading that the Indian farmer unions are mad about Modi selling them out to build data centers and reading that they and other trade unions are ALREADY fired up about some trade agreement proposals...the greed of the tech oligarchs is going to break so many things wide open.

Whatever contracts and bullshit logistics make airport food simultaneously expensive as hell and completely shitty is astounding.

I like this. If I may, I would bring this back to Taiwo on reparations, as a project (of policy and investment and action) that makes those connections - and therefore our commitments to each other if we want to honor them - real through how we make the built enviro. For all, carefully, efficiently.

A bright purplish pink azalea flower with green and brown ground behind it

It’s azalea season

lo fi beats to re-examine your life to

A magnolia tree with pink flowers against a blue sky

Close up of pink cherry blossoms

Light pink cherry blossom tree with a cloudy sky in the background

Closeup of light pink cherry blossoms

🌸🌸🌸!!

incredible

Earthquakes especially get me like that. What do you mean the coast will fall several dozen meters into the sea? ✋ no thank you

Sry, if that happens my posts will be wildly unhinged as I assume like half of SF will liquify in The Big One for the record haha

Overview | Scientists Solve the Mystery of a 300-Year-Old Megaquake | Season 2 | Episode 7 Scientists find the exact time of a massive quake using trees, soil and human records.

There's a cool PBS segment about it that I looked up after Portland organizers taught me about trying to close some major chemical storage facilities 😩

www.pbs.org/video/scient...

"$19 billion investment to build an entirely new JFK"

$19 billion in wasted stranded assets, cool

We're overdue for another one like that lol 🙃

We know a 9.0 earthquake earthquake and tsunami hit the Pacific coast from like Vancouver down to California on January 26, 1700 at 9:00pm because of the Japanese monks' archives and tree ring records in Oregon, too.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Fascism underscores the importance of intersectional analysis, because fascism is essentially its full inverse

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

Signal already has a setting that blocks message content from displaying in push notifications; the case highlights why such a feature might be important for some users to turn on. www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

You can tell because of how little discussion there is about undoing anything, pronto like.

There's a *lot* going on here, but I'm struck by the irony of Roberts taking umbrage at EPA officials' public statements.

Just 2 years later, in upholding Trump's Muslim travel ban in Trump v Hawaii, Roberts wrote that Trump's bigoted public statements weren't relevant to the rule's validity.

We’re shoveling money and power towards people who are constantly shouting their belief they’re a superior race

Big fat purple tulips with one orange and pink one in the middle of a large bed with even more tulips in the background

So insufferably spring pilled

A cluster of white cherry blossoms with a pink bud still yet to bloom

The time to hatch a scheme with your friends is here. Never been better weather to devise a new plot with a pal. Gather comrades in the park and map out your organizing path. How do you build? What is the demand? Why will others join you?

Walking past the same tree three days in a row and it going from 🪾 to 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 is sooo glorious

Pink tulips with frilly petal edges

A grove of cherry trees in bloom

A cherry tree with white blooms surrounded by trees with pink blooms on all sides. Several people are lying down around the trees, standing beneath them, and walking through.

A bed of tulips - foreground of white and pink petals; purple and white, yellow, and orange in the background

this is THE weekend to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden