Simona Mila Capisani
@simomila.bsky.social
Climate politics, political/social & environmental philosophy, migration justice. Assistant Prof (Durham University, UK). Formerly postdoc @Princeton University HMEI & UCHV. PhD University of California, Irvine.
"We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world. People are going to die because of this pollution."
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
You might think a nominally centrist govt, faced with an impending fascist capture of the machinery of state, would be doing *everything* to impede their ability to pursue fash policies in power. Instead, Lab has been est mechanisms & norms that Reform will be able to immediately exploit & build on
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
This horrific epistemological practice has both proven almost impossible to dislodge, even as it’s resulted in press being utterly humiliated by liars again and again. It has also arguably led to the collapse of liberal democracy and the rise of fascism. It seems like they should stop doing it!
I think the media want to find some secret to unlock here precisely BECAUSE the footage is so straightforward. It shows us clearly what DHS has become. And it leads them to a conclusion that they dare not take: there is only side of the story here in Minneapolis, and a monstrous, powerful villain
Also, leave it to Trump to engineer a Katrina-scale political crisis completely out of thin air within a year of taking office, rising out of nothing more than mind-boggling policy choices and a complete inability to avoid putting huge quantities of firearms in the hands of America’s worst people
“The election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.” heatmap.news/politics/ali...
Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia
A “seismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.
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wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
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Emergency funds to foods banks aren’t sufficient — these people are employed and caregivers they can’t afford to stand on long food lines. The way aid is delivered is just as important as the cash itself in terms of who is able to benefit
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: “Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭 📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Monica Iyer@monicavisalam.bsky.social · 11mo agoI was so honored to join many scholars I deeply admire for this perspective piece cautioning against writing off places and communities in the face of climate change iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
It does kind of make you wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had just forgiven all that student loan debt after district courts blocked the loan forgiveness plan.
Wide areas of the UK are currently 10-12°C above normal for the time of day and time of the year. Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
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The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on Mayor Karen Bass asking City Council to eliminate LA’s climate emergency office, which protects Angelenos from extreme heat. Meanwhile Bass still claims to be a climate champion. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Report your NSF grant termination here. 🌊🧪 There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.
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In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.” Utterly terrifying.
Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · last yr.Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...
A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.
Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄 Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
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So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
