"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."
Klaske Wijkstra 🌻🇪🇺@keawijkstra.eurosky.social · 22h ago@michaelburchert.bsky.social Construction with rice waste. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
This is exactly right. It’s a way to open the door to more of this.
modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size
Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · 2d agoHoly shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
Ms. Pillay led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government
AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
Amanda Becker@amandabecker.bsky.social · last mo.I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
Trump’s Gaza plan is *colonialism* and the UN Security Council and now Hillary Clinton are shamefully legitimating it. @jeenashahesq.bsky.social: “It is an illegal act of the highest order, and compliance with it makes member states complicit in that illegality.” More here:
The Board of Peace: How the Security Council Legitimized Colonialism
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J…
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Trump’s Gaza plan is *colonialism* and the UN Security Council and now Hillary Clinton are shamefully legitimating it. @jeenashahesq.bsky.social: “It is an illegal act of the highest order, and compliance with it makes member states complicit in that illegality.” More here:
The Board of Peace: How the Security Council Legitimized Colonialism
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J…
twailr.com
In this short essay on TWAILR, I show how the Security Council Resolution that authorized the Board of Peace's rule over Gaza created a framework for a neo-colony par excellence: twailr.com/the-board-of...
The Board of Peace: How the Security Council Legitimized Colonialism
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J…
twailr.com
Important new piece from @jeenashahesq.bsky.social in City & State. The protests against Israeli real estate events are responding to “active facilitation of what international courts and human rights bodies have classified as criminality representing the worst threats to humanity.”
Opinion: The debate over buffer zone bills ignores that New York has a war crimes problem
A CUNY Law professor’s case that Israeli real estate events in NYC violate international law – and potentially federal and state law, too.
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WATCH: Learn about ICE warehouse expansion and how to fight back from our recent movement call webinar. Warehouse detention is part of the Trump administration’s plan to expand detention capacity to more than 100,000 people at any given time. 🔗Tell Congress no ICE warehouses! bit.ly/NOicewarehouses
ICE Warehouse Detention 101and How to Fight Back
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Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.
Trump’s Pardons and Kidnappings: The Imperial Logic of the War on Drugs
Weeks after pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández for drug trafficking, Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the same charges.
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In my latest piece out today on @lpeblog.bsky.social, I reconcile Trump's pardoning of a former Honduran President on drug trafficking while abducting Maduro on similar charges by showing how both actions are consistent with the logic underlying the U.S.'s War on Drugs lpeproject.org/blog/trumps-...
Trump’s Pardons and Kidnappings: The Imperial Logic of the War on Drugs
Weeks after pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández for drug trafficking, Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the same charges.
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It is a simple lesson yet many people seem determined not to learn it. Solidarity is not altruistic it is the only effective&realistic self protection.Powers that demand you throw some group under the bus will come for you as soon as they can-all the sooner if you’ve handed them power &legitimacy.
Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · 8mo agoI want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵
Reuven Blau@reuvenblau.bsky.social · 8mo agoNYC Parks: 0.57% of budget → projected to drop to 0.46% by 2030. NYC Libraries: 0.39% of expense budget vs 0.5% pledge. Mayor Mamdani’s first budget leaves big gaps between campaign promises and spending reality. My latest —> www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/m...
As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union
Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.
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Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 9mo agothey’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home
It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.
“This is why the “any blue will do” mentality is so dangerous. Goldman wears a Democratic label, but his actions undermine democratic values at every turn.” @kumar.bsky.social indypendent.org/2026/01/op-e...
Op-Ed: Any Blue Won’t Do Especially in NY’s 10th Congressional District
“Rep. Dan Goldman wears a Democratic label,” writes one of his constituents, “but his actions undermine democratic values at every turn.”
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Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better. I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
Great thread. This is also true about that Jacobin article criticizing the turnout for the No Kings march. As someone who covered both demonstrations in June and October, I saw a few unions trying to pull together largest unions into organize contingents. Here’s a more rooted analysis. 1/3
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12mo agoworth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
The 2020 BLM protests were the top driver of new labor organizing in the last 5 years. Today's anti-Trump protests could do the same - if we make it happen. www.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...
Can Anti-Racism Spur Labor Organizing?
My survey findings on BLM's impact on the current unionization uptick
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier@emoscientist.bsky.social · 12mo agoNot even an email from my own union or the local labor council. If the labor movement wants to build to a general strike, we should be engaging with the people most likely to be up for that, who are in the streets.
It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"
if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE
"...this moment in history calls for an organized, powerful labor movement acting in solidarity to push back and fight forward for economic and racial justice. We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work." labornotes.org/content/figh...
How to Hold a Fightback School
We are in a moment of authoritarian crisis. The attacks are dizzying in their speed and range: Courts are rolling back labor rights. Trump is dismantling the public sector and cracking down on free sp...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 12mo agoNot a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
