New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Thankful for the opportunity to contribute to this report.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago

NEW: Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.

📢 Just published! As we move into the People's Summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, we hope our article on frontline-led just transition, with @nacla-report.bsky.social, will further energize our grassroots movement power in Santa Marta and beyond! Please read and share: nacla.org/at-a-histori...

At a Historic Conference, Frontline Groups Push for a Just Transition

Though the First Conference on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels is a historic achievement, movement organizers question if it will create needed pathways toward a just transition.

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See our piece on the fossil fuel phaseout Santa Marta conference in Santa Marta. Social movements have converged around the demand to phaseout fossil fuels through a just transition that brings about systemic change and avoids false solutions to climate change.

Just Transition Alliance@jtalliance.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Just published! As we move into the People's Summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, we hope our article on frontline-led just transition, with @nacla-report.bsky.social, will further energize our grassroots movement power in Santa Marta and beyond! Please read and share: nacla.org/at-a-histori...

On my way to Colombia for the first global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. Honored to co-lead the North America region’s civil society formation with @jtalliance.bsky.social and @uscannetwork.bsky.social. Will share updates and highlight movement demands.

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Do Latinos behave politically according to their racial classification? If so, why? My new article in @polbehavior.bsky.social provides some answers. Open access link here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... 🧵

I spent two summers here doing research on inequalities in government responses to disasters, focused on what had taken place in Puerto Rico following hurricane Maria. NCAR has led on so many scientific advances. This admin’s harm to the scientific workforce in the US is beyond measure.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

I am once again reminding everyone that you can't 'marketplace of ideas' the far-right.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 8mo ago

IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.

Seems like a deep red state, Indiana, might vote down the Trump-mandated partisan gerrymander, even after Trump threatened to pull all federal funding. Trump is creating a shared grievance that crosses the ideological spectrum, and his coalition keeps showing cracks.

Assessing the presence of these actors in UN climate negotiations and their interactions with climate diplomats would be an important contribution.

Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This article didn't get the attention it deserved: Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States doi.org/10.1088/2515... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

I can't convince a growing number of websites that I'm human

The labor & persistent demands of grassroots groups made possible the #justtranstion mechanism at #COP30, providing a crucial UNFCCC institutional home for moving toward a just transition! JTA Policy Lead @fernandotormos.com provides analysis & describes the fight ahead! youtube.com/shorts/OilXF...

JTA Responds to the Just Transition Work Programme's Draft Text at COP30 and the Struggle Ahead

YouTube video by Just Transition Alliance

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Happening Tuesday at #COP30: Decolonization & Demilitarization at the Heart of #climatejustice! Colonial extraction of resources & fossil fuels are the engine of climate chaos. Climate-impacted peoples will speak on demilitarization & decolonization, including JTA's Policy Lead @fernandotormos.com.

@fernandotormos.com gave a rousing speech at the Peoples' Summit #JustTransition plenary yesterday. He emphasized the need to move toward an intersectional, popular, & systemic #transicionjusticia in the ways exemplified by the solidarity shown during the Peoples' Summit. youtube.com/shorts/zdkc9...

Fernando Tormos-Aponte Calls for a Systemic, Intersectional Just Transition at the Peoples' Summit

YouTube video by Just Transition Alliance

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In this @nacla-report.bsky.social op-ed, @fernandotormos.com, Catalina de Onís, Nona Chai, and Lara Aumann (@jtalliance.bsky.social) argue that experiences of Indigenous peoples and frontline workers must be at the forefront of decision-making at #COP30. Read the piece: nacla.org/establishing...

DCJ Opening Press Conference for #COO30: Will the Global North cooperate or compete? Peoples demand finance, just transition, no carbon markets. WHEN 12th November 2025, 11 am Brasilia Time (GMT-3) WHERE Press Conference 2, Area D, Room 2, Hangar Convention and Fair Centre in Belém, Brazil

See our new piece for NACLA on the fight for a just transition at COP30 in Belém

Just Transition Alliance@jtalliance.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Please read and share this Just Transition Alliance analysis and call for establishing a #JustTransition mechanism at #COP30, published yesterday by the North American Congress on Latin America: nacla.org/establishing...

" @povertyscholar.bsky.social said that losing food benefits is not only a crisis in itself, but it can lead to other crises...'Crises tend to cascade and compound...As this happens, people are less likely to vote.” www.salon.com/2025/11/08/h...

How a loss of public benefits harms democracy - Salon.com

When public programs like SNAP are cut, voter turnout historically declines

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Trump appearing in the fox sports broadcast for an NFL game is a reminder that MAGA didn’t want politics out of sports, just anti-racist ones.

"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

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Puerto Rico’s federally appointed and unelected fiscal oversight board chose to pay its consultants while imposing austerity measures and denying any relief to families who will face the consequences of the loss of SNAP benefits.

Hurricane Melissa will be one of the most destructive hurricanes in history. It is among the ugliest reminders of the consequences of failures in climate action.

Eyes on Jamaica, which is expected to experience a catastrophic Cat. 5 hurricane. Meanwhile, polluters fail to pay their climate debt and for loss and damage.

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research

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With recent headlines and op-eps stunned by the pervasive usage of racist jokes by young republicans, I think it’s worth mentioning a recent book I wrote that might be useful for better understanding the historical and systemic roots of such humor

Remember how Trump and the GOP spend money when they say there’s no money to meet people’s basic needs.

the revolution will not be webinared

Imagine what Puerto Rico, Detroit, and Flint residents feel seeing a 40 billion dollar bailout of Argentina’s failed neoliberal experiment after the US imposed relentless austerity measures and blocked all fiscal autonomy. People lost their lives due to these measures.

No need to be ungovernable if they can't govern. No need to shame the shameless. Movements need to innovate. The tactics that worked in the past may not work today.

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized." www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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