E. Luxon

@eluxon.bsky.social

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Assoc. Prof of Political Science. Reposts are not endorsements nor legally indicative of anything at all.

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like, i’m voting for biden for survival, but i will not be screaming at people online for being disgusted about genocide. that’s not a great norm to be setting btw

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We're very saddened to hear about the passing of Jane McAlevey, a true legend in labor organizing. May her memory be a blessing. Her lessons certainly are.

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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

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Bolts is akin to Last Week Tonight: a much deeper dive on important issues than you're likely to get most anywhere else. Like, they have a guide to judicial elections. This is important stuff that gets skipped over by way too many outlets.

For folks who've appreciated my coverage of the French elections... @bolts.bsky.social is quite different—but we cover US politics with such attention to detail. So give us a follow if you've enjoyed this, and care about the US. And our newsletter is free! boltsmag.org/newsletter

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look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey

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A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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Jane McAlevey has died. Rest in peace to a titan of the labor movement. Cruel fate has taken her from us when we needed her the most, as fascists are on the march and we need a fighting working class to stop it. Yet, her contributions will not be forgotten. The union will roll on and win for her.

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"Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza...."

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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John Scalzi

A lot of people don’t understand that Generative AIs will just make things up. They’re more like Mad Libs than what we used to think of when we said “AI.”

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A #History of #Permaculture A comprehensive outline of the movement to the present poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/p/a-history-... #agroecology #sustainability #homesteading #farming #agriculture

A History of Permaculturepoorprolesalmanac.substack.com A comprehensive outline of the movement to the present

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Today we lost an absolute giant in labor organizing and activism. An immense hole will be left by her passing. Rest in power, Jane.

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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?

Yeesh. "FN is the party of the future and it always will be" bsky.app/profile/dipl...

The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.

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I credit Fred Clark’s Slacktivist blog with introducing me to this perspective. The apocalypse—like William Gibson’s “the future—is here, but unevenly distributed. It’s not a singular event, but a thing that happens to people and communities.

the apocalypse is ongoing. it’s been happening since before we were born. if you’re waiting for some irrefutable tipping point to do something different; it’s not going to happen

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Jane McAlevey is gone. In her honor, go out and win something.

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The Lancet. Calculating deaths in Gaza is difficult, but the full toll is probably much higher than the numbers you've been seeing. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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David Noll

SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

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#Circular #food systems found to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, require much less agricultural land phys.org/news/2024-06... #farming #agroecology

Circular food systems found to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, require much less agricultural landphys.org Redesigning the European food system will reduce agricultural land by 44% while dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 70%. This reduction is possible with the current cons...

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Gaza City in the north is experiencing really horrific bombardments right now- while families are on the streets trying to go to a safe place that doesn’t exist 😢

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The Israeli army is launching intense airstrikes on Gaza City Now.

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Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59www.nytimes.com An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

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A genuinely heroic life. Rest in power.

Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

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I wrote this in 2017, shortly after Macron's 1st win. I said: Macron is so open about being hostile to Left, that it salvages a huge path for the broad left to be an alternative... if it manages to unite. Few things I've ever written have aged so well. democracyjournal.org/arguments/re...

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Taniel

Here's what's up right now on French TV: Lots of politicians are fighting, & it's complicated to figure out what's going on. This level of fragmentation in Parliament just has not happened under this constitutional regime, designed in 1958; this is unprecedented territory.

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According to initial estimates, the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance is projected to win between 172 and 192 seats in France's Assemblée Nationale, slightly ahead of Macron's coalition (between 150 and 170) and well ahead of the far-right Rassemblement National (between 132 and 152).

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The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.