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Electricity for all, public power, green social housing, and a livable climate 💛 🌏🚰🔌🌱 they in San Francisco

Latest: “On Queer People in Climate and Energy” https://isaacsevier.com/notes/lgbtq-queer-in-stem-for-climate-energy-utility-justice-policy/

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

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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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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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Mathilde Panot, President of the La France Insoumise in Parliament which is part of the New Popular Front that just shocked the world, says that France will recognize a Palestinian state in the next two weeks.

I was interviewing a French journalist and he said public ownership of the major infrastructure for water and electricity is a massive anti-fascist coalition builder among labor, greens, socialists AND the public at large when benefits are widely shared and immediately felt (and would be missed!)

There is particular power in such an ideologically diverse coalition rejecting the French right because fascists should be reminded often that they’re repugnant to a broad swath of society, not just getting outmaneuvered by the wily left

San Francisco needs a rapid bus service on Oak, Fell, and 19th Street so badly. It’s always 100% packed on these car sewer routes.

Every bit of news about a moderately left political victory around the world and I can feel my shoulders drop another inch from my ears.

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When the France election results are good

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"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

Canada looks like a jigsaw puzzle somebody didn’t want to finish

CANADA2.BMF

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Did you know that Trayvon Martin was interested in aviation & space? Working in the aviation industry? That he had his own flight suit from NASA? The Exhibit set to end/close in August, 2024 #AfroFuturism Go see it before it does

Trayvon Martin’s Flight Suit Will Be Displayed At This New Smithsonian Exhibit | Essencewww.essence.com

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Meanwhile in NYC.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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in real life when a piano falls on your head you'd be lucky if even just one or two keys became your teeth

Brutal.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

“LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault is the world's third richest person.”

Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags. They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock. Consumers pay $2,780 per bag. The production of the bags costs Dior $57. Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social

Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagwww.businessinsider.com In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

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big ups to oatmeal; the name lets you know it's edible! big downs to mealworms.

Once milk is cheese it feels like it should be illegal for bad kinds of mold to grow on it at all

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Hey 👋 everyone who added me from @costasamaras.bsky.social’s climate starter pack! Hi! I work on electricity policy for energy justice. I’m part of the California crew who fought for “equitable building decarb” and a member of @cplusc.bsky.social. I’m queer. And I’m a former oil and gas engineer.

Another $1.3 Billion to potentially flow out of the paychecks and personal savings of Floridians and into corporate shareholders’ pockets. www.jacksonville.com/story/news/c...

Electric companies eye increases, foreshadowing dark time for Florida consumers | Commentarywww.jacksonville.com Thanks to an informal arms race among the state's private utilities, and a docile Public Service Commission, Floridians can soon expect bigger bills

Reminded this morning of a quote from a session by Study & Struggle with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. “Abolition must be green; to be green it must be red; and to be red; it must be international.” www.studyandstruggle.com/critical-con...

It’s so bizarre that energy people are really myopic about this basic tenet of the preferred economic system for green growth (capitalism). Less supply of oil = more expensive oil = more profitable oil = more perverse incentives to keep demand flowing. See: plastics proliferation.

“Depending on green growth or green capitalism alone cannot guarantee a meaningful transition away from fossil fuels because fossil fuel extraction and use is, and will continue to be, extremely profitable.”

“Depending on green growth or green capitalism alone cannot guarantee a meaningful transition away from fossil fuels because fossil fuel extraction and use is, and will continue to be, extremely profitable.”

Ahead of my book release, I wrote a piece for the newly launched Break/ Down, which focuses on capitalism and the climate crisis. In it, I preview one of my main arguments on what a just transition does- and doesn’t- entail

What is a Just Transition?www.break-down.org As the idea of the

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whats so french about this toast anyway. wheres its cigarette

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ACAB 100% includes Odo

More of this.

In iceland they jailed the bankers who helped create the 2008 financial crisis. They're the only country who did www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This Is Where Bad Bankers Go to Prisonwww.bloomberg.com Iceland is the only nation that put top finance executives behind bars after the 2008 crisis. The economy is booming again, yet fears of crony capitalism remain.

It’s a start. We should keep going for the guys with billions.

US white supremacists ordered to pay millions more for deadly 2017 rally www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

US white supremacists ordered to pay millions more for deadly 2017 rallywww.theguardian.com After judge slashed punitive damages from $24m to $350,000, white nationalists ordered to pay over $2m for Unite the Right rally

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Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...