Kevin Barron
@kevinbarron.bsky.social
Eyes on the prize: to ensure our children stand a chance of ANY future, a viable biosphere is paramount. The technofascists in ascendency know full well the dangers ahead, and are consolidating power for that reason.
They don’t have a viable plan.
They don’t have a viable plan.
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Kevin Barron
@kevinbarron.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Until we realize that this is not a political fight, but a fight for survival as a species, we will continue to fight a rearguard action, and continue to lose. We need a vision based on the reality of the ecological crisis, and sound scientific actions that will empower that vision based on history
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How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way
robertreich.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
Misanthropy is worse than unproductive: it supports the status quo and sends us towards extinction.
It often seems to be motivated by normalcy bias and the desire to be part of an elite who somehow rise above the fate of the masses (if only intellectually).
It is intellectually lazy and cowardly.
It often seems to be motivated by normalcy bias and the desire to be part of an elite who somehow rise above the fate of the masses (if only intellectually).
It is intellectually lazy and cowardly.
“From a purely practical point of view, we need to ask ourselves which framing of humanity actually makes a positive difference.” — Maren Morgan
Misanthropy is Bad and Unproductive
by Maren Morgan | Death In The Garden
backloop.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Misanthropy is worse than unproductive: it supports the status quo and sends us towards extinction.
It often seems to be motivated by normalcy bias and the desire to be part of an elite who somehow rise above the fate of the masses (if only intellectually).
It is intellectually lazy and cowardly.
It often seems to be motivated by normalcy bias and the desire to be part of an elite who somehow rise above the fate of the masses (if only intellectually).
It is intellectually lazy and cowardly.
Not to mention, “I just grab ‘em by the pussy”
To paraphrase Dennis Hopper in "Speed," in 249 years we've gone from "I regret but I have one life to give for my country" to "Quiet, piggy!"
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Not to mention, “I just grab ‘em by the pussy”
Extremely well-written piece; required reading for anyone who still roots for team human.
“This time of chaos can also be an opportunity, a chance to emulate the older cultures that replaced them: those who planted trees in the ruins of empire, who remade the Commons on abandoned plantations, and quietly continued to tend their small forest garden as their ancestors had before them.”
The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe
The indigenous Mesolithic societies of Europe never disappeared: they adapted, and survived in new ways. Their cultures, values, spiritual beliefs, and relationships with the land are encoded in the f...
www.shelterwoodforestfarm.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Extremely well-written piece; required reading for anyone who still roots for team human.
ecosocialist agroecology will not rely on small private biz in competition with each other and relying on exploited labour. It will require cooperation and the construction of new ‘markets’ where food is valued for its ability to provide sustenance and nutrition as a centerpoint of human culture.
Towards an agroecological theory of change
Small, privately-owned farms and localised markets can never achieve agroecology, therefore the movement needs a new strategy.
thestruggleforland.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ecosocialist agroecology will not rely on small private biz in competition with each other and relying on exploited labour. It will require cooperation and the construction of new ‘markets’ where food is valued for its ability to provide sustenance and nutrition as a centerpoint of human culture.
Perspective!
Sam Stranks, Professor of Energy and Optoelectronic Materials at the University of Cambridge, told New Scientist: “Solar panels made from silicon now cost roughly the same as plywood.”
Sam Stranks, Professor of Energy and Optoelectronic Materials at the University of Cambridge, told New Scientist: “Solar panels made from silicon now cost roughly the same as plywood.”
How are emerging economies leading a renewable-energy revolution?
Renewable energy is booming across emerging economies, where the economic viability of wind and solar power has made them the obvious choice in most national and regional contexts. More importantly, t...
www.economies.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Perspective!
Sam Stranks, Professor of Energy and Optoelectronic Materials at the University of Cambridge, told New Scientist: “Solar panels made from silicon now cost roughly the same as plywood.”
Sam Stranks, Professor of Energy and Optoelectronic Materials at the University of Cambridge, told New Scientist: “Solar panels made from silicon now cost roughly the same as plywood.”
Food for thought!
(because food for eating is becoming impossible)
(because food for eating is becoming impossible)
“It will require cooperation and it will require the construction of new ‘markets’ where food is valued for its ability to provide sustenance and nutrition – and as a centerpoint of human culture.”
IMO transitional forms might include diverse mosaics of different regionalized farming system.
IMO transitional forms might include diverse mosaics of different regionalized farming system.
New post where I push a little bit further on my previous writing on agroecology being a project of class suicide and why this means small privately-owned farms are not the vehicle of change for agroecology as too often supposed
thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/towards-an...
thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/towards-an...
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Food for thought!
(because food for eating is becoming impossible)
(because food for eating is becoming impossible)
Best holiday recipe yet!
(Maybe start with crow)
(Maybe start with crow)
Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Best holiday recipe yet!
(Maybe start with crow)
(Maybe start with crow)
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
At this point it must be acknowledged that the confirmation process is broken.
How can it be changed from political theater to an enforceable contract?
How can it be changed from political theater to an enforceable contract?
Except, of course, it’s *not* all he can say.
Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.
Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
At this point it must be acknowledged that the confirmation process is broken.
How can it be changed from political theater to an enforceable contract?
How can it be changed from political theater to an enforceable contract?
Reading this - recommended!
And I should say, as it’s so obvious these days, colonization in many forms has never ended
Colonization was like a powerful jigsaw ripping apart nations' families, shredding them into the darkness of a denied past. Now, Indigenous people work to rebuild the puzzle, reclaiming the tiny pieces of history scattered to the winds and reclaiming their identities, histories, and homelands.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reading this - recommended!
Another attempt at book burning by the administration.
FAILED
FAILED
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Another attempt at book burning by the administration.
FAILED
FAILED
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I fear we have both
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I fear we have both
Officially wins the net today!
(Along with the Silkwood rejoinder)
(Along with the Silkwood rejoinder)
He had to take a very long hot shower.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Officially wins the net today!
(Along with the Silkwood rejoinder)
(Along with the Silkwood rejoinder)
So much this 👇
So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So much this 👇
Have to trot out the tired old “red-scare” BS again because it worked before.
This admin is getting desperate.
This admin is getting desperate.
At just the moment when what is really required is a condemnation (and repudiation) of the extremist, American vulture capitalism that is destroying democracy in this country sinew by sinew.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Have to trot out the tired old “red-scare” BS again because it worked before.
This admin is getting desperate.
This admin is getting desperate.
This is no small political matter. It cuts to the core of the administration acting with king-like powers to disappear people and kill them at will.
“This Congressman Knows What Trump Told MBS After Khashoggi’s Killing. He Says the Public Needs to See the Transcript” 11/20/25 time.com/7335544/trum...
Exclusive: Congressman Plans New Push For Trump-MBS Transcript
Rep. Eugene Vindman will appear with Jamal Khashoggi's widow to push for release of a "shocking" transcript between Trump and MBS
time.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is no small political matter. It cuts to the core of the administration acting with king-like powers to disappear people and kill them at will.
ZING!
I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
ZING!
Cool story in the @salish-current.org about our collaboration with Sedro-Woolley high school teachers Linsey Kitchens and Anna Ferdinand to bring _Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines_ (thebullshitmachines.com) to a high school audience.
Sedro-Woolley English teachers bring AI literacy into the classroom
Several English classes at Sedro-Woolley High School are implementing lesson plans designed by Linsey Kitchens to help students understand the limitations of artificial intelligence programs such as C...
salish-current.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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In 2016, Standing Rock, North Dakota and the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline became ground zero for struggle against fossil fuel infrastructure and ongoing settler-colonial destruction.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
AWAKE - A Dream From Standing Rock
In 2016, Standing Rock, North Dakota became one of the most watched places on earth. Josh Fox James Spione Myron Dewey Digital Smoke Signals are honored to present…
vimeo.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
In 2016, Standing Rock, North Dakota and the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline became ground zero for struggle against fossil fuel infrastructure and ongoing settler-colonial destruction.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
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“New economic principles are not a luxury that we can ignore at times of fiscal constraint. They are a necessity because orthodox economic thinking has been a key reason for the polycrisis.” — Jasper Kenner
@aberuni.bsky.social
@aberuni.bsky.social
Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all
Orthodox economic thinking has been a key reason for the polycrisis
backloop.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“New economic principles are not a luxury that we can ignore at times of fiscal constraint. They are a necessity because orthodox economic thinking has been a key reason for the polycrisis.” — Jasper Kenner
@aberuni.bsky.social
@aberuni.bsky.social
The Empty Stage
Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How can we look away when the genocide is ongoing?
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
How can we look away when the genocide is ongoing?
“Political spending by billionaires has since increased 160-fold. There’s a direct line between the ruling and Elon Musk buying Trump the White House with more than $290 million and being given free rein to fire his companies’ regulators in return.”
Citizens United decision was just the beginning.
Citizens United decision was just the beginning.
Finally, an understandable explanation of how/why this corrupt anti-prudentialist, semi-originalist, 1st-amendment-fanatic, federalist-revisionist wyt/judicial-supremacist will continue to retrench wyt political dominance, greenlight T’s self-enrichment & protect him & billionaires at our expense
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Political spending by billionaires has since increased 160-fold. There’s a direct line between the ruling and Elon Musk buying Trump the White House with more than $290 million and being given free rein to fire his companies’ regulators in return.”
Citizens United decision was just the beginning.
Citizens United decision was just the beginning.
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I wonder what the MAGA people think of Trump allying the US with Saudi Arabia--Muslims and the architects of 9-11. Somebody should ask.
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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