Michelle
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Michelle
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· Feb 24
On freedom: Timothy Snyder in Kyiv
Explaining Ukraine · Episode
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Timothy Snyder's philosophy on freedom is very inspiring. We should all pause a bit and reflect on what it takes to have it, how it's built and how we keep it. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
This was recorded February 9th. open.spotify.com/episode/71aG...
This was recorded February 9th. open.spotify.com/episode/71aG...
The administration prioritizes renovating the west wing for entertainment purposes over helping its constituents in time of need. Says everything. open.spotify.com/episode/1HMr...
The Millions of Poor Americans at the Mercy of the Shutdown
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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The administration prioritizes renovating the west wing for entertainment purposes over helping its constituents in time of need. Says everything. open.spotify.com/episode/1HMr...
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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Anyone who still supports fossil fuels in an escalating climate crisis will not get into heaven.
Who will tell Trump?
Who will tell Trump?
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Anyone who still supports fossil fuels in an escalating climate crisis will not get into heaven.
Who will tell Trump?
Who will tell Trump?
Is this when the old saying "money talks" hits a wall?
"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
www.cnbc.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Is this when the old saying "money talks" hits a wall?
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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The latest fascist video posted by DHS.
(I'm sure the typeface at the end there isn't meant to invoke anything Nazi-like)
x.com/dhsgov/statu...
(I'm sure the typeface at the end there isn't meant to invoke anything Nazi-like)
x.com/dhsgov/statu...
August 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The latest fascist video posted by DHS.
(I'm sure the typeface at the end there isn't meant to invoke anything Nazi-like)
x.com/dhsgov/statu...
(I'm sure the typeface at the end there isn't meant to invoke anything Nazi-like)
x.com/dhsgov/statu...
Bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🔸 last book you read: They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
🔸 your current read: Active Hope, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
🔸 last book added to tbr: Outgrowing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveiro
🔸 next read: Ichigo Ichie, Héctor García & Hector Miralles
🔸 last book you read: They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
🔸 your current read: Active Hope, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
🔸 last book added to tbr: Outgrowing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveiro
🔸 next read: Ichigo Ichie, Héctor García & Hector Miralles
August 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🔸 last book you read: They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
🔸 your current read: Active Hope, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
🔸 last book added to tbr: Outgrowing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveiro
🔸 next read: Ichigo Ichie, Héctor García & Hector Miralles
🔸 last book you read: They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
🔸 your current read: Active Hope, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
🔸 last book added to tbr: Outgrowing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveiro
🔸 next read: Ichigo Ichie, Héctor García & Hector Miralles
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This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.
That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
August 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.
That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
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What in fresh hell is this? ICE agents jump from the back of a Penske truck with a Fox News crew at a Home Depot near McArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA. All to arrest day workers who are just trying to provide for their families. Shameful!! Are they learning these tactics from Patriot Front?
August 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What in fresh hell is this? ICE agents jump from the back of a Penske truck with a Fox News crew at a Home Depot near McArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA. All to arrest day workers who are just trying to provide for their families. Shameful!! Are they learning these tactics from Patriot Front?
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You know what's cool? Solar energy surpassing dirty coal across the EU!
Almost like the sun 🌞 and wind 🌬️ provide everything we need, and we don't need fossil energy of the past to power our homes 🧐
#Solar #GoodClimateNews
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Almost like the sun 🌞 and wind 🌬️ provide everything we need, and we don't need fossil energy of the past to power our homes 🧐
#Solar #GoodClimateNews
🔗
Solar tops EU power mix for first time in June, Ember says
Solar power was the European Union's largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal's contribution fell to an all-time low, data from energy think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
You know what's cool? Solar energy surpassing dirty coal across the EU!
Almost like the sun 🌞 and wind 🌬️ provide everything we need, and we don't need fossil energy of the past to power our homes 🧐
#Solar #GoodClimateNews
🔗
Almost like the sun 🌞 and wind 🌬️ provide everything we need, and we don't need fossil energy of the past to power our homes 🧐
#Solar #GoodClimateNews
🔗
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New study in Nature: major farming areas in wealthy nations at risk of losing 40% of their maize & wheat production this century. Do papers like this ever land on the desks of the Wall St titans financing fossil fuel expansion? What story do they tell themselves about their life's work?
Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation - Nature
Analysis of data on six stable crops, capturing two-thirds of global crop calories, allows estimation of agricultural impacts and the potential of global producer adaptations to reduce outpu...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New study in Nature: major farming areas in wealthy nations at risk of losing 40% of their maize & wheat production this century. Do papers like this ever land on the desks of the Wall St titans financing fossil fuel expansion? What story do they tell themselves about their life's work?
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”Until now, ocean acidification had not been deemed to have crossed its “planetary boundary”. […] However, a new study […] found that ocean acidification’s “boundary” was also reached about five years ago.”
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
”Until now, ocean acidification had not been deemed to have crossed its “planetary boundary”. […] However, a new study […] found that ocean acidification’s “boundary” was also reached about five years ago.”
I am today years old when I learned about grayscale on my phone. It feels so much nicer to my brain. Also set the default to natural vs vivid if I want to look at the colors or pictures. 🙈🤯
www.theverge.com/23637672/gra...
www.theverge.com/23637672/gra...
June 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I am today years old when I learned about grayscale on my phone. It feels so much nicer to my brain. Also set the default to natural vs vivid if I want to look at the colors or pictures. 🙈🤯
www.theverge.com/23637672/gra...
www.theverge.com/23637672/gra...
Not only is it unraveling, but another system is being built up to replace it. Incredibly scary.
"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."
It's not just you - it's hypernormalization
May 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Not only is it unraveling, but another system is being built up to replace it. Incredibly scary.
Reposted by Michelle
"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."
May 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."
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You’re not crazy. The dissonance is real.
Everything is broken, and we’re pretending it isn’t.
#Hypernormalization
Everything is broken, and we’re pretending it isn’t.
#Hypernormalization
Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
You’re not crazy. The dissonance is real.
Everything is broken, and we’re pretending it isn’t.
#Hypernormalization
Everything is broken, and we’re pretending it isn’t.
#Hypernormalization
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Disturbing Stanford study finds climate change has reduced global wheat yields about 10%. The world now uses 550M acres to grow wheat, which suggests a swath of nature about the size of Kansas has been cleared to compensate for climate-driven yield losses.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Disturbing Stanford study finds climate change has reduced global wheat yields about 10%. The world now uses 550M acres to grow wheat, which suggests a swath of nature about the size of Kansas has been cleared to compensate for climate-driven yield losses.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"The Amazon rain forest is dangerously close to a tipping point that could rapidly reshape not just the world’s most famous rainforest biome but *the whole planet*."
‘We’re Already at the Limit’ of a Livable Climate Warns Brazil’s Marina Silva “Even if we can nullify deforestation, with climate change, if we don't reduce carbon from fossil fuel emissions, the forest will be destroyed anyway" time.com/7284519/mari...
Marina Silva: World Is 'At the Limit' of a Livable Climate
“There was a window of opportunity of not shooting over the 1.5 degree limit, and now it's just a sliver."
time.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"The Amazon rain forest is dangerously close to a tipping point that could rapidly reshape not just the world’s most famous rainforest biome but *the whole planet*."
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There were 27 billion-dollar extreme weather and climate disasters in 2024. Now we have no way to track them. This is anti-science, anti-safety, and anti-American.
May 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There were 27 billion-dollar extreme weather and climate disasters in 2024. Now we have no way to track them. This is anti-science, anti-safety, and anti-American.
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Heavy handed approach to an imaginary problem. Paving the way…
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistAuthoritarianism
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistAuthoritarianism
Donald Trump's new order sparks "martial law" concerns
A new executive order has raised fears of "martial law" as it would facilitate an increase in military equipment for law enforcement.
www.newsweek.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heavy handed approach to an imaginary problem. Paving the way…
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistAuthoritarianism
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistAuthoritarianism
Listening to whole albums is underrated.
April 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Listening to whole albums is underrated.
What is even happening right now.
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
What is even happening right now.
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Immigration attorneys are advising clients who have deportation orders when they show up at court dates and immigration appointments, there is an increased risk of getting detained.
Lawyers warn clients of increased arrest risk at immigration check-ins
Immigration attorneys are advising clients who have deportation orders when they show up at court dates and immigration appointments, there is an increased risk of getting detained.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Immigration attorneys are advising clients who have deportation orders when they show up at court dates and immigration appointments, there is an increased risk of getting detained.