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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2h

25 years of analysis confirms what many frontline, indigenous and climate justice groups have been loudly saying for that whole 25 years: climate offsets are a scam meant to mask the obvious reality that we must stop burning fossil fuels. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

#ClimateCriminals

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

REMINDER: Arson is a crime, particularly when you are burning a whole planet and threatening our collective future.

The new Climate Criminals Directory names all the arsonists driving the Trump regime's petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
www.climatecriminals.org/climatecrimi...

RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK
IT'S TIME TO NAME NAMES
The individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis must be held accountable.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Bari, looking for autobiography titles? Might I suggest:

"How I Rebranded Privilege as Victimhood, Sucked up to Fascist Billionaires and Now Get to Build the Karen* Industrial Complex" by Bari Weiss

* with apologies to anyone actually named Karen, but I'm sure she would mean it ironically.😉

Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestorm

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

Why I'm not going to the US

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 6d

The propaganda campaign to normalize Solar Geoengineering plays on reasonable cynicism about #climate progress.

But don't fall for it. It doesn't address the actual problem (fossil fuels duh?) & instead gambles our future on an fundamentally immoral and ungovernable technology. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 11d

Works? For what? Dig a little deeper. This call from nearly 600 leading scientists has now been picked up by governments around the world as the only viable way to address the inherent inability to govern geoengineering including it's potential use as a weapon of mass destruction.

Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement

Our initiative stands against such emerging initiatives to explore planetary techno-fixes as a climate policy option.

www.solargeoeng.org

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 1d

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.

Pass it on.

#ActOnClimate

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Bari, looking for autobiography titles? Might I suggest:

"How I Rebranded Privilege as Victimhood, Sucked up to Fascist Billionaires and Now Get to Build the Karen* Industrial Complex" by Bari Weiss

* with apologies to anyone actually named Karen, but I'm sure she would mean it ironically.😉

Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestorm

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday's Bay Resistance mass training got some great coverage in SF Chronicle. The final line from one of the neighborhood pod leaders speaks for all of us:

“We want to protect our neighbors,” she said. “And if they come for any of us, they come for all of us.” #NoKings

archive.is/202510060326...

Screenshot of SF Chron headline:

Bay Area trainings provides 'concrete skills' to defy Trump on deportations.

Below is a picture one one of the speakers at the training, Oakland's Congressional rep Lateefah Simon standing infront of a slide about mass noncooperation referencing the recent South Korean mass uprising to stop a coup. The slide headline reads "South Koreans turn K-Pop light sticks into political protest tools"

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

4/ I think perhaps one helpful way to think about what is going on is that such headlines less reflect attempts at predicting the future, and instead should be seen more as efforts to create self-fulfilling prophecies.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a late night text that said "become a problem that money can't solve." It was about taking inspiration from orca pods.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 7d

BAY AREA: If racist ICE goons try to kidnap members of our community then we must mobilize and resist.

Spread the word: On first day of raids we gather at 5 pm in Justin Herman Plaza. If raids happen after 4pm it will be next day.

Sign up and get more info at:
www.bayresistance.org/get-ready

UNITED CALL TO ACTION: If there are ICE RAIDS in SF, We will Mobilize

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing like trying to find your local anti-genocide arms embargo campaign and first coming across the most obvious url which is for sale for a very large sum. That's some pretty shameless necrocapitalism.

FYI: Oakland Airport #Gaza Arms embargo campaign is: armsembargonow.com

Screen shot of Armsembargo.com which says:

"This Domain Name is For Sale

ArmsEmbargo.com
$14,888 USD BUY NOW

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 4d

Technofascism is casually enclosing more and more of our daily lives. #NeoLuddite 🎁🔗

‘Biometric Exit’ Quietly Expands Across U.S. Airports, Unnerving Some

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller, white nationalist overlord of the MAGA terror campaign AND official voice of Chicago's Black community. 🙃

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

REMINDER: Arson is a crime, particularly when you are burning a whole planet and threatening our collective future.

The new Climate Criminals Directory names all the arsonists driving the Trump regime's petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
www.climatecriminals.org/climatecrimi...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

I think the $150 million is also a way of saying: "We don't care how much this costs us. We're in the fascism business, not the entertainment business."

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

I get why people are mad Bari Weiss is once again failing upward based on her power to bamboozle tech idiots but that's all that's happening, here, and it will end n CBS dissolution which should have just happened anyway

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

The regime wants us to feel isolated and afraid but solidarity is the antidote to fascism. Bay Resistance mass training has got nearly 1500 people out on a Sunday morning committing to resist authoritarianism. Hella love Oakland! 🤩🙏❤️✊

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 12d

BAY AREA: We don't have to wait for Trump to invade to get organized. Now is the time to prepare for mass NONCOOPERATION.

Join @bayresistance.bsky.social on 10/5 for a mass training and organizing meeting. Child care and translation provided. Spread the word. Register @ bit.ly/NoncooperationOct5

BAY GET READY
Noncooperation Training
With the growing threat of authoritarianism, mass ICE raids and threats against our sanctuary cities we need to get trained and organized to fight back.

Oct 5th Sunday 9 am - 3:30 pm
Develop our civil resistance strategy
Keep ourselves and neighbors safe
Build a mass movement

register at bit.ly/NoncooperationOct5

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

The regime wants us to feel isolated and afraid but solidarity is the antidote to fascism. Bay Resistance mass training has got nearly 1500 people out on a Sunday morning committing to resist authoritarianism. Hella love Oakland! 🤩🙏❤️✊

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 12d

BAY AREA: We don't have to wait for Trump to invade to get organized. Now is the time to prepare for mass NONCOOPERATION.

Join @bayresistance.bsky.social on 10/5 for a mass training and organizing meeting. Child care and translation provided. Spread the word. Register @ bit.ly/NoncooperationOct5

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 4d

REMINDER: Our government has been taken over by hateful idiots.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events.

It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath.

And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript.

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him.

“I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.”

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 3d

Long live the PDX frog

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no MAGA! Look at the Antifa Frog in Portland, Oregon.

Is this really what you guys consider to be “domestic terrorists?”

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