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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 16d

"Were our justice system capable of justice, those who furnish their own lives at the expense of others would be held accountable for their actions long before they face threats to their lives."

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Free Speech is a Responsibility

Freedom from consequence is a failure of justice

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 16d

The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health.

On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health.

Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...

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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 21d

Canadian mining companies are 'getting away with atrocities' in South America and across the globe, says Brandi Morin. She shares the details with @racheldonald.bsky.social on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast. Listen now @mongabay.com

Canada’s mining companies destroy biodiversity with impunity, Indigenous journalist reports

An international tribunal of environmental rights activists recently found extensive evidence that the Canadian mining sector is “guilty for the violation of Rights of Nature across South America and ...

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 22d

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 22d

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"

The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.

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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve made a bit of a sweeping statement with “the modern left”, I agree. I don’t yet have the language to discern between the majority left (and who abound in po-mo spaces) and the ones who have done their homework.

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 23d

Gosh, James, thank you so much. It means a great deal coming from you.

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 23d

The modern Left demands a form of empathy which refuses to confront the actions and speech of individuals, conveniently championing the fact of their humanness over evidence of their lack of humanity.

Kirk's only discernible quality was his homo sapiens DNA.

www.planetcritical.com/p/charlie-kirk

Charlie Kirk Probably Deserved To Die

In its quest for empathy, the Left has lost its moral clarity

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 27d

Im glad you think so!

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 27d

I finally had the chance to interview neuro-philosopher @Iain McGilchrist and it was a delight.

Listen to us discuss the necessity of metaphors, the relationship between our brain hemispheres and giggle about his portrayal of the unconscious mind.

Episode: www.planetcritical.com/p/iain-mcgil...

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Sep 2

I want to migrate from Substack to @ghost.org

Can anyone help?

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes please!

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Aug 31

Collapse: Who does it really hurt?

Listen to the full interview with Cambridge scholar for existential risk, Luke Kemp, to find out everything you couldn't have possibly imagined about what happens when empires collapse:

www.planetcritical.com/p/luke-kemp

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Aug 27

There is no going back. There is no going forward, either, when the path is giving way under your feet.

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Between Two Worlds

Preparing for the worst while hoping for the best

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Aug 18

I recently spent 10 days with an Aboriginal community in one of Australia's remotest regions. What I learned from the elders is there is no going back.

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There is no going back

Learning from Elders in Australia's remotest region

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · Aug 7

“Carbon credits show just how far economic doublethink has infected policymaking: The claim that emissions can somehow be cancelled out by paying to protect a forest or a wind power plant is ludicrous.”

Greenwashing is Gaslighting - @racheldonald.bsky.social
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Greenwashing is Gaslighting

How can you take action if you don’t know what the fuck is going on?

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Aug 6

Who has the most updated numbers on U.S. fossil fuel subsidies?

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Aug 4

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX!

Conspiracies are born when people have lived experience of abuse and exploitation but no language to make sense of it.

It's not a conspiracy—it's capitalism.

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It's not a conspiracy, it's capitalism

We can't make sense of the present without knowledge of the past

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 3

A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.

Seven Palestinians die of starvation in Gaza as Israel kills 38 aid seekers

A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Jul 30

Israel is being mythologised as exceptional rather than inevitable.

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One day, everyone will have been against this

Israel is being mythologised as exceptional rather than inevitable

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Jul 25

The biggest form of pharmaceutical pollution is us. By passing numerous drugs through our bodies and into the environment, we are having shocking effects on organisms and ecosystems.

Full interview with Health Economist Martin Hensher: www.planetcritical.com

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Jul 21

Human bodies are no longer just in the factories. Now they are the factories.

Marxist Eco-Feminist, Silvia Federici, explains how exploitation of the body has now expanded beyond labor towards a new commerce of body parts.

Full interview at www.planetcritical.com/p/why-earth-...

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Jul 18

The capitalist class has always sought to control women's reproduction—it's not just promoting the birth of certain babies, but also reducing the number of potential rebel babies.

Listen to the full episode with Marxist-feminist scholar Silvia Federici now: www.planetcritical.com/p/why-earth-...

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