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@basavsen.bsky.social

Climate and environmental justice. Anticolonial, anti-capitalist, antifascist. Opinions my own.

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Sticking with car dependence is a failure of imagination, particularly when the wide range of benefits of ending car dependence is so clear.

08.10.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right wing grifters are scared of streets with those weird things on rails. The absence of oversized gas-guzzling monstrosities is genuinely distressing to them.

08.10.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A taco review blog is doing way better journalism than the New York Times, with orders of magnitude less resources.

08.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

06.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 17606    πŸ” 6767    πŸ’¬ 305    πŸ“Œ 233

Too many people forget the existence of Washington DC. Not as the seat of national government, but as a real city with real people.

06.10.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

05.10.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7272    πŸ” 2163    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 14
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I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

05.10.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 18225    πŸ” 4235    πŸ’¬ 677    πŸ“Œ 268

🚨 It's time to talk about about DHS's surveillance apparatus.

For a few months, I've tracked ICE contracts for a map of companies supporting the mass deportation agenda. Huge sums for detention, weapons, andβ€”especially alarmingβ€”an array of tech for spying on immigrants and citizens alike.

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29.09.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 23

"All governments rely on cooperation and obedience for their very existence. When people choose to withhold or withdraw that cooperation, governments are left without any pillars to support their weight."

21.04.2025 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Far from a reckoning. These pathetic failures are still in charge of the Democratic Party's message. That's why we don't have an opposition party worthy of the times.

05.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

History will remember Leilani Payne as a hero, and the cowardly federal Gestapo officer who attacked her as a criminal.

05.10.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If an armed agent of the state feels like they have impunity to attack a clearly unarmed and nonviolent civilian with chemical weapons because they didn't like what the person was saying, then it's clearly an authoritarian police state.

04.10.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who's Profiting from ICE? - Google My Maps ICE depends on a web of private companies, local law enforcement, and elected officials around the country to support its work. This map includes: β€’ Organizations receiving funding from ICE from FY...

ICE couldn't terrorize our communities to this degree without the hundreds of companies that provide it with goods and servicesβ€”many of which also have contracts with blue cities and states.

*View map from browser, not app. Key on bottom (mobile) or side (computer). Click on pins for more info.

03.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 20

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

03.10.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4280    πŸ” 1297    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 41

The US is a dangerous country for journalists.

04.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

This should be the biggest scandal in the US right now. If it isn't, that's the failure of our establishment media.
newrepublic.com/post/201258/...

03.10.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These assholes don't want transgender folks using public restrooms, so they shouldn't be allowed to use public restrooms either. Serves them right.

03.10.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Assata Shakur

26.09.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 665    πŸ” 189    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland β€œWhat’re you gonna do? Shoot me?” one witness yelled. β€œGo ahead. Shoot me.”

Just subscribed to The Handbasket to support outstanding independent journalism. You should, too!
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

26.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No self-respecting world leader wants to sit through a war criminal's speech.

26.09.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closedβ€”but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

26.09.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5398    πŸ” 1296    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 153

Across the red US, clean energy projects face a) effective bans from many state/county governments, and b) MAGA swarming approval hearings to kill projects. This is putting pressure on Dems to vote for upcoming Repub federal laws that would expedite both fossil fuel and clean energy projects. But...

26.09.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Congratulations, Cynthia!

26.09.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Press freedom is under serious assault in the US. Has been, for some time. But mainstream liberals worry only about Kimmel.

26.09.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pulling a gun on unarmed civilians is a serious human rights violation, and should be treated as such by state and local government.

26.09.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our statement on Trump's most recent Executive Order, promoting the death penalty in DC.

25.09.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 186    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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I’m at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally in Foley Square with hundreds of others.

Earlier today ICE agents threw a grieving wife of a detainee to the ground inside 26 Federal Plaza, just steps from here.

Elected officials @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social and others are speaking.

25.09.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2307    πŸ” 547    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 8

No one wants AI data centers in their communities, and most people don't want the shitty AI products these data centers are used for, either. But the tech industry wants to force it upon us anyway. And they claim to believe in a "free market."

26.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This administration has gone from the Horst Wessel martyrdom playbook to the Reichstag Fire playbook. It took the Nazis three years to make that leap. This administration is doing it in three weeks.

25.09.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 151    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Dwaign Tyndal of ACE, spoke at the #ClimateWeekNYC panel β€œClimate Justice in the Age of AIβ€œ about the generational impact that the build-out of AI data centers and power plants is going to have on our communities.

Learn more about AI and data centers:
climatejusticealliance.org/ai

26.09.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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