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 π 21 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0@basavsen.bsky.social
Climate and environmental justice. Anticolonial, anti-capitalist, antifascist. Opinions my own.
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 π 21 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Right 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A 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 π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It'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 π 17606 π 6767 π¬ 305 π 233Too 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0look 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 π 7272 π 2163 π¬ 56 π 14I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
05.10.2025 15:39 β π 18225 π 4235 π¬ 677 π 268π¨ 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, andβespecially alarmingβan array of tech for spying on immigrants and citizens alike.
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"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 π 11 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Far 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0History 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 π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If 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 π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ICE couldn't terrorize our communities to this degree without the hundreds of companies that provide it with goods and servicesβmany of which also have contracts with blue cities and states.
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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 π 4280 π 1297 π¬ 79 π 41The US is a dangerous country for journalists.
04.10.2025 01:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This 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/...
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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βIt 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.β
Assata Shakur
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No self-respecting world leader wants to sit through a war criminal's speech.
26.09.2025 18:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0UNTIL 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 closedβbut Brownsville mothers are still struggling.
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 π 17 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1Congratulations, Cynthia!
26.09.2025 17:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Press 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pulling 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Our statement on Trump's most recent Executive Order, promoting the death penalty in DC.
25.09.2025 23:12 β π 186 π 76 π¬ 9 π 5Iβm 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.
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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This 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 π 151 π 65 π¬ 4 π 1Dwaign Tyndal of ACE, spoke at the #ClimateWeekNYC panel βClimate Justice in the Age of AIβ 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