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Simona Mila Capisani

@simomila.bsky.social

Climate politics, political/social & environmental philosophy, migration justice. Assistant Prof (Durham University, UK). Formerly postdoc @Princeton University HMEI & UCHV. PhD University of California, Irvine.

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In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for β€œhis openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”

28.01.2026 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2409    πŸ” 802    πŸ’¬ 263    πŸ“Œ 182

You might think a nominally centrist govt, faced with an impending fascist capture of the machinery of state, would be doing *everything* to impede their ability to pursue fash policies in power. Instead, Lab has been est mechanisms & norms that Reform will be able to immediately exploit & build on

26.01.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

This horrific epistemological practice has both proven almost impossible to dislodge, even as it’s resulted in press being utterly humiliated by liars again and again.

It has also arguably led to the collapse of liberal democracy and the rise of fascism.

It seems like they should stop doing it!

26.01.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 587    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

I think the media want to find some secret to unlock here precisely BECAUSE the footage is so straightforward. It shows us clearly what DHS has become. And it leads them to a conclusion that they dare not take: there is only side of the story here in Minneapolis, and a monstrous, powerful villain

26.01.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 595    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8

Also, leave it to Trump to engineer a Katrina-scale political crisis completely out of thin air within a year of taking office, rising out of nothing more than mind-boggling policy choices and a complete inability to avoid putting huge quantities of firearms in the hands of America’s worst people

26.01.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 874    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0

Now I need to live in the timeline where we get to see del Toro's take on Khepri art making

26.11.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia A β€œseismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.

β€œThe election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.” heatmap.news/politics/ali...

05.11.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

05.11.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1440    πŸ” 413    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13

Emergency funds to foods banks aren’t sufficient β€” these people are employed and caregivers they can’t afford to stand on long food lines. The way aid is delivered is just as important as the cash itself in terms of who is able to benefit

30.10.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 296    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

11.10.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 17840    πŸ” 2481    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 94

🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: β€œClimate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭

πŸ“–This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

23.09.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It does kind of make you wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had just forgiven all that student loan debt after district courts blocked the loan forgiveness plan.

03.07.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 769    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9
Map of UK showing how much warmer than normal it is right now

Map of UK showing how much warmer than normal it is right now

Wide areas of the UK are currently 10-12Β°C above normal for the time of day and time of the year.

Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com

30.06.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

15.06.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10604    πŸ” 3099    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 351
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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics.

This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

31.05.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4451    πŸ” 2427    πŸ’¬ 299    πŸ“Œ 317

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

22.05.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 27549    πŸ” 6315    πŸ’¬ 388    πŸ“Œ 267
A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

22.05.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 17
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In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on Mayor Karen Bass asking City Council to eliminate LA’s climate emergency office, which protects Angelenos from extreme heat. Meanwhile Bass still claims to be a climate champion. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...

05.05.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

Report your NSF grant termination here. 🌊πŸ§ͺ

There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.

26.04.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are β€œpoisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the β€œenemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected β€œthreats.”

Utterly terrifying.

14.04.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 273    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 8
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A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.

08.04.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". πŸ™„

Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.

06.04.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1869    πŸ” 802    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 101
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DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

05.04.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3530    πŸ” 1778    πŸ’¬ 201    πŸ“Œ 298
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#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

05.04.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16987    πŸ” 2872    πŸ’¬ 204    πŸ“Œ 154
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So proud of American Resisters today!

#Handsoff

05.04.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 24679    πŸ” 6608    πŸ’¬ 507    πŸ“Œ 478
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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

05.04.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 78293    πŸ” 17592    πŸ’¬ 1375    πŸ“Œ 1371
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article) Those of us who seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

02.04.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

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