Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

It's Friday and you deserve a distraction from The Horrors. Check out these horrors instead

This article is 12 years old, in case you're wondering if we've made any progress

📷 Photography by @ecosystemengineers.bsky.social

The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out:

🪸 Coral Reef Emergency
🌎 IPBES Expert Panel
🌐 The 'Homogenocene'
👇 and more

www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

I’m Cuban American. For the sake of both countries, Trump’s siege must end | Danny Valdes Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, crushes our people and calls it freedom. We want engagement, not escalation

“I’m Cuban American. For the sake of both countries, Trump’s siege must end.” @dannyvaldes.bsky.social for The Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today, NYC-DSA was joined by a big coalition to send 1️⃣ message to @governor.ny.gov : Tax. The. Rich.

Elected officials from the city to the state spoke in one voice to tell Albany that we need BOTH statewide taxes on the rich AND taxes on NYC's millionaires & big corporations.

Market looks great sir keep it up!

extinction rebellion did the theory, donald trump did the praxis

Just pestering you with my regular reminder to preorder and review The Cellar Below the Cellar (out March 25) if you can! Thanks!

Preorder wherever books are sold!

Review:

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www.edelweiss.plus?sku=19557654...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

National day of action. Stop the war on Iran. Saturday March 7. 4pm Fallon Federal Building. At the bottom are logos from Black Alliance for Peace, Free State Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Palestinian Youth Movement, and Greater Baltimore Democratic Socialists of America. Answercoalition.org/Iran

Join us on Saturday, March 7th at 4pm outside the Fallon Federal Building. We must lift our voices in solidarity with the people of Iran and call for no more war!

The thing about GenAI is that even if they were able to fix the "hallucinations" problem, you could still never trust it to provide trustworthy information instead of adhering to a view that aligns/benefits whomever owns the model you're using

If you're so moved, please consider my short story, "Blanquitos" as a write-in!

Btw anyone can vote

www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

It's Friday and you deserve a distraction from The Horrors. Check out these horrors instead

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Fuck no. I write for humans, not slop slurpers.

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature?

(hint: its not all bad!)

Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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For those who want to keep up with all things DSA, I created this list with every @demsocialists.bsky.social chapter/caucus/committee account I could find

bsky.app/profile/did:...

🚨🚨 Operation Metro Surge is NOT over. ICE has received 4 large shipments of brand new vehicles in the past 24 hours. We urge everyone to continue to look out for their neighbors and supporting mutual aid efforts. We will not stop until ICE is OUT.

NIPSCO protest planned in Gary over high winter heating bills "People are wondering how they're going to pay for their car payment or child care," an organizer said.

"People are wondering how they're going to pay for their car payment or child care," an organizer said.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Elites are so out of touch. They’re entirely committed to fossil fuels, AI, enshittification, war and worker exploitation. All the while the public is increasingly experiencing the human and environmental consequences of the ultra rich and their lifestyles. A reckoning is coming.

We were promised that the rich were going to leave NYC after Mamdani won and instead we have this...

Reasons to knock doors this Saturday to Tax the Rich:

1. Stop the budget cuts and win a New York we can all afford
2. FREE Tax The Rich beanies

Sign up for one of the 6 Saturday canvasses happening across the city with the Week of Tax-tion! dsa.nyc/ttr

Email your representatives: No War with Venezuela! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Venezuela. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-...

The War Powers Resolution could come up for a vote in the House as soon as next week. Tell your representative: No war with Venezuela, No war with Iran 👇

actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

In news that will surprise no one

Join our International Solidarity Working Group’s No Appetite for Apartheid Research Party on Saturday, March 7th. RSVP for Zoom or In Person location info.

We will be researching and power mapping businesses/products to boycott for our No Appetite for Apartheid campaign

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We keep us safe Observer Trainnt. Learn best practices for non-violent peaceful action in your community as a legal observer along with how to get involved in your local response groups. Sunday, March 8th, 1-3pm, Macalester College, Olin Rice Room 350. Registration link in bio, with the Twin Cities DSA logo that has two loons, a star, and a rose, and a picture of an ice cube with an X across it.

Join us for this week's legal observer training at Macalester College in St. Paul! We are excited to be teaming up with Mac YDSA to keep growing the pool of community members who can keep us safe. All are welcome! RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/legal...

A legal observer in Cold Spring urged us to share that on 2/5, an ICE agent threatened to kill them. The agent purposely stood in front of their car and used the bogus fear of being hit to justify the threat. As the news cycle turns its eye away from MN, we will not forget.