David Temin

Such an inspiring book.

Donated and boosting. Please donate if you can.

Aside from all the other horrors, all I could think in watching this is how I never could’ve kept my own sweet baby from picking up rubble and eating it.

My colleague Annie with a 🔥🔥🔥 new article out in APSR soon. Go read it!

Oooo yes, please!

Had the identical reaction. As if there was some way of containing reactionary backlash by “not going too fast”

Turns out you can’t build bananas at all.

So true. I’ve withdrawn all my New Leftish criticisms of bureaucracy.

morbidly funny that *superannuation*—a synonym for obsolescence—is the system they want to claim will *modernize* social security.

I gave some money to your gofundme, Iman, and I’ve encouraged others to give as well.

I donated to Eman’s family in Gaza and I ask you to consider doing the same.

gofund.me/77751696

Eman sent me this video of her daughter Rahaf coughing because she couldn’t get it to upload- Rahaf has contracted severe bronchitis which is being exasperated by the cold and she could use some help getting proper medicine and warmer clothes for her

I wouldn’t put much stock in that reaction. Good work is good work. The normative and conceptual rely on crypto-historical assumptions and vice-versa. My own view is that you have to go deeper into both sides to make sense of either.

Donated and will repost. All my best to you and your family.

“I remember saying I was for a cessation of hostilities in Israel and Palestine. And people said why don’t you say ceasefire? I’m thinking, that’s literally the same thing.”

I call BS.

He wouldn’t say “ceasefire” b/c the Biden administration nixed it, not overfocus on linguistic precision.

“They did a delinking and it hurt our feelings”

Beautiful

“It’s an ILLUSION, Michael!”

A propos of nothing, “decivilization” is the term Aimé Césaire used in Discourse on Colonialism (1950) to capture the moral effects of colonial domination on the colonizer society.

blueskyroast.com just put me in my place for all time. Just way too on the nose.

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Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Africa MBPP raises concerns over carbon market By Merit Ibe     The Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) coalition has raised the alarm over the ongoing discussions at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, regarding Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and its f...

Article 6 “robs countries and communities in the Global South…
of the allowances they need to realise their right to grow and develop…those with humongous carbon footprints steal…from the countries and communities that have done the least to cause the climate crisis.”

thesun.ng/africa-mbpp-...

“I get why people are there working on the minutiae of the text,” said Doreen Stabinsky, a professor of global environmental politics at the College of the Atlantic in Maine. “But for me, the bigger story that needs to be told is that carbon markets don’t actually stop climate change.”

At COP29, new rules for carbon markets made them even more controversial Environmental groups say weak guidelines risk facilitating “cowboy carbon markets at a time when the world needs a sheriff.”

grist.org/cop29/carbon...

On article 6.4 coming out of #COP29:

“Governments now face the real possibility of having created a Paris-sanctioned carbon market that could be worse for people and the planet than the scandal-ridden voluntary carbon markets.”

Here is my second comment on COP:
First the Damage, then the Debt.

Or: The ecological damage (read: destruction) is mainly done to countries already in massive economic debt, which then becomes even more indebted since most climate financing comes in the form of loans - another cruel feedback loop

Inside the Frantic Maneuvers That Saved COP29 Talks at a Cost Two weeks of difficult negotiations came to the brink of failure before settling on a $300 billion deal that flashes warnings for the future of climate diplomacy.

“Developing countries pressed for less money to come through “creative accounting,” a catch-all term referring to loans provided through multilateral development banks such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Opportunities have to be *made.* they don’t come from the heavens.

I see very little of evidence that Democrats are going to attack this or other attempts to crush labor.

Translating “clarity” into political wins requires building a narrative that majorities can envision as an alternative.

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