@isaacslevin.bsky.social
Organizer and researcher in Providence, RI.
More fossil fuel thuggery, this time aimed at Brown University, in the service of climate denial. “Shut up your researchers or we’ll sic the Trump administration on your funding.” Classy.
25.08.2025 20:53 — 👍 370 🔁 165 💬 26 📌 5
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
If there is one thing I hope the left learns in my lifetime, it’s that to become hegemonic, we have to become normie.
We won’t convince people to dramatically change their aesthetic or cultural attitudes; we will succeed when we articulate our values in forms they are most likely to appreciate.
Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right-the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else's profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden.
I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.
08.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 847 🔁 178 💬 25 📌 11a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency
06.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 15366 🔁 2678 💬 833 📌 121idk I just think that not having a hard heart in a world like this is its own form of rebellion
05.02.2025 23:04 — 👍 334 🔁 59 💬 13 📌 4
in case you missed it: i got my hands on a draft executive order that major offshore wind opponents sent to the trump transition team
it would be a wrecking ball to the future of offshore wind and i have no reason to believe any of these proposals are off the table
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
Kimberly Simmons: RI Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis- The Governor has Misspoken
"The fact that there are over 650 human beings of all ages living outside in the New England winter elements every day should be appalling to everyone."
open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
Must-read work from @triofrancos.bsky.social and @aldasky.bsky.social on the mismatch between federal climate economics and the climate policies people actually need– especially on housing and energy.
07.01.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🚨 What does anti-renewables activism look like these days, and why's it so strong on the East Coast?
Got on Bluesky to announce a NEW paper that identifies "information subsidies" flowing to local anti-wind groups. There's a lot more going on than just "dark money."
I know this will shock many of you... but Michael Shellenberger is attached to a sham front group ostensibly about protecting right whales that was only created a few years ago in order to keep offshore wind from out-competing natural gas.
02.12.2024 14:57 — 👍 80 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 4
