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Assistant Professor of Sociology @UCBerkeley . Director @SC2_Collab . Founding Co-Director @cpluscp . A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
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I was born to a Jewish father and Guatemalan mother.
The 1980s Guatemalan genocide was rooted in a campaign of political elimination through murder. Once a state sets out to eliminate an entire political structure, all boundaries dissolve—anyone can be marked for death.
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Is it just me, or is this person's message pretty clear, actually?
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Lula’s narrow victory is still a massive win for Brazil: for its working class, its Black and Indigenous communities, and against fascism. It’s also a win for the Amazon and the planet itself—and thus v good news for the multiracial working class of the whole world.
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What's truly mystifying is how it took economists decades to figure out that destroying the planet would also destroy the economy. A special discipline, for sure.
Climate damages are "6X LARGER than previously thought", says new NBER working paper
– every 1C wipes out 12% of global GDP
– every tonne of CO2 causes >$1,000 of damages
@GernotWagner
tells me: "Assuming nobody finds a flaw in this paper, it is going to truly change things"
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Pretty amazing visual from France 24: "France is woven by migrations" and "Stop the Genocide"
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This is what it looks like to run in a presidential election against the US-backed Latin American right in Colombia. Hoping for everyone's safety, and for the expected, historic triumph of the left in this weekend's voting.
Here’s Colombian VP candidate Francia Márquez having a laser pointed at her head at a rally recently
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We got so sick of hearing about all the lithium we need to carpet the roads w electric cars. So we did the 1st study to quantify alternatives. Leading w mass transit, ebikes, and urban density cuts lithium demand by up to 90%, while slashing carbon & giving us mobility & freedom.
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Heat wave reminder: a Green New Deal would fill neighborhoods w community cooling centers: public housing, public schools, libraries, community centers, the list goes on. All could keep us cool.
W public green investment and emergency mobilization, we could do this really fast.
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Why Jokić's greatness comes down to the socialist sport ethos of Tito's Yugoslavia.
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After spending 4 days in Vienna seeing old & new social housing, new planned communities, and the benefits of aggressive public regulation of private real estate, it’s a little jarring to return to a country where “let the market rip” counts as visionary “progressive” policy.
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Map of places where cops are arresting students for protesting a US-enabled genocide.
And people wonder why Biden is struggling in the polls.
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This is the perfect representation of our moment. Cops using a bettering ram to break into a climate justice movement’s organizing space
The climate movement isn’t a battle against our own human nature. It’s a battle against the rich, the powerful, and the violent
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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining
@UCBerkeley
as Assistant Professor of Sociology this coming academic year, as part of a cross-campus cluster hire in Climate Equity + Environmental Justice. I'm so excited to be joining this massive push on climate justice research.
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Tomorrow, the IPCC will issue a massive new report. It will find that, basically, we need a Green New Deal, w incredibly ambitious public action to coordinate and help fund trillions in green investment to prevent total climate breakdown.
Hardly anyone will talk about it. 1/4
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Remember: this is going to be Biden’s best night of the primary
When Bernie highlighted Biden’s record in Jan, Biden did terribly
When Bloomberg was taking hits, Biden surged
From tomorrow onward, Biden’s back in the spotlight
Bernie’s record and campaign are much stronger
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Unpopular opinion: we should decarbonize the economy to prevent a climate apocalypse even if it's expensive. And the rich should bear the costs—their wealth should be tapped, their consumption should be capped.
The cost of key clean energy technologies, such as solar PV & batteries, has dropped rapidly in past years.
But a surge in prices of the minerals & metals needed to produce them risks reversing progress.
Learn more in our latest commentary 👉
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Today
@IlhanMN
is releasing a housing bill that meets the scale of two intersecting emergencies: climate breakdown and the housing crisis
12 million units of no-carbon social housing in 10 years
The Green
#HomesGuarantee
is on 🔥
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Just a reminder: it would cost just $50 billion to vaccinate the world. That would have radically reduced the odds of Omicron, and whatever variants are next. $50B is *less than one tenth* of US military spending in a year.
This is capitalism. It's hell.
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This is the worst possible time for defeatism. Trump-Vance is an eminently beatible ticket.
Dump Biden, force an end to the genocide, and get people excited for progressive, generational change.
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It’s happening. Today
@AOC
and
@BernieSanders
are launching the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act. It’s good.
Over at
@DataProgress
we researched the bill, our first big collab w
@SC2_Collab
and
@McHargCenter
. It would slash carbon and inequality
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Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, endorsed the protest that became the Capitol riot.
Kind of a big deal.
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Doesn’t know the literature, doesn’t care, punches wildly for dollars. Literally lives off degrading knowledge.
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Btw, Bernie's just transition for workers plan is incredibly good
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IPCC week Gramsci quote:
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”
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The fact that a city like San Francisco—whose median household income is 112k a year—is building TINY HOMES for unhoused ppl, instead of lovely supportive social housing… just an unbelievably vulgar demonstration of how broken American urban life is. Just horrible.
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Wow, I'm extremely excited I had this amazing chance to talk about the Green New Deal, and
@BernieSanders
's inspiring history of being there for climate justice. He gets it: only a massive movement can break the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry and its corporate allies
No amount of dealmaking in Washington is going to get the fossil fuel industry to give up their greed. That is never how change has taken place.
To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we need a mass movement for a Green New Deal.
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Climate scientists: “Holy shit, it’s getting so bad so fast.”
NYT editorial board: “Simmer down, uppity climate activists.”
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Lula remains in good shape to win the second round. But the unsettling fact that we're seeing rn is that the fascist right remains strong. Very strong. This isn't the blowout the polls were showing.
The global right lives. We have so much work to do.
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Every time I see a commitment to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, without an aggressive target for 2030, I see ... nothing.
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Lula will be the next president of Brazil. It could even happen tomorrow in the first round of voting.
Nothing is certain. But Lula could well halt deforestation & rebuild green industrial policy, echoing his first terms. And he could support small farmers & green urban reform.
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I’ve had many students express frustration + sadness at the lack of courses available on the climate emergency, from wide range of perspectives. There’s something like gaslighting going on when universities don’t offer curriculum on the biggest threats to their students’ futures.
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This is what the fight against fascism looks like.
It's past midnight, and turnout of students and faculty has filled the entire plaza of Columbia University. An end to US complicity in the genocide of Gaza remains their focus, they insist, despite media attempts to divert attention to issues like student safety or free speech
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Reminder on a bad night that Boston—Boston!!!—is electing
@wutrain
as the country’s first Green New Deal mayor, whose platform includes rent control and free public transit.
Wu is dominating in the city's most diverse precincts. For example, in 12-7, which is 53% Black, 37% Latino, 5% white, and 1% AAPI, Michelle Wu wins by 52. Kim Janey won it by 31 points in the prelim.
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You can’t calm me down. A year ago housing was barely a national political issue. Tenant rights *definitely* weren’t one. But tenants movements organized like crazy. Now the
#HomesGuarantee
vision is the Democratic front-runner
10m new units of social housing! Rent control! 🤯
I grew up in a rent-controlled apartment. We have got to institute rent control nationwide and finally stop landlords from ripping off the American people.
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To be Jewish is to know you can be marked for death just for belonging to that group.
And now I see a Jewish state marking a whole other population for death just because of who those ppl are and where they live, ostensibly to prioritize the elimination of a political structure.
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Just days after the UC settled a grad worker strike whose main issue was massive rent burdens, the UC is investing billions in one of the world’s most hated real estate companies. 🤦🏻♂️
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Seriously fuck you Pete Buttigieg for mocking the victims of US-sponsored coups across the Global South
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This is
#ecoapartheid
Big problems on the ferry from Freeport to Florida — announcement just made that any Bahamian without a visa must now get off. This is not normal. Nornally Bahamians can travel to USA with passport and a printout of their police record. This is a mess.
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The NPF program includes "a substantial increase in the minimum wage, wages indexed to prices & free school lunches. Most importantly the NFP wants to prioritise investment in the future by increasing public spending on infrastructure... health, education and research."
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Excited for
@nytimes
to take some "experts" back in time to 1931, to explain to FDR how unrealistic it would be to use public funds to build dams throughout the Tennessee Valley, electrify countryside by seeding rural cooperatives, or hire 3.5 million ppl to plant 3 billion trees
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An appeal to friends who support Warren: Let’s stop climate chaos, racism + corruption together
The stakes are high. There’s only one progressive candidate w a path to majority support. We welcome you
Join the Bernie campaign. Help make it better in ways that matter to you
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Extraordinary. Oil workers union at Brazil’s Petrobras have written a supportive letter to Lula outlining their vision for the company. Includes restoring it as a 100% public company, oriented to public service, & using its resources to accelerate public clean energy development.
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NYT in 2020: climate change is everyone’s fault, stop attacking big companies 🥴
"Warren often casts the net far too wide, placing the blame for a host of maladies from climate change to gun violence at the feet of the business community when the onus is on society as a whole."
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The IPCC said that "limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society."
Is your climate plan:
—rapid?
—far-reaching?
—unprecedented?
—in all aspects of [your part of] society?
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Everyone will remember what powerful people did in October 2023. The bloodstains will never fade.
To paraphrase one of my friends said, this week opens the 21st century.
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“Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally.” Not tiny homes. Proper, well-built social housing that improves the urban fabric.
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Tell me again why it’s unserious for leftists to propose nationalizing energy companies. It’s only the two biggest economies in Europe that are doing it.
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@BernieSanders
’ epic climate plan includes a visionary Green New Deal for Housing:
🌱7.4 million new social housing units
🌱green upgrades to existing public housing, turning each complex into a resiliency center
🌱vast funds for energy retrofits
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“Companies have warned in private meetings... that giving up the IP rights could allow China + Russia to exploit platforms like mRNA, which could be used for other vaccines or even therapeutics for conditions such as cancer + heart problems in the future.”
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100000x this. Fox is bullying Dems & progressives, successfully, to give up strategic high ground. I know so many people and groups who ran away from the Green New Deal bc Fox made it “toxic.” I’m sorry, but if Fox isn’t gunning for your political frame, it’s bc it’s irrelevant.
People think Fox News is just about indoctrinating right-wingers, but it’s also about conditioning Dems on what to run away from. Framing racial justice as “controversial” is key to delaying the protection of voting rights (& others) until it’s too late. We shouldn’t indulge it.
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This is... not what's happening. The presser is terrible. These people's bar is below the floor. This isn't journalism.
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The single greatest technology for carbon dioxide removal is not emitting carbon pollution in the first place.
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It’s 2020 and NPR’s still covering climate politics, like Biden’s green stimulus plan, with 30-year-old reporting frame: “I don’t know, seems pretty crazy, can such a complex economy be decarbonized fast? I guess the left wants it.”
By 2030 this will look so, so bad to everyone.
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Thanks to Paris’s Socialist mayors working hard on this for over a decade, nearly a quarter of its population now lives in social housing. Target is 30% by 2030.
Take break from the mind-numbing N/YIMBY wars and read
@colinreads
’s nuanced reporting.
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A frequent trope in climate politics writing: “The (implicitly crazy) environmentalists didn’t get *everything* they wanted, but they got some stuff. Be happy.”
But the climate emergency isn’t an interest group horserace. Facing the truth is more important than feeling fine.
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Such a dream and honor to meet
@IlhanMN
and give her a copy of our book!!!
I told her that as the son of a Guatemalan, I was especially moved by her leadership on anti-imperialism ❤️✊🏼
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Picketty gets it. It's technically easy to track—then freeze—the holdings of the ultra rich, including Russia's oligarchs. But it's not happening. Why?
"One simple reason: western wealthy people fear that such transparency will ultimately harm them."
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That's three times the cost of retrofitting every single public housing unit in the country, to the highest standards of health, comfort, and efficiency
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If we deeply defunded the police, it would free up way more resources than just the police budget. Imagine defunding the prison system, the state’s surveillance machines, private security armies, the whole Foucault. A LOT of social wealth goes into race and class oppression.
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In an age of massive ecological breakdown, I'd like to see less fetish of every shiny new machine, and more emphasis on raising the living conditions of every human. I'd rather we prioritize the care and freedom of people over building every machine that engineers can design.
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I’m still digesting the collapse of Biden’s climate agenda. It’s incredibly, brutally bad. Almost another lost decade for federal action. Many will die.
The sooner we confront the utter failure of American climate politics—from the 70s to now—the sooner we build something new.
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.
@BernieSanders
calls for an immediate moratorium on evictions, foreclosures, and utility shut-offs as part of a broad-based housing justice response
Brilliant for him to center
#homesguarantee
priorities in tackling the social dimensions of this crisis
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Now we’re talking!
@AOC
+
@BernieSanders
are dropping an improved Green New Deal for Public Housing bill to save the US's million units of public housing w healthy, green retrofits.
NYT has the story, linking our
@cpluscp
research report.
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My guess is that we're entering a protracted general crisis, with the constitution at the center of it, that could last a decade or more. New Deal and Reconstruction level. A brutally contested election, court-packing, abolishing the filibuster, DC statehood are just the start.
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France exit poll twitter is the happiest I’ve seen this place in a long time. We love an eco-socialist success story!
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It’s like the 1930s—but with a climate emergency, and without communists 🥺
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I have been silent on twitter for months for personal reasons I won't get into rn. I'll mostly stay silent.
I do want to share my love and admiration for friends and colleagues who have been using their platforms to speak out and organize against Israel’s genocidal violence.
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We don’t have to surrender to drowned cities and crimson skies. But we do have leave our political and economic comfort zones. Nothing familiar or easy will stop this emergency.
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It’s because I was horrified by the murder of Israeli civilians that I’m so appalled by Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. People are people. “Never again” is for everyone.
An eye for an eye isn’t justice. Genocide for an eye is a crime against humanity.
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Obv we should be careful w polls, but I wanted to highlight this incredible recent finding:
Lula is *only* leading Bolsonaro in the polls among Brazilians who make less than twice the minimum wage. But he leads so much w the poor, it outweighs the rest.
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Jake Tapper says the American people lost the debate. But not all of them. The 1% won the debate!
This debate is the culmination of the corporate media machine, social media dominance, Citizens United, entrenched political parties' primary process.
This is the 1%'s system.
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Going to be pretty tough for Biden to slash carbon emissions if he keeps turning over permits to extract and burn carbon.
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For everyone feeling the heat, a reminder that a Green New Deal would pour funds into urban greening, upgrading low-income housing to have cheaper and more comfortable HVAC, replace cars w cleaner (and cooler) electric transit and bikes, and basically improve summer dramatically.
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Tfw the Working Families Party endorses one candidate, and working families endorse the other
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This is the alliance that can break American Zionism.
Palestinians “are facing similar situations as Black and Brown americans” say family members of George Floyd, at a protest on the fourth anniversary of his murder by Minneapolis police office Derek Chauvin.
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Bernie Sanders had a heart attack over two years ago, and he’s still the hardest-charging mensch in DC. A living legend.
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I would like to see the self-appointed progressive heroes dunking on Sunrise walk into a room of politicized, lefty 19-year-olds, and convince them that they're idiots, and that Biden is actually amazing.
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This is one of the shortest, but hardest, talks I've ever done. I talked about death in my family. Corporate complicity. How climate emergency could cause so much more death
And I called out my boss. Bc Penn is not yet doing its part to help stabilize the climate
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If I were a country of under 400 million people, I would not start a Cold War with a country that has 3x more people, and that makes all my stuff.
I'd focus instead on preventing ecological collapse, ending poverty, and preventing the global 1% from screwing the rest.
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Within two years of a Green New Deal, every Amtrak cafe car in the country will be serving delicious, perfectly seared plant-based burgers cooked fast and clean on induction stove tops by unionized chefs
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.
@Vinncent
wrote a very good book about this phenomenon.
This is what we may be seeing rn—or could, if Gaza's access to the internet weren't cut off right now.
A campaign of elimination whose "collateral" damage is the feature, not the "bug".
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Solar-powered tubes for un-housed people?! Here's an idea: homes! Pretty sure we know how to build those.
When will this dystopian hell-time come to an end??? Can you imagine what future generations—if they even exist—will say about our broken society?
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Perspective: two leftist Black legislators, who just got into office by primarying corporate Democrats, are laying out a vision for public, renewable power that would provide clean, affordable energy to every person in the US. And they’re backed by an org of 100k socialists.
Public power to the people.
@JamaalBowmanNY
and
@CoriBush
today introduced a resolution pushing to expand public ownership of utilities and pump up renewables. Full text here: 1/3
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Most of today’s powerful people will be loathed by everyone who was born in the 21st century.
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Beautiful, car-free street in Nicetown, Philadelphia. One of the faces of the coming Green New Deal
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Manchin is a psychopath. BBB was full of giveaways for him. He strung *his own party* along for a year. Political and human treachery beyond measure.
And Dems outside the squad: schmucks. They gave Manchin his own bill for free. AOC, Bowman, etc, are the few who truly get it.
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We're seeing violent massacres in Israel + Colombia. Gut-check moment for US progressives.
Will you pretend that there can be a social justice presidency confined to US borders, w the same (implicit + explicit) support for murderous authoritarians abroad?
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When we win a Green New Deal, buses will be electric, quiet, and smooth. They’ll come every five minutes or faster. And they’ll fly through dedicated lanes like chariots of fire
Our green new buses will be the Gods of the road
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Housing is a human right. Being a landlord is not.
The solution to the current crisis isn’t yet more evictions. It’s using public investment to move housing off the market and provide stable homes for people.
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A policy solution for high gas prices, carbon pollution, & domestic manufacturing that Mayor Pete won't suggest:
The govt buys cities thousands of electric buses (increasingly US-made w unions), while paying cities to paint hundreds of miles bus lanes & run the buses fare-free.
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The CDC meltdown is tragic—and a good illustration of why the Green New Deal emphasizes jobs and justice, and not "believe (climate) science."
In theory, it might be ideal for a pure scientific consensus beyond left and right to guide policy. But that's never going to happen.
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Idk who needs to hear this but the left housing position includes building 12 million units of social housing in ten years. There’s literally a national tenants movement called
#HomesGuarantee
pushing that. Omar introduced a bill; it was in Bernie’s platform.
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The more PDFs I read about equity, carbon, energy, and housing, the more I come back to something basic: unless govts make massive investments in low-income homes—100s of $Bs—all the consultation, frameworks, and discourse won't matter. We spend big or we die. It's that simple.
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One reason we might encourage grad students to write magazine articles, have podcasts, do activism: it’s a way to develop their voice outside the severe, claustrophobic limits of peer-reviewed scholarship.
Just as teaching (and TA’ng) helps develop that authoritative voice.
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Funny how in all the talk about changing supply chains, reconsidering free trade, helping Europe get off gas, etc, no one’s talking about transferring green technology to the global south, or fixing trade rules so that developing economies can deliver just green transitions.
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There's one simple reason someone from the Bernie/AOC wing of the Democratic Party has to run for prez in 24: to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a campaign to reverse the multiracial working class's drift to the Republicans and/or total disengagement from politics.
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Lula might be the only person in Brazil who can effectively tell the story of egalitarian green investment to the country’s vast, multiracial working class. If Lula could sell a left green transition in Brazil, it would be an incomparable gift to that country—and to humanity.
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