AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025We hit 3.5%, and that's great, but other key criteria are that protests have to be sustained. It's not just one Saturday afternoon to fix all this. We have to keep doing it. 020
Reposted by AlexaRSusan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025They buried the lede 063
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Oh no, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in the neighborhood! He might... make pupusas? Oh, the horror! 🙄 020
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Add Stephen King's Running Man to this reading list. (Written under the Bachman pseudonym). And dont watch the movie version. It softens the ending. 010
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025This is the race/question about everything right now. 020
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Seeing generational criticism on substack. Not having it. I've worked w people from multiple gens & the idea that gen Z has a special deficit in critical thinking... lacks same. Also, bullying is a timeless tradition in the US. It's not new. STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 IT 👏 ABOUT 👏 A 👏 DEMOGRAPHIC 👏 OF 👏 PEOPLE 010
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Oh look, an actual leadership expert on how this new guy ain't. 🤔 000
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025"Quiet quitting" by DHS attorney due to hostile work environment? 🤔 (PSA "qq" in quotes because it is a disgusting anti-worker term blaming the worker for having an a-hole boss.) 010
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025The acting FEMA head is misusing Organization Development theory to assert dominance. The conventional wisdom is that ~20% of people are early adopters, ~20% are set in their ways. The middle ~60% will go along with one or the other 20% based on the vibe of the change. The vibe here is effed. 110
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Yay, debt bondage! We'll all get to sing 🎶I owe my soul to the company store🎶 (Sixteen Tons - look it up if you don't know.) American feudalism. Yay... <sob> 000
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Yes, we would. That's how it's supposed to work. People in power are always irritated at the idea that they have to follow the rules. But they do. That's a major way we prevent dictatorship. #nokings 000
Reposted by AlexaRThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025ICYMI: “Charles lies, people die!” @climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism. 19754161561
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025As a legal observer also trained in workplace practices for dealing with ICE, when I read the memo, I already knew all of it. Why? Because it's just a summary of existing law. There is nothing in there that isn't just the rules and procedures ICE is SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING. 000
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025As an American who is ethnically German, I fully support Germany's clapback. 000
Reposted by AlexaR𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕘 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕤 @gbmusicmaster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025My favorite passage from @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest essay. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 6900128
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @mikethompson.house.gov @booker.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social 100
Reposted by AlexaRThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025WATCH: @abbyphillip.bsky.social patiently tries to get batya & scott jennings to understand their views about deporting people to foreign prisons without due process are un-American and anti-constitutional. (And they both know it) 🇺🇸 2441586334
Reposted by AlexaRSusan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025A majority of white people in America are willing to burn everything down rather than allow equal rights or a multicultural society to exist, basically most white Americans don't believe in America. (not a shock they're that way, but it's surprising how far they're willing to go w/self-immolation) 151
Reposted by AlexaRFossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025 🗺️ 80% of the world’s intact forests are in debt-ridden tropical countries. Amazon: $978B debt Congo Basin: $43B SE Asia: $933B Debt relief is a climate and biodiversity solution. #DebtForNature #ClimateFinance 011
Reposted by AlexaRIndivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 27/04/2025🤬 The Republican House of Representatives passed legislation (HR1526) that would allow Trump to strip federal judges of the authority to issue nationwide injunctions blocking his illegal actions. 👉 Contact your Senators and tell them VOTE NO. ☎️ US Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. 1910
Reposted by AlexaR PattiCakes ⚖️🔬♀️♿✊🏾🏳️🌈☮️🇺🇸🌎🌊 @warrior-patticakes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The governor of Oklahoma has called for the resignations of the sheriff and other top officials in a rural county after they were recorded talking about "beating, killing and burying" a father/son team of local reporters, and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope” 1610979
Reposted by AlexaRNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025NEW PIECE: I've been working for a while on a piece on social security death notices and payment finality. Just as I was finalizing it, including with a new legal memo!- it was reported that DOGE declared four MILLION people dead. Read all about the issues here www.crisesnotes.com/the-crisis-a...crisesnotes.comThe Crisis at Social Security Illustrates Elon Musk and DOGE’s Plan: Explode the Number and Severity of Improper Payments.Subscribe Over the past month I needed a break to deal with organizational issues, including getting the Notes on the Crises Manhattan office(!) set up and needed time to continue a number of investi... 23598255
Reposted by AlexaRRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025One of the hardest things to make people realize is what didn't happen. "Implemented policies to date are likely to have reduced global emissions by several billion tons of CO2eq per year...." 7409101
Reposted by AlexaRGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/04/2025ICE is toying with the lives of innocent students in order to make quotas on deportations. Outrageous, incompetent and cruel. 782238411
Reposted by AlexaRDr Seán DOOLAN 🏴 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I've been saying that since the Stern review on the economics of climate change - back in 2006. Scenarios that were then projected to be decades away from now are materialising now. 133
Reposted by AlexaRTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/20251/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs. 6863103311488
Reposted by AlexaRDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I wrote about China's climate policy. Did you know that China has enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world? Well, it has — because it's positioning itself as global hegemon for the climate-changed future. Trump's climate denial is only a stupid, tragic assist to that end. 🧵 119079
Reposted by AlexaRJenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Especially appalling because he canned the black lung disease program at the CDC. gizmodo.com/coal-miners-...gizmodo.comCoal Miners Sue Trump Admin After It Halts Black Lung ProtectionsCoal? Beautiful. Coal miner safety regulations? Not so beautiful. 001
Reposted by AlexaREmily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The loss of the land sink is bad and also a very important prompt to say: “nature-based solutions” for carbon removal are not available for carbon removal until we’ve restored the natural sinks. We don’t get to destroy something + then claim victory (and profit) from partially fixing it! 0399
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 12/04/2025The implied belief in this clip is that God made climate change and how dare humans try to change that. If you've read Dr. Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass, you know that it is just as (if not more) plausible to believe in a god that buried fossil fuels because he didn't want humans using them. 010
Reposted by AlexaRAashis Joshi @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 12/04/2025South Asia is already scorching. The world’s most populous region is extremely vulnerable to climate collapse, and unprecedented crop failures, unlivable conditions, and mass migrations are inevitable. But this reality is ignored in climate discussions here because it’s too grim. 1124
Reposted by AlexaRThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors... 901131135580
Reposted by AlexaRRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/04/2025One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again. 16234591510207
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comPolitical Styles of the Rich and CluelessThere are none so blind as those that will not see 000
AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It would help if we didn't do it for only 2 hours every two weeks. 000
Reposted by AlexaRNeil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Great insight from Sandoval-Moshenberg that Kristi Noem can apparently do photo ops at the gulag in El Salvador but not set free Abrego Garcia. 424445
Reposted by AlexaRSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/04/2025All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night. 586407065696
Reposted by AlexaRMontana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Reminder no. 871: Congress can stop this insanity any time it so chooses. Under the Constitution, *Congress*, not the President, has the power to tax and to impose tariffs. They gave it away. They can take it back. Call your Congress reps, especially if they are GOP. Tell them: ENOUGH! 792940927
Reposted by AlexaRMachine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back. How can anyone defend this? 19065051629