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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado's imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election denier, a White House special assistant organized an urgent "brainstorm call."
The goal, outlined in an email sent to officials at five federal agencies, was to "prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities," the assistant, Emily Underwood, wrote on Dec.
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"Please come prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado," Ms. Underwood added.
The next day, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy, whose representatives were invited to the brainstorm, announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 05/05/2026

Thankful for the opportunity to contribute to this report.

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📢 Just published! As we move into the People's Summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, we hope our article on frontline-led just transition, with @nacla-report.bsky.social, will further energize our grassroots movement power in Santa Marta and beyond! Please read and share: nacla.org/at-a-histori...

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At a Historic Conference, Frontline Groups Push for a Just Transition

Though the First Conference on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels is a historic achievement, movement organizers question if it will create needed pathways toward a just transition.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 27/04/2026

See our piece on the fossil fuel phaseout Santa Marta conference in Santa Marta. Social movements have converged around the demand to phaseout fossil fuels through a just transition that brings about systemic change and avoids false solutions to climate change.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 23/04/2026

On my way to Colombia for the first global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. Honored to co-lead the North America region’s civil society formation with @jtalliance.bsky.social and @uscannetwork.bsky.social. Will share updates and highlight movement demands.

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Giovanni Castro Irizarry @castroirizarry.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Do Latinos behave politically according to their racial classification? If so, why? My new article in @polbehavior.bsky.social provides some answers. Open access link here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... 🧵

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 17/12/2025

I spent two summers here doing research on inequalities in government responses to disasters, focused on what had taken place in Puerto Rico following hurricane Maria. NCAR has led on so many scientific advances. This admin’s harm to the scientific workforce in the US is beyond measure.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 15/12/2025

Intersectionality is a rejection of essentialism. It makes no sense.

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I am once again reminding everyone that you can't 'marketplace of ideas' the far-right.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 11/12/2025

Seems like a deep red state, Indiana, might vote down the Trump-mandated partisan gerrymander, even after Trump threatened to pull all federal funding. Trump is creating a shared grievance that crosses the ideological spectrum, and his coalition keeps showing cracks.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 01/12/2025

Assessing the presence of these actors in UN climate negotiations and their interactions with climate diplomats would be an important contribution.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 26/11/2025

I can't convince a growing number of websites that I'm human

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The labor & persistent demands of grassroots groups made possible the #justtranstion mechanism at #COP30, providing a crucial UNFCCC institutional home for moving toward a just transition! JTA Policy Lead @fernandotormos.com provides analysis & describes the fight ahead! youtube.com/shorts/OilXF...

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JTA Responds to the Just Transition Work Programme's Draft Text at COP30 and the Struggle Ahead

YouTube video by Just Transition Alliance

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Happening Tuesday at #COP30: Decolonization & Demilitarization at the Heart of #climatejustice! Colonial extraction of resources & fossil fuels are the engine of climate chaos. Climate-impacted peoples will speak on demilitarization & decolonization, including JTA's Policy Lead @fernandotormos.com.

At left, eight circles contain headshots of speakers with their names and affiliations listed at right. Background includes scene of military operation in light colors.

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

@fernandotormos.com gave a rousing speech at the Peoples' Summit #JustTransition plenary yesterday. He emphasized the need to move toward an intersectional, popular, & systemic #transicionjusticia in the ways exemplified by the solidarity shown during the Peoples' Summit. youtube.com/shorts/zdkc9...

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte Calls for a Systemic, Intersectional Just Transition at the Peoples' Summit

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 12/11/2025

In this @nacla-report.bsky.social op-ed, @fernandotormos.com, Catalina de Onís, Nona Chai, and Lara Aumann (@jtalliance.bsky.social) argue that experiences of Indigenous peoples and frontline workers must be at the forefront of decision-making at #COP30. Read the piece: nacla.org/establishing...

A large group of people stand together indoors holding flags from various countries and a long red-and-white banner that reads “Afectados de todo el mundo, ¡uníos! Affected people of the world unite!” The group includes adults of different ages and backgrounds, many wearing conference badges, and the setting appears to be a spacious hall decorated with colorful banners for an international meeting.

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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

DCJ Opening Press Conference for #COO30: Will the Global North cooperate or compete? Peoples demand finance, just transition, no carbon markets. WHEN 12th November 2025, 11 am Brasilia Time (GMT-3) WHERE Press Conference 2, Area D, Room 2, Hangar Convention and Fair Centre in Belém, Brazil

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 11/11/2025

See our new piece for NACLA on the fight for a just transition at COP30 in Belém

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

" @povertyscholar.bsky.social said that losing food benefits is not only a crisis in itself, but it can lead to other crises...'Crises tend to cascade and compound...As this happens, people are less likely to vote.” www.salon.com/2025/11/08/h...

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How a loss of public benefits harms democracy - Salon.com

When public programs like SNAP are cut, voter turnout historically declines

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 10/11/2025

Trump appearing in the fox sports broadcast for an NFL game is a reminder that MAGA didn’t want politics out of sports, just anti-racist ones.

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Natalie Jones @nataliejones.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 03/11/2025

A lot of movements need to adapt to the death of shame, given that shaming was so central to their tactics

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 31/10/2025

Puerto Rico’s federally appointed and unelected fiscal oversight board chose to pay its consultants while imposing austerity measures and denying any relief to families who will face the consequences of the loss of SNAP benefits.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 28/10/2025

Hurricane Melissa will be one of the most destructive hurricanes in history. It is among the ugliest reminders of the consequences of failures in climate action.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 26/10/2025

Eyes on Jamaica, which is expected to experience a catastrophic Cat. 5 hurricane. Meanwhile, polluters fail to pay their climate debt and for loss and damage.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

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Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research

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Raul Perez @raulperez.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

With recent headlines and op-eps stunned by the pervasive usage of racist jokes by young republicans, I think it’s worth mentioning a recent book I wrote that might be useful for better understanding the historical and systemic roots of such humor

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 18/10/2025

Remember how Trump and the GOP spend money when they say there’s no money to meet people’s basic needs.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 16/10/2025

the revolution will not be webinared

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 16/10/2025

Imagine what Puerto Rico, Detroit, and Flint residents feel seeing a 40 billion dollar bailout of Argentina’s failed neoliberal experiment after the US imposed relentless austerity measures and blocked all fiscal autonomy. People lost their lives due to these measures.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 13/10/2025

No need to be ungovernable if they can't govern. No need to shame the shameless. Movements need to innovate. The tactics that worked in the past may not work today.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized." www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

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Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

While the choice to award Machado the Nobel Peace Prize is being framed as a kind of girl-boss democracy win, the reality is a bit more complicated.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 09/10/2025

I mean. She can be as honest as she wants. They're still pursuing a Congressional majority through racialized and partisan gerrymandering before the decennial census. Don't get distracted folks... Democrats might win the shutdown and still lose the Republic...

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Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 07/10/2025

The study that this article reports on correctly highlights the issues with carbon offsets, yet somehow manages to claim that this "intractable" systemic problem is fixable and that stakeholders should transition from one flawed policy to another (carbon dioxide removal and storage). 🙃

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Check out the "Kick Big Polluters Out" letter, endorsed by @jtalliance.bsky.social: kickbigpollutersout.org/Polluter-Fre... And for more on #COP30, don't miss this "Forging Solidarities on the Just Transition Path to Belém" analysis by JTA's @fernandotormos.com: jtalliance.org/2025/09/16/f...

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Forging Solidarities on the Just Transition Path to Belém - Just Transition Alliance

JTA’s Executive Director, José Bravo, and I attended the UN Climate Bonn talks in June 2025 to continue advancing the fight for a just transition decision later this year at the UNFCCC COP30 climate t...

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 01/10/2025

Glad the experts finally caught up with this longstanding reality

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Thank you for presenting this case study, @fernandotormos.com! Learn more about the important work of Los Jardines Institute: losjardinesinstitute.org

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Los Jardines Institute

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 01/10/2025

Honored to present our @jtalliance.bsky.social case study on the Los Jardines Institute and the grassroots pursuit of a just transition in the US for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Katowice Committee on Impacts.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 01/10/2025

*perception of power* This analysis applies to more than just this regime.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 30/09/2025

MAGA is not against student loan forgiveness as long as you join ICE MAGA is not against government assistance as long as it is only benefiting its base MAGA is not against government spending as long as it yields electoral gains MAGA is not against hate speech as long as it targets its opponents

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 30/09/2025

Puerto Rico will be as neglected and marginalized the day after the Super Bowl, but it’s still telling to see who is mad about Bad Bunny’s halftime show and why…

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 29/09/2025

Do you direct an #UndergraduateResearch program that has been supported by federal dollars? Consider submitting a paper to the upcoming special issue of Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Mentoring (PURM).

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Science Magazine @science.org · 27/09/2025

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. scim.ag/3KlQkQk

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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

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Just Transition Alliance @jtalliance.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Don't miss this report by JTA policy lead @fernandotormos.com about crucial #JustTransition movement and policy work on the path to Brazil and beyond this November! jtalliance.org/2025/09/16/f...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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