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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑

@giantwhispers.bsky.social
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Social Change Strategist. Movement-Builder. Story Changer. Leadership Coach. Co-founder Center for Story-based Strategy, Co-author Re:Imagining Change (PM Press 2017) Fighting for a Just Future on a Livable Planet

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If literally everything that everyone knows and loves was threatened by the accelerating cataclysmic failure of the planetary systems that sustain life as we know it.... You might assume media and government would treat it as a matter of great global urgency. Tragically, you would be wrong.
pik-potsdam.de
Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems
21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RESOURCE: Climate Mobilization new toolkit for local organizing towards resilience and disaster preparedness. The super El Nino has begun so it's a great time to connect with your neighbors to get ready. We need to build the new inside the shell of the old. drive.google.com/file/d/1SkB0...
Screenshot of page 1 of the tool kit with the Climate mobilization logo the title "Before the Storm toolkit: a take-home toolkit & resource guide on the 2026-2027 Super El Nino"
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everytime I pass through here and fill up my “ambient” water, this is the thought that crosses my head.👇
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Matthew Yglesias and I are in full agreement.
Yglesias: "Nobody denies the bill is good for the American oil and [gas] industry, that's the whole basis for making a deal."
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascism sucks and the number of climate/energy types who are falling for the same old fossil foolishness "permitting reform" trick is depressing. But on the brighter side of things we've almost made it to my favorite time of year: 🥳 Bay area persimmon season! 🤩
A shot of the underside of a tree branch with bunch of fuyo persimmons. Some are green still but a few are getting closer to bright orange deliciousness.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RESOURCE: New toolkit from Building Movement Project. When the system undermines our solidarity and pushes wedges between us we need to prioritize rebuilding the bridges. Or better yet strengthening them before they collapse. #PeoplePower
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Killer robots are bad. US militarism and empire are bad, even when they aren't run by a fanatical, alcoholic, rapist Christian Nationalist. Bring 'em together under a cheesy name that sounds like a 13 year old made it up... I'm going to go out on a limb and say: it's sounds very bad.
democracynow.org
Hegseth Announces “AutoWarCom” to Oversee Autonomous Drones and Robots
The Pentagon has announced a new four-star military command dedicated to the rapid adoption of killer robots and other autonomous weapons. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the announcement during h...
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can even hear a lengthy interview with me laying out the mechanics of narrative power analysis and story-based strategy for campaign design. Going head to head with some corporate criminal's ruthless PR team? Listen to this to help level the playing field.👇
corpcampaignscenter.org
Episode #6: Patrick Reinsborough, Framing and Telling the Campaign Story - Corporate Campaign Resource Center
This podcast focuses on the importance of framing and telling a compelling campaign story.
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s the Billionaires versus the rest of us. Photo from @thetnholler.bsky.social
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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Earthjustice statement opposing the current permitting reform proposal.
earthjusticeaction.org
Earthjustice Action Statement on Senate Permitting Bill - Earthjustice Action
Contact: Siham Zniber, szniber@earthjustice.org Washington, D.C. – Earthjustice Action President Abigail Dillen issued the following statement in response to the permitting bill released by the Senate...
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Killer robots are bad. US militarism and empire are bad, even when they aren't run by a fanatical, alcoholic, rapist Christian Nationalist. Bring 'em together under a cheesy name that sounds like a 13 year old made it up... I'm going to go out on a limb and say: it's sounds very bad.
democracynow.org
Hegseth Announces “AutoWarCom” to Oversee Autonomous Drones and Robots
The Pentagon has announced a new four-star military command dedicated to the rapid adoption of killer robots and other autonomous weapons. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the announcement during h...
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/10/2026
Even if you've never been a union member, the attacks on unions have cost you money. The typical worker would be earning $5,000 more a year if unions were as strong today as they were five decades ago
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cool resilience-based organizing initiative from @mobilizeclimate.bsky.social. There are a lot ways to build power in the face of Climate Breakdown. Try this at home! And support Climate Mobilization's ongoing work:
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The techno-salvationist AGI focus distracts from real threats to democracy, our culture and a livable planet. C(doom) seems way more imminent that P(doom). So how about we take action on both? 💥Data center moratorium + Rapid fossil fuel phase out!💥 Two great tastes that taste better together 🤩
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somethings are simple and stopping the expansion of fossil fuels should be one of then. 👇
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
NOTE: The general moral obligation to mock fascist tech billionaires demands I recycle this joke whenever possible. #CallThemOligarchs
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BAY AREA: TODAY! Your chance to march on Palantir and ICE with 1000 nurses! Cause fascism is bad for everyone's health. ✊🌈🥳 Gather at 760 Mission St at 1:45 pm TODAY to join the march on the ICE detention center at 630 Sansome. #PurgePalantir #WeAreAllAntifa
People vs Palantir: March with Nurses to SF's ICE Detention Center
Starting at Jessi Square 760 Mission St and going to 630 Sansome. 

Wed Sept 30 1:45 pm
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another day, another mailer swearing that if CA makes billionaires pay even a little more tax it will be the end if the F-ing world! Paid for by some psycho, greedy billionaires who apparently need to go back to kindergarten to learn some life basics, like how to share. #CallThemOligarchs
CA mailer against the Prop 40 one time wealth tax with the headline “The so-called “billionaire” tax is really an Everyone Tax.”
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
REMINDER: Both major American political parties are directly complicit in Israel's genocide in #Gaza. We must end US military aid to Israel. No elected official, regardless of party, who supported this should ever be allowed to hold a government position again.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another day, another mailer swearing that if CA makes billionaires pay even a little more tax it will be the end if the F-ing world! Paid for by some psycho, greedy billionaires who apparently need to go back to kindergarten to learn some life basics, like how to share. #CallThemOligarchs
CA mailer against the Prop 40 one time wealth tax with the headline “The so-called “billionaire” tax is really an Everyone Tax.”
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026
"Government of the broligarchs, by the broligarchs, and for the broligarchs"
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵
newrepublic.com
Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If literally everything that everyone knows and loves was threatened by the accelerating cataclysmic failure of the planetary systems that sustain life as we know it.... You might assume media and government would treat it as a matter of great global urgency. Tragically, you would be wrong.
pik-potsdam.de
Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems
21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As I'm fond of saying, to win our movements need a mass politics of technology. Cryptobro fantasies of unchecked corporate rule with more Greek columns is NOT "tech utopian," it's "tech fascism." Let us remember that just because something is ridiculous doesn't mean it isn't dangerous.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BAY AREA: Oct 3 in downtown Oakland. Nothing wrong with looking fly while fighting fascism: www.fashionvfascism.org
fashionvfascism.org
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us TOMORROW! There's a lot of scrutiny on OpenAI right now, let's connect it to the actual fascism they are powering right NOW by collaborating with ICE and the Trump regime.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RESOURCE: Useful and timely update to Gene Sharp's classic consent model of power from Scot Nakagawa of @22ci.bsky.social mixing in a little Gramsci and critique of the last decade of mass uprising. Good read for all of us organizing against MAGA fascism right now.
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
The Power We Lend
Why freedom movements are better at mobilizing than winning, and a theory of power that starts from the fact that every regime runs on our cooperation
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As usual @gilduran.com's got the back story and fills in the gaps in the NYT coverage of Praxis' Network State project in his post below. One hilarious detail: the I-love-the-ancient-Greeks CEO of Praxis is super anti-gay. I guess he doesn't actually know much about the ancient Greeks? 😆
thenerdreich.com
Network State Invades Uruguay? Praxis Rolls the NYT
Praxis claims it's building a Network State in Uruguay. And the NYT is boosting the weird billionaire city's latest vaporware announcement.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Climate breakdown is accelerating in terrifying ways but at least the renewable energy build out is going well in China, right? Oh. Crap.
insideclimatenews.org
Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News
The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BAY AREA: OpenAI wants us to think the threat is in the future but the reality is they are providing the infrastructure of MAGA fascism right now. Join us to put the billionaires on notice next Tuesday 7:30 am Marina Green in SF outside OpenAI's DevDay event. #CallThemOligarchs #BayResistance
CLOSE OpenAI
No killer robots for ICE, war and fascism!
We're calling out Sam Altman & OpenAI, demanding that they end ICE & military contracts and sign the Democracy Pledge!

RALLY DETAILS: Tues Sept 29th 7:30 am-10 am Marian Green Park near Fillmore St San Francisco
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another tech fascist "network state" project, this time in Uruguay: "...creating a new culture drawing from classical Greek, Roman and Renaissance aesthetics and the virtues of truth, beauty and heroism as embodied by the Greek god Apollo" Bro, Apollo was way into crypto, duh. #CallThemOligarchs
nytimes.com
These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World (Gift Article)
After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
REMINDER: Both major American political parties are directly complicit in Israel's genocide in #Gaza. We must end US military aid to Israel. No elected official, regardless of party, who supported this should ever be allowed to hold a government position again.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Indeed. My posting was a bit flippant. I didn't mean it as a grand metric of China's climate action. That's above my pay grade. But for me it's more a reminder that facing the ecological crisis is bigger than just carbon and renewable energy. We have to change the whole system.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PROPOSAL: If you appear on television fear-mongering about "SOCIALISM!" (😱 gasp!) the network should be required to post your net worth in the chyron next to your name and title. Plus top 5 campaign donors for elected officials. America deserves to know who is paying for all this whinging.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RESOURCE: Long-time corporate campaiger Michael Marx has a great new book out called Reining in the Bulls: How to Stop Corporate Abuse in an Age of Unbridled Greed. Lots of helpful frameworks for anyone who is trying to stop corporations doing evil shit... and really shouldn't we all be?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
sorry you had to find out this way
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Climate breakdown is accelerating in terrifying ways but at least the renewable energy build out is going well in China, right? Oh. Crap.
insideclimatenews.org
Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News
The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There will be a Celebration of David's life in his choosen bioregion of Northern California. The event is at the Arcata Playhouse on October 3. The event will be livestreamed. Details will be posted on the EverLoved site in the post above. What is remember lives. #RestInPower ✊
A flyer that says:

David Keith Cobb Presente!
Join us for a Celebration of life Sat Oct 3 w pm 
Arcata Playhouse 1251 9th St Arcata CA

Organizer. Lawyer. Loving husband and dog daddy. Thinker. Activists. Presidential candidate. Texan. Social change agent. An amazing human being. David Keith Cobb was all of these, and so much more. Join together with family, friends, and comrades from near and far to celebrate David, his incredible and many-faceted life, and the immense change he made in the world and in our lives long the way.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another tech fascist "network state" project, this time in Uruguay: "...creating a new culture drawing from classical Greek, Roman and Renaissance aesthetics and the virtues of truth, beauty and heroism as embodied by the Greek god Apollo" Bro, Apollo was way into crypto, duh. #CallThemOligarchs
nytimes.com
These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World (Gift Article)
After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm glad people are finally paying attention to how the tech billionaires are obsessed with bat-shit crazy, transhumanist fantasies. Bring on the AI reckoning! But let's not get out threat assessment spun around. The real AI threat is less the technology and more the AI companies.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And just when you thought the Trump era had killed irony...
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BAY AREA: OpenAI wants us to think the threat is in the future but the reality is they are providing the infrastructure of MAGA fascism right now. Join us to put the billionaires on notice next Tuesday 7:30 am Marina Green in SF outside OpenAI's DevDay event. #CallThemOligarchs #BayResistance
CLOSE OpenAI
No killer robots for ICE, war and fascism!
We're calling out Sam Altman & OpenAI, demanding that they end ICE & military contracts and sign the Democracy Pledge!

RALLY DETAILS: Tues Sept 29th 7:30 am-10 am Marian Green Park near Fillmore St San Francisco
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The current state of the "A.I. discourse" perfectly captured in verse 🎯
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Worried about handing the future over to tech billionaires who openly dream of using AI to transform society in their own distorted vision? Join the emerging movement calling for an A.I. Freeze. A new organization is calling you to stand up for Team Human!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BIBI KNEW
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