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Misha🌹🦦

@misha-kesselman.bsky.social
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@ca-dsa.bsky.social Membership coordinator 🌹 @ecosocialists.dsausa.org CC member ⚡️ Environment and Climate Commissioner (Berkeley, CA) 🌇

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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 11h
A bill or permitting change that makes it 5x easier to do good but also 5x harder to undo harm is, at best, a net zero change. This goes for housing, energy, immigration, and whatever else a government attempts.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I found the week one "how to read a scientific paper or policy memo" assignments really annoying in undergrad. After working with undergrads on campaigns, I have to say maybe those units should be longer...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.
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Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule
The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that would eventually phase out gas water heaters in 2.8 million homes.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was only natural that the conversation around regulating AI would be co-opted by people with fanciful ideas about what LLMs can accomplish. Still, the extent to which it has become the norm in some circles to ignore the climate and social impacts should be seen as disqualifying.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is frankly climate denialism to say we're just going to rebuild these tracks over and over again at great expense and not move them off the beach (which is strikingly absent from this article).
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 27/09/2026
Rank Daria Wrubel #1 for Berkeley City Council District 1! She supports building housing, tenant protections, and ending the use of Flock surveillance cameras so that we can protect our community's privacy. www.dariaforberkeley.com P.S. our hats match! 👒
Alfred and Daria Wrubel, both are wearing big flowery straw hats and warm pastel colors.  Alfred is holding a Daria Wrubel for Berkeley City Council sign.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nuclear energy is so hauntological I think it breaks how everyone talks about energy. Anti-nuclear activists are stuck with visions of Chornobyl that don't reflect real risk. Pro-nuclear folks extend the same false premises of hydrogen fuel to nuclear power plants. Energy policy pasts, haunting us.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember the federal government prosecuting Aaron Swartz for downloading articles from JSTOR. Now the heads of prolific hacking and plagiarizing cartels are dining with dictators at the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026
There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
AI companies are lying to investors and the public to cover up slowing growth and rising debt. Conveniently, Amodei and his peers are not calling for restrictions on energy, land use, labor, emissions, water, or privacy.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Counterpoint, every tech oligarch who sided with a fascist administration is guilty of either corruption or treason and should be dealt with as such. :)
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
IOUs are only allowed to be the monopolies they are because the government renews their certificate of public convenience and necessity. Now it would be incredibly risky/legally difficult to revoke that, but it is not like we have to let them exist!
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
People have a right to be concerned about pesticides, preservatives, and pollutants the only issue is they got sucked into a right wing narrative. Plus the hypocrisy of RFK and his ilk is best put on display by someone who actually wants to address corporate harm to people/planet.
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isaac @sevier.io · 02/09/2026
I had the fortune to meet other public power comrades in London last year, including a student from Nepal. He has shared this fundraiser asking for help to provide meals and prevent human trafficking of orphaned children in the aftermath of the climate disaster there. Please share. 1/
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Zionism is antisemitism example number ??? Sanders is Jewish, his incredibly tame opposition to some things Israel does is somehow read by non-Jewish racists as a betrayal of his people. No wonder this asshole lost her primary.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At the very least Soviet and Chinese central planners scaled this with a winding down of imports. The level of market worship it takes to think we can just build out an industry like this is insane.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Democratic Socialism has never been more popular and successful than it is now, we must keep pushing!
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DSA for AOC 🌹 @dsa4aoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are DSA members organizing to seize the moment, unite Labor and the Left, and elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Presidency.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If what Altman and Amodei are saying about the singularity being put to work solving climate change then it will probably kill itself after running the numbers on its own emissions.
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 25/08/2026
oh you're mean about AI? well imagine this: a future model punishing you for being a non-believer. don't you want to join the cult and worship at the altar of my cybergod now? my spiteful cybergod?
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Actually I do think the status of legal vs illegal immigrant is a fiction the government can simply choose to change. It ought not to be, we should have compassionate immigration and residency policy but like, laws are not immutable truths. They can be revoked at the will of the state.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 19/08/2026
California voters favor progressive candidates, split over democratic socialism, poll finds
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California voters favor progressive candidates, split over democratic socialism, poll finds
California voters are more inclined to back progressives running for office than mainstream Democrats, a new poll found, though a marked generational divide separates those who favor each camp.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Avery is one of the most committed tenant organizers and Democratic Socialists I know. She has been fighting the good fight for over a damn decade and Berkeley would be lucky to have her as a Rent Board Commissioner. She deserves any penny you can spare!
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Avery Arbaugh @averyarbaugh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm running to be a champion for Berkeley tenants and tenant unions on the Berkeley Rent Board! Donations from Berkeley residents are matched 6-1 by the city, a $60 donation becomes $420 towards building a movement for tenant rights in Berkeley! Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/avery...
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Donate to Avery Arbaugh
Show your support with a contribution.
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Groundwork DSA @groundworkdsa.com · 11/08/2026
Groundwork National Political Committee Member & NYC-DSA EWG Field Co-Chair Eleanor Babaev explains how the co-governance model builds the party, why we ran Zohran Mamdani for executive office, and why we should keep running for other executive offices, like governor and president, going forward. 🔗👇
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The wild part is that Lenin would be a radlib if he put forth his take on Ukraine in DSA today.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
it's not GOOD if some streamer or DSA functionary believes disinformation about Ukraine. but that belief has minimal impact on the world whereas the fantasies believed by people in power very much do. Right-wing fantasies about Ukraine (and everything else) are killing people now. Today.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Coalition comes at the cost of being constantly annoyed with your allies. Given that Piker plans to seek no office, that attacks against him often do not harm candidates, and that his audience is online young people he is frankly good for the American left.
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Photo of Abdul with “it’s time to vote blue no matter who” in black blue and red on white in front of him
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is remarkable how many people sit around in city planning departments basically waiting for a chance to do good, only to be blown off by their electeds. It must feel great as a city employee to go from being told "maybe later" to "go right now," and as leftists, we should make staff like us.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc · 16/07/2026
Smoke-filled skies, 100 degree heat, and extreme flooding. We know the climate crisis is already here. But a better world IS possible. And ecosocialists are organizing to win it. Join us tonight at 8pm to learn how we’re fighting back and how you can plug in. Link in bio 🔗
APOCALYPSE NO
We won't let billionares burn our future.
Join our mass call tonight to find out
HOW DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS
FIGHT CLIMATE CHAOS.
* THURSDAY, JULY 16 AT 8 PM EST
*RSVP: LINK IN BIO
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A GOP senator died. No, not that one. Also a state party will have to replace Graham as its candidate. No, not that one.
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t a l @talevy.soccer · 12/07/2026
I am hearing that on his deathbed Lindsey Graham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How does any of this compare with a centrally planned market? Nothing within this proposal is closely related to socialism at all lol
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What is the plan the next time the HJTA wants to pass an insane tax reform? We knew of the measure for a long time and could have come together to oppose it on the ballot but instead they will get to tout the support of Democrats all the way to the ballot box.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
These centrist morons seem to be forgetting that unlike Socialists who build movements and mobilize people, they depend on the good will the Dems do/don't have at any given time. Please leave the party I beg you it will only make DSA stronger.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the House. The bill would ban the construction of data centers until Congress addresses the economic, environmental, and safety impacts of AI.
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Victims of Capitalism Support Account @victimsof.capital · 24/06/2026
Hey @nywfp.bsky.social leadership, I hope tonight has taught you what happens when you overrule your members to run against DSA candidates
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I guess what gets me about this sort of thing is that people keep writing these sorts of things like we’re still in Peak Woke when we are in year 10 of the entire world revolving around the king of rapists.
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Sonoma County DSA @socodsa.org · 05/06/2026
JOANNA ADVANCES! And she’s taking the lead 💅🏾 We are so proud to back our candidate: a community leader, an advocate for the unhoused, and importantly… a Democratic Socialist. 🌹 With Joanna, her team, and our volunteers, we look forward to winning in November. See you there, D2! ✊❤️ #socodsa
[Graphic announcement of Joanna Paun’s advancement into the general election for November. It’s a photo of her laughing surrounded by informational text detailed below. The Sonoma County Democratic Socialists of America logo is behind her, and the background is gradients of a pink-ish red, golden yellows, and blues.] 

Joanna Paun Advances! First Place! Sonoma County Supervisor, District 2 General Election: November 3rd, 2026. Sonoma County Democratic Socialists of America
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t a l @talevy.soccer · 01/06/2026
Ahead of election day tomorrow*, I built an analysis of Los Angeles' political demography based on past voting patterns and projected neighborhood-by-neighborhood across the five main mayoral candidates three-las.talevy.soccer *(of course, results won't be clear until several days after)
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The Three Los Angeleses — the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race in three cities
A map of the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral primary through its political geographies: Conservative LA, Liberal LA, and Left LA.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Is there a way for me to give ten bucks? I mean if every Californian gave ten bucks for this we’d have $390 million to spend on this. Right now we only give 50 cents I mean really we could go bigger!
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
stopgreedbuildgreen.org
Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute
A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at
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Syrak Micael | Candidate for Berkeley City Council District 7 @syrakforsouthside.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I’m Syrak Micael, and I’m running to represent District 7 on the Berkeley City Council. As a lifelong Berkeley resident, I love this city — and I’ve spent years putting in the work to make it even better. (1/7)
Syrak, a young Black man, poses in front of UC Berkeley's Campanile, wearing a light blue shirt long sleeve shirt and khakis. He is smiling and clasping his hands in front of him. The brick walkway behind him is lined with grass and trees.
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DSA San Francisco @dsasf.org · 29/03/2026
DSA SF stands in solidarity with our sister and comrade, Jackie Fielder, as she takes the time she needs to focus on her health. Jackie has been tirelessly fighting for the working class in her district, our city, and beyond, and now our movement stands beside her.
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Misha🌹🦦 @misha-kesselman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The one decent person on council is resigning and the gremlins at the standard and chron can’t help themselves but salivate at this “opportunity” for the mayor
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