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Simona Mila Capisani

@simomila.bsky.social
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Climate politics, political/social & environmental philosophy, migration justice. Assistant Prof (Durham University, UK). Formerly postdoc @Princeton University HMEI & UCHV. PhD University of California, Irvine.

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Hélène Benveniste @helenebenveniste.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very proud to see this paper out at @environmentalpol.bsky.social , with the fantastic @simomila.bsky.social !
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world. People are going to die because of this pollution."
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People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
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LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
You might think a nominally centrist govt, faced with an impending fascist capture of the machinery of state, would be doing *everything* to impede their ability to pursue fash policies in power. Instead, Lab has been est mechanisms & norms that Reform will be able to immediately exploit & build on
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This horrific epistemological practice has both proven almost impossible to dislodge, even as it’s resulted in press being utterly humiliated by liars again and again. It has also arguably led to the collapse of liberal democracy and the rise of fascism. It seems like they should stop doing it!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I think the media want to find some secret to unlock here precisely BECAUSE the footage is so straightforward. It shows us clearly what DHS has become. And it leads them to a conclusion that they dare not take: there is only side of the story here in Minneapolis, and a monstrous, powerful villain
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Also, leave it to Trump to engineer a Katrina-scale political crisis completely out of thin air within a year of taking office, rising out of nothing more than mind-boggling policy choices and a complete inability to avoid putting huge quantities of firearms in the hands of America’s worst people
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“The election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.” heatmap.news/politics/ali...
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Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia
A “seismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
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New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Emergency funds to foods banks aren’t sufficient — these people are employed and caregivers they can’t afford to stand on long food lines. The way aid is delivered is just as important as the cash itself in terms of who is able to benefit
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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IOPP Environment and Energy @iopp-environment.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: “Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭 📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It does kind of make you wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had just forgiven all that student loan debt after district courts blocked the loan forgiveness plan.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 30/06/2025
Wide areas of the UK are currently 10-12°C above normal for the time of day and time of the year. Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com
Map of UK showing how much warmer than normal it is right now
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 31/05/2025
The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on Mayor Karen Bass asking City Council to eliminate LA’s climate emergency office, which protects Angelenos from extreme heat. Meanwhile Bass still claims to be a climate champion. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Report your NSF grant termination here. 🌊🧪 There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.” Utterly terrifying.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄 Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
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DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
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lakerat61.bsky.social @lakerat61.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article)
Those of us who seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Trump admin just illegally stripped collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal workers in 18 different departments across multiple agencies. The regime stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared war on President Trump’s agenda.” www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements
PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act of
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Heidi Ledford @heidiledford.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There were quite a few things that people told me that we just didn’t have room for in this story about how the US immigration crackdown is worrying scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Here's a thread with a few of them:
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‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries
Several high-profile incidents in the past month have scientists on edge.
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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A very well-written article from 2020 (rare these days!) on the imminent societal impact even weakly capable AI will have, by the late Stanford philosopher Ken Taylor. Full article here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/ken...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I just want the Trump administration to know that they are always welcome to also include me in their war planning signal chats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2025
You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🌍 We need more young people (and adults, quite frankly) to learn about climate change, so I was very happy to sign this open letter to the Secretary of State for Education in the UK. ✍🏿 If you feel the same, please read and sign the letter, as well as reading more about this issue here 🔽
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
More on your individual rights, from these slides shown at a teach-in at Princeton last month: docs.google.com/presentation...
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Examples of current law: - In a private space, ICE must have a judicial warrant (not an immigration warrant) to enter. - If you are a legal immigrant, you must have proof. But citizens and undocumenteds do not. - Constitutional rights apply to all persons in the U.S. www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼
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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Social scientists with climate expertise, the @ipcc.bsky.social has adopted a work program that requires your participation. Political scientists, policy scholars, law faculty transition scholars, sociologists, organization scholars ++ please volunteer to become authors! Calls will be out soon.
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/02/2025
"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:
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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Attempted mass firings at NOAA, and other threats, could shatter a 200-year legacy of science for the benefit of the American people, experts warn as the Trump administration wreaks havoc on one of the world’s premier research agencies. insideclimatenews.org/news/2802202...
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Experts Say Attempted Mass Firing of NOAA Workers May be Illegal and Threatens Public Safety - Inside Climate News
Weather forecasters, climate modelers, glacier scientists and crew members on research ships received termination emails, while a federal judge simultaneously ordered the Trump administration to resci...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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David Moorfield Frank @dmf84.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🎵 Constitutional crisis 🎵
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 09/01/2025
California home owners could be on the hook for Los Angeles fire recovery. @zeitlin.bsky.social breaks down how we got here:
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California’s Insurance Overhaul Came Too Late
Private providers have started returning to the fire-ravaged state, but its insurer of last resort still has huge and growing exposure.
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