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Jeff Bezos just became the first person on the Forbes 400 list with a net worth of $200 billion…and we’re still arguing about whether the billionaires need to be taxed.
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.@FrancesHaugen: "I joined Facebook because I think Facebook has the potential to bring out the best in us. But I am here today because I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy."
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successes (the EZLN, Rojava) of the last century are rooted in local conditions, not ideological purity. Our future will be built working with people with different visions of that future, and that doesn't mean giving up our power but finding ways to work collaboratively.
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The biggest challenge a lot of younger leftists seem to grapple with is whether they want to be ideologically right or do they want to improve material conditions. Part of this stems from differentiating between playing into capitalism's ability to coopt movements & building dual
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It’s time we recognize where our money goes. 💰
📣 Join the Youth Climate Finance Alliance on Oct. 29 as we build people power in the climate justice movement by holding big banks, like Chase, accountable.
🚨 Be a part of the #FossilFreeFuture movement: fossilfreefuture.earth
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A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors, criminal investigators and citizens around the world. wapo.st/3uBBWY5
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Capitalism produces ecological crisis for the same reason it produces inequality: because the fundamental mechanism of capitalist growth is that capital must extract (from nature and labour) more than it gives in return.
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The ecological crisis is ultimately being driven by our economic system, which is predicated on perpetual expansion. So yes, compost and recycle and avoid flying as much as possible, but above all organize and fight for a post-capitalist economy.
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We are a depressed, lonely and alienated society because we live in an economic system that is organized around artificial scarcity, exploitation and extraction. It breaks us every day.
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You know what’s wild?
We live in a society that COULD safely house everyone, but CHOOSES not to because the dominant narrative is that you must EARN your right to be housed.
We call bullshit. EVERYBODY deserves housing that is SAFE, HEALTHY and EASY FOR THEM TO AFFORD.
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There have been tons of great electric transmission studies showing huge need for more large scale transmission. But those studies have one simple fatal flaw. A thread, from an RTO stakeholder...1/12
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THREAD: This summer, I interned for Mayor Muriel Bowser in the office of communications. This internship was listed on LinkedIn as an unpaid position. I decided to apply anyways because it seemed like a good opportunity.
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I’m sorry, but “all of the above” is climate denial.
The IPCC and every other major scientific body have been clear: if we keep burning fossil fuels, we’re doomed.
Gina McCarthy visiting Sempra, asked about natural gas: "The president’s plan is an all-of-the-above’ strategy...we are looking at every opportunity to get renewable energy into the marketplace as fast as we can but we are not picking & choosing winners." sandiegouniontribune.com/bus…
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"Not picking & choosing winners" is doing exactly that:
Winners: Air polluters; water polluters; climate polluters; land destroyers;
Losers: Children, elderly, sick, at-risk communities, world population.
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You all are literally the world’s largest investors in fossil fuels blackrocksbigproblem.com/
The BlackRock Investment Institute believes investors shouldn’t ignore the effects of #climatechange on their portfolios – and that the window for adapting portfolios may be shrinking. Read more in the Global weekly commentary: ms.spr.ly/6018nFQKI
