jamesbelcher.bsky.social
I'm a writer focused on energy and the just transition.
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Albanese handled that appropriately.
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We already have two billionaire-backed parties. At best, another would offer More of the Same. There is no world in which Musk (in particular) wouldn't thumb the scales, undermining democracy at the party level.
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Our famously rainy city is somehow permanently smoldering.
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Lodge 49
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We disagree. The institution is impervious to reform.
Abolitionists have the right idea.
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You're both-sidesing a fascist clampdown.
Reassess.
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Cops don't have a fucking clue how to de-escalate.
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"diverted"
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You can assign all the training you want. In the moment, cops *do not care* about the law. They care about control.
The institution of policing is impervious to reform. Abolitionists have the right idea.
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Video posted from the Freedom Flotilla account.
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UPDATE: "The ministry described the Freedom Flotilla ship as a “selfie yacht” and a “celebrities yacht” that is carrying “less than a single truckload of aid."
This smear job elides the fact that Israel is blocking aid from all other routes as well. Many, many, many truckloads' worth.
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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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c: @popmobpdx.bsky.social
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UPDATE: “This, unfortunately, has been a very unlikely false alarm. we have been surrounded by many lights all at once. And they were circling our boat, but in the end, they kept going their own way,” he said.
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Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
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Thanks for being out in the streets, and stay safe.
There's an incrementalism vs. systems change contradiction in your last sentence; "making actual progress" can be objectively true while failing utterly to meet the moment (See: Inflation Reduction Act).
Of possible interest:
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I seriously do my best to not say shit about people putting themselves at risk to do the right thing.
I believe in the saying "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
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I refuse to play good protester / bad protester.