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Assoc. Professor and human-environment geographer @Temple University. Political ecology | environmental justice | water | climate change | infrastructure | borders | Asia | kimberley.thomasresearch.org

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UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT: tomorrow, February 28th, is the Economic Blackout. I ain’t buying shit. Plan ahead, but if you must buy essentials, use cash and support local businesses only. No corporate chains!

submitted 7 hours ago • 261 comments

The new executive orders slashing funding & programs for social justice and env’tl protection paint a bleak picture for the future of climate justice (CJ). But liberal political theory–the basis of the mainstream CJ movement–was always going to fall short even without these cuts tinyurl.com/2ju5k82x

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The new executive orders slashing funding & programs for social justice and env’tl protection paint a bleak picture for the future of climate justice (CJ). But liberal political theory–the basis of the mainstream CJ movement–was always going to fall short even without these cuts tinyurl.com/2ju5k82x

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

THIS is what fighting back looks like! 👏 Democrats are planning to hold the Senate floor all night tonight to try and stop the confirmation of Project 2025 architect and OMB nominee Russell Vought. REPOST if you support their efforts!

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Trump/Musk/Project 2025 Marches Forward Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

submitted 29 days ago • 727 comments

I can’t believe this is the first paragraph of a U.S. government memorandum. It’s fucking insane. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

Earlier today, OMB published a memo ordering all agencies to freeze all federal grants and loans. This funding affects NSF, DOE, NIH, NASA, NOAA, and USDA research funding. The order ia flagrant violation of the Congressional Impoundment Act. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

🧵HOW TO CALL CONGRESS AND FIGHT FASCISM 🧵 The US Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Save that number in your phone. (1/x)

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit manuscripts for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

submitted 33 days ago • 148 comments

Helpful!

submitted 37 days ago • 799 comments

“Scam and grift revealed.” Sure it’s about money. But it’s even more about control. Right wing oligarchs already own most of the message. TikTok is the most addictive and controlling of them all.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

All the shitposting on here about AI is giving me life! I didn’t expect to see so many others disgusted by the hype. To add to the pile on, I’m baffled by assertions that AI is going to solve problems, from water security to climate change, that are inherently social and political in nature.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

submitted 349 days ago • 100 comments

NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:

submitted 41 days ago • 532 comments

I'm sure by now you've seen the viral tweet/phrase that goes something like "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" and while accurate, it's a bit self-deterministic. /1

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

When the bubble pops, and it will, you’re not just looking at a few Johnny-come-lately companies shuttering. This is a load-bearing delusion. The entire tech industry is fucked because they all bought in, every VC firm bought in, investors have everything in it. They need to make you like it.

submitted 45 days ago • 141 comments

1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵

submitted 98 days ago • 293 comments

After a nice holiday vacation, I'm back to work @insideclimatenews.org. If you've got a story or think I need to know about something happening across the West in this new year, get in touch @ [email protected]

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

If "being realistic" is what has gotten us here, I propose we stop being realistic and instead assume that power can yield, economics can be transformed, self-governance can be pure, and people and planet can be put first.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments