Leah Missik 🇺🇦
@autumngales.bsky.social
Climate, ПТН ХЛО, feminism, democracy, bikes, runs, music, +more. // Paul McCartney gave me an air hug. // WA policy at Climate Solutions // Jackson Foundation fellow // views mine!
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Look to the states for continued leadership on the climate crisis. As @autumngales.bsky.social @climatesolutions.org puts it, “States have always been the incubators for important climate policy work,” and Trump's efforts to thwart state action are likely to fail. @grist.org
Why Trump can't stop states from fighting climate change
The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billi...
grist.org
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Look to the states for continued leadership on the climate crisis. As @autumngales.bsky.social @climatesolutions.org puts it, “States have always been the incubators for important climate policy work,” and Trump's efforts to thwart state action are likely to fail. @grist.org
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You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
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.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
Disgusting that such an ignorant person has such power. To actually learn about the regime of violence Russia has deployed in occupied Ukraine, watch this documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHld...
March 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Disgusting that such an ignorant person has such power. To actually learn about the regime of violence Russia has deployed in occupied Ukraine, watch this documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHld...
The Czechoslovak newspaper Vecerni Prah, 6 days after the Soviet invasion in 1968, published 10 commandments: “When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.”
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
wagingnonviolence.org
March 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Czechoslovak newspaper Vecerni Prah, 6 days after the Soviet invasion in 1968, published 10 commandments: “When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.”
Brian Heywood right now
a bald man is laying on the floor with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a bald man is laying on the floor with his hand on his chin .
media.tenor.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Brian Heywood right now
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Big win for efforts to fight climate change today as Judge Sandra Widlan ruled that Initiative 2066 was unconstitutional, a measure that would have locked us into a dirty methane gas future. While Trump goes backward on climate, Washington State is going www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
WA’s natural gas initiative unconstitutional, King County judge rules
Washington voters in November narrowly approved Initiative 2066 to protect access to natural gas. Here's what to know about a judge's ruling on its constitutionality.
www.seattletimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Big win for efforts to fight climate change today as Judge Sandra Widlan ruled that Initiative 2066 was unconstitutional, a measure that would have locked us into a dirty methane gas future. While Trump goes backward on climate, Washington State is going www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The King County Superior Court just ruled that Initiative 2066 is unconstitutional! Huge win for clean energy and Washington families.
I-2066 ruled unconstitutional: a win for Washington families | Climate Solutions
Today, a King County Superior Court judge ruled that controversial initiative 2066 violates several provisions of the the Washington State constitution.
www.climatesolutions.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The King County Superior Court just ruled that Initiative 2066 is unconstitutional! Huge win for clean energy and Washington families.
Big, important news!
Great Friday afternoon news: a judge overturned I-2066, last Fall’s industry-sponsored methane gas initiative, for violating the WA constitution’s single subject rule. Protects low-income energy efficiency programs & WA’s progress on clean energy. www.climatesolutions.org/article/2025...
I-2066 ruled unconstitutional: a win for Washington families | Climate Solutions
Today, a King County Superior Court judge ruled that controversial initiative 2066 violates several provisions of the the Washington State constitution.
www.climatesolutions.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Big, important news!
The deeper you dig, the more connections in the web of autocracy, inc you can find.
On Meeting Putin: Alliances Great and Small
19 March 2025
substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The deeper you dig, the more connections in the web of autocracy, inc you can find.
"If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen."
Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
snyder.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen."
TIL I am religious! I am an adherent of the climate change religion! But alas the feds are driving a dagger in its heart.
March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
TIL I am religious! I am an adherent of the climate change religion! But alas the feds are driving a dagger in its heart.
Congress approved the funding for Ukraine, just like Congress approved funding for so many other things Musk-Trump-Vance have halted.
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Congress approved the funding for Ukraine, just like Congress approved funding for so many other things Musk-Trump-Vance have halted.
March 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Let's be clear: the current US admin does not care about real peace. They do not care about Ukrainians. They do not care about people dying. They do not care about people being tortured.
They care about looking like "strong" men. They care about buddying up to other authoritarians.
They care about looking like "strong" men. They care about buddying up to other authoritarians.
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Let's be clear: the current US admin does not care about real peace. They do not care about Ukrainians. They do not care about people dying. They do not care about people being tortured.
They care about looking like "strong" men. They care about buddying up to other authoritarians.
They care about looking like "strong" men. They care about buddying up to other authoritarians.
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‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: the #Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay
As well as intense human suffering, three years of war have had a catastrophic environmental effect, killing wildlife, felling trees and increasing emissions
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: the #Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Those who decry the U.S.’s role in great power struggles (“NATO expansionism!”) are exhibiting their own imperial mindsets by deferring to the desires of another “great” power (Russia and its supposed “legitimate sphere of influence”) — completely ignoring the agency of smaller countries.
March 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Those who decry the U.S.’s role in great power struggles (“NATO expansionism!”) are exhibiting their own imperial mindsets by deferring to the desires of another “great” power (Russia and its supposed “legitimate sphere of influence”) — completely ignoring the agency of smaller countries.
“Ukraine has long been located at the intersection of empires. And these empires have often collaborated to plunder the country’s resources, offering little or nothing in return. We can see this kind of predatory collaboration of imperial and neo-imperial regimes once again taking shape.”
Foreign powers have long profited from Ukrainian resources – Trump’s minerals grab is no exception
Western capitalists and Russian elites first began developing Ukrainian resources in the mid-19th century.
theconversation.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Ukraine has long been located at the intersection of empires. And these empires have often collaborated to plunder the country’s resources, offering little or nothing in return. We can see this kind of predatory collaboration of imperial and neo-imperial regimes once again taking shape.”
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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
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Thursday was housework day in my house growing up. Traditionally, my dad did the vacuuming. But he had ear problems and the noise started to hurt his ear too bad. So every Thursday, he would get the family together to yell at me for a few hours in front of everyone for something I allegedly did. 1/x
February 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thursday was housework day in my house growing up. Traditionally, my dad did the vacuuming. But he had ear problems and the noise started to hurt his ear too bad. So every Thursday, he would get the family together to yell at me for a few hours in front of everyone for something I allegedly did. 1/x
WAYS TO SUPPORT UKRAINE:
u24.gov.ua
www.razomforukraine.org
savelife.in.ua/en/
Be mad and do something about it.
u24.gov.ua
www.razomforukraine.org
savelife.in.ua/en/
Be mad and do something about it.
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
February 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
WAYS TO SUPPORT UKRAINE:
u24.gov.ua
www.razomforukraine.org
savelife.in.ua/en/
Be mad and do something about it.
u24.gov.ua
www.razomforukraine.org
savelife.in.ua/en/
Be mad and do something about it.
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I keep saying this: if you grew up under an abuser, you know exactly what this is and that no appeasement is possible.
Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts.
There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.
There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.
February 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I keep saying this: if you grew up under an abuser, you know exactly what this is and that no appeasement is possible.