Kevin Barron
@kevinbarron.bsky.social
Eyes on the prize: to ensure our children stand a chance of ANY future, a viable biosphere is paramount. The technofascists in ascendency know full well the dangers ahead, and are consolidating power for that reason.
They don’t have a viable plan.
They don’t have a viable plan.
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Kevin Barron
@kevinbarron.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Until we realize that this is not a political fight, but a fight for survival as a species, we will continue to fight a rearguard action, and continue to lose. We need a vision based on the reality of the ecological crisis, and sound scientific actions that will empower that vision based on history
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This @sarahkendzior ???
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This @sarahkendzior ???
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
WTAF?
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
WTAF?
What a beautiful way to live. Imagine if we all took this to heart and shared our gifts and talents, rather than putting a price on everything.
What do humans who aren’t consumers look like? What happens when we find ways of feeding ourselves and each other without buying or selling food?
Sand River Community Farm in upstate New York is an experiment in gift economy and community building. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.
Sand River Community Farm in upstate New York is an experiment in gift economy and community building. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.
Radical Neighbouring
A documentary about the importance of communty agriculture.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
What a beautiful way to live. Imagine if we all took this to heart and shared our gifts and talents, rather than putting a price on everything.
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We have never been beggars, but the situation in Gaza is beyond imagination. I ask for your support, help, and for you to share the link.
Please donate if you can and share the original.
gofund.me/20dee64f6
Please donate if you can and share the original.
gofund.me/20dee64f6
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We have never been beggars, but the situation in Gaza is beyond imagination. I ask for your support, help, and for you to share the link.
Please donate if you can and share the original.
gofund.me/20dee64f6
Please donate if you can and share the original.
gofund.me/20dee64f6
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Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-4) is standing with science! Joining us on 11/5 at our rally to #impeachthequack, he's calling RFK Jr. out on his work to make American less healthy and less safe.
Join the campaign to impeach and remove RFK! zurl.co/G59fa
Join the campaign to impeach and remove RFK! zurl.co/G59fa
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-4) is standing with science! Joining us on 11/5 at our rally to #impeachthequack, he's calling RFK Jr. out on his work to make American less healthy and less safe.
Join the campaign to impeach and remove RFK! zurl.co/G59fa
Join the campaign to impeach and remove RFK! zurl.co/G59fa
Funtional information theory is a proposed new “law of nature” that might be as crucial as evolution and the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
It seeks to answer that most fundamental question: “What is Life?
It seeks to answer that most fundamental question: “What is Life?
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Funtional information theory is a proposed new “law of nature” that might be as crucial as evolution and the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
It seeks to answer that most fundamental question: “What is Life?
It seeks to answer that most fundamental question: “What is Life?
The act of immediately cutting funding to USAID is a form of genocide. It targets not a single people, but entire regions of “others”. It’s racism and xenophobia at its most callous.
Thanks to @billmckibben.bsky.social for connecting the dots.
Thanks to @billmckibben.bsky.social for connecting the dots.
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The act of immediately cutting funding to USAID is a form of genocide. It targets not a single people, but entire regions of “others”. It’s racism and xenophobia at its most callous.
Thanks to @billmckibben.bsky.social for connecting the dots.
Thanks to @billmckibben.bsky.social for connecting the dots.
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“Shedding this anthropocentric lens, I believe, can yield very humbling realizations,and this humility might impart true wisdom—the quality our species, Homo sapiens, has assigned itself, yet one we can only ever truly realize by unlearning human exceptionalism.”
Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis, claims evolutionary biologist
by Kermit Pattison
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Shedding this anthropocentric lens, I believe, can yield very humbling realizations,and this humility might impart true wisdom—the quality our species, Homo sapiens, has assigned itself, yet one we can only ever truly realize by unlearning human exceptionalism.”
Now that ”Sandwich Guy” has been acquitted, the burning question is doesn’t Sean Dunn get a sandwich named after him??
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Now that ”Sandwich Guy” has been acquitted, the burning question is doesn’t Sean Dunn get a sandwich named after him??
In a sad case of confusing the symptom for the disease, social media is blamed for enshittification of life.
It’s as if we have a leak in our roof, and we say: houses suck - we should just live in trees.
What actually sucks is the drive to corporatize everything and squeeze all the life out.
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It’s as if we have a leak in our roof, and we say: houses suck - we should just live in trees.
What actually sucks is the drive to corporatize everything and squeeze all the life out.
1/2
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In a sad case of confusing the symptom for the disease, social media is blamed for enshittification of life.
It’s as if we have a leak in our roof, and we say: houses suck - we should just live in trees.
What actually sucks is the drive to corporatize everything and squeeze all the life out.
1/2
It’s as if we have a leak in our roof, and we say: houses suck - we should just live in trees.
What actually sucks is the drive to corporatize everything and squeeze all the life out.
1/2
In the early days of the net, (when your granpa was knee-high to a grasshopper) predictions were that computer-generated traffic would soon outpace human traffic.
Never did we imagine that it would be AI slop, choking out all truth and meaning.
Never did we imagine that it would be AI slop, choking out all truth and meaning.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In the early days of the net, (when your granpa was knee-high to a grasshopper) predictions were that computer-generated traffic would soon outpace human traffic.
Never did we imagine that it would be AI slop, choking out all truth and meaning.
Never did we imagine that it would be AI slop, choking out all truth and meaning.
The “dept of war” wants to start a war, but the constitution plainly reserves that power for congress.
This administration seeks to start a war for the sake of consolidation all power to itself.
If only we had a supreme court that upheld the constitution.
This administration seeks to start a war for the sake of consolidation all power to itself.
If only we had a supreme court that upheld the constitution.
"Congress needs to assert its constitutional power to prohibit use of military force," stressed one of the war powers resolution's co-sponsors.
Senate Set to Vote on Venezuela War Powers Resolution
"Congress needs to assert its constitutional power to prohibit use of military force," stressed war powers resolution cosponsor Adam Schiff.
www.commondreams.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The “dept of war” wants to start a war, but the constitution plainly reserves that power for congress.
This administration seeks to start a war for the sake of consolidation all power to itself.
If only we had a supreme court that upheld the constitution.
This administration seeks to start a war for the sake of consolidation all power to itself.
If only we had a supreme court that upheld the constitution.
Carbon offsets are a confusion of dependencies. The economy is dependent on ecology, not the other way ‘round. Playing games with monopoly money is a dangerous deception that provides cover for not taking the action that is urgently needed.
<insert image here of smoking through a tracheotomy tube>
<insert image here of smoking through a tracheotomy tube>
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
#auspol #ClimateChange
#auspol #ClimateChange
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Carbon offsets are a confusion of dependencies. The economy is dependent on ecology, not the other way ‘round. Playing games with monopoly money is a dangerous deception that provides cover for not taking the action that is urgently needed.
<insert image here of smoking through a tracheotomy tube>
<insert image here of smoking through a tracheotomy tube>
“So hope for me is not about prophesying a future that everything will be fine. It's reminding people that we've changed the world before, and that we can again: we know how it works. And in a crisis like this, we better get on with it.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
AMEN!!
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
AMEN!!
‘Authoritarianism, resistance’ mark this pivotal American moment | CBC Radio
Political analyst Rachel Maddow and writer/activist Rebecca Solnit are sharp observers of Trump 2.0. They discuss the global impact (including his beef with Canada), and where they see effective domes...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“So hope for me is not about prophesying a future that everything will be fine. It's reminding people that we've changed the world before, and that we can again: we know how it works. And in a crisis like this, we better get on with it.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
AMEN!!
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
AMEN!!
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Attention has (justly) gone to the abuses in Chicago but the assaults in Los Angeles never ended. The military left but they were guarding building. DHS paramilitaries remain active in L.A. it's bad.
Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible.
There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.
There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.
The past week+ has been really intense in Los Angeles. We need all of the help, support, & attention we can get. Feds are literally roving the streets snatch & grabbing vulnerable individuals. It's horrific. We need to do more.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Attention has (justly) gone to the abuses in Chicago but the assaults in Los Angeles never ended. The military left but they were guarding building. DHS paramilitaries remain active in L.A. it's bad.
“Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written ... In this time of rampant fascism, …Nation of Strangers is both a call and a comfort, a book that made me feel so much less alone”
Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad
New book coming. Nation of Strangers -Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century. Check it out here buythebook.online/ece-temelkuran
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written ... In this time of rampant fascism, …Nation of Strangers is both a call and a comfort, a book that made me feel so much less alone”
Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad
Last night was for celebrating, today we need to remember that while waves are fun, “we are the water” as @andreapitzer.bsky.social so aptly points out.
And the point about not scapegoating others is so important right now.
And the point about not scapegoating others is so important right now.
I wrote about tonight's amazing news!
"We should celebrate the election results. They have the potential to bring a sea change. We can look to these races for strategies in the next year and beyond. But it’s worth remembering that what happened today is just the wave. *We* are the water."
"We should celebrate the election results. They have the potential to bring a sea change. We can look to these races for strategies in the next year and beyond. But it’s worth remembering that what happened today is just the wave. *We* are the water."
Just a wave, not the water
Hooray! Still, winning elections is only the first step.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Last night was for celebrating, today we need to remember that while waves are fun, “we are the water” as @andreapitzer.bsky.social so aptly points out.
And the point about not scapegoating others is so important right now.
And the point about not scapegoating others is so important right now.
Damn good speech. Tells Trump to turn up the volume on his TV - then gives him an earful!!
in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Damn good speech. Tells Trump to turn up the volume on his TV - then gives him an earful!!
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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
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People don’t seem to like billionaires controlling their lives and democracy. Good. We have to sustain collective and coordinated resistance to the authoritarian-billionaire doom loop.
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
People don’t seem to like billionaires controlling their lives and democracy. Good. We have to sustain collective and coordinated resistance to the authoritarian-billionaire doom loop.
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"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Here’s hoping Summers loses all the funds he grifted and more. What a snake.
lawrence summers: guys, please, the invisible hand will provide, don't cut rents please please please
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Here’s hoping Summers loses all the funds he grifted and more. What a snake.
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“I hope every woman who has ever faced an abuser like Cuomo knows she doesn’t have to be ashamed, she doesn’t have to hide. Because we will beat these monsters. New Yorkers said “no more” to Andrew Cuomo, and that is just remarkable.” indypendent.org/2025/07/we-w...
‘We Will Beat These Monsters’: Lindsey Boylan Reacts to Cuomo’s Defeat
The former Cuomo aide was the first of eleven women to publicly denounce the
disgraced governor for sexual harassment.
indypendent.org
July 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“I hope every woman who has ever faced an abuser like Cuomo knows she doesn’t have to be ashamed, she doesn’t have to hide. Because we will beat these monsters. New Yorkers said “no more” to Andrew Cuomo, and that is just remarkable.” indypendent.org/2025/07/we-w...
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Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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If this music does not stir your soul…
(maybe dust it off with a walk in the woods)
(maybe dust it off with a walk in the woods)
'The greatest lie ever told about love', she said, 'is that it sets you free.'
#Music Movement, Before All Flowers, Max Richter
youtu.be/MuWkgLc7N_0?...
#Music Movement, Before All Flowers, Max Richter
youtu.be/MuWkgLc7N_0?...
Max Richter - Movement, Before All Flowers (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by MaxRichterVEVO
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If this music does not stir your soul…
(maybe dust it off with a walk in the woods)
(maybe dust it off with a walk in the woods)