Tyee Williams
@tyeewilliams.bsky.social
Just a wildland firefighter in a world of disaster capitalism
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Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.
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ICE is buying up warehouses across the country to build a massive network of detention centers in small towns across the country.
The agency paid $102 million spent for a warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, and $70 million in cash paid for a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona. trib.al/OxjFqNL
The agency paid $102 million spent for a warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, and $70 million in cash paid for a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona. trib.al/OxjFqNL
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 AM
ICE is buying up warehouses across the country to build a massive network of detention centers in small towns across the country.
The agency paid $102 million spent for a warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, and $70 million in cash paid for a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona. trib.al/OxjFqNL
The agency paid $102 million spent for a warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, and $70 million in cash paid for a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona. trib.al/OxjFqNL
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"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant"
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
proteanmag.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant"
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
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Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.
December 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.
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Want to support baristas on ULP strike? Head to nocontractnocoffee.org and:
🖊️sign our pledge to stop buying Starbucks while baristas are on strike
☕️ make a customized graphic to show your solidarity
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🖊️sign our pledge to stop buying Starbucks while baristas are on strike
☕️ make a customized graphic to show your solidarity
🪧 find a picket line near you
No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.
nocontractnocoffee.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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great editorial on risk aversion in forest management particularly on proactive fire management vs reactive fire suppression. Equally relevant to southern Australia. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Managing public lands requires a new kind of leader
Click on the article title to read more.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
great editorial on risk aversion in forest management particularly on proactive fire management vs reactive fire suppression. Equally relevant to southern Australia. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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On Thursday, I will be in conversation with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social in Portland at 7 pm PT. I hope my Portland friends can join us! www.powells.com/events/kelly...
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
On Thursday, I will be in conversation with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social in Portland at 7 pm PT. I hope my Portland friends can join us! www.powells.com/events/kelly...
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Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.05% of global CO2 pollution.
That it's about to be destroyed by a monster hurricane is climate injustice — aka climate colonialism, aka global capitalism — in action.
That it's about to be destroyed by a monster hurricane is climate injustice — aka climate colonialism, aka global capitalism — in action.
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.05% of global CO2 pollution.
That it's about to be destroyed by a monster hurricane is climate injustice — aka climate colonialism, aka global capitalism — in action.
That it's about to be destroyed by a monster hurricane is climate injustice — aka climate colonialism, aka global capitalism — in action.
Big shout out to the bartender at the club who let me watch the last two innings on his phone behind the bar
October 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Big shout out to the bartender at the club who let me watch the last two innings on his phone behind the bar
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More importantly, it was highly irresponsible of the @nytimes.com to publish this article (which I know they’ve been working on for months) right now. It sends a message to an unaware public that the socialists in City Hall are somehow responsible for current national attacks on Portland.
October 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
More importantly, it was highly irresponsible of the @nytimes.com to publish this article (which I know they’ve been working on for months) right now. It sends a message to an unaware public that the socialists in City Hall are somehow responsible for current national attacks on Portland.
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been running so fast i didn't realize it but we're just a week away from kicking off a half week of movement building for public power! all thanks to some incredible, genius, amazing, beautiful people i'm gonna shout out here. if you're anywhere near portland, come join us for the community portion👇
join us if you're gonna be in portland oregon on october 10th events.humanitix.com/rumble-publi...
Portland's Future: It's in Our Hands
An evening of music and ideas for building a Portland that provides and cares for everyone with new public investment in public goods.
events.humanitix.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
been running so fast i didn't realize it but we're just a week away from kicking off a half week of movement building for public power! all thanks to some incredible, genius, amazing, beautiful people i'm gonna shout out here. if you're anywhere near portland, come join us for the community portion👇
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All right everybody, time to read (or reread) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Ground rules: we are not reading for the history of 1848-1852 France, but we're also not looking for direct parallels to the contemporary US. We are looking for broad lessons on politics and just generally good lines.
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
All right everybody, time to read (or reread) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Ground rules: we are not reading for the history of 1848-1852 France, but we're also not looking for direct parallels to the contemporary US. We are looking for broad lessons on politics and just generally good lines.
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Just out in PNAS!
We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.
Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.
Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS
The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested
landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...
www.pnas.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Just out in PNAS!
We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.
Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.
Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I'm not kidding when I say you could teach an entire ethics course with this article.
Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.
Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.
September 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm not kidding when I say you could teach an entire ethics course with this article.
Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.
Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.
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In California, Hawai’i and Washington, disaster survivors are forming community land trusts to protect their homes from speculation.
The race to protect homes from speculators post-wildfire - High Country News
Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.
buff.ly
September 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In California, Hawai’i and Washington, disaster survivors are forming community land trusts to protect their homes from speculation.
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The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/unit...
United Methodist Church divests from Israel
The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge.
mondoweiss.net
August 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/unit...
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Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate theonion.com/left-wi...
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate theonion.com/left-wi...
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"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
Original draft of syllabus is here - www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi... - still in need of a summary piece on the role of capital in shaping the AI economy
The Political Economy of AI: A Syllabus
As I’ve noted occasionally before, one of the most potentially useful things that academics do is preparing syllabi, and hence organizing information about the world.
www.programmablemutter.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
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Under no scenario is this a good move & in this instance, where no thought has been given to what is being lost & destroyed, there will be bad outcomes. Also, the reconstruction will be enormously difficult.
We should be making more agile orgs to deal with the coming challenges. This is not that.
We should be making more agile orgs to deal with the coming challenges. This is not that.
The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region Headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would be moved to Fort Collins, Colorado.https://www.salemreporter.com/2025/08/01/usda-proposes-closing-regional-forest-service-offices-in-portland-moving-work-to-colorado-utah/
August 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Under no scenario is this a good move & in this instance, where no thought has been given to what is being lost & destroyed, there will be bad outcomes. Also, the reconstruction will be enormously difficult.
We should be making more agile orgs to deal with the coming challenges. This is not that.
We should be making more agile orgs to deal with the coming challenges. This is not that.
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“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”
On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past
For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burni...
e360.yale.edu
July 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”
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Two wildland firefighters — one female, one nonbinary — release memoirs this summer discussing their experience in the male-dominated workforce.
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Two hotshots, two memoirs - High Country News
A Q+A with outliers in fire.
www.hcn.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Two wildland firefighters — one female, one nonbinary — release memoirs this summer discussing their experience in the male-dominated workforce.
buff.ly/nsh52Ki
buff.ly/nsh52Ki
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Coming back to the inspirations in this article, including the idea of a Wildland *Cultural* Interface: “We need to reframe cultural resources and values at risk into a matrix of action; we need to understand the cultural structures that need protection…and they need to be fully accounted for.”
“The man didn’t have to cut a fireline with a Pulaski or a chainsaw; he didn’t have to work in a bulldozer cutting a dozer line; and he didn’t have to have air support to keep the fire out of the trees. The snow did the work.”
Cultural burning: Wildfires in the Arctic – Wildfire Today
wildfiretoday.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Coming back to the inspirations in this article, including the idea of a Wildland *Cultural* Interface: “We need to reframe cultural resources and values at risk into a matrix of action; we need to understand the cultural structures that need protection…and they need to be fully accounted for.”