David Champagne
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The creators of “South Park” realized something about Donald Trump early on: he’s an endless wellspring of material, but what he says and does is inevitably more absurd than any satire could be.
“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President
The new season première goes after Trump as never before—and solves a problem that’s plagued comedians since his first term in office.
www.newyorker.com
July 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The creators of “South Park” realized something about Donald Trump early on: he’s an endless wellspring of material, but what he says and does is inevitably more absurd than any satire could be.
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Climate fiction isn't always dark or dystopian; some of it offers solutions. Some is even fun. For whatever kind of reader, @chrishatch.bsky.social has aggregated the best cli-fi books www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/06/o...
The best climate fiction for readers coming to terms with climate fact
There’s something strangely reassuring about the genre, even when it’s grim. Such insightful minds struggling with futures that are already arrived but largely invisible; baked in but beyond polite co...
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December 9, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Climate fiction isn't always dark or dystopian; some of it offers solutions. Some is even fun. For whatever kind of reader, @chrishatch.bsky.social has aggregated the best cli-fi books www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/06/o...
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The GOP budget: brought to you by the phrase “stop hitting yourself.”
May 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The GOP budget: brought to you by the phrase “stop hitting yourself.”
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📢📚NEW ARRIVAL📖📢
Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America
by Heather Whiteside
This is the latest book in the ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS SERIES edited by @brettchristophers.bsky.social, Rebecca Lave, @jamiepeck.bsky.social & Marion Werner
@geographers.bsky.social
Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America
by Heather Whiteside
This is the latest book in the ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS SERIES edited by @brettchristophers.bsky.social, Rebecca Lave, @jamiepeck.bsky.social & Marion Werner
@geographers.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
📢📚NEW ARRIVAL📖📢
Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America
by Heather Whiteside
This is the latest book in the ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS SERIES edited by @brettchristophers.bsky.social, Rebecca Lave, @jamiepeck.bsky.social & Marion Werner
@geographers.bsky.social
Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America
by Heather Whiteside
This is the latest book in the ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS SERIES edited by @brettchristophers.bsky.social, Rebecca Lave, @jamiepeck.bsky.social & Marion Werner
@geographers.bsky.social
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Today’s No Mercy / No Malice: Rise of the Toligarchs…
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Rise of the Toligarchs | No Mercy / No Malice
The 0.1% have insulated themselves from the general public with their own schools, health care, transportation, security, and justice system. The members of this rarefied class are unfazed by the chao...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Today’s No Mercy / No Malice: Rise of the Toligarchs…
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Our new OA paper "Emergent sovereignties: Pragmatism, experiment, and affect within collaborative Indigenous wildfire management in southeast Australia" is out now in EPE. Led by Lachlan Beggs, Oliver Costello, Andrea Rawluk, Jack Pascoe + Teagan Shields journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Emergent sovereignties: Pragmatism, experiment, and affect within collaborative Indigenous wildfire management in southeast Australia - Lachlan Beggs, Timothy Neale, Oliver Costello, Andrea Rawluk, Ja...
This article examines the resurgence of Indigenous peoples’ presence and knowledge in environmental management in southeast Australia, a region with an ongoing ...
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May 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Our new OA paper "Emergent sovereignties: Pragmatism, experiment, and affect within collaborative Indigenous wildfire management in southeast Australia" is out now in EPE. Led by Lachlan Beggs, Oliver Costello, Andrea Rawluk, Jack Pascoe + Teagan Shields journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Meanwhile the right sees cross border migration as an existential threat when the real challenge will be to look after each other within the nations we claim to sanctify.
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
- Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
#climatecrisis
Story by me
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- Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Meanwhile the right sees cross border migration as an existential threat when the real challenge will be to look after each other within the nations we claim to sanctify.
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An international symposium “Vitality of Water: Rethinking modernist hydropolitics and ontologies”, held at Tampere University Linna building (room 5026) on the 27th and 28th of May, 2025. The symposium will be also streamed on Zoom.https://events.tuni.fi/vitalityofwater/ #waterjustice
Symposium "Vitality of water" | Tampere Universities
Symposium “Vitality of water: Rethinking modernist hydropolitics and ontologies”
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May 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
An international symposium “Vitality of Water: Rethinking modernist hydropolitics and ontologies”, held at Tampere University Linna building (room 5026) on the 27th and 28th of May, 2025. The symposium will be also streamed on Zoom.https://events.tuni.fi/vitalityofwater/ #waterjustice
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"Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 2," is the second in a two-part series that exposes, challenges, and actively resists contemporary (i.e., settler) colonial realities.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 2," is the second in a two-part series that exposes, challenges, and actively resists contemporary (i.e., settler) colonial realities.
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With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
April 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
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New book chapter by TASA member Lutfun Nahar Lata et al.
The Question of ‘Land Justice’ in Urban Bangladesh
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The Question of ‘Land Justice’ in Urban Bangladesh
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The idea of land justice in urban Bangladesh | 7 | The Politics of Urb
The biggest challenge facing the impoverished urban communities in Bangladesh is their struggle to gain access to land. This chapter delves into the idea of
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April 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
New book chapter by TASA member Lutfun Nahar Lata et al.
The Question of ‘Land Justice’ in Urban Bangladesh
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
The Question of ‘Land Justice’ in Urban Bangladesh
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Donald Trump's lack of restraint makes him dangerous—but also puts him "at risk of catastrophic failure," Jonathan Chait writes.
"Nothing illustrates this more clearly than Trump’s insistence on sabotaging the U.S. economy by imposing massive tariffs."
"Nothing illustrates this more clearly than Trump’s insistence on sabotaging the U.S. economy by imposing massive tariffs."
The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs
Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.
www.theatlantic.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Donald Trump's lack of restraint makes him dangerous—but also puts him "at risk of catastrophic failure," Jonathan Chait writes.
"Nothing illustrates this more clearly than Trump’s insistence on sabotaging the U.S. economy by imposing massive tariffs."
"Nothing illustrates this more clearly than Trump’s insistence on sabotaging the U.S. economy by imposing massive tariffs."
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“Research shows harmful chemicals released by burning vegetation and homes can return to the air months after the blazes are out, but some common cleaning methods can reduce the harm.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202... - @insideclimatenews.org
#Health #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke
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#Health #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke
How Should You Clean Your House After It’s Engulfed in Wildfire Smoke? - Inside Climate News
Research shows harmful chemicals released by burning vegetation and homes can return to the air months after the blazes are out, but some common cleaning methods can reduce the harm.
insideclimatenews.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Research shows harmful chemicals released by burning vegetation and homes can return to the air months after the blazes are out, but some common cleaning methods can reduce the harm.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202... - @insideclimatenews.org
#Health #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke
insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202... - @insideclimatenews.org
#Health #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Personality of Power" by Brian Massumi, which retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory
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April 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "The Personality of Power" by Brian Massumi, which retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory
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Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation #Climate
Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation
Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism
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March 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation #Climate
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Top 1 percent has sapped $79T in wealth from bottom 90 percent since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent — enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.
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Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
The author extends the results of prior work on the income gap between the bottom 90 percent of workers in 2023 and what they would have earned with an even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. These worker...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Top 1 percent has sapped $79T in wealth from bottom 90 percent since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent — enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
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Vancouver friends! Super excited to be doing this event with my sister next month, April 26.
We'll discuss how Canada & BC can seize this moment to chart a new path.
Tickets are now on sale at: chancentre.com/events/the-n...
We'll discuss how Canada & BC can seize this moment to chart a new path.
Tickets are now on sale at: chancentre.com/events/the-n...
March 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Vancouver friends! Super excited to be doing this event with my sister next month, April 26.
We'll discuss how Canada & BC can seize this moment to chart a new path.
Tickets are now on sale at: chancentre.com/events/the-n...
We'll discuss how Canada & BC can seize this moment to chart a new path.
Tickets are now on sale at: chancentre.com/events/the-n...
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Election Fact Check: Winners and Losers from the Tax-Cut Promises via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Election Fact Check: Winners and Losers from the Tax-Cut Promises | The Tyee
The Liberals and Conservatives are both promising income tax cuts. But 9.6 million low-income Canadians won’t benefit.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Election Fact Check: Winners and Losers from the Tax-Cut Promises via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...