figgardenfelix.bsky.social
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Guardian vs. NYT. You know who's going to call things by their true names and who's not even gonna give you syrup with that waffle.

Guardian: "Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes....
January 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Keep this in mind. It helps me feel slightly better.
Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.
January 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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r.e. Lynch, I'm with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

"In the arts, the torture and death of a beautiful...or young woman...was forever...portrayed as erotic, exciting, satisfying...the desire was enshrined in the films of...Hitchcock, De Palma, David Lynch,...Tarantino."

& repeated IRL.
Enough.
January 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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“Exxon and other major players funded misinformation campaigns to sow doubt about climate science, delaying action and worsening the crisis. California is part of a growing number of states and local governments challenging these lies through litigation.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists | Tzeporah Berman
Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.
January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Subject for a journalist: how will the Trump attacks on immigrants undermine the labor force in the construction industry, specifically as Los Angeles endeavors to rebuild? A pretty high percentage of construction workers in California are immigrants (and L.A. is close to 50% Latino/a).
January 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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God bless and protect California in the years ahead
January 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM