Isaac Slevin
@isaacslevin.bsky.social
Organizer and researcher in Providence, RI.
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More fossil fuel thuggery, this time aimed at Brown University, in the service of climate denial. “Shut up your researchers or we’ll sic the Trump administration on your funding.” Classy.
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
More fossil fuel thuggery, this time aimed at Brown University, in the service of climate denial. “Shut up your researchers or we’ll sic the Trump administration on your funding.” Classy.
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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If there is one thing I hope the left learns in my lifetime, it’s that to become hegemonic, we have to become normie.
We won’t convince people to dramatically change their aesthetic or cultural attitudes; we will succeed when we articulate our values in forms they are most likely to appreciate.
We won’t convince people to dramatically change their aesthetic or cultural attitudes; we will succeed when we articulate our values in forms they are most likely to appreciate.
April 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If there is one thing I hope the left learns in my lifetime, it’s that to become hegemonic, we have to become normie.
We won’t convince people to dramatically change their aesthetic or cultural attitudes; we will succeed when we articulate our values in forms they are most likely to appreciate.
We won’t convince people to dramatically change their aesthetic or cultural attitudes; we will succeed when we articulate our values in forms they are most likely to appreciate.
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I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.
March 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.
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a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency
this appears to be based entirely on subscriptions for Politico Pro that many govt agencies pay for. but it doesn't matter, this is now fact for roughly half the country for eternity and will be used to do whatever they want.
February 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency
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idk I just think that not having a hard heart in a world like this is its own form of rebellion
February 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
idk I just think that not having a hard heart in a world like this is its own form of rebellion
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in case you missed it: i got my hands on a draft executive order that major offshore wind opponents sent to the trump transition team
it would be a wrecking ball to the future of offshore wind and i have no reason to believe any of these proposals are off the table
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
it would be a wrecking ball to the future of offshore wind and i have no reason to believe any of these proposals are off the table
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
Scoop: The Draft Order that Offshore Wind Opponents Sent to Trump
If even only a few of these ideas are enacted, it would be a harbinger of doom for wind energy in America.
heatmap.news
January 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
in case you missed it: i got my hands on a draft executive order that major offshore wind opponents sent to the trump transition team
it would be a wrecking ball to the future of offshore wind and i have no reason to believe any of these proposals are off the table
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
it would be a wrecking ball to the future of offshore wind and i have no reason to believe any of these proposals are off the table
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
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Kimberly Simmons: RI Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis- The Governor has Misspoken
"The fact that there are over 650 human beings of all ages living outside in the New England winter elements every day should be appalling to everyone."
open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
"The fact that there are over 650 human beings of all ages living outside in the New England winter elements every day should be appalling to everyone."
open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
Kimberly Simmons: RI Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis- The Governor has Misspoken
"The fact that there are over 650 human beings of all ages living outside in the New England winter elements every day should be appalling to everyone."
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Kimberly Simmons: RI Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis- The Governor has Misspoken
"The fact that there are over 650 human beings of all ages living outside in the New England winter elements every day should be appalling to everyone."
open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
"The fact that there are over 650 human beings of all ages living outside in the New England winter elements every day should be appalling to everyone."
open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
Must-read work from @triofrancos.bsky.social and @aldasky.bsky.social on the mismatch between federal climate economics and the climate policies people actually need– especially on housing and energy.
The IRA, which expected corporations & affluent consumers to lead the transition, created a “Prius economy” (more renewables, more fossil fuels).
Instead, we need public sector provisioning of climate + economic security, from energy to transit to housing www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
Instead, we need public sector provisioning of climate + economic security, from energy to transit to housing www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
Opinion | How to Turn Climate Into a Working-Class Issue Under Trump
Climate issues are fueling the cost-of-living crisis, especially for the poor and working class.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Must-read work from @triofrancos.bsky.social and @aldasky.bsky.social on the mismatch between federal climate economics and the climate policies people actually need– especially on housing and energy.
🚨 What does anti-renewables activism look like these days, and why's it so strong on the East Coast?
Got on Bluesky to announce a NEW paper that identifies "information subsidies" flowing to local anti-wind groups. There's a lot more going on than just "dark money."
Got on Bluesky to announce a NEW paper that identifies "information subsidies" flowing to local anti-wind groups. There's a lot more going on than just "dark money."
🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’?
Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 3, 2024 at 5:57 PM
🚨 What does anti-renewables activism look like these days, and why's it so strong on the East Coast?
Got on Bluesky to announce a NEW paper that identifies "information subsidies" flowing to local anti-wind groups. There's a lot more going on than just "dark money."
Got on Bluesky to announce a NEW paper that identifies "information subsidies" flowing to local anti-wind groups. There's a lot more going on than just "dark money."
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I know this will shock many of you... but Michael Shellenberger is attached to a sham front group ostensibly about protecting right whales that was only created a few years ago in order to keep offshore wind from out-competing natural gas.
December 2, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I know this will shock many of you... but Michael Shellenberger is attached to a sham front group ostensibly about protecting right whales that was only created a few years ago in order to keep offshore wind from out-competing natural gas.