Wei
@rightofwei.bsky.social
🌎 | Former Climate Corps Fellow
🏚️ | Current Sustainable Development Grad
🎥 | Recovering Storyteller
🌱 | Aspiring Gardener
🏚️ | Part-time Photographer
🏚️ | Current Sustainable Development Grad
🎥 | Recovering Storyteller
🌱 | Aspiring Gardener
🏚️ | Part-time Photographer
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Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.
September 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.
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Empire building and bullshit jobs
Don't underestimate the power of ego among the wealthy.
September 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Empire building and bullshit jobs
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“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino.”
In LA now, that is the reality, at least as long as this case continues. And there’s no reason in this opinion to assume it won’t soon be the reality for the rest of us, too.
In LA now, that is the reality, at least as long as this case continues. And there’s no reason in this opinion to assume it won’t soon be the reality for the rest of us, too.
Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE
The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.
www.motherjones.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino.”
In LA now, that is the reality, at least as long as this case continues. And there’s no reason in this opinion to assume it won’t soon be the reality for the rest of us, too.
In LA now, that is the reality, at least as long as this case continues. And there’s no reason in this opinion to assume it won’t soon be the reality for the rest of us, too.
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Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely
September 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely
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It's been five months since I was laid off, and I'm still hunting for work.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
September 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It's been five months since I was laid off, and I'm still hunting for work.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
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Imagine explaining to someone in 2019 that in 2025 the Israeli military would be trying to drone bomb Greta Thunberg.
Israel just bombed the flotilla boat that Greta (and the rest of the original Madleen crew) were sailing on, as it was docked in Tunis to set sail tomorrow for Gaza.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Imagine explaining to someone in 2019 that in 2025 the Israeli military would be trying to drone bomb Greta Thunberg.
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there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
September 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good
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The Supreme Court just gave ICE permission to legally racially profile and arrest people, just because of how they look, where they work, and what language they speak.
Make no mistake: the federal government is harassing and threatening Latinos to make us small and afraid. They won’t succeed.
Make no mistake: the federal government is harassing and threatening Latinos to make us small and afraid. They won’t succeed.
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Supreme Court just gave ICE permission to legally racially profile and arrest people, just because of how they look, where they work, and what language they speak.
Make no mistake: the federal government is harassing and threatening Latinos to make us small and afraid. They won’t succeed.
Make no mistake: the federal government is harassing and threatening Latinos to make us small and afraid. They won’t succeed.
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the thing that many are thinking and few are saying.
It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.
September 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
the thing that many are thinking and few are saying.
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We can learn things from every socialist experiment. From Yugoslavia we learn do not take out loans from the International Monetary Fund or the world bank
May 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We can learn things from every socialist experiment. From Yugoslavia we learn do not take out loans from the International Monetary Fund or the world bank
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To anyone who doesn't understand why women don't come forward to report sexual abuse: the UNITED STATES PRESIDENT said it's a HOAX after Epstein survivors recounted their harrowing tales of being raped as minors.
September 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
To anyone who doesn't understand why women don't come forward to report sexual abuse: the UNITED STATES PRESIDENT said it's a HOAX after Epstein survivors recounted their harrowing tales of being raped as minors.
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How is this real... How is this fucking real.
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
How is this real... How is this fucking real.
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
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[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]
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This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
September 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
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Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.
“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
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“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
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September 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.
“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
🧵⬇️
“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
🧵⬇️
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‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
August 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:
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Is ‘green growth’ just a convenient lie?
@jasonhickel.bsky.social joins us on EQUALS to explain why rich countries can’t grow their way out of climate collapse and why justice means rethinking growth.
Listen here 👉: www.equals.ink/p/is-green-g...
#Degrowth #ClimateJustice”
@jasonhickel.bsky.social joins us on EQUALS to explain why rich countries can’t grow their way out of climate collapse and why justice means rethinking growth.
Listen here 👉: www.equals.ink/p/is-green-g...
#Degrowth #ClimateJustice”
IS GREEN GROWTH A CONVENIENT LIE? – With Jason Hickel, Economic Anthropologist
How fighting inequality and beating climate change means we must end our addiction to economic growth and fast.
www.equals.ink
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is ‘green growth’ just a convenient lie?
@jasonhickel.bsky.social joins us on EQUALS to explain why rich countries can’t grow their way out of climate collapse and why justice means rethinking growth.
Listen here 👉: www.equals.ink/p/is-green-g...
#Degrowth #ClimateJustice”
@jasonhickel.bsky.social joins us on EQUALS to explain why rich countries can’t grow their way out of climate collapse and why justice means rethinking growth.
Listen here 👉: www.equals.ink/p/is-green-g...
#Degrowth #ClimateJustice”
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Renowned ecologist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer invites us to see foraging not as extraction, but as connection.
When we engage with the land through traditions like berry picking or sweetgrass harvesting, we don't just witness nature, we fall in love with it.
When we engage with the land through traditions like berry picking or sweetgrass harvesting, we don't just witness nature, we fall in love with it.
September 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Renowned ecologist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer invites us to see foraging not as extraction, but as connection.
When we engage with the land through traditions like berry picking or sweetgrass harvesting, we don't just witness nature, we fall in love with it.
When we engage with the land through traditions like berry picking or sweetgrass harvesting, we don't just witness nature, we fall in love with it.
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.