Simona Mila Capisani
@simomila.bsky.social
Climate politics, political/social & environmental philosophy, migration justice. Assistant Prof (Durham University, UK). Formerly postdoc @Princeton University HMEI & UCHV. PhD University of California, Irvine.
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“The election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.” heatmap.news/politics/ali...
Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia
A “seismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“The election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.” heatmap.news/politics/ali...
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
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Emergency funds to foods banks aren’t sufficient — these people are employed and caregivers they can’t afford to stand on long food lines. The way aid is delivered is just as important as the cash itself in terms of who is able to benefit
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Emergency funds to foods banks aren’t sufficient — these people are employed and caregivers they can’t afford to stand on long food lines. The way aid is delivered is just as important as the cash itself in terms of who is able to benefit
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in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: “Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭
📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice.
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📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
I was so honored to join many scholars I deeply admire for this perspective piece cautioning against writing off places and communities in the face of climate change
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September 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: “Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭
📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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It does kind of make you wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had just forgiven all that student loan debt after district courts blocked the loan forgiveness plan.
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It does kind of make you wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had just forgiven all that student loan debt after district courts blocked the loan forgiveness plan.
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Wide areas of the UK are currently 10-12°C above normal for the time of day and time of the year.
Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com
Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wide areas of the UK are currently 10-12°C above normal for the time of day and time of the year.
Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com
Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com
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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics.
This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics.
This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on Mayor Karen Bass asking City Council to eliminate LA’s climate emergency office, which protects Angelenos from extreme heat. Meanwhile Bass still claims to be a climate champion. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...
May 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on Mayor Karen Bass asking City Council to eliminate LA’s climate emergency office, which protects Angelenos from extreme heat. Meanwhile Bass still claims to be a climate champion. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Report your NSF grant termination here. 🌊🧪
There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.
There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.
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April 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Report your NSF grant termination here. 🌊🧪
There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.
There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.
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Very excited to be a part of this launch! 👀
Issue 1 is HERE! 📖
Our first print issue launches on May 7 - join us for a LIVE podcast & party 🎉
Join @adriennebuller.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social & @quinnslobodian.com to discuss RIGHT TURN — on the afterlives of neoliberalism & climate politics in the age of the new right...
Our first print issue launches on May 7 - join us for a LIVE podcast & party 🎉
Join @adriennebuller.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social & @quinnslobodian.com to discuss RIGHT TURN — on the afterlives of neoliberalism & climate politics in the age of the new right...
April 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Very excited to be a part of this launch! 👀
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In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.”
Utterly terrifying.
Utterly terrifying.
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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April 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.”
Utterly terrifying.
Utterly terrifying.
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A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.
April 8, 2025 at 5:23 AM
A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.
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Millions of people showed up around the US to protest all the illegal shit that the Trump administration is doing.
Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump (Gift Article)
Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Millions of people showed up around the US to protest all the illegal shit that the Trump administration is doing.
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Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
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April 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
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🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
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April 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article)
Those of us who seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...