Vanessa Adel
@vadel.bsky.social
Here to connect with others about the environmental, climate, economic and political emergencies we are facing. Mother, writer, researcher.
Great piece by civil rights attorney, Sherrilyn Ifill: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Great piece by civil rights attorney, Sherrilyn Ifill: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
This brilliant essay by Mystal answers my question earlier about how exactly lawsuits are going to stop Musk’s dismantling of federal agencies and oh yeah… democracy.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup
While the lawsuits being filed against the Trump-Musk administration are righteous, they will not “save” us from this nightmare.
www.thenation.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This brilliant essay by Mystal answers my question earlier about how exactly lawsuits are going to stop Musk’s dismantling of federal agencies and oh yeah… democracy.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Can someone explain why Musk can’t be arrested right now? Or why he can’t be blocked from hopping from one agency to another? Just since Friday, the rampage includes the Treasury, the OPM, USAID, the Dept of Ed. Where is he going next? EPA? GAO? Are lawsuits really going to stop this?!
February 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Can someone explain why Musk can’t be arrested right now? Or why he can’t be blocked from hopping from one agency to another? Just since Friday, the rampage includes the Treasury, the OPM, USAID, the Dept of Ed. Where is he going next? EPA? GAO? Are lawsuits really going to stop this?!
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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist #Climate
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated though other scientists disagree
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist #Climate
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EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
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Perhaps the greatest hoax ever played on America was that this Nazi is a “visionary.”
The media, his biographers, and Silicon Valley got conned by an evil, genocidal RACIST.
If you can’t call this racist. If you can’t see or say what he is, you are complicit in what follows.
The media, his biographers, and Silicon Valley got conned by an evil, genocidal RACIST.
If you can’t call this racist. If you can’t see or say what he is, you are complicit in what follows.
Elon Musk, the unelected half-trillionaire who controls the Treasury and is taking a chainsaw to the government, is explicitly calling for “more immigration of White South Africans” because they are “fiscally positive.”
Make Apartheid Great Again
Make Apartheid Great Again
February 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Perhaps the greatest hoax ever played on America was that this Nazi is a “visionary.”
The media, his biographers, and Silicon Valley got conned by an evil, genocidal RACIST.
If you can’t call this racist. If you can’t see or say what he is, you are complicit in what follows.
The media, his biographers, and Silicon Valley got conned by an evil, genocidal RACIST.
If you can’t call this racist. If you can’t see or say what he is, you are complicit in what follows.
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“Racism was and is not only a mark, a public mark, of ignorance; it was, and is, a monumental fraud. Racism was never, ever the issue. Profit and money always was.“
—Toni Morrison
—Toni Morrison
Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
February 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Racism was and is not only a mark, a public mark, of ignorance; it was, and is, a monumental fraud. Racism was never, ever the issue. Profit and money always was.“
—Toni Morrison
—Toni Morrison
Oh wow - I hadn’t even thought about the AI side of capturing everyone’s data.
it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history
“Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who has been tapped to lead a technology team at G.S.A., told some staff members that he hoped to put all federal contracts into a centralized system so they could be analyzed by artificial intelligence”
February 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Oh wow - I hadn’t even thought about the AI side of capturing everyone’s data.
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US Senate confirms fracking CEO Chris Wright to be Trump’s energy secretary #Climate
US Senate confirms fracking CEO Chris Wright to be Trump’s energy secretary
Liberty Energy executive, who has called climate change activists alarmist, confirmed in vote of 59-38
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
US Senate confirms fracking CEO Chris Wright to be Trump’s energy secretary #Climate
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Friends, please join me at a reading I will be doing with my friend James Brunel at the Gallery of Readers Reading Series on January 12 at 4pm at the Florence Civic Center:
January 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Friends, please join me at a reading I will be doing with my friend James Brunel at the Gallery of Readers Reading Series on January 12 at 4pm at the Florence Civic Center:
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None of the hot takes about why Democrats lost the election touch this @eladn.bsky.social deep dive
It goes wider, deeper, drills way down to the heart of how we ended up at American fascism-again. Inside the reality of the tyranny ahead of us, is an opportunity—if we choose to accept the assignment
It goes wider, deeper, drills way down to the heart of how we ended up at American fascism-again. Inside the reality of the tyranny ahead of us, is an opportunity—if we choose to accept the assignment
December 2, 2024 at 11:58 PM
None of the hot takes about why Democrats lost the election touch this @eladn.bsky.social deep dive
It goes wider, deeper, drills way down to the heart of how we ended up at American fascism-again. Inside the reality of the tyranny ahead of us, is an opportunity—if we choose to accept the assignment
It goes wider, deeper, drills way down to the heart of how we ended up at American fascism-again. Inside the reality of the tyranny ahead of us, is an opportunity—if we choose to accept the assignment