Elite Capture is officially out today. Thanks to and and a whole mess of people besides.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown. Author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, member. Looking for somewhere else to post.
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I personally welcome the prospect of Thai, Cameroonian, Brazilian, and Nigerian leadership
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the contradictions of extractivism will be resolved when the globe adopts the "having a big martial arts tournament between Gundams where the winning country gets to rule the world for ten years" governance system, as first put forward in the seminal text Mobile Fighter G Gundam
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Many people were never upset at the unfairness of the world on a structural level, they were upset that they weren’t the ones on top
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Seeing black folk of our age turning into pull yourself up by the bootstraps is quite a nasty thing to witness
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As an Internet early adopter nerd one of the things I’m not enthusiastic about is the fragmentation of social polities. There’s a lot of things that would benefit from it, but the universal quality to Twitter is an essential proposition & I can’t take those substitutes in kind.
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yeah I feel like that's where my head is at. I like talking philosophy/other stuff with pretty much whoever, which is part of the rapidly diminishing appeal of Twitter. if I wanted it to feel like work I'd just go to campus. a little whimsy in an alternative site would be nice
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Mastodon and discord are a bit more fragmented but maybe that's the way to go. but for now doesn't really seem like the move
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no clue what's happening on this hellsite. eagerly awaiting somewhere else with similar vibes: somewhere I can discuss the finer points of anime, ecological economics, and dialectical materialism with randos w/ display names like "MegantheeBattalion" and "Timothee Shalamar"
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Feels like a purge of journalists happening this evening, including Aaron Rupar, or it could be they will be back in an hour.
No-one really knows what the policies are, or how they are being enforced, or with what consequences.
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Extremely cool that last night in San Antonio when the far-right came to protest a Christmas drag event they found themselves outnumbered 4-1 by community members defending the event.
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A look at both protests from a few minutes ago.
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The "free speech absolutist" and apartheid emerald mine beneficiary has suspended
You can find articles at itsgoingdown.org and follow them over on Mastodon kolektiva.social/@igd_news
IGD also has a podcast you can find easily itsgoingdown.org/category/podca
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Issue 6 is out and we've got it all: the future of the fight against debt, a view from the stripper strike in North Hollywood, redneck mutual aid in Alabama, a new tart recipe, deconstruction of the degrowth and GND debate, the end of the BBL era, Chelsea Manning and MORE
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's .
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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. is allowing the $3.5 billion allocated by the Infrastructure Act to fund direct air capture projects that use the captured CO2 for "enhanced oil recovery" — which means US taxpayers are, once again, subsidizing fossil fuel production in the name of "climate action." 🤢😡
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A new academic study found that fossil fuel industry trade associations have spent $3.4 BILLION on lobbying and advertising to block climate action over the last 10 years.
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2023 will be the year that journalists, en masse, will finally think of themselves as workers, predicts . “Even a public service is still a service, and even the most high-minded reporters still have to pay the rent.” ✊🏻
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So is having a matching campaign (if you give $25, EWOC will receive $50. If you give $500, EWOC will receive $1,000!)
Good opportunity to donate! Goal is 50k by years end
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So is having a matching campaign (if you give $25, EWOC will receive $50. If you give $500, EWOC will receive $1,000!)
Good opportunity to donate! Goal is 50k by years end
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A map of today’s resolution Towards a New International Economic Order
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Its really futile at this point time after time to be like “check on your strong friends!” as sincere as the sentiment might be when in reality what we need is a softer world
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When people fight for new prisons for women because of sexual violence at existing prisons, I think of what ruth wilson gilmore says, "the prison didn't assault them, the people did." New jails and prisons don't stop harm. They transfer them to more shiny buildings
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Excited to announce that the Community Change Studies program at CCNY is offering a course open to housing and homelessness activists in NYC next semester. "Hot Topics in Housing Justice" will be taught in two sections: (1) resisting evictions (2) community control of housing.
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I feel like this problem could be fixed by the right use of "epistemic"
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I wanted to believe so bad. But all credit to Morocco for a historic tournament. Great team
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much better half for Morocco
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What a save by Lloris on that wild bicycle kick. Better last ten mins from Morocco, but still a scrappy looking match
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Morocco doesnt seem to be able to cope with French pressure in the midfield. Playing okay in the other two thirds but they'd have more chances with less panicky possession
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great that fubo stops working on the day of the World Cup semifinals
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it has elements of both and is...extremely loud about that
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i can't tell if Chainsaw Man is high brow or low brow. then again, maybe we are in a post-brow moment of global culture
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they find that fixing up vacants can affect gun violence. Not the first ecological intervention to have effects like this - see studies on streetlights for example. all sorts of better uses of public resources than cuffing and caging
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Bottom line, fixing abandoned houses is linked to reduced gun violence in this randomized controlled trial.
We have mounting evidence that simple, structural, low cost interventions to the neighborhood environment can improved health & safety in Black neighborhoods.
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one thing I always wondered about Broken Windows theory: if you thought that "broken windows" led to crime, why wouldn't you just fix the windows? thanks to Dr. South and her colleagues here, a new RCT in on gun violence
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Homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males age 1-44. It makes me sick.
What if I told you going from A to B reduces nearby gun violence in Black neighborhoods? Well, it does and we showed it in an RCT.
Out today in @JAMAInternalMed. Short 
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.'s team at Penn tackled the question of whether home repairs prevent gun violence with the same rigorous approach doctors use to study a new drug: a randomized, controlled trial.
The results left little doubt.
on the new study.
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At least 5 arrests have been made of forest defenders, with charges carrying 5-35 years. This is an outrage — Atlanta loves to talk about its history of protest while brutalizing and incarcerating protesters who do the same today. #StopCopCity
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Honestly I'm *more concerned about oil and gas* than I am about coal. Open a coal mine, you can bury it again. You can *leave coal sitting there unburned* after digging it up.
Every time we pop a hole in a highly pressurised oil or gas reservoir, we create methane escape paths.
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Read this by of ugandafarm.org.
"EA is even worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes those of us who are directly battling ultra poverty in the global south."
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"albeit being a sector (or a community) that almost never supports the poor directly, there are countless occasions where even organizations like the Gates Foundation have funded the smallest grassroots organizations in the global south. Not the case with effective altruism."
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2023 may be a landmark year for the labor movement, with new leadership building towards strikes at UPS and the Big Three, and other prominent contracts expiring while inflation raises workers' demands. The year of the reverse PATCO?
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Nigerian Army massacred children in war on insurgents, witnesses say reuters.com/investigates/s via
| This is a frigging disturbing article. Scaring and worrisome, and even worse, the reaction from the FG & military will be the boilerplate one to such things.
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There are so many conversations among Goma expats about conspiracy theories in the DRC...but almost never is there acknowledgement of the "expat conspiracy theories," namely the fervent belief in a "benevolent international community invested in peace and security in Congo."
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