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Honored to be in the #Grist50 with so many of my close friends and other brilliant shit disturbers.

It's been a crazy year for the climate movement. Thrilled to be in this fight with you all.
grist.org/grist-50/2020/
Did not to see so many of my amazing friends on here too (we didn't talk about it, LOL. Friend fail...) Congrats @jnoisecat @lizwcarlisle @GeoffreySupran @AlexandriaV2005 @JeromeFosterII + many more soon to be friends!
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Leah Stokes
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Fellow faculty: Just wanted to share what I've done to help students out with the coronavirus in case it inspires you.
- I'm using Zoom to broadcast my lectures
- I'm no longer taking attendance
- I've cancelled sections
- I'm doing course evals early
- I've sent them info on it
I know that at least one of my students has underlying medical challenges. I imagine some of your students might too. It makes sense to support our students who might be at higher risk by providing flexibility.
In addition, many of our graduate students at UCSB are on strike for a COLA. So I'm also supporting them by cancelling sections. It's a tough time for many right now. We should all aim to do what we can to help others.
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Leah Stokes
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I started following the Democratic primary for one reason: I wanted to share ideas to tackle the climate crisis.

A year ago today, @JayInslee got into the race for the same reason: to spread climate ideas.

Some reflections on this year. 🧵
nytimes.com/2019/08/23/opi…
@JayInslee The Inslee team put out brilliant plans to tackle this crisis. They accelerated timelines for cleaning up our grid. They came up with bold ideas for cleaning up buildings. They centered justice in the fight.

Want a refresher? Here are those 200+ pages.
@JayInslee A year ago, I had 4,000 followers. I was 14 years into working on the climate crisis. My work wasn't broadly known.

In the past year, I've been blessed to make so many friends in this fight, including from the amazing Inslee team: @HendricksB @SamTRicketts @maggiethomas315.
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Leah Stokes
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New bill text out of Senate committee, American Energy Innovation Act, 2020. I've read it.

Quick assessment? Some good things. Some bad things. Lots missing. Not the speed or scale necessary. But better than nothing...
energy.senate.gov/public/index.c…
There is some emphasis on energy efficiency retrofits, which is particularly important now with our carbon intensive electricity grid. Focus on schools, nonprofits, and the federal government. Not enough focus on homes or commercial buildings. Nothing on removing gas (shocker!)
Bizarrely there are incentives for hydro and geothermal and almost nothing for wind and solar.

And of course there's lots of focus on carbon capture.
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If you’ve been watching my twitter stream recently, you may have noticed this but today’s a good day to be explicit: As someone who’s worked on the #climate crisis at the international, national and local levels for 15 years, I’m proud to be a climate leader #WithWarren. (🧵)
I spend my life fighting for climate justice and I’m absolutely convinced that a President @ewarren would work tirelessly to bring the big, structural change we need to address this climate crisis. Here are a few of the many reasons why I’m proud to be #WithWarren:
.@ewarren understands that corruption lies at the center the climate crisis. That’s why she was the first declared Presidential candidate to sign the #NoFossilFuelMoney pledge and is ready to stand up to the out-of-control fossil fuel industry.
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In an attempt to push back on attacks on followers of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who represent a pro-Trump wing of the Alt-Right, Milo Yiannopoulos has published a damning audio clip of Richard Spencer following Unite the Right. Don't lose site of the big picture, a thread.
First off, the idea that Milo is somehow opposed to the ideas of Richard Spencer or has no connection to Spencer's camp is laughable. Milo is close friends with and worked directly with white nationalists while working at Breitbart to mainstream the movement for the Trump era.
Buzzfeed's investigation showed the extent of how deeply tied to white nationalists Milo has been over the years and Bannon also saw in the movement a body of online foot-soldiers that would help elect Trump. buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
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Michael Allen
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I was in my first months as an aide when this vote went down. The pressure from the Speaker, a Democrat, to NOT support more significant investment in transportation was intense. It was a glaring example of lack of courage and lack of vision from the leadership team. #mapoli
This #mapoli history is worth unpacking a bit. It was the most important political debate of it's mini era and helped define the political consciousness of a set of staff and legislators. Here's a thread:
Typically the kind pressure Kaufman describes is implicit. More "we'll exclude you socially" than clear quid pro quos. It's only explicit for the Speaker's top priorities. So in this case, a smaller tax package and smaller transportation investments were a top priority.
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By ignoring socio-economic realities facing the people that the tech is supposed to benefit, GM Golden Rice could make things much, much worse for them.

Good lessons for #climate movement on the need to assess hi-tech “solutions" from all angles.
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theguardian.com/environment/20…
There are real reasons why smallholder farmers, environmentalists & ppl who understand ag & nutrition reject GMOs & Golden Rice. I'll list a few here.

The scientists writing that @guardian article repeatedly, knowingly, willfully & shamefully ignore these.

@guardianeco
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@guardian @guardianeco a) To recoup the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to develop a GM seed variety (Golden Rice included), companies need to dominate local markets & eliminate local seed diversity. Result: catastrophic loss of agricultural biodiversity, as seen in US, Canada, Argentina. /3
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1/8 My favorite #quote by #JosephStalin, which explains the scientific, #DialecticalMaterialist explanation of true freedom in material reality, not just as an abstract ideal. #StalinIsBack #StalinLives #JVStalin #Stalin #StalinQuote #StalinQuotes #Truth #MELS #MarxismLeninism
2/8 Having an #objective, #rational, #ScientificSocialist, #Dialectical, & #Materialist viewpoint allows us to accurately see & evaluate & analyze #Truth & #Reality as they truly materially exist in this universe.
3/8 An idealistic, dogmatic viewpoint, which capitalists have, however, makes one irrational enough to 'see' freedom where freedom stays trapped on a piece of paper while people are oppressed in their actual lived lives.
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