Manchin is going to kill the clean electricity program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal & gas-fired power plants with wind, solar & nuclear energy from Biden's BBB....& along with it, us as well. #ClimateEmergency
In my view, there is simply nothing more important in Biden's BBB than aggressive his #ClimateAction programs. Nothing. All I feel right now is loathing for these obstructionists. Pure loathing.
Manchin is all about his dirty fossil fuels and his dirty fossil fuel money. I understand this is what we get with a W. Va. Dem... but I am entitled to my rage. And rage and loathing are what I feel right now.
On a more hopeful note: Protecting the earth from deforestation is one of THE most productive things we can do to fight the #climatcrisis. I am grateful @brianschatz's FOREST Act which deters commodity-driven illegal deforestation around the world. schatz.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
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Focus on your "climate shadow" as we fight the #ClimateCrisis. It's about how you vote, how many kids you choose to have, where you work, how you invest your $, how much you talk about climate change, & whether your words amplify urgency, apathy, or denial mic.com/impact/forget-…
#ClimateAction cannot simply be understood through the prism of low-impact & easy to quantify actions like recycling or if you fly a lot. How one expends attention is VITAL. How many hours a day are you or I devoting to #ClimateAction ?
By promotion the carbon footprint & small "feel good" activities as the most important things for concerned citizens to focus on, the fossil fuel industry ensured that we would not put our energy towards what TRULY matters: COLLECTIVE ACTION & ACTIVISM.
Everyone who declared themselves an Afghanistan expert less than a month ago is silent today as the last Afghan resistance stronghold in #Panjshir is under heavy aerial heavy bombardment by the Taliban, aided by Pakistan.
On the ground in #Panjshir, Ahmad Massoud's close aide, Mohammad Fahim Dashty, died in battle as the Northern Alliance Resistance Force fought the Taliban.
With Ghani gone, VP Amrullah Saleh declared himself to be the democratically-elected leader & has been hold up in #PanjshirValley - the last resistance stronghold - now under attack. Saleh is calling on the UN to intervene to stop the burgeoning genocide.
#SB8 is an almost a complete ban on abortion in TX because 90% of procedures happen after the 6th week of pregnancy. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. PLUS there is a $10k bounty on anyone who helps a woman get an abortion. nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/…
This is the legal blueprint that could well be adopted in other red states, taking us to an effective ban on abortions in such jurisdictions.
The Handmaid's Tale was supposed to be a cautionary tale and not an operational manual.
We're going into a dark place where abortions in Texas won't go away... we'll just return to unsafe abortion situations, especially for poor women. We are going to a place where clinics and abortion workers are intimidated. It is literally unsafe to be in a red state.
It is very clear that many in the warmonger reporting caucus are openly mourning the end of neocon forever wars. This is not accidental. There is the obvious psychological effect of reporting from forever war zones for 20 yrs. One of those effects is becoming part of the story.
But that's only part of the explanation. We've talked a lot here on Twitter about the toxic effect of the Habermanian-style of access journalism. But there is also military-embed journalism that we have been witness to for 20 years that is also toxic.
From the Afghan & Iraq wars onward, we had military-embed journalists becoming part of the story. But even the anchors in studios were cheerleading the ill-advised debacle in Iraq. I'm sorry to say i am old enough to remember the horror of warmonger journalism in the early 2000s.
I'm still digesting what is Joe Biden's most important speech, marking a new direction for US foreign policy.
His most crucial words: "This decision about Afghanistan is not just about Afghanistan, it’s about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries."
Two decades, so many lives, & $2 trillion later, it is essential that we rethink US foreign policy & end the delusion of nation building.
The people who brought us "nation building" are the same people who led us into the Iraq disaster, which now stands as the fulcrum for ISIS. And they are the same people responsible for the mission creep counter-insurgency that cost us 20 years in the graveyard of empires.