Climate Defiance

HUGE UPDATE: we confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi. He is one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000. Hideous, grotesque, fascist-loving coward, this man has blood on his hands. We will not forgive and we will not forget.

Things are about to get very strange on a global level

Step 1: Burn the planet. Step 2: Create a refugee crisis. Step 3: Recruit violent and inept cops to cage the refugees that we created (spoiler: we're on step 3). The same machine terrorizing families at the border is cooking the planet. The same criminals funding fossil fuels are funding the wall. The same system that burns the world will decide who gets to flee it. There will be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. We refuse to let American incarceration be their fate. P.S. Tomorrow is the "U.S. Border Patrol Virtual Career Expo", 11am–3pm ET. Might be a great opportunity to ask a Border Patrol recruiter what motivates them to be fascists 🙂

Not to feed or house its people? These are America’s objectives? x.com/whitehouse/sta…

We are at the end of this version of the world. What comes next is up to us

Nothing shows your pride quite like blurring everyone’s faces x.com/icegov/status/…

Hochul calls gutting NY’s climate law a “reality check”. So here’s our reality check to her: the climate doesn’t give a shit about your political agenda. climatedefiance.substack.com/p/kathy-hochul…

Hard to see this prediction confirmed more and more every day

We are a deeply unserious country

The ultra rich using their fleets of private jets to travel distances that a normal person could ride their bike is an underreported climate crime. Laws must be passed to curb this selfish, planet destroying practice.

Big update: we are announcing the release of “Just Look Up,” a feature length documentary about Climate Defiance. The executive producer is Adam McKay, the creator of the similarly named film hit film “Don’t Look Up.” This documentary, in the works since 2023, chronicles almost every aspect of our lives — our actions, our journeys, our hopes, our fears. Directed by Emma Wall and Betsy Hershey, the film features high-adrenaline chase scenes and confrontations — but also so much more. The filmmakers also followed us in our more intimate moments — with our families and with our friends, in hope and in sorrow, in joy and in despair. The film is now playing at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious documentary festivals. It also played last week at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, which is also one of the world’s leading documentary festivals. We are cautiously optimistic that this film will make it to the U.S. sometime soon. Stay tuned for details on that. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Thank you to our day ones who believed in us from the start. Thank you to the staff and volunteers and supporters who powered our rise and changed what is possible. Thank you to everyone who is coming out now to hear our story. We are humbled and grateful.

Job killing and planet killing x.com/hyperaicapital…

You know that belief in climate change crosses the aisle because rich republicans and rich democrats are building bunkers

A hyperobject is something so massive it breaks your brain trying to comprehend it. Like climate change. The overwhelm is intentional. Always designed to feel too big to fight. And yeah, it is. That's the point. Which is why we fight. climatedefiance.substack.com/p/climate-chan…

For too long, Earth Month has been a corporate greenwashing opportunity — a chance for climate criminals to slap a leaf on their logo and call it a day. Fuck that. This April, we're taking it back. City by city. Comedy, dinners, town halls, direct action. Earth Month the way it was meant to be: the collective working together to hold the powerful accountable. Join us. linktr.ee/climate.defian…

If the United States sends ground troops into Iran for no other reason than to get oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz again there needs to be a massive, sustained general strike in this country

Wars for oil

On Sunday, the Pentagon — the single largest institutional emitter of GHGs on the planet — turned noon into blackness over a city of 10 million people. Acid rain. Oil in the streets. A city of human beings breathing poison. This is what the military-fossil fuel complex looks like. And it’s time we all named it. climatedefiance.substack.com/p/a-city-of-te…

What will politicians do with their money when our only planet is destroyed by this?

Oil executives have performance anxiety