Rebecca Weston

Likely shifting over to Bluesky - we cannot stomach being part of Elon Musk’s fascist fantasy.

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest.

@SophieHaigney Marking to read it later. Always here for your suggestions.

After reading this post, I hit the back button, and per usual for the rabid, syphilitic-AI-mind, war-promoting, Israeli-hasbara-debased 𝕏, it refreshed to prevent me from RTing this -- the clearest, most concise description of the mess the US has made. Don't miss this post.

See you tomorrow?

Join us Wednesday for a #ClimateCafe events.humanitix.com/climate-cafe-b… #climatejustice #climatecrisis #climatecrises

Moving most activity to here:

Rabbi Sharon Brous:

1. My column on what happened, what comes next, and just how easy our fake democracies are to overthrow. + short thread on where our remaining hopes lie. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“From California to Louisiana, ballot measures on climate and the environment gained voters’ approval. In state legislatures, results were mixed.” insideclimatenews.org/news/07112024/…

🩷 to @RTakver

Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump…

Because I am getting this question dozens of times in my DMs from trans people/parents... If you're trying to move for safety: Countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, France. States: Any blue state on my risk assessment map, which I'll update post-election.

I'm thinking about how American *and* global this is. Capitalist economies are convulsing worldwide. The planet's burning. Green capitalism is delivering for a tiny minority. The far right is almost always winning. It's a polycrisis, it's global, we need left responses at scale.

Many gave our all to this election - but many of us also knew deep in our bones that it’s all about building real social movements. We should be proud and also take from the scale of this victory some much needed clarity: we are in a fascist moment. It is a fight for our lives.

anyway one thing we can keep doing is actively trying to build the world we want, with each other and for each other. that option is never gone, the roadblocks just shift. your community is the same one you woke up with yesterday

It barely featured in the campaign, but it looks like the world’s most powerful economy is about to elect a climate denying authoritarian who hates clean technology. The chances of global temperatures spiralling out of control just increased substantially.

🚨 A MAGA mob has shut down voting in #Camilla, Georgia (73% Black township). The polls hadn’t even opened by 3pm. This threatens certification of #Georgia’s Electoral College vote under the rules of the new MAGA-controlled State Elections Board. #GaPol

“When we’re grounded in connection, we can take sustainable action, even when things break down - not [to … escape distress], but b/c it’s the right thing to do. Maybe that’s the only way to come up w/ solutions [that meet the magnitude of our times.” desmog.com/2024/11/03/bey…

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