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Eric Klinenberg

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Got out of Gilead and never going back. Find me here: @ericklinenberg.bsky.social

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Eric Klinenberg
Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
Four years ago today, the @WHO declared COVID a global pandemic. We were wrong about what happened to America in 2020, and we've yet to register how much it has changed us, as individuals and as a society. 🧵 nytimes.com/2024/01/31/opi…
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Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet·
Why can't we do this kind of abundance
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Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
I don’t think anyone has ever loved sociology more than Michael Burawoy. I know that no one has ever loved their students more, or done so much to bring them together into the kind of community every scholar wants. What a beautiful life. What a devastating loss.
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Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
@row_ie_argument Yes, with the caveat that excess deaths is probably a better measure of heat fatalities, and heat-related death data surely understate the impact. There's a long discussion on the science of counting heat deaths in Heat Wave if you want to go deep. epa.gov/climate-indica…
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Jess Row@row_ie_argument·
@EricKlinenberg Eric, is there any data for the number of heat related deaths in the US since 1995?
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Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
1995: Chicago Heat Wave. 739 dead. 2005: Katrina. 1392 dead. $125b in damages. 2012: Sandy. 254 dead. $70b in damages. 2025: Los Angeles Wildfires. Deaths & damages TBD. Disasters don't change climate policies. People, politics, and movements do. What do we do now?
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Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
Thrilled that *2020* made @NewYorker 's Best Books of 2024 list! 🙏📘
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John Burn-Murdoch
John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch·
We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇
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Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
Americans have a will not to know what happened here during 2020, and our collective denial of the nation’s bungled response to that year’s cascading crises is a massive political gift to Donald Trump. It’s time for a reckoning. Four years ago the US was in a lethal free fall.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar

TRUMP: I'd like to begin by asking a very simple question. Are you better off now than you were four years ago? CROWD: *Noooooooooo!* TRUMP: The answer is no (They must really like out of control pandemics)

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Mexico City is building out a new form of social infrastructure: Little Utopias, each one a gathering place, a playroom, a gym, a senior center, a service hub, a restaurant, a cultural haven, and a recovery space. What a brilliant idea. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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Noah Bergren
Noah Bergren@NbergWX·
8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH. This is now the 4th strongest hurricane ever recorded by pressure on this side of the world. The eye is TINY at nearly 3.8 miles wide. This hurricane is nearing the mathematical limit of what Earth's atmosphere over this ocean water can produce.
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Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben@billmckibben·
For the first time ever recorded, October finds three hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic. Hot new world
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldatweets·
And a lil reminder: we opened Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal w a thought experiment about what better disaster response could deliver to ppl, and to politics. (If we could do the book again today, I think we'd want more disaster response and adaptation throughout.)
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Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldatweets·
Counterfactual 2024: Biden was GND-pilled, got housing & disaster response into IRA, stopped Netanyahu from doing genocide. Headline topics today: nimble new disaster response teams all over southeast; "wars" over green social housing projects near train stops in fancy suburbs.
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Eric Klinenberg@EricKlinenberg·
As the planet warms, storms like Helene will only become stronger and more frequent. They will hit places, like the mountains of North Carolina, that were never exposed to such extreme weather. We can't afford to elect more climate change deniers. x.com/Ella__Dorsey/s…
Ella Dorsey@Ella__Dorsey

My friend went to Chimney Rock to help with the ground effort recovery. He just sent me videos. The town is gone. And this is what it looks like across dozens of mountain communities. Helene is officially the 2nd deadliest hurricane in the last 50 years.

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Emily Nussbaum
Emily Nussbaum@emilynussbaum·
And THAT’S why you don’t play chicken with the public library budget
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@Ethnography911 @espn The thing is, like you, I’ve watched more 🎾 on TV than is healthy or sane, and I can’t recall ever hearing that before, even when the roof is closed at Ashe.
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