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Climate crisis adaptation for farmers.
“The system is very gameable & the victim is the planet ..." (J Romm)

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@status_is_down Yes, getting a 403 here in SE England

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@EntropyChase @1goodtern @greg_travis Can't find that data, but this was published recently:
https://t.co/JFD69uziPF

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@rustyrockets Penelope Keith obvs!
[What a helmet you are ...]
https://t.co/vAsY23nWj0

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@LudicrousMonica Cate Blanchett giving TB a boost here:
https://t.co/xxYTJL9F7H

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@CormStrikeFan Move to Bluesky, it's nicer there, I hardly visit X now.
There's https://t.co/rTFj8su7Xm there but it's not you I assume.

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@SydesJokes @jonesr2310 @DeskatCats @changed_gear @straight_estate @RejoinersRus @garria10 @stuartfmckee1 @colin_macl @BensleyMargaret @I_do_despair @SarahHeleneuk @RobertoCarlo65 @akaSpearBird @palindrome_lndn @Compass_ND @YodaRolo @AdrianVenables @Blestpt99 @Ronyard I'm transitioning; Bluesky is really starting to kick off ...
https://t.co/XP96uE5OYL

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@GeorgeMonbiot @mrjamesob discussed this on his show earlier this year - I think he was undecided too.
Would help if a bunch of you left together - e.g. @IanDunt @GaryLineker @ChrisGPackham @chrischirp @jasonhickel ... that would make me switch.

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@JonnyThePhoenix @simonmaechling And he forget to tell us he works for Bayer.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

nb: Here are both videos for posterity

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@Prof_J_Lawton @zenscara @PharmaDRclinic That’s interesting – some people I know (none have LC) are not getting vaxed because of side-effects. I’ve assumed they are being over-fussy but maybe not.
I hope someone is studying this problem, I think it’s contributing to the desire to pretend it’s all gone away.

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@ECOWARRIORSS Try this: https://t.co/HuiYzVOZnR

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Trump did not cause the climate crisis - it was already locked in. But he will massively accelerate it. On #politicslive yesterday.

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@lewis_goodall Or, to be extremely simplistic:

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@lewis_goodall No Lewis - read Jason:
https://t.co/PbeR84hXtc

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

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@JKSteinberger https://t.co/sIZtCc0NAM

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@GeorgeMonbiot A sign of that here:
https://t.co/CCHDKFmh1w

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@GeorgeMonbiot This is interesting too if it's correct - a bit of 80:20 Pareto ...
https://t.co/sIZtCc0fLe

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@mrjamesob @LBC Funny but not funny James.

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@mrjamesob @dave43law Good for UK only in that maybe many smart, gifted Americans will be looking to relocate?

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@IanDunt I knew it last night - ITV vox pop with US tourists in London. A smart-looking young black guy smiled beneficently into the camera and replied 'Trump'.