Simona Mila Capisani

(she/her) 🏳‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
Asst. Prof. of Environmental Philosophy @Durham_Uni w/ focus in political/social philo, climate justice/mobilities/migration/displacement

[Simona Mila Capisani @SimoMila]

I am super stoked to share some big news- in September I will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University @DurhamPhilosop1 !

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

This week, Republicans released their big budget bill that aims to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.

I analyzed every clean energy project that has been built since the IRA passed—3,570 in all.

The proposed budget bill would hurt Republican districts the most.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Tech bros sneering that everyone should “learn to code” only for them to unwittingly create the conditions of their own obsolescence while the philosophy majors inherit the earth would be a Shakespeare-tier tragicomedy. Hilarious were it not for the horrors, job loss, and so on.

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is an energy systems expert. She is positioning Mexico to lead in the global green economy —from EVs & batteries to Renewables,Critical minerals,HVAC manufacturing. Her Plan Mexico is at a critical juncture. Our report:
https://t.co/YFPeRpGN3Z

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Labour losing one of its safest seats shows what happens when a government cuts disability benefits and winter fuel payments, keeps the two-child benefit cap, and panders to anti-migrant rhetoric:

Reform wins and always will.

This isn’t the change people voted for and it shows.

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

Oops turns out in order to continue to force this technology no one wants on everyone we’re also going to have to vastly expand the surveillance state!

[Jacobin @jacobin]

To kick off International Workers' Day, here's a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.

Let's start with a 1973 May Day poster from Czech artist František Kopenec.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

receiving reports that David Brooks is singing the Internationale in the Times cafeteria

[Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach]

First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out--
Because recent NYT/Ipsos polls show Trump +9 on immigration among noncollege men

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Why are the staff of school districts showing more courage than the administrators of the wealthiest private universities in USA

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

I'm willing to make a prediction: This administration will attempt a serious 1st and 4th Amendment violation of a US citizen like we've seen against non-citizens to gauge the response

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This thread is very astute: the scholars and intellectuals who predicted the rise of Trumpism were largely humanists with training in philosophy, history, etc. NOT quantitative social scientists. To use one of myriad examples, Richard Rorty had this pegged three decades ago.

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

The critical minerals consensus—i.e. that some raw materials are so essential that all tactics, including war, are justified to obtain them—is hegemonic. The results could be deadly.

This consensus shuts down debate: Critical for whom, obtained at whose expense? My latest in @FT

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

"Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

Susan Sontag was mocked and maligned for her post-9-11 contribution to the New Yorker, but she's been proven prophetic

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

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[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute.” https://t.co/NiBgP7cHnk

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Revealed: More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans | @daisydunnesci @pgreenfielduk @GAViglione @YanineQuiroz

Read here: https://t.co/TFhGJ1mE2T

[Vanessa Wills @vcwills]

God, when I think of all the people who told me back then, "You don't know that. You don't know how this will turn out. It could be fine. It could be good for Iraq and good for us. We could spread democracy this way. You don't know."

The writing was always on the wall!!!

[Stuart Schrader @stschrader1]

Back in 2020, when the Trump admin was disappearing people from US streets, a lot of us heard echoes of the dirtiest moments of US foreign policy. Now, Trump has disappeared a university student for his beliefs. The imperial boomerang is undeniable. https://t.co/IFp7E9PydX

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

From @jangelooff's reporting at the AP, the details of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil's arrest make it all even more disturbing: agents threatened to arrest his wife, an American citizen 8 months pregnant, and they don't even know where he's being held (link below)