@alshipley I wonder how many people realize that the erosion of good journalism is consequential for like 99 percent of why things are different now than they have been in decades.
The future water crisis will be rentier capitalism’s dream object. A life-support system under stress, a frightened public, failing infrastructure, desperate households, and endless opportunities to turn access, repair, storage, delivery and restriction into revenue streams.
It will only grow warmer, for a very long time if we stay on the path we are on - we desperately need climate action now. Or, more extreme heat waves, more droughts, followed by floods as the parched land can’t absorb the water. We have it good. Many don’t. Many are suffering.
In the coming decades, the grid will be overwhelmed because the air conditioners won’t be able to keep up on full blast all the time. Millions will die while more & more A/C’s get turned to the max in a man-made positive feedback loop for even more rapid global warming from hell.
The world is in the largest oil shock in history.
The world is much, much hotter than it was.
The world is in the 6th largest animal extinction event in history.
Global food production is in decline.
Global fresh water is in drastic decline.
The top 10% own 3/4s of all wealth.
the organized american left was at its lowest point since its rebirth in 2016 right before this. Now it is stronger than ever in every metric and area in spite of immense repression. We owe any chance at a future to the bold actions of the Palestinian masses.
In an essay for The Cut Mag, critic Cathy Horyn talks about Versace and two other brands (Chanel and Phoebe Philo) that have cultivated desire!🔥
Dario Vitale’s one-and-done Versace SS26 collection continues to be lauded the industry! #Legendary
“Each week, volunteers in a food delivery system fed thousands of families sheltering in place. Tenants with foresight and screwdrivers installed new locks on apartment buildings to keep out feds and landlords. Strippers refused dances to agents and bounced them out of the club. Soccer moms engaged in high speed chases on the freeway. Doctors made house calls to deliver babies. Teachers pooled rent money for their students. A nurse with a handgun kicked out brake lights. A cab driver patrolled sun-up to sun-down, searching for ICE. Youths in balaclavas made enemies of rental car tires. Children of the American Indian Movement distributed gas masks and wild rice soup. Grandmothers stood watch at elementary schools. Couches and spare rooms filled up when addresses needed to change. Immigrants dodged arrest by ducking into alleys and cutting through strangers' living rooms. Protesters did the same. En masse, people experienced themselves outside of, and against, the law.
Countersurveillance, high-speed chases, clandestine networks, encrypted communications, checkpoints, code names. When these things are normalized and taken up by masses of people, it is a qualitative leap forward for the insurgent struggle. This is the basis from which revolutionaries can advance.”
This should not be anyone's reality anywhere in the world, but horrifically it is because governments betray their people through corruption, failure to build up infrastructure and community development, and failure to address the threat of global warming and climate change.
The US stole billions of dollars of Venezuela's oil wealth and the UK stole Venezuela's gold and now I'm seeing ads for disaster relief pleading with ordinary people to donate whatever they can afford to help the country. Absolute fucking cunts. Rotten, illegitimate system