Looking for people with a clue. Tweets & RTs my own (she, they). Ph.D. English prof (culture, history, climate, media). Substack, Medium. Bluesky 🦋 @cleulady
We may have left traditional religion, but we never lost our sense of awe and wonder. You are Consciousness, Life, Earth, Universe. You are the Cleu! Got a clue? Be the clue☝🏽#nones #Spirituality#OnePeople #OnePlanet#circle#community https://t.co/JZL6df3unE
41°C in Paris. Red alert in UK. London melting away during London Climate Week. Life threatening human amplified heat. Remember though. This is just the beginning. It will get worse, before potentially getting better. To return fr overshoot, global emissions must decline >5%/yr.
I'd also add the canvass launches and rallies of Zohran and his slate are some of the most genuinely hopeful and fun political events I have ever seen. People clearly believe in who they are asking others to vote for and have a blast doing it. People are exhausted of the politics of dread; they want someone to believe in, not just something to fight against. After 10 years of dread, people are desperate for a message of hope and genuine change that will never come from the same people who got us into this mess.
This report is haunting even for someone who has documented the most horrific aspects of this genocide - which too many world leaders pretend not to see.
I commend the Commission of Inquiry for its effort to bring about accountability and make the truth accessible.
I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in its genocide.
That’s the findings of a latest UN commission.
Remember: if you oppose this abomination, you’re treated as a dangerous, hateful extremist
https://t.co/7fJ1mXsYHz
Israel DELIBERATELY murders children.
Read that again.
They decide to, then actually murder kids, constantly and in massive numbers.
@Alan__Shatter care to comment?
Israel. An evil like no other.
Meanwhile our government says "play them it's just football".
#StopTheGame
Jared Kushner proselytized Netanyahu’s claim that Iran was weeks away from building a nuclear weapon—a view dismissed by nuclear experts—and appeared naive as to how the Iranians negotiate.
Once he got his way, it resulted in America’s greatest humiliation on the global stage since the Iraq War. https://t.co/wNgVVzgp8I
Muslim angle: Zohran Mamdani (City Hall), Aber Kawas (State Senate), Darializa Avila Chevalier (Congress) *are all* also practicing Muslims. As a Muslim New Yorker (and democratic socialist), I could not be prouder that they are the face of our city's new politics.
🔥 D.L. HUGHLEY: “Bill Maher and I used to be friends. It’s harder for me to listen to him now… I’ve never seen him mention the price or look of a presidential library until Obama got one — The way Trump is erasing his legacy it may be the only proof a Black president existed.”
23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP
The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit you’ll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.
But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly it’s a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.
For all my fellow desis who miss their late Pakistani/Indian dads, the ones who never stopped talking about politics!
Thank you @Trevornoah for asking me about how my father made me who I am and why politics is what makes me miss him so much:
I love how petty this is.
Iran knows how jealous trump is of Obama.
And the fact that everyone showered Obama's Preside3ntial Library opening with love and respect had to drive trump NUTS. 🤣🤣🤣
Chef's kiss.🤌
This is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen since the Knicks won the Finals.
Everyone should contribute a video if they can.
And follow his account. He is doing the lord’s work.
https://t.co/D6q7MyQiVq
Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
Extreme heat is a worker safety issue. The workers who build our skyline, staff our airports, stock our warehouses, and deliver our packages, keep this city running.
This executive order will ensure they come home safe at the end of every shift.