benjamin yang

he/him | +886 | @yalenus ‘22 | @YaleEnvironment ‘24 | @tcan_2050 |
thinking abt #justtransitions #decarbonisation & #delibdem in the age of climate change

[benjamin yang @yangpeiwei]

had the opportunity today to share some findings from my undergrad capstone thesis on #JustTransition narratives in taiwan with a network of scholars, practitioners, activists & lawmakers! not without some help from this little fella ofc 🐱thank u @MacondoChao for organising!

[stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon]

all week I’ve been thinking about this caption

[cabral @doctor_cabral]

Cory Booker doing a fake filibuster for 25 hours and then immediately voting with Republicans to keep sending bombs to Israel so they can keep killing civilians is peak democrat behavior

[The Blue Roof @BluRoofPolitics]

Let's take a step back and appreciate this moment. When the whole world seems to experiencing a regression toward authoritarianism, South Koreans forcefully, yet peacefully, ended the attempted destruction of democracy. What an achievement.

[Joseph Kim @josungkim]

South Koreans who supported the impeachment are jubilant in the streets of Seoul. They are hugging one another, some showing tears of joy

[taoki @justalexoki]

someone said their dad started believing in climate change because insurance companies started accounting for it and i still think about that

[samaa • سما @samaakhullar]

Sorry but it’s actually so rich that the NYTimes is now reporting on student deportations and publishing op-Ed’s about the dangers of Trump’s immigration policies despite the fact that their reporting is the reason these students were vilified and accused of being antisemitic.

[Ravi Mangla @ravi_mangla]

We're close to Cybertrucks having more rights than women

[seroja sinar 🪷🔆 @SerojaSinar]

ALERT: Singapore police arrests students for protesting against National University of Singapore collaborating with Hebrew University

Hebrew Uni is an Israeli institution built on occupied land in East Jerusalem, and trains Israeli soldiers.

This is what they were arrested for

[nature @Nature]

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some are considering changing jobs or leaving the country. Others say them might abandon research altogether.

https://t.co/9afome3UzX

[Arielle Kane @ariellesophia]

Hey! @elonmusk your doge minions just fired me and my colleagues at CMMI. We were working on improving maternal health outcomes AT LOWER COSTS so that less pregnant women would die in this county. I thought that would fit nicely into your agenda?

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Im working on a longer piece rn about the history of the Democratic Party since the 70s and I have to keep taking breaks because it’s pissing me off so bad. The amount of times they had an opportunity to change course and work for the people and did the opposite is staggering.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing government tech workers. With the layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories.

This is what it's been like on the front lines. 1/x

[Moniza Hossain @moniza_hossain]

What we’re not about to do is let AI have the em dash. The em dash belongs to human writers. It’s our emotional support punctuation mark

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A short 🧵.
1/
https://t.co/FKxxmLyfce

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

While you're watching these fires grow across LA, understand that incarcerated people make up 30% of the California's on-the-ground wildfire crews

[Callum @HoldKneeCloser]

See how easy that was @Israel ?

[Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm]

BREAKING: Yale student body has voted OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of divesting the university’s holdings in weapons manufactures, including “those arming Israel”

Of 3,338 students, over 76% voted in favor of divestment.

@yaledailynews reports unprecedented engagement in the vote.