Mango 🥭
He/they, eco-socialist | leftist politics, climate & ecology, abolition, cats, video games, etc. | mostly reposts | keep it rollin' 🌅🌴
- "Once we have ecosystem breakdown or climate breakdown, we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks.”
- Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn - Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
- Reposted by Mango 🥭ICE are slave catchers and y'all want better trained slave catchers? Y'all want slave catchers with better rules? Fuck out of here
- Reposted by Mango 🥭it's past his bedtime
- Reposted by Mango 🥭The US is gearing up to literally starve Cuba into submission. It is absolutely criminal and obscene. And this to a country that everyone knows poses *zero* threat to the US. The people of Cuba need our full solidarity in resisting this onslaught.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭ILC Chicago members were featured on the This Wreckage podcast this week! They discussed ICE, strikes, the concept of pre-politics, and more. If you're not a patron but would like to listen to the full/paywall free version, DM us! @thiswreckage.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/e323-c...
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Makes me think of this excellent video by @andrewsage.bsky.social on library economies and how the model of the library can be applied to other things.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.
- I've read about these technologies here and there, but seeing them all laid out in this article in their most advanced form (that we know of) is striking, though. We are living in a dystopian surveillance state.🧵
- Facial recognition, license plate readers, cellphone location tracking (stingrays), phone location databases, digital forensics (phone hacking, including encrypted and deleted data), drones. Everything the military has used abroad or to "fight terrorism" is coming home for the rest of us.
- It's not all doom, however. People are fighting back:
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- US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate @globalenergymon.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Mango 🥭every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
- Reposted by Mango 🥭he can't keep getting away with this
- Reposted by Mango 🥭The police only enforce the laws they want to enforce, and only against the people they want to criminalize.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭If you live in a political system that enables this, then you don't live in a democracy. It's really as simple as that.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Allowing elites and corporations to fund political campaigns means they install political leaders who shape policy to their benefit. It is institutionalised political corruption, there's no other way to describe it. Democracy cannot function under these conditions.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
- Reposted by Mango 🥭The political/governing systems in Minnesota have failed so profoundly that ordinary people are strengthening their own communities against a predatory official force. Perhaps it's time to think beyond the political compact known as the "United States of America." New at FOREVER WARS:
- Reposted by Mango 🥭It was an ugly wake-up call for me, the dad of a new Kindergartener, to realize that the public school system has basically been completely abandoned by both parties since before my own time in it, and all of the "non-essential" stuff is provided entirely by donations and volunteer labor
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
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- Reposted by Mango 🥭Because they are invested in the armed management of inequality, which policing was designed to do, and which continues to benefit them materially.
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- Reposted by Mango 🥭my biggest fear in this moment is not that the fascists will win, but that this critical mass of popular opposition will settle for a victory of half measures, once again kicking the can down the road instead of doing the simple straightforward work of picking it up and throwing it in the trash.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭There is not a law enforcement agency in the US that does not have a deep fascist rot inside of it and looking to them for any kind of solution is ridiculous.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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- Reposted by Mango 🥭Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"
- Reposted by Mango 🥭this little MONSTER did it to me again but in the closet this time. he really sat there watching me inch closer to a full panic and did nothing
- Reposted by Mango 🥭10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Mango 🥭9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
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- Reposted by Mango 🥭Turns out it requires a fuckload of union-backed, coalition-built, boots-on-the-ground organizing to accomplish rather than a half-assed slogan on the internet (like many folks have mentioned for *years* whenever this exact thing came up)
- Reposted by Mango 🥭I broke down the ICE “reforms” being proposed by Dem leadership. tl;dr: They totally avoid touching ICE’s funding, in key ways actually increase ICE funding and instead focus on meaningless busywork like “body cams” and “more training”.
- Good’s killer was a 10-year ICE veteran, himself a trainer, and recorded the killing. What good would more training and more cameras have done? By @ahjohnson.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mango 🥭tacking this to the office door of every democratic member of the house and senate. everyone groans and before i have the chance to shout out @lukeoneil47.bsky.social i am renditioned by feds newly empowered by bipartisan funding
- Reposted by Mango 🥭At this point police are a secular totem - if crime exists we must have cops to do the job, if crime doesn't exist, then we must have cops because obviously they are doing the job
- Reposted by Mango 🥭a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
- Reposted by Mango 🥭New Oxfam report finds that billionaire wealth increased 3x faster last year than in previous years. A clear reminder that right-wing populism is fake populism. www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
- Reposted by Mango 🥭The realization that the “death to America” rhetoric we were raised to believe so extremist and terrifying is actually justified — and arguably just — is fundamentally destabilizing for a lot of people.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key. “nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Americans, seeing fascism, will call it literally anything else: communism, anarchism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc. Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process. And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Thread. [I think regularly about the fact that Young ended up a foe to the Cop City protesters... and so much more. I think Martin would not have.]
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Ireland, if you haven’t looked outside this evening . . . #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Politicians are heavily invested in the Law Enforcement Baronial Class. Reforms and changes are all in the service of maintaining legitimacy for the police. So, ICE/ CBP must be cast as a bad apple, divided, and treated as anomalous, like a tumor to be expelled.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops
- Reposted by Mango 🥭A big part of the "ICE and Border Patrol guys could never make it in the military or a real police force" rhetoric is just cope that allows folks to keep pretending that cops and military don't have large numbers of violent, sociopathic toolbags themselves. They do.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭"the police have long functioned as an army against dissident social movements. The police are the first line of defense against strikes and left-wing protests, while often serving as a cordon to protect Klansman, Nazis, and the alt-right."
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- Reposted by Mango 🥭People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭this is why it’s so funny to me to imagine being conservative: you have to attribute anything to “well people are worse now.” rising homelessness? hmm i guess everyone just decided to start making bad choices. thank god that means we can’t do anything about it!
- Reposted by Mango 🥭Last year, centrists were arguing that Democrats should adopt extreme-right anti-immigrant positions to keep up with what they claimed was the tide of public opinion. Now nearly half of the population agrees that ICE should be outright abolished. ICE has only existed since March 2003, by the way.
- Reposted by Mango 🥭I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
