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David Esdale

@davidesdale.bsky.social

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Animal Lover, Ecologist, e-biker, Dem precinct person, union member, cooperative housing member, Chomsky fan, St Johns College Great Books reader,on tiwa land, Sortition curious.Prevention of Cruelty, Humane Education🇸🇪🇵🇸🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · Jun 22

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This is a well written and important post on the what we are now experiencing and the potential for transforming our world. Profound...

The Grassroots Movement that Could Destroy the World. Or Save It.

Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, including the heavily-fortified uranium enrichment plant at Fordo.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 2d

We need deep systemic change as suggested by Limits to Growth....

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 2d

One thing is clear: renewables don’t fit within the political economy of neoliberal capitalism.

We have to choose between the profits of oil producers, and the health and prosperity of entire societies. But our politicians
care more about the former than the latter.
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How the rich world lost the race to renewable energy

Renewables are booming in the global South – but vested interests and corrupt governments are blocking progress in the global North.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 3d

This is a social sadism that should not be considered normal. A stress that may have a long term impact on these people is inhumane.

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 7d

They are the same, oh no! Trump did pardon them for January insurrection.

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 10d

Devotees of "violence providing redemption", it is so stupid and getting stupider..

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 10d

I am in El Paso now, one of the safest places in the US as it has been for years. Danger is from MAGA gunners shooting up our stores..

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 10d

Echoed in "Omnivores Deceptions".. both need to be abandoned...

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 14d

" A double helix of destruction: Speciesism and Capitalism"

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · Sep 1

John’s book is essential reading. Especially for omnivores. I have read many books in regards to the utter depravity of animal agriculture and not one of them touches ‘The Omnivore’s Deception’.

John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · Jun 17

After 12+ years of labor, "The Omnivore's Deception" is out today. I chronicle the rise of the meat industry, show its catastrophic ecological effects, demolish the myth of the "enlightened" omnivore, show why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocate the abolition of the animal food economy.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 16d

Well said!... Dignity....

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16d

Citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social says his democratic socialism is about "better distribution of wealth for all of God's children."

"We're in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17d

It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 16d

They think only some people are worthy of dignity, those like themselves. That is not a wise or mature mindset.

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk did not get into West Point.....

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 18d

Donate them to the Humane Society thrift shop, did the same a short while ago!

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 18d

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 19d

It’s not just Trump the entirety of the fascist governmental infrastructure down to the state level is starting to turn up the volume on their Stochastic violence and attempts to target opposition voices with overt threats of death.

America is spiraling faster into the abyss now.

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 19d

The story btw

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GOP lawmaker calls for Dem congresswoman to be executed for urging Trump protests

Arizona GOP Rep. John Gillette calls for hanging Democratic congresswoman over nonviolent protest remarks

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you , Sarah..

Sarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · 20d

She kind of glazes over the death and destruction part, but you might like her general sentiment on how collapse awareness can improve your life.

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How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 20d

Thoughtful discussion of something i don't like to thinl about.

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Charlie Kirk Conspiracies: Second Shooter Theory

From Heavy Duty Country to Range Day Bro, we review the evidence making waves online — and ask if the official story holds up.

Charlie Kirk Conspiracies: Second Shooter Theory

From Heavy Duty Country to Range Day Bro, we review the evidence making waves online — and ask if the official story holds up.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 20d

This is insane, if true. Monumental lying from this administration and law inforcement.

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 21d

This is a mature and needed discussion...goes to the core of morals... from mores, customs.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 22d

A poster on this site mentioned that if Lincoln had better Generals early on he would not have had to pick A Johnson as vp who gave clemency to the Confederates.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 22d

We need to get rid of the nukes or they will get rid of us.

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 22d

A credit card worth of plastic in our brains is making the education direction less likely, tragically.

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 22d

The US is so far off the spectrum on many issues. Dissolution may be the the best way forward after defunding the Department of War

David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 22d

In Greg Grandin's "america, america" the rest of the hemisphere got earlier pushback on the indigenous genocide resulting in a bit of humility.

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David Esdale @davidesdale.bsky.social · 22d

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"... let's debate anything other than the dehumanization of people."...

Our Humanity Is Not up for Debate

“The proper way to respond” to white supremacist fascism “is to have a backbone,” says Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale University, in

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