Climate Defiance
@ClimateDefiance
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BIG UPDATE: Today we are launching Project 2026, the people's movement to quash oligarchy and save our country and climate. Here's the four-part plan: 🧵.
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You approved the largest oil terminal in U.S. history 13 days ago.
Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. On Earth Day and every day, we remain committed to taking the most aggressive climate action ever.
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This is huge. This is absolutely monumental. We just shut down an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods. The whole room fled. We showed up & prevented this monster from uttering a word. We will resist him with all we've got. There is no choice.
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It’s so inconsiderate when climate protestors block roa…
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BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs.
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There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵.
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No one is talking about it but Israel is eviscerating the natural ecosystems in Gaza. This could make the land uninhabitable not just for years but for generations. Up to 48% of tree cover and farmland has been torched. This is a war crime. This is ecocide. Nothing less. (1/13)🧵.
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CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!
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“But why can’t climate activists be more patient?”
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This is bad. This is really bad. Ocean temperatures are experiencing a "rapid surge." This is unprecedented. The numbers are literally off the charts. We will explain what this all means. (1/11) 🧵
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BREAKING: We just shut down a gala honoring U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is a murderer. She incinerates us to enrich her cronies. As Chevron's top lobbyist gave her an award, we stepped in and stopped the ceremony. Respect us or expect us. 🧵
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WHY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT PROTESTORS BLOCKING ROADS NOT COMPLAINING THAT ISRAEL BLOCKS ROADS INTO GAZA, OUT OF GAZA, WITHIN GAZA, INTO THE WEST BANK, OUT OF THE WEST BANK, AND WITHIN THE WEST BANK, DAY-IN, DAY-OUT, YEAR AFTER YEAR, DECADE AFTER DECADE?.
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Your daughter raised the price of EpiPens by over 500%.
Chris is a type-1 diabetic from Charles Town who is bravely sharing his story in Washington this week. WV has the highest rate of diabetes of any state in the nation. We owe it to our future generations to cap insulin at $35 a month & reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program.
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There is no easy way to talk about this but today Joe Biden approved a $38,700,000,000 gas project in Alaska. This includes 807 miles of pipeline, a gas treatment plant, a liquefaction facility, & a LNG terminal that would process 20,000,000 metric tons of gas per year. (1/9)🧵.
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The media is barely covering it but today in Valencia 95 human lives were snuffed out, extinguished brutally by profit-driven, planet-heating pollution and the catastrophic flooding that comes with it. Here is what we know so far. 🧵(1/8)
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Words fail. Words fail. Today the World Meteorological Association released their annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Carbon levels have reached a level not seen since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago - when sea levels rose an astonishing 30-60 feet. We explain: .🧵 (1/14).
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BREAKING: we just made the pro-oil Senator Amy Klobuchar flee the stage at her book launch party. Her book title? The Joy of Politics
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BREAKING: We just fully shut down Senator Joe Manchin's keynote address. He is shoving a 2,000,000,000 cubic-foot-per-day fracked gas pipeline down our throats. Manchin is not a moderate. Manchin is an ecocidal millionaire. We must resist him with all we've got. And we will.
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Words fail. Words utterly fail. Today a police truck PLOWED INTO a peaceful climate blockade. These are the people “entrusted” to keep us safe. These are the people we have granted a monopoly on the use of force. How is this ok?.
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Tell us how we are “too disruptive.” . Tell us how we “cause too much chaos.” . Tell us. Tell us. TELL US!!!!.
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BREAKING: we just fully took over a fundraiser for Joe Biden's reelection campaign. The billionaires bolted. The President just approved a 2,000,000,000 cubic-foot-per-day fracked gas pipeline in the midst of a climate emergency. This was not a compromise. This was a crime.
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Don’t worry, there was a roundtable in Davos that pledged to reach net zero by 2050
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Big update: We just swarmed a major fundraiser on Nantucket Island benefitting Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey. We demanded she ban new fossil fuel projects. She refused. So we shut down her whole event. She fled. Respect us or expect us.
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This is not a drill. Alberta is on fire as we write. An area the size of 1,900,000 football fields just went up in smoke. This hellfire is not abating. This is the worst it's ever been. This is a dire moment. (1/7) 🧵
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BREAKING: We just swarmed the field at the Congressional Women's Softball Game. As rooftop snipers aimed their guns at us and Members of Congress begged us to evacuate, we held our ground. This is an emergency. We act like it. 🧵
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BREAKING: we just fully shut down a fundraiser headlined by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer took $283,200 from NextEra. In exchange he greenlit the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This is a death sentence for us. So we shut down his event. And we did not apologize.
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We name names at Climate Defiance. This is Bruce Percelay. He said the quit part out loud. As we pleaded for our very survival, he told us: "I don't mind if you die.". He is the former chair of Make-A-Wish Massachusetts.
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Major update: we are in Jackson Hole, Wyoming - at the world’s largest gathering of central bankers. We came to ask the Fed to use its vast powers to end fossil fuel finance. In response we were brutally tackled, assaulted and kneeled on.
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Fucking stop it with your “net-zero by 2050” pledges. Literal human beings are literally drowning right now. Society is at a precipice. We are teetering on the edge. A climate apocalypse is upon us, yet our politicians dither and dine with oil barons. Wtf?.
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This is horrific. This is obscene. The World Meteorological Organization just dropped a major new report. 2024 will be the warmest year on record. This is a "red alert." We break down this new study here: . (1/13) 🧵.
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Big update. Big, big update. We just found Joe Manchin yet again, in a diner. We swarmed it. We took it over. We seized control. We shut him down so hard he had to flee through the kitchen. We will not walk like sheep to slaughter. We will not stand down. Respect us or expect us.
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When you realize you should have gone bigger than a Plastic Straw Campaign
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BIG NEWS: we profoundly disrupted a speech by United States Vice President Kamala Harris. As we cried out about the tragic deaths in Hawaii and condemned her fossil fuel crimes, Kamala stood there and laughed. Horrendous. We deserve - and we need - actual climate leaders.
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The numbers get so much more damning. The per capita emissions in the US are TWELVE TIMES higher than those of the Least Developed Countries. We have the most time, money and bandwidth to decarbonize yet we have failed massively. This is an atrocity of unspeakable scale. (4/9).
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WHY ARE YOU MORE ANGRY AT THE PEOPLE PROTESTING A GENOCIDE THAN THE PEOPLE COMMITTING ONE?.
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A brand-new report just found that billionaires are spewing as much carbon in 90 minutes as the average person emits in a lifetime. This is hideous. This is grotesque. This is a crime against humanity. If this does not shock you to your core, what will? What will? . 🧵 (1/12).
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The report does not mince words about who is at fault: it's the largest and wealthiest countries. G20 members drove a shocking 77% of emissions last year, according to the report. The six largest emitters alone spewed 63% of worldwide total emissions. (3/9).
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BREAKING: in the capital city of the United States of America it is medically unsafe to inhale air. Fossil-fueled climate change has parched Canada, where 6,600,000 acres of forest just burst into flames. Those majestic woodlands are now ash. And we are inhaling the soot.
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UPDATE: We shut down the luncheon honoring fracking enthusiast @mattyglesias. A third-rate "thought leader," this Harvard half-wit is ready and willing to incinerate his own child in the name of being "provocative.". 🧵
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Fucking stop it with your cheery platitudes about “green growth” and “multi-stakeholder engagement” and “public-private partnerships.”. We’re losing. We’re losing badly. We’re losing earth and all good things in it. Don’t you see?
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BREAKING: Our blockade is working!!!. We just turned away a government SUV from entering the White House Correspondents Dinner hotel in DC. Business as usual + Biden’s approval of massive new oil + gas projects is killing the planet. The solution is simple — #EndFossilFuels.
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Sex is cool but have you ever called Joe Manchin a sick fuck in a room full of Harvard sheeple?
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WHAT A DAY. Hundreds of us blockaded the White House Correspondents Dinner in DC. We disrupted the rich + powerful b/c Joe Biden’s approval of deadly new oil + gas projects is killing the planet. We will continue to disrupt until we #EndFossilFuels.
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BREAKING: We have taken the field at the Congressional Baseball Game + play has FROZEN!. Congress sends billions of public $$ to subsidize deadly fossil fuels — but the police are tackling us instead. This Chevron-sponsored game cannot continue. This is unconscionable.
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Joanna Smith and Tim Martin caused $2,400 in damages by smearing paint on glass. They spend this summer facing up to 10 years of prison. Fossil fuel CEOs are on track to cause $23,000,000,000,000 in damages. Annually. They spend this summer island-hopping on mega-yachts.
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Not all is lost. We can still turn this around. We have the technology we need, on hand, RIGHT NOW, to fix this. We just need the political will. Here are the places we can close the gap, starting with the energy sector. (8/9)
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As it stands we are on track to "plunge headlong into climate disaster.". This is not according to a leafletter on the sidewalk. This is according to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, commenting on the newly released Emissions Gap Report. (2/9)
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Woods makes $20 million/year while increasing the production of oil & gas globally. His poisonous presence just tainted COP28, where he stupidly declared that he wants to reduce the emissions of Exxon's *operations* -- as though it isn't his PRODUCT itself that's killing us.
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On this topic, "Stop Antisemitism" is funded by Adam Milstein, who is a former IDF solider. He is on the boards of Hasbara, PragerU, and StandWithUs. He previously served on the AIPAC national council, and collaborated with Sheldon Adelson. His condemnation is a badge of honor!.
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Literally fuck your online petitions. Homes are floating through the streets like soda bottles. Communities are getting wiped off the map. We are at the precipice. Only radical action will save us. Don’t you see? Don’t you understand?
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Breaking: we just chased Secretary Pete Buttigieg off the stage at the Meyerhoff Symphony. Petro Pete is a coward. As we write he is ramming down our throats the Sea Port and GulfLink oil terminals - each worse than Keystone. We must resist him with all we've got. And we will.
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BREAKING: we just confronted the US Energy Secretary. The militarized response was unlike anything we've ever seen. A Black man was told "we can shoot you, like you do each other.". A woman had her neck mashed to the ground. Another was besieged to the point of vomiting (1/9)🧵.
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BREAKING: today in New York City you can barely see through the smog. The air is not safe to breathe. The city is choked by wildfire smoke. Children with asthma are being rushed to hospitals. This is America. This is our new climate reality. This is just the beginning.
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The elites of Davos have failed. The elites of Brussels have failed. The elites of Washington DC have failed. We must peacefully rise up. We must save ourselves. Our leaders have wasted precious time. We can stand by no longer. We are the ones we've been waiting for. (9/9).
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14 reasons President Biden must immediately withdraw from the Presidential race: . 1. He has no pathway to victory. His approval rating is 37%. No incumbent has ever won reelection with those numbers.
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Under current policies, we have only a 50-50 chance of staying below 2.9 degrees. We have only a 2/3 shot of staying below 3.1 degrees. These are BOTH death sentences and it is beyond unconscionable that we put ourselves on the path to reach them. (7/9)
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Joanna Smith smeared washable finger-paint on a piece of plexiglass. She was just sentenced to spend the summer in prison. Fossil fuel CEOs are poised to drive $23,000,000,000,000 in climate damages, annually. They will spend the summer taking mega-yachts to the Amalfi coast.
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Here's the story no one is telling you about Tim Walz: Until just a few years ago, he was a bona fide climate criminal. Today, he is celebrated as a climate champion. Here's what happened🧵.
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WHY ARE YOU CONDEMNING US FOR STOPPING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM PLAYING A BASEBALL GAME, AND NOT CONDEMNING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR PLAYING A BASEBALL GAME, THAT IS SPONSORED BY CHEVRON, DURING THE 12TH-STRAIGHT HOTTEST MONTH ON RECORD? WHY?.
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Big update. We will shut down Kathy Hochul’s fundraiser. She just blocked congestion pricing. On Tuesday, car dealers will host a $5,000-per-plate benefit to thank her. We will show up. We will blockade. Save the date. Share with everyone.🧵.
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This is urgent. No one is talking about it but the U.S. House of Representatives is debating a bill TODAY that would give the President unlimited, unilateral power to shut down any organization that defies him. We explain: (1/8) 🧵.
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Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. This ENDLESS line of soulless bankers was just blocked from getting to work today, as we stood arm-in-arm with our partners to block every single entrance into Citi Bank.
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It gets worse: under current policies, global emissions will reach 57,000,000,000 tons by the end of this decade. That's above the current level, which is itself existentially threatening. (5/9).
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We SWARMED the halls of Congress today. Every head turned. Every jaw dropped. Revolution was in the air. The “progressives” begged us to stand down. But we held our ground. Nine of us were arrested. We are in an emergency. We must act like it.
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BREAKING: we just shut down YET ANOTHER speech by US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, whose bank recently insured a $400,000,000 gas plan. Last time we confronted her she had us arrested & jailed. But we were not deterred. We came back. We always will. Respect us or expect us.
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This is the graph from the new report. Sear this into your memory. The green line represents how fast we must cut emissions to stay below 1.5 degrees. The top line represents current policies. The bars on the right show the gap between where we are and where we must be. (6/9)
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WHY ARE YOU MORE CONCERNED ABOUT TRANS WOMEN PEEING THAN ABOUT OIL OLIGARCHS SPEWING 40,000,000,000 TONS OF PLANET-HEATING POLLUTION?.
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BREAKING: we have shut down the entrances to the DNC headquarters. They are shoving Biden’s nomination down our throats, subverting due process and lying. This cannot stand. This will not stand.
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BREAKING: we just entirely shut down the lunch of Deputy National Climate Advisor Mary Repko. Nine of us were arrested. The Biden Administration is building new pipelines during the worst heat wave in recorded history. This is hideous. This cannot stand. This will not stand.
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BREAKING: We just confronted David Patraeus. He oversaw the Iraq war and now pushes expansion of fracked gas at private equity firm KKR. With @pop4climate, we exposed his role in driving violence against Indigenous people. Dumbstruck and stunned, he left his own event early🧵
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This is big. It got virtually no attention but the White House just finalized plans to protect 28,000,000 acres in Alaska from oil drilling. This is an area larger than all of Tennessee. Disruption works. Direct action works. Never lose faith. (1/5)🧵.
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A top woman in the Biden administration just attempted to commit ecocide. It's time to name names. It's time to show receipts. (1/8) 🧵.
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‼️BREAKING‼️We disrupted Republican Rep Mike Lawler. Lawler consistently prioritizes the interests of the elite over his constituents. He isn’t fighting for New Yorkers when he votes against medicade, social security, veterans, and climate. He’s fighting for Musk.
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Sex is cool but have you ever shut down a luncheon honoring the CEO of Exxon in front of 4,000,000 online viewers?
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BREAKING: Biden is coming to NYC tomorrow. And so are we. The President will attend a $25,000-per-plate fundraiser at a private equity CEO's $24,900,000 apartment. We're showing up, too. We will make ourselves heard. Share widely. We need everyone.
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It is time to name names again. This is Robin Wiessmann. She SCREAMED at us. She lost her shit because we showed up at the fundraiser she hosted for Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, demanding answers about fossil fuels. She is the CEO of the PA Housing Finance Agency.
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Update: the beautiful Greece is underwater now. It rained more in 12 hours than it does in a normal year. Our climate systems are falling apart. The one place known to sustain life is in peril. And you call us “too extreme” for interrupting politicians.
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UPDATE: We just shut down Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. We asked this top-5 fossil fuel financier a life-or-death question. He twiddled his thumbs. So we chased him off stage, then downstairs into the back office. He cowered & called the cops. Classic move, oil boy.🧵
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BREAKING: we just shut down a keynote speech by Senior Advisor to the President John Podesta. Addressing a room full of millionaires in a 5-star hotel, Podesta said we can only get to net-zero by 2050. So we sang him off the stage.
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News: we crashed the birthday BBQ of Rep Steny Hoyer. Sold out and corrupted, he took $500K+ in fossil fuel blood money. He said Keystone “has merit.” And he defended fossil fuel subsidies. So we shut down his “Bull Roast.” And we did not apologize. Respect us or expect us. 🧵
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Today we name names. The person who brutally assaulted our volunteer is Jonathan Kott. He used to work for Senator Joe Manchin. Now he lobbies for Exxon. There is no limit to this man's depravity. No limit.
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It is not easy to talk about this. This weekend - for the first time ever - the world temporarily breached 2° of warming. This is a five-alarm fire for humanity. (1/7) 🧵
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BREAKING: We just shut down a keynote address by Export-Import Bank Chair Reta Jo Lewis. She fled the stage, vacating her own convention as Ambassadors and Senators gasped. Murderous woman, incinerator of life, she has forked over $500,000,000 for oil drilling in Bahrain. 🧵
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BREAKING: today, in the United States of America, in the Year of our Lord 2023, brutal cops are slamming, tackling and **pointing guns at** peaceful climate protestors. Hideous.
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URGENT: a new study just found we are on track to burst through the safe limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming by 2027. This is a five-alarm fire. This is code red for humanity. We need an uprising. We need revolution in all aspects of our lives. There is no alternative. (1/6)
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HUGE UPDATE: we just HALTED the gala honoring billionaire oligarch David Rubenstein. As leader of the Carlyle Group, David invests $22,000,000,000 in coal, oil and gas. We won't mince words: he is an enemy to humanity. We must stop him. And we will. 🧵
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So we found the person who approved the Willow project. His name is Tommy Beaudreau and he is a climate criminal. We profoundly disrupted him five times in a single day. We will do this to anyone who stands between us and the world we seek to build. Respect us or expect us.
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Witnessing the climate apocalypse while discussing 2050 “net zero” pledges.
What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?.
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When you heat water, its oxygen is released into the air. That’s what happened in Texas. Now there are dead fish as far as the eye can see. And this is just the beginning. Buckle up.
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This is big. Our sister-in-struggle Elise Joshi just confronted the White House Press Secretary about the Willow Project. Elise’s words are so powerful, her courage so extraordinary. She is an inspiration to us all.
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BREAKING: we just SHUT DOWN the "Sustainability" Summit honoring Bank of America. They've given $279,000,000,000 to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Accord was signed. They bruised and bloodied us but we held firm. There was no choice.🧵
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You let a multibillion dollar corporation build a 700,000 barrel-per-day pipeline. You signed into law a 2,000,000,000 cubic-foot-per-day fracked gas project in WV. You didn't declare a climate emergency. It doesn't matter what you believe. It matters what you do.
Climate change is real, by the way.
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Tim Walz became a climate leader not because he had an epiphany but because the climate movement built real political power. We must now double down. That work begins anew today. END. (11/11).
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Stop whatever you are doing. Drop it. Nothing else matters. Nothing matters besides this graph. We could lose it all. We could have bloodshed and suffering at scales never seen. It doesn’t matter you got promoted to associate analyst at fucking Deloitte. Don’t you see?
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BREAKING: absolute *chaos* ensuing in Atlanta, as the city council decides whether to replace a historic forest with “Cop City.” . Revolution is in the air. Windows are shaking. Politicians are quaking. The whole world is watching.
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It is getting worse. We thought it cannot get worse and yet it keeps getting worse. We do not know how far this can go. We do not want to know. We have spent our lives giving warnings. Writing letters. Making calls. We spoke truth to power but power shrugged. So now we rise.
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BREAKING: We stormed Chevron CEO Mike Wirth's interview at a corporate diversity event. His speech was on "the role of engaged men in gender inclusivity." We chased him out because he's not a man, he's a sick leech, and if he's engaged in anything, it's "killing women of color."
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UPDATE: we halted a speech by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. As Nazis take over our government, he wines and dines Silicon Valley tech tycoons promising "moderation". Due to his cowardice, approval of Congressional Democrats just sank to 21%. Jeffries: step up or step aside.
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BREAKING: we just profoundly disrupted the Citi Open, one of the world's most prominent tennis tournaments. We were brutally dragged out. Multiple members of our group were bloodied up and bruised. But we will not be deterred. We will fight til we win. There is no alternative.
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