#Democratizing Science:

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Signs from Stand Up for Science 2025

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https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/congo-kivu-kinshasa-green-corridor/

The Democratic Republic of Congo to create the Earth’s largest protected tropical forest reserve

The Congo Basin, the largest tropical forest carbon sink in the world, is threatened by war, poverty and the climate crisis.

A new model of green economic development, conservation and peacebuilding in eastern DRC is protecting the forest while sustainably harnessing natural resources to benefit local communities.

The DRC government and partners are announcing the Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor in Davos, which will scale up this model to cover an area the size of France.

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Yeah Bernie and that's why Obama's now own a waterfront mansion along with Hollyweirds and many other, very high profile people.

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The Chinese dad with a theory that sounds genuinely spot on.

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‘WHO VOTED FOR THIS?’ : TRUMP OBSTRUCTS CANCER RESEARCH FUNDING Trump has given orders to freeze ALL federally funded medical research in America. This includes research to treat: Cancer, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Arthritis, Obesity, Drug Addiction, Depression, Childhood Leukemia, Heart Disease, etc. All of us know someone who is a afflicted with a medical condition that science is trying to cure, or at least lessen its severity. Who in their right mind would want to put a freeze on such important work? Notice Trump's priorities. He's not interested in lowering the cost of housing, or reducing middle and lower income Americans' taxes, or the price of groceries. Why? Because he's laser focused on more important stuff like: stopping life-saving medical research, worsening the climate crisis, reigniting inflation by mass deportations, increasing prescription drug prices, and of course, America's most urgent need of all — renaming the Gulf of Mexico. The man needs to have his head examined. Oh, ...darn. He just put a freeze on medical research into finding out what the hell is wrong with him!

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Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections

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The Democratic Party Pizzaburger Theory of Electioneering is: half the electorate wants a pizza, the other half wants a burger, so we'll give them all a pizzaburger and make them all equally dissatisfied, thus winning the election:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos

But no one wants a pizzaburger. The Biden administration's approach of letting the Warren/Sanders wing pick the antitrust enforcers while keeping judicial appointments in the Manchin-Synematic universe is a catastrophe in which progressive Dem regulators (who serve one term) are thwarted by corporatist Dem judges (who serve for life):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

The Democrats – like all parties in two-party systems – are a coalition; in this case, a "progressive" liberal-left coalition with liberals serving as senior partners, steering the party and setting its policies. These corporate dems like to color themselves as "neutral" technocrats with "realistic, apolitical" policies that represent what's best for the country:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

This sets up the left wing of the party as the starry-eyed, unrealistic radicals whose policies are unpopular and will lose elections. But for a decade, grassroots-funded primary challenges have made it possible to test this theory, by putting leftist politicians on the ballot in front of voters, especially in tight races with far-right Republicans (that is, exactly the kinds of races that the corporate wing of the party says we can't afford to take chances on).

The 2022 midterms included enough races to start testing these theories – and, unlike traditional midterms, these races enjoyed high voter turnout, thanks to the unpopularity of GOP positions like abortion bans, book bans and anti-trans laws. Jacobin teamed up with the Center for Working-Class Politics, Yougov and the Center for Work and Democracy at ASU and analyzed those races:

https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/11134429/CWCP-Report-2024.pdf

Their conclusion: candidates from working-class backgrounds who campaigned on economic policies like high-quality jobs, higher minimum wages, a jobs guarantee, ending offshoring and outsourcing, building infrastructure and bringing manufacturing back to the US won with a 50% share of the vote in rural and working-class districts. Dems who didn't lost with a 35% share of the vote:

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-03-18-how-actually-existing-democrats-run-for-office/

In other words, in the kinds of districts where Trumpist politicians are beating Democrats, running on "left populist" policies beats Trumpist politicians.

That's the good news: if Dems recruit leftist, working class politicians and put them up for office on policies that address the material reality of voters' lives, they can beat fascist GOP candidates.

Now for the bad news: the Democratic establishment has no interest in getting these candidates onto the ballot. Working-class candidates, by definition, lack the networks of deep-pocketed cronies who can fund their primary campaigns. Only 2.3% of Dem candidates come from blue-collar backgrounds (if you include "pink-collar" professions like nursing and teaching, the number goes up to 5.9%):

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-populists-working-class-voters

All of this confirms the findings of Trump's Kryoptonite, an earlier Jacobin/CWCP research project that polled working-class voters on preferences for hypothetical candidates, finding that working-class candidates with economically progressive policies handily beat out Republicans, including MAGA Republicans:

https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/08125102/TrumpsKryptonite_Final_June2023.pdf

Since the Clinton-Blair years, "progressives" have abandoned economic populism ("It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money" -T. Blair) and pursued a "third way" that seeks to replace half the world's of supply white, male oligarchs with diverse oligarchs from a variety of backgrounds and genders. We were told that this was done in the name of winning elections with "modern" policies that replaced old-fashioned ideas about decent pay, decent jobs, and worker power.

These policies have delivered a genocide-riven world on the brink of several kinds of existential catastrophe. They're a failure. The pizzaburger party didn't deliver safety, nor prosperity – and it also can't deliver elections.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/20/actual-material-conditions/#bread-and-butter

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To the criminal terrorist republican congressman ( randy fine ) : What will nuclear bombing GAZA do that all the bombs u sent to zionists haven,t done stupid .

Kill is in each part , crops scatters everywhere , buildings r already burnt and fallen .

The matter in GAZA state is to live free or die free . A kind of people not like u a slave for money . A slave for (aipac) .

Ur dead conscience will lead u to the international criminal court soon with netanyahoo and palestine will be free inspite of u and ur weapons .

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Here’s how the Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to create the country’s largest protected tropical forest reserve.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is taking a major step in global conservation by creating the country’s largest protected tropical forest reserve. Covering 540,000 square kilometers (an area equivalent to France), this initiative aims to preserve the Congo Basin rainforest while promoting economic development through sustainable energy, agriculture, and infrastructure.

This initiative will protect 108,000 square kilometers of primary forest, ensuring the survival of one of the world’s most critical ecosystems. Backed by the European Union, Grameen Bank, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and the World Economic Forum, the plan seeks to balance environmental conservation with economic opportunities, creating 500,000 jobs and reducing reliance on deforestation.

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I’m sorry but as much as I hate my science teacher he’s so real

Like.. some kid asked abt the Gulf of America bs, and my teacher said ‘Trump can write whatever he wants on his little paper crayon map, but nobody is going to call it the gulf of America. That’s all him.’ HELP?? AND WHEN THE KAMALA VS TRUMP DEBATE HAPPENED HE SAID ‘I don’t mean to bring politics into the classroom but.. using boxing terms, she smoked him. Knocked him out.’ BRO 😭 love it.

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