Thea Riofrancos

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Communications with the @GazaFFlotilla’s Handala have now been jammed. All eyes on the Handala as it approaches the Gaza strip to deliver critical humanitarian aid.

Let’s win rent stabilization for Providence! This is a fight we can win. We need to ensure that a supermajority of city council stands with tenants and overrides real estate shill @PVDMayor Brett Smiley’s promised veto. This is transformative change that’s possible if we organize

i have an LTE in the inquirer today

This is getting close to the logic of holocaust deniers who often point to the existence of survivors, escapees, the existence of Jewish partisans, the sporadic use of Jewish labor, and the fact that not all camps were used for extermination to cast doubt on genocidal intent

Smart piece as always by @robinsonmeyer on where the politics of energy are headed. This is where I am—public power (that actually builds) needs to be a central piece of our energy policy next time around.

We are worth more than our productivity

Every world leader needs to ask themselves if they are ready to be complicit in a famine on their watch. If they are not, they must act decisively now, using every possible political and diplomatic tool, to pressure Israel to lift this unlawful and murderous blockade. /end

By the time people start dying in large daily numbers, both of those windows have been missed. This famine has now gathered momentum, accrued over months of worsening deprivation and the collapse of the relief effort due to Israel's blockade.

I am increasingly convinced that the organizations and individuals who make up "the Jews" in newspaper headlines are deluded about the durability of the American public's tolerance for and susceptibility to their moral superciliousness. That account has been overdrawn.

Fateh is a social democrat whose whole platform focuses on local municipal issues. But we’re going to be dealing with these petulant neurotic theatrics in every major city in the coming years I surmise.

Very smart—worth a listen.

Abundance for the many is about making essentials affordable by all means necessary. Great conversation about the need for a new economic policy agenda that goes beyond removing blockages and waiting for corporations to do the rest. @BigMeanInternet @PEWilliams_ @DanielDenvir

Thank you to everyone who's reached out to tell me how I did on The Abundance Dig since I am afflicted with an audio processing disorder where I can't listen to myself on podcasts 🙏 thedigradio.com/podcast/actual…

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

I long for retribution against those who are waging this war against humanity and everyone who has lent their military, financial, political, legal or rhetorical support. And may the cowards who have stayed silent be hounded and ostracised for the rest of their lives.

The genocide of the people of Gaza continues as members of congress vote to fund Israel’s defensive and offensive military capabilities. This is immoral and no amount of excuses will ever make it ok.

One month after his release from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil is on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers. “I feel that this is my duty to continue advocating for Palestinians—this is what the Trump administration tried to do—they tried to silence me. But I'm here to say that we…

“Perhaps because we’ve become so adept at cooling inside spaces with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling outside spaces, too. There is no technology that cools the outdoors as effectively as a tree.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

All eyes on @GazaFFlotilla Join us tomorrow