2025 book thirteen: Mike Davis: City of Quartz - Excavating the Future in Los Angeles ️
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2025 book thirteen: Mike Davis: City of Quartz - Excavating the Future in Los Angeles ️
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"in the later phases of the war and then revolution, women’s struggles for decent wages, affordable rents, and safe workplaces often combined with demands for full citizenship—not only the right to vote but access to public employment, the professions, and political office”
Old Gods, New Enigmas
#MikeDavis
“Thus the 1888 walkout of 1,500 girls & young women in a Bow phosphorus-match factory electrified the entire unorganized working class of East London, setting in motion the events that led to the successful 1889 strike of 100 000 dockworkers & “New Unionism.”
Old Gods, New Enigmas
#MikeDavis
“Fight with hope, fight without hope but fight absolutely.” _ Mike Davis
https://overland.org.au/2025/01/but-fight-absolutely/
Source: MD interviewed March 2016
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchingsociology/2016/03/01/fight-with-hope-fight-without-hope-but-fight-absolutely-an-interview-with-mike-davis/
"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis
#California Burns (2007)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory
Maybe people should have listened to #MikeDavis and turned the #SantaMonica mountains into a park instead of promoting private homes and more #cars https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/11/joan-didion-mike-davis-los-angeles-fires?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #Climate #climatechange #losangeles #losangelesfires
Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters, make his criminal cases vanish
https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-priorities-deportations-drilling-ukraine-6747c6e64b0440978f59450b928f61d1
Comment: coup d'état instantiate in one day
#Trump2 #GOP #JDVance #SteveBannon #MikeDavis
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #xenophobia #dictators
#antiLGBT #transphobia
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#Christofascism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism
Trump’s Likely AG: We’re Going to Put Kids in Cages - Vows Reign of Terror
* Mike Davis pot. Trump2 attorney general
* wants to put journalists in gulags & kids in cages
"Listen here, sweetheart:" Trump advisor Mike Davis threatens NY AG Letitia James with prison
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448709600255473
#LetitiaJames #NewYork
#Trump2 #GOP #MikeDavis #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #xenophobia
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #Project2025
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia
Trump AG Prospect Warns Letitia James: 'We Will Put Your Fat Ass In Prison'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-davis-letitia-james-fat-ass-comment_n_672de5a9e4b0933e82c99ab2 #MikeDavis #Trump #TrumpSupporter #Violence #Bullying #USA #Politics #Extremism
"Listen here, sweetheart:" Trump advisor Mike Davis threatens NY AG Letitia James with prison
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/listen-here-sweetheart-ally-threatens-ny-ag-letitia-james-with-prison
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1854615830358614487
"I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump... listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time and we will put your fatass in prison for conspiracy against rights."
Mike Davis of the "Article III Project" threatened to jail and remove the citizenship of newsman Mehdi Hasan, after Hasan aired a report about who Trump could appoint in his next administration.
#MikeDavis #Article_iii_project
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-davis-mehdi-hasan/
> China in the eighteenth century had the most effective civil service in the world. It was unique in its capacity to deal with large-sale environmental events and to relieve famine...
https://jacobin.com/2018/10/mike-davis-late-victorian-holocausts-famine-mao-stalin
#ChineseEconomy #MikeDavis on #China Pre- #OpiumWar #OpiumTrade #ChinaTrade
@Nadinabbott This is what #Trump and #MikeDavis are going to do here in the US. Its the Stalinist-Fascist way in Russia.
@KevinCarson1 #MikeDavis #enemyofthepeople There needs to be a lot of light shown on this trash talking nobody between now and the election. Put his sorry ass in a cage first
@GottaLaff @willbunch I recently came across the Benny Johnson interview of #mikedavis. It's so extreme that I first thought it was parody. It's real. It's shocking. Trump wants to name Davis acting AG on day one, bypassing Senate confirmation. He could serve for 4 months(correct me if I am wrong) without confirmation. Imagine what those 4 months, and beyond, would look like.
https://www.mediamatters.org/google/mike-davis-were-gonna-put-kids-cages-its-gonna-be-glorious
“Dictators can't do it alone. They need propagandists and torturers to implement their vile agenda
America needs to know about #MikeDavis, frontrunner for #Trump 47 AG, auditioning by calling for 'gulags' and 'kids in cages'
No wonder Team Trump is eyeing him as attorney general in 2025.”
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/…
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mike-davis-trump-attorney-general-20231119.html