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Thea Riofrancos
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Prof @providencecol & @cplusci Strategic Co-Director ✍️ EXTRACTION @wwnorton📚Resource Radicals @DukePress & A Planet to Win @VersoBooks @jvplive @DemSocialists
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Mar 3, 2025
    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
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Apr 14, 2022
    Rapid PCR tests at the airport cost $250 a pop and insurance doesn’t cover them. Our state government no longer tests unless you have symptoms. PCR results are required for travel. The pandemic has officially become a giant opportunity for price gauging and profit accumulation.
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Jan 18, 2022
    I just ordered four at-home rapid covid tests online, for free, from a government website that will be shipped to my door by the postal service. It's not amazing or impressive that this can be done now; it's a travesty, with fatal results, this wasn't done months or years ago.
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Jun 8, 2023
    This isn’t NYC today. This was 1973, just after the EPA was created and before it transformed air and water quality. In those early years the agency enlisted photographers to catalogue environmental disasters before they were cleaned up. The climate crisis is reversing history.
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Oct 22, 2023
    There are huge protests everywhere in the US against genocide in Gaza, in solidarity with Palestinians and calling for not only a ceasefire but an end to US support for occupation. Yet, I haven’t seen a single article in a major newspaper about what is becoming a mass movement 1/
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Nov 5, 2023
    Two weeks ago Biden said with a straight face that the United States is the most powerful country in “the history of the world.” Now the Biden administration is claiming they have zero ability to impose any significant constraints on a US client state. Make it make sense
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    Nov 5, 2023
    Biden administration officials say Israel’s counterattack against Hamas has been too severe and too costly in civilian casualties, but they are unable to exert significant influence on America’s closest ally in the Middle East to change its course. wapo.st/3QinJe0
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Oct 19, 2024
    October 7 is both the “first” *and* “most” tragic event. And the Middle East has “always” been “difficult” and will “never be easy.” With brutal efficiency, Harris condenses racialized hierarchy, false periodization, weaponization of complexity, and disavowal of US complicity.
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    Tony Diver
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    Oct 19, 2024
    Kamala Harris was asked just now whether she might lose the election because of the war in Gaza. Her reply suggests real uncertainty about this issue.
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Nov 17, 2023
    The redefinition of “anti-Semitism” to mean “support for Palestinian freedom” is one of the most perverse semiotic reversals I’ve encountered in my lifetime.
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Sep 22, 2023
    The messaging discipline is absolutely incredible. Nothing distracts him from the key points: rising profits, stagnating wages, and escalating class conflict
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Feb 4, 2020
    Hate to break it to you, but the results thus far are great for Bernie. He won the popular vote; Biden’s “electability” is dead in the water; a candidate w no chance of winning the nom got a boost, further fragmenting centrists. We aren’t victims. We’re winning. Let’s get to work
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    May 30, 2020
    The “outside agitator” trope simultaneously denies the authenticity of discontent and the possibility of solidarity
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Dec 7, 2019
    The same week Trump cut 700,000 from food stamps, @HillaryClinton mocks Bernie Sanders' expansive vision for social welfare by comparing it to a 5th grader running for class president on the platform of "Chocolate milk for everybody." She has no shame & no idea why she lost.
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Mar 11, 2021
    You won't find this in the mainstream media coverage, but it's literally impossible to imagine this $1.9 trillion dollar relief package without the past year of organizing by Black Lives Matter, tenant orgs, DSA, Sunrise; essential workers going on strike; and the Bernie campaign
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    Thea Riofrancos
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    Jun 14, 2021
    i’m all out of takes