ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

“Vices are best left for the vicious.” -Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

From Crux: Renewable energy tax credit pricing and market participation have dropped a lot over the last year--making it more expensive for solar/storage developers to build and reducing their leverage against investors.

You hate to see the posting-to-policy pipeline invert into the truly cursed policy-to-posting pipeline

That Maduro bet may be the pinnacle of financial nihilism to date, in that it raises the question of whether gambling markets are now directly setting political policy. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

No CR until the masks of every one of these goons come down forever. Ds need to hold the line or let every subsequent line be broken forever. As a future measure, any federal LE force that insists on hiding from the public should be disbanded. Ds have power. Wield it while you can.

🚨NEW: Federal officers like ICE agents have been routinely prosecuted by states for violating state laws, up to and including murder, since the 1800s. Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent. prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...

it is a rogue agency. the govt is allowed to disband agencies that are dysfunctional. it happens all the time. immigration enforcement is not going away, but that responsibility can be given to other agencies better suited to the task.

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

Cannot be overstated that among conservative gun owners and the cops, there is no mournful acknowledgment that the dangers of this world might force them to use a gun in self-defense. There is gleeful longing for a situation where they would get to use their guns to kill and claim self-defense.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

She could have been any one of us.

Trump chasing imaginary oil supplies, Big Tech chasing an imaginary AI deity, and wannabe Fed chairs chasing an imaginary productivity boom. My new year's resolution of not getting angry about bullshit narratives is not going to last long

I have nothing but contempt for this kind of thinking or political advocacy; anyone who joins this man's campaign is taking up with the opposition. He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.

Yes, and also we need to be clear about *why* the voluntary markets don't work — because most of those same problems affect publicly-run carbon markets.

I think all of it should be government funded and run.

"Rationalist-optimists lack humility in the face of a planetary system." Really loved this piece from @cathfraser.bsky.social & @noahjgordon.bsky.social taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems. Must-read.

A fun collab with @noahjgordon.bsky.social reviewing one of my top books of 2025. tough to give the book justice in just a couple thousand words! check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!

The Long Heat is one of the most important climate books of the decade. Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis. @cathfraser.bsky.social and I review it for @jacobinmag.bsky.social! @versobooks.bsky.social

In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis. But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.

For @themorningnews.org's 2025 Recap edition—"The Year that Was and Wasn't"—I wrote 200 words about the most important and least important things to happen in the last year. Really grateful to be on the page with so many other amazing writers, analysts, and journalists.

Really thrilled to have Bubble or Nothing called a "Babsonesque" report about the risks of the AI boom by Bloomberg Businessweek. Thanks to @bradstone.bsky.social for this great survey of the hype around tech, crypto, Labubus, protein, and the FOMO-inducing media ecosystem that has us all hooked.

We're here to serve our city's info needs, and our "D.C. Explained" series is one of the most direct ways we work towards that goal. This year's topics have included giving/receiving help locally, talking to kids about the federal occupation, and everything you need to know about the D.C. Council.

Really thrilled to have Bubble or Nothing called a "Babsonesque" report about the risks of the AI boom by Bloomberg Businessweek. Thanks to @bradstone.bsky.social for this great survey of the hype around tech, crypto, Labubus, protein, and the FOMO-inducing media ecosystem that has us all hooked.

My theory is that 1970s gas lines are to the lore of American political economy what the 1920s hyperinflation is to the lore of German political economy.

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

For @themorningnews.org's 2025 Recap edition—"The Year that Was and Wasn't"—I wrote 200 words about the most important and least important things to happen in the last year. Really grateful to be on the page with so many other amazing writers, analysts, and journalists.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

justifications for vance's arguments in real time from these ghouls

Lots of head scratching about US intervention in Venezuela but increasingly looks part of a broader Trump strategy — neo-royalism. Foreign policy driven not by national interest but those of elites. For broader context check out this piece. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This same ghoulish tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) all but writes the script for why decapitating Maduro would be serving legitimate U.S. interests and revitalize the Monroe Doctrine. defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...

"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace

Man this guy is probably getting paid a lot of money to write with puerile insistence that the drug charges are important then go on with some stupid bullshit about lebensraum in british columbia

yes, but i don't think that most people know that the 2nd most popular china substack is a senior fellow of these guys.

this is the fascist / groyper geopolitical program!

and here's j schneider/chinatalk applauding them www.chinatalk.media/p/10k-defens...

building the case to the rest of the world isn’t to explain Trump’s actions are wrong—that’s clear. It’s to demonstrate elite dissent & rejection of Trump’s actions, to reassert Congress’s role in authorizing force, & to create the kind of public noisiness about policy that characterizes democracies

justifications for vance's arguments in real time from these ghouls

As of last month, this ostensibly anonymous site is paying writers to write a framework for the “Trump corollary” to the Monroe doctrine and is even trying to host a convening about it newsletter.defenseanalyses.org/p/call-for-p...

I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here

unironically vance is copying the script that the tech-nationalists wrote for him

every single post I see here is like incredibly dismissive of the idea that international law, even Westphalian sovereignty itself, is legal or legitimate if its violation would further American primacy

This same ghoulish tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) all but writes the script for why decapitating Maduro would be serving legitimate U.S. interests and revitalize the Monroe Doctrine. defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...

A backstopped load sink needs more popularization. @buddyyakov.bsky.social jokingly calls it the world’s biggest escalator. Whether it’s a battery or a peaking generator, someone needs to ensure the “marginal resource” remains bankable. Preferably without relying solely on escalating prices.