Good thread but I would note that actually instituting this requires a lot more than 2.5 more years. It will also be interesting to see how inevitable litigation against it gets addressed because the weaponization potential for a Dem President is making me salivate.

Here is what OMB rule means for states/local governments (>$1 trillion in revenue at risk): 1) More admin burdens: inestimable amount of new paperwork, allowance for agencies to add vague new “risk factors” in grant determination, vast expansion of E-verify, Buy America provisions on everything…

NEW: @katemac.bsky.social & I: "Heat waves tend to attract less attention than the charismatic megafauna of climate disasters—floods, storms, wildfires—in part because they cause less property damage & thus less obviously financially costly" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Graphic @TheEconomist

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Congrats to @grayflood.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social on putting forward such an ambitious proposal to build a federal public power institution that can balance economic development and decarbonization. BIG and NECESSARY roles for public coordination, development, and finance here:

Congrats to Lily on a great paper: She hones in on how transmission and permitting put a ceiling on what the IRA could achieve. She's right to argue we need more direct public support for transmission, clean firm, and the grid.

This is an important new analysis that makes the case with data, that the glass is hall full on power sector greenhouse gas emissions, even after a bunch of clean energy tax credits got repealed last year. We are better off today than in 2019. But we need much more. ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper...

Congrats to @grayflood.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social on putting forward such an ambitious proposal to build a federal public power institution that can balance economic development and decarbonization. BIG and NECESSARY roles for public coordination, development, and finance here:

For the newsletter, I wrote about an interesting new proposal — from AOC’s former climate policy adviser — laying out how you might be able to do an electricity rate freeze without starving the grid. It also has new ideas about how to harness the AI boom for public good: heatmap.news/daily/google...

"The case laid out below is not for the nationalization of incumbent utilities nor the federal takeover of state regulators; it is to plan, finance, and build the public backbone on which state and private actors rely." @groundwork.bsky.social groundworkcollaborative.org/work/gridloc...

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

statehood now

Incredible

Its easier to get YIMBY/abundance policies on the left (which actually wants to do stuff) versus the center (which sees triangulation as a virtue and is terrified of bold ideas). You wont get abundance if you need to votes of jared golden or MGP to do it

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Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

We need to grant agencies license to plan and preserve sites needed for projects that aren't yet funded but that should clearly be on a long-term road map. We should start by making the road map. The state rail plan's new "network state" model could be good for this kind of planning.

And we should be clear that the reason things like affordable housing get pushed onto the private sector in these roundabout and inefficient ways, is because of the intense political opposition to expanding the public sector. If you don’t like this stuff, that’s what you need to fight.

In this sense, abundance people who talk about how blue states and cities can’t deliver public services are helping perpetuate the regulatory problems they are so upset about. If you don’t want the public sector to put too many demands on businesses, the public needs to be able to do more itself.

NYISO energy prices spiking high during today's heatwave, seemingly thanks to a transmission line outage and emergency repairs on a gas compressor station when gas flows are already constrained (thanks @gridstatus.io for the real-time visibility)

pool party progressivism is cool party progressivism?

i have been thinking about this a lot. my "left-wing" ideas about government reform mostly amount to trying to make the federal government conform with the vision in the constitution: a strong, active and majoritarian congress

cope and seethe lol www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Is it selling “excess compute” at a profit, or is it say leasing out office space on a short-term basis that you massively overpaid for?

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

FUCKING EGG CARTEL

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

Another Democratic Socialist is going to Congress! Congratulations to DSA member @melatkirosco.bsky.social! Congresswoman Kiros will take the fight for a better world to D.C: to Abolish ICE, free Palestine, and win Universal Childcare and Medicare for All.

Jackson.

That's right.

I think it’s time to dust off Galbraith’s great work of applied economic theory, and to hold its candle to our contemporary industrial policy and decarbonization challenges. “This is not the age of the small man”—now on the blog: advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-new-in...

Been trying to figure this out on insurance side too. Point of claim is great time to send in trained installer for a heat pump, stop another decade or two on old fuel as you would replacing damaged system like for like.

Gets you around the problem of people not wanting to replace equipment that's still functional, but then heat pump not available or can't find installer when time to replace. If home mechanicals damaged through burst pipe, house fire, tornado, whatever, replace with something better.

This whole thread is great and it is very possible! NYCHA has already started procuring induction stoves at scale for its public housing portfolio. We should embrace the idea of a public energy services company for energy efficiency and residential/community decarb improvements!

what a bold and not remotely self-serving statement WOW

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

I mean this on the surface is very very funny until you remember how much money was raised for this or over two years and even more appropriated by Congress and clearly that has all been stolen and nobody is going to say anything about it.

Sales of AC are skyrocketing in Europe - the fastest warming continent, with the most vulnerable elderly... And from where? "Chinese AC manufacturers work around the clock as European heatwaves drive booming demand for cooling products" Just dont tariff these ok www.globaltimes.cn/page/202606/...

From a political economy perspective, it’s better to not have folks fighting over scraps, or having some folks perceiving other folks electricity use as bad. So we should do lots of efficiency and at the same time double the grid and make it clean & cheap. Otherwise we won’t electrify.

Big over the top spectacle is shit we’re good at as a country. Instead you get some fucking washed up has beens performing and entire states represented by like their most racist geology museum.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

thank you for working the second branch while i am hacking out the first bsky.app/profile/atwi...

its really funny that Ricardo -> Marx -> Baudrillard -> Stiegler arrives at fundamentally the same conclusions, but in different language, as Ricardo -> Marshall -> Keynes -> Galbraith

I think it’s time to dust off Galbraith’s great work of applied economic theory, and to hold its candle to our contemporary industrial policy and decarbonization challenges. “This is not the age of the small man”—now on the blog: advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-new-in...

Now might be a good time to announce that I've officially started my new job at the Fiscal Policy Institute as their Housing Policy Analyst! There are no words for how excited I am about this position and the incredible, irreplaceable research I get to do alongside my brilliant colleagues.

This week’s Caravanserai kicks off with Neil Chiang’s scene report on Mumbai Climate Week, earlier this year, and its depressing lack of representation. caravanseraiforum.substack.com/i/202459555/...