New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀

Rare earths and rarer truths… the family seems to have cornered both markets. 😅

today i learned that the MP Materials CEO is the brother of the guy who founded Truth Social. do with that information what you will

today i learned that the MP Materials CEO is the brother of the guy who founded Truth Social. do with that information what you will

This is getting great mileage at climate week

“Put another way: designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.”

“Put another way: designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

my new rule is that no one gets to advocate for tradeoffs until they have outlined exactly what they think those tradeoffs should be, in fairly specific detail

At the United for Green Schools panel for NYC climate week. Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.

The TL;dr here is that instead of getting angry at Kamala Harris over this mention in a book, we should be angry at the mainstream press for twisting any little comment a politician makes about us into anti-trans propaganda divorced from the content of their comments

Mere paragraphs below, the story goes into the fact Harris *defends* her support for giving trans inmates health care, which became the centerpiece of the infamous Trump anti-trans 2024 ad This does not comport with a turn towards the anti-trans or support for capitulating after her 2024 loss

In advance of climate week, @publicenterprise.bsky.social published a list of all the kinds of financial tools we've been recommending to our state and local partners. Get wise: publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...

In advance of climate week, @publicenterprise.bsky.social published a list of all the kinds of financial tools we've been recommending to our state and local partners. Get wise: publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...

Happy to say that @publicenterprise.bsky.social supported the creation of this report and we couldn't be more excited about this project. It's a great spotlight of a really ambitious public energy development program that we could scale up across the country!!

1/ 🚨 Big news! Today we officially launched the Public Renewables Project -- a new climate org calling for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy. I’m honored to serve as Executive Director. 🌞⚡️

I've said this a few times but a lot of the "we must confront the excesses of left wing purity testing that silenced dissent" Pundit Centrism is just the least navel-gazey excuse to engage in even more ardent purity testing and demand even more self censorship

having AI and tech be the first issue on their policy page is suuuuuuuuuuuch a tell

like bro no think tank is building a supermajority, or even really a durable political coalition, if you're actually serious about that, you need to think about mediating institutions and mass mobilization which are like uh the exact opposite of a think tank

maybe this is my inner Social Democrat speaking but all of this seems to be basically a centrist attempt to avoid the hard work of class formation in favor of becoming a catch-all party

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

This is a good thread about the downsides of competitive, discretionary grant programs for mobility investment.

"In the media business, AI isn’t being sold as a creative breakthrough or even a listener-driven innovation. It’s being sold as efficiency." Great short piece about Inflection Point AI, a slop shop trying to get us all listening to AI podcasters: www.vulture.com/article/ince...

"In the media business, AI isn’t being sold as a creative breakthrough or even a listener-driven innovation. It’s being sold as efficiency." Great short piece about Inflection Point AI, a slop shop trying to get us all listening to AI podcasters: www.vulture.com/article/ince...

If anyone can send me the pdf of this note that would be muuuch appreciated :)

Goldman sees hyperscaler capex growth slowing down dramatically, beginning in Q4. A reversion “back to early 2023 levels would imply 15-20% downside to the current valuation multiple of the S&P 500 ..” 👀

“I lied, put your clothes back on, we’re playing the Bay Area Regional Planner board game”

Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

"The pressure to build is immense — but so is the industry’s hard-won reticence about expansion." @zeitlin.bsky.social breaks down Mitsubishi's plan to build a whole lot more gas turbines, with help from @advaitarun.bsky.social.

I strongly support a left/liberal vision of abundance: abundant housing, clean energy, mass transit, medical advancements, scientific research, etc. but that’s exactly why I get so angry at the right wing “abundance” bros for whom abundance just means abundant concentration camps

developing a heuristic for understanding the AI boom

shout out to @edzitron.com who is the whole reason my story this week exists -- he turned me on to the trend! go read Ed: www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

China is making massive investments in electrification to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the US dollar. @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...

Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.

“The reality of Trump’s threat to the very system that investors depend on has failed to become the conventional wisdom among traders…” There’s a cognitive dissonance here. Accurately pricing in regime change is so costly as to be psychologically unfathomable. So we just…don’t.

following up on my "Beyond Bidenomics" piece from last week, we have @brusselermel.bsky.social in the FT this week making the case for a more serious commitment to economic planning in future progressive economic policy work: www.ft.com/content/dda5...

With the upcoming gerrymandering war, it's pretty clear that blue states who refused to build housing because it was turning red states purple just shot themselves in the foot big time. darrellowens.substack.com/p/california...

Don’t bread on me

"But that one of the symbols of local resistance would be a man launching a sandwich is about as unexpected as things get. (That being said, a group of men dumping tea into a harbor did help inspire the Revolutionary War.)" @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/email/e53cf0...

look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens

My favorite part of writing this report—but also the most worrying part—was explaining why we do NOT believe the LPO can currently finance new nuclear reactors. We looked into Vogtle's project finance and argue it was a "financial anomaly" that will be impossible to replicate:

For the LPO to finance "known and forecastable" energy resources it needs to first be KNOWN and FORECASTABLE itself.

The Loan Programs Office now has an "Energy Dominance Financing" program. How does it work? What can it do for developers? And what more does it need from the DOE and Congress to continue to support new clean energy technologies? @publicenterprise.bsky.social: publicenterprise.org/report/whats...

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great thread

developing a heuristic for understanding the AI boom

ok here’s a thread of some rough and unedited observations about the situation in dc that i haven’t seen anyone else say and it’s just driving me wild part ? here we go

This is a false choice. Mamdani's package of reforms includes bus priority lanes and signals, which save transit agencies buckets of $ (well into double digits % operating costs). Broader taxes to support transit also could be added. KC & NYC are not comparable transit-wise

OK they should have left this in though: “The energy future promised by the Trump administration is not bright — in fact, it’s already flickering.” @advaitarun.bsky.social heatmap.news/ideas/inflat...