Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The utility industry's business model is one of the key drivers of the electricity affordability crisis underway. A key part of the story flagged here: low-income ratepayers being forced to transfer wealth to high-income utility investors.

Afro-descendant communities in Latin America have long maintained “edible landscapes” that sustain biodiversity… yet only a fraction of their 200m hectares are legally recognized as collective territories with legal protections. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Really interesting report on finance for green industrial policy in the Global South by @moira.bsky.social and @laramerling.bsky.social in @cplusc.bsky.social 🙌. Worth a read!

That UN speech demonstrates all the more clearly we urgently need to move away from the US-dominated international financial architecture!!

That UN speech demonstrates all the more clearly we urgently need to move away from the US-dominated international financial architecture!!

Transformative visions for green industrial policy in the Global South are, unfortunately, impossible without a redesign of today's international financial architecture (IFA). In a new @cplusc.bsky.social report with @laramerling.bsky.social, we explain... 1/4 climateandcommunity.org/research/gre...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

“The obvious next step in that playbook is to expand from targeting immigrants to go after anarchists, leftists, and other opponents of the regime…” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm? Read this @crimethinc.com how-to guide

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

I spoke to a woman originally from Mexico and now a naturalized citizen while canvassing in Bakersfield last weekend. She admitted she voted last time for Tr*mp but now totally regrets it. I’m perplexed by her original vote but I absolutely think we should welcome her to the anti-Tr*mp side.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

So Democrats have been kissing up to and funding a group of armed Trump supporters. What could go wrong

Totally agree when it comes to the MAGA right. AND, we can’t let ourselves believe in the impossibility of conversation and common ground with regular people. Having spent the weekend deep canvassing in Bakersfield, I know there are lots of irregular voters really unhappy with MAGA policies.

I spent last weekend deep canvassing in Bakersfield, CA, talking to disaffected & unengaged voters. So many of them are unhappy with how things are going, but to engage they need to believe politicians will fight for them & their families to have healthcare, not get abducted by ICE, & pay the rent.

I am begging national media not to recycle this narrative and pay attention to the local reporting on the ground like @thetriibe.com There’s video. There’s pictures. This was no riot.

“We’re gonna keep showing up till they stop abducting our neighbors” - @bradlander.bsky.social echoing his words @jfrejnyc.bsky.social gala once more after his arrest today. Great clip

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Memphis comes despite police recently reporting decreases across every major crime category in the first eight months of 2025 compared to the same period in previous years. Overall crime hit a 25-year low, while murder hit a six-year low, police said.

That’s right! The recipe we developed at @cplusc.bsky.social for solving the home insurance crisis is: 1. Reduce risk & increase resilience to existing homes 2. Build more affordable housing in less risky places 2. Single-payer disaster insurance coupled with standard coverage from the market

@markgongloff.bsky.social identifies key policies to tackle the property insurance affordability crisis: rein in fossil fuels, build climate resilience & make housing more affordable. As @moira.bsky.social says, “The more we reduce catastrophe risk, the less we need the safety net of insurance.”

And yet, we must reject the projections of inevitability and strength coming from the Trumpists. Being lawless doesn’t make them omnipotent. America is now existing somewhere between democracy and fully established autocracy. Preemptive obedience and surrender is the fastest way to dictatorship.

People on the Right claiming the Kirk murder is an “American Reichstag fire” that justifies a massive crackdown on their political enemies is really remarkable, if you think it through: In this analogy, they are actively and affirmatively taking the side of the Nazis in 1933.

What Trump is doing right now isn't "cancel culture." It's a modern version of the Red Scare. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Crucial cautionary tale for the "abundance" agenda in housing:

Haaretz, lead sentence of lead story at this hour: "Gaza City today is no longer a city, but a scene of mass death and day-by-day survival." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

both Klein’s piece in the NYT and the Burgis/Day piece in Jacobin pretend they are about recognizing that each human life is a human life but actually what they are doing is validating the way some human lives are socially valued more highly than others The example they set is white supremacist

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

Orgs and funders that are serious about winding down oil & gas production in CA would jump at the opportunity to develop a plan for this (even though they should have done so a long time ago)

Weird how this is always go to Jupiter or live in the center of the earth but not “everyone has a good union job and healthcare”, like that’s the thing that is believing in unicorns

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

It's cool when legal systems have accountability for abuses of power.

Coverage of implications for the Houston area of @cplusc.bsky.social & @consumerfed.bsky.social research into insurers' use of credit scores in home insurance pricing. As I told @megankimble.bsky.social, "A low credit score isn't making a hurricane happen." www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

FFS can we stop normalising racist, misogynistic and violence-fomenting vitriol as a legitimate contribution to public polemic? Pineapple on pizza is controversial. Crocs are controversial. The bile he spewed was hate speech, not something to be engaged and debated www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Absolutely fantastic piece on the interfaces between climate risk and insurance in the Polycrisis newsletter today, by @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social Not a doom loop, but “communities of fate” and the moral economy of the welfare state. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.

Very important ruling here. These charges posed a huge threat to the right to protest. apnews.com/article/atla...

DOJ has sued So Cal Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment caused the deadly Eaton Fire that swept through LA County in January. Has anyone done a tally of how many of the huge fires we've had in the West in recent years were sparked by investor-owed utilities? calmatters.org/environment/...

“We are improving the material conditions of communities we harmed,” said Freddy Zapata, an ex-soldier. “But perhaps more importantly we are rebuilding trust and taking the first steps towards repairing a social fabric damaged by conflict and state institutions.”

“This seems like a darker project: a combination of two long-running destructive policies that have historically been used as a pretext for violently enforcing US geopolitical goals — the ‘War on Drugs’ and the ‘War on Terrorism.’”

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

After an election about which candidate would lower costs for people, it’s remarkable how many of this administration’s policies are instead designed to *raise* costs for people. See, eg, tariffs, gutting CFPB, etc.

Woke up this morning to see the Israeli defense minister tweeting that the “bolt is now being removed from the gates of hell in Gaza.” Soon after, we received this dispatch from @truthout.org contributing writer Shahad Ali in Gaza City. I have no words for this level of horror.