Do pundits like Ezra Klein realize how dangerous what they’re doing is? They are helping MAGA construct what George Orwell described as a nightmare world, a world where MAGA controls not only the future, but the past. This prospect should, indeed, frighten us more than bombs.

Like Orwell's totalitarian state in 1984, MAGA wants us to accept that 2 + 2 = 5. We cannot allow ourselves, as too many Dems and liberal pundits have been, to accept this nightmare world. Two plus two make four. It's important that we stand up and say so. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/magas-mand...

Grateful for the courage of someone like Misti Leon, who is fighting to hold Big Oil accountable for the death of her mother in a climate disaster that would have been "virtually impossible" but for Big Oil's conduct.

few years back I got @aaronregunberg.bsky.social to blog it newrepublic.com/article/1670...

this is exactly why it enrages me that the *entire* clean energy development conversation on "our" side is now focusing on NIMBYs, as if they were the only or even the main obstacle to implementing climate policy and tech. it's utter madness.

Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are still promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections. And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026. trib.al/sjP8Yrm

Was debating yesterday whether to let our 4-year-old go outside and play in the smoky air, when it occurred to me that besides extreme disasters there's another way climate change is manifesting: enshittification. Just a million ways our lives are being degraded, bit by bit.

From NYTimes. We have a word for people that cause the death of millions. Mass murderers. Looking at you, Big Oil CEOs.

I wrote a letter to my mom about Gaza. It's personal, but I wanted to share, in case it can be useful to anyone else who’s decided it’s time to have this discussion with their parents, or any parents who’ve decided it’s time to understand their children. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/a-message-...

Rightwing Christian preachers condemn anything related to consensual same sex love or women’s bodily autonomy as devil worship. Meanwhile I’ve never heard a single word from them on AI. I guess if it’s profitable for billionaires, even the tools of literal devil worship are okay.

...it is actually the party’s centrist establishment, not its progressive wing, that’s most likely to violate the maxim of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”

New piece about the failure of so many centrist Dems to rally around Zohran, illustrating an underrecognized dynamic in Dem politics: It's actually the party’s centrist establishment, not its progressive wing, that’s most likely to violate the maxim of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.” t.co/hZaQPdH0UV

2026 LG watch: Hearing that Providence City Councilwoman @sueanderbois.bsky.social (D-Ward 3) is looking at running for lieutenant governor. Below is what she said when asked ⬇️

A competent opposition party would have its best communicators doing a full court press - now, today - on every single bro podcast blasting Trump on Epstein. Will Democrats do it? Do they care more about stopping fascism or protecting sex pests like Bill Clinton? Here's hoping!

Gonna go out on a limb and say the richest man in the world turning the AI for a major social media site into “MechaHitler” should be more concerning to folks scared about rising antisemitism than the prospect of a thoughtful NYC mayor who thinks war crimes are bad.

The explanatory model that would have done the best job predicting the actions Republicans have taken this year is: this is a party of demons (not metaphorical — actual evil satanic beings from hell) who are trying to fill the world with as much cruelty and suffering as possible.

It seriously sucks that this monstrosity now goes back to the House, where the margin will be razor thin, and where multiple Democratic seats are empty because the reps chose to try to hold onto power through the bitter end and die in office rather than retire.

I imagine I'm not the only one feeling more than a little despair, following the Senate's passage of the worst piece of legislation in American history. So I wrote a bit about how we might think about hope in such despairing times. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/fighting-d...

We are all at work in America's ruins. What once was is no more. As we battle our way to new terrain where we can rebuild, let us remember who—whether in their naïveté, lack of humility, ill-conceived ideas, or bad-faith argumentation—provided cover for Trump 2.0's devastations.

We are losing to China in a competition for the future. Instead of producing energy smarter, the U.S. is defunding cleaner, safer, and cheaper energy. So the way to make America great is to fall behind??? Make it make sense.

The War Powers Resolutions from @rokhanna.bsky.social + @kaine.senate.gov will create the next “it’s about judgment, unlike my opponent I did not support the Iraq War” line that Obama eviscerated Clinton with in 2008. If you want a future in Dem politics, you want to be on the right side of this.

God damn it, I've started a Substack. Here's my first post! "This is how we beat Trump" aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

The "immediate answer" is "Trump's DHS goons assaulted one of your caucus members" -- are you going to sit there asking questions, or are you going to start treating this fascist takeover with the urgency it deserves and shut down the U.S. Senate?

I wrote about the wrongful death suit against Big Oil filed last week by Misti Leon, whose mother, Julie Leon, was killed in the Pacific NW Heat Dome, a lethal disaster that scientists have concluded would have been “virtually impossible” but for climate change. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

I wrote about the abundance poll. If abundance won’t help Dems defeat MAGA, then its advocates who care about beating Trump should stop trying to “define the future of the Democratic Party.” Focus on local zoning vs undermining efforts voters actually respond to. www.commondreams.org/opinion/econ...

It’s important to treat administration members like the monsters they are. I went to law school with the DOGE minion Musk installed at USAID. He doesn’t deserve a moment’s peace. None of them do. If nothing else, we should impose social consequences wherever they are reachable.

Just indescribably embarrassing for firms like Paul Weiss that rolled over for Trump. We knew they were fascist-pleasing cowards, but — more to the point, professionally — the evidence continues to pile up that they’re absolutely dogshit lawyers!

This isn’t complicated. If it feels complicated to you, you have a serious problem — a problem you’re better than, about which I encourage you to do some intense introspection.

Trump is trying to intimidate states into dropping their lawsuits against Big Oil. It's totally illegal, but if states go the cowardly way of Columbia University or Paul Weiss, Trump’s mafia-style threats still win. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

This piece is BRILLIANT. It is concise. And I predict there is zero chance that @ezraklein.bsky.social or @dkthomp.bsky.social would be willing to debate Aaron Regunberg about it. Zero. They will not debate anyone familiar with the broader debate.

For @thenation.com, I explain that the left's backlash to "abundance" isn't because we oppose zoning reform. It's because we see how big-money donors are using abundance as a tool to undermine the kind of populist revival the Democratic Party desperately needs. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is very well put. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

World, say hello to Lev Francis Regunberg! Born April 29, 2025. Even though you arrived six weeks early, you’re already proving you can’t be stopped. Thanks to the incredible staff at Women and Infants Hospital, especially all the NICU nurses we’ll be spending so much time with. Lev, we love you!

Absurd. Even if his strategic leadership were spot-on — rather than, you know, completely divorced from our current reality — it would be unforgivable egoism to not step aside when it’s so objectively clear you’re dragging the party down. What’s wrong with these narcissists?

First they came for the … judges. Judges! They’re *already* at the fucking judges! Any Democrat who’s not acting like we’re in a five-alarm house-on-fire emergency needs to pass the torch and get outta the way.

This is about scaring us - all of us - into toeing the line. But the scumbags behind this fascism should be scared themselves. Eventually we will get through this, there will be Nuremberg Trials, and they're going to have to answer for their crimes.

gotta will this into existence

I'm rarely proud to be an alum of Harvard, but it's been a nice feeling this week! Useful to think about institutions that have a historical sense of themselves. They know that eventually there may be Nuremberg Trials, and how bad it'll look for the collaborators.

Wild that now that it's spring we can walk outside and be greeted by a cacophany of song from crowds of literal dinosaurs that are, like magic, flitting through the air around us. God the world is beautiful and miraculous. Insane that these right-wing freaks want to destroy it.

By ensuring the rich and powerful avoid accountability for their crimes, Big Law was already destabilizing the rule of law, even before making deals with Trump. Their project of corporate lawlessness helped paved the way for his charlatan populism in the first place. newrepublic.com/article/1939...

There aren’t special “Fascism Is Here Now” banners that get unfurled to signal the end of democracy. We're there now. Trump is defying a 9–0 Supreme Court order. Schumer said this was his red line. If he won't act, we need to replace him with a leader who will. newrepublic.com/article/1940...

Reminder -- this is what opposition parties can do when a president tries to overturn a country's democracy. Trump is openly defying a 9-0 Supreme Court order. What the fuck are you doing, @schumer.senate.gov?

It's been hours since Trump said he'd defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order, and Schumer - who said defying SCOTUS was his red line aftering voting for Trump's budget - still hasn't even posted about it, let alone announced a plan for how Dems will respond to this lawlessness! WTF

After folding like a cheap suit on Trump's budget, Schumer said that if Trump doesn't obey the Supreme Court it would be a "quantum leap" threat to democracy, and that in that case, "We'll all have to stand up and fight back in every way." So, uh, what's the plan @schumer.senate.gov?

By repeatedly ensuring the rich and powerful avoid accountability for their crimes, Big Law was already perverting the rule of law, even before making deals with Trump. Their project of corporate lawlessness paved the way for Trump in the first place. New piece in @thenewrepublic.bsky.social.

Hey @schumer.senate.gov, after caving on Trump's CR you said, "If they didn't obey the supreme court, we will all have to take extraordinary action." Well, Trump is openly defying a SCOTUS order to return Abrego Garcia. Time to put up or get the FUCK outta politics.

So we could do an astonishingly energetic mass movement against oligarchy, the most fundamental and also least popular trait of our opposition, or we could do deregulation/zoning reform — tough strategic choice!

I used to, if not love, at least feel satisfaction in doing my taxes, thinking of the useful programs I’d be contributing to. Hard now not to just see it as a direct transfer to Elon Musk. How many dollars is that parasite stealing from each of us with his corrupt, self-dealing government contracts?