This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

I wrote about the obscenity of the rightwing disinformation machine's efforts to exploit the tragic shooting at Brown. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/the-rightw...

It fucking kills me that none of these kids is going to get the mandatory mourning, the required moments of silence, the Ezra Klein eulogies, the massive federal government policy response, of the guy who said mass shootings are just the price you pay for freedom.

I wrote about how Tim Robinson's The Chair Company reflects our reality more than we like to admit. The world is lousy with Teccas -- forces that stand to profit when we "blast through a fucking chair." Maybe maladjustment to that isn't the worst thing. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/the-chair-...

⚠️ Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment 📌 🚨 Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges. ✍️ @aaronregunberg.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Thank you @aaronregunberg.bsky.social for helping to expose the ways that #Zuckerberg and #Meta execs have enabled pedophiles to prey on minors and systematically damaged children's #mentalhealth. We need criminal prosecutions for these bastards. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/arrest-mar...

The allegations detailed in recent court filings against Meta indicate that its executives have recklessly endangered children. In many jurisdictions, that is a crime. For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg should be prosecuted accordingly. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Remember, parents, it’s never too early to teach your kids about FDR, the New Deal, and the ways that active government for the public good can improve people’s lives and defeat fascism!

I wrote about Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito's massive conflicts of interest re: the climate deception cases that Big Oil is desperately trying to get the Supreme Court to step in and dismiss. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Wow. This is from *James Carville.* It really is starting to feel like economic populists have won the debate. Our haters have become our waiters -- time for us to all build a table of success for the Democratic Party.

Excellent @aaronregunberg.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com here - the centrist instinct to go silent on climate is a losing strategy newrepublic.com/article/2033...

"Democrats can leverage their advantage on climate to win voters’ trust on what will likely be the most significant issues in 2026 and 2028," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, summarizing a new @dataforprogress.org report. newrepublic.com/article/2033...

Some billionaires, while building "apocalypse shelters" as personal escape hatches from the climate crisis, are urging Democrats to stop talking about and adopting policies to tackle this existential threat. Don't buy their bullshit. 1/ @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @thenewrepublic.bsky.social

Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @drboguslaw.bsky.social - Epstein's Ties to Foreign Leaders & How Much the CIA Has an Epstein Problem | @faizapatel.bsky.social - In Targeting an Org That Does Not Exist, Trump Can Target Anyone | @aaronregunberg.bsky.social - Will AI be an Issue in the Next Election?

With AI threatening future employment on a massive scale, particularly among young people already indentured by student loan debt, Sasha Cohen speaks with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social about his @newrepublic.com article, “Americans Hate AI: Will the Democrats Join Them?” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

AI billionaires are enshittifying our lives, jacking up our electricity bills, destroying our jobs, and inflating a bubble that may crash our economy. For @newrepublic.com, I ask if Democrats will take, or waste, this obvious opportunity? newrepublic.com/article/2028...

FYI these are Senate Democrats' internal rules. I can think of one Senate Minority Leader in particular who has earned an expulsion from the Conference.

Has there ever been a man who’s failed to meet the moment more than Chuck Schumer? Relentlessly, incessantly, unstoppably wrong at every turn, Schumer is going to go down in history as the worst Dem legislative leader in modern times, and it’s not even particularly close.

So Dems dominated Tuesday, during a government shutdown, with a message of standing up and fighting this unpopular administration, and their first response is to fold to that administration’s unpopular budget demands for zero concessions? Am I getting this right?

For @newrepublic.com I wrote about how the explosive growth of clean energy in China is a powerful piece of evidence that Big Oil's decades of climate lies should, in fact, be seen as the *cause* of today's climate catastrophes. newrepublic.com/article/2020...

"In this age of nightmares, the siren song of despair is tempting, and resisting it takes work. But 'The Lord of the Rings' reminds us that in every way, the case for hope ... is the more pragmatic option." By @aaronregunberg.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Great piece from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social

“…asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers…” This, from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, is the smartest critique of Ezra Klein’s egregious era that I’ve seen. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

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...