@fredstaffordcs.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this. The NYPA nuclear announcement should be celebrated as one of the most critical experiments in rebuilding state capacity in the country. The way we win is with big public investment at all scales: jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...

"Those of us... who come from the Left and remain connected to industrial labor — can tell you plainly: it’s both unaccountable markets *and* an unaccountable NGO-academia-legal bureaucratic class that are stalling public progress."

I was confused by the wholesale Left rejection of "Abundance" both bc it's central to the general socialist project & bc the book itself has valuable insights. So here finally is our sympathetic/critical review of the book & its critics (w @leighphillips.bsky.social & @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social).

If the left analysis goes no further than "sticks vs de-risking subsidies" and openly embraces all of the above, maybe the left is fetishizing the particular consumer product too much, at the expense of clear thinking.

This will add to new home costs; will necessitate means tested loans for buyers; will create a vampiric dependency on solar services firms to make the most of the panels; and will require subsidies from utility rate base to compensate exported energy, whose value decreases the more there is.

As Trump targets NASA with 20% budget cuts, & deeper cuts to planetary science, earth science & any research remotely sniffing of climate, the Guardian asked me to write a defence of space exploration against the emerging anti-space ideology on the liberal-left. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don’t have a lot of time right now with all the coursework of my exploration geology MSc, but I managed to squeeze out a left defence of an independent Canada in the face of Trump’s tariffs & annexationist threats: jacobin.com/2025/02/cana...

How do you titillate an ocelot?