49% of Republicans want Public Power LFG.

Dwight Eisenhower 1953: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

A life goal of mine is to help the Left remember this basic orientation toward technology. jacobin.com/2026/03/work...

“And that leads me to conclude that in the current environment — very diff from the 1970s or prior crises — the key disruptive force driving volatility & risk in the international oil market is not OPEC. It’s not a rogue actor like Russia. It’s not even Iran. It’s the U.S.”

Towards a new Fressoz debate. Here is a🧵of reviews. www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...

by @matthuber.bsky.social "But this is a near universal problem on the Left today: conflating technology itself with capital, as if only capital and capitalists are capable of technical innovation, and a future of technological improvement [...] could never break free from capitalism".

Received in the mail today! Nice to contribute alongside many legends.

“What is required is an institutional structure with the authority, capital, and governance to convert individual corporate commitments into public planning and infrastructure at the scale and speed the moment demands.” www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/sei...

Ben Fong has a modest proposal to unions—stop throwing away millions of dollars on the Democratic Party, and instead invest in organizing Amazon. jacobin.com/2026/03/orga...

“The irony of this degrowth, anti-development approach is that, in undermining blue-collar employment, it risks slowing the very transition it claims to champion.” canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Latest from me in @jacobinmag.bsky.social I was actually surprised when I revisited the oil-Iraq question, "There is basically no link you can make between Iraq’s vast oil reserves and direct benefits for the US state, consumers, or large oil companies." jacobin.com/2026/03/iraq...

“…the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment…The result is an urban anti-growth machine: a decentralized but powerful coalition of homeowners, landlords, neighborhood associations, & local officials that blocks new construction.”

"In 2022...there were 46 distinct conflicts across the globe, and in 34...one or more parties to the war possessed weapons supplied by the US... ...The US has 107 arms clients in all--more than half the nations on the planet" (14).

Refreshing perspective from Hochul’s deputy sec of energy. “In partnership with renewable energy, nuclear power will ensure our grid remains rock solid during winter storms, summer heat waves, & as we welcome massive, energy-hungry industries like chip fabricators and AI to NY.”

Nice little Friday night planned: I decided to finally watch the 1984 film about nuclear war “Threads.” Funny coincidence it centers on a crisis in Iran. 😳

Great mail day @damagemag.bsky.social

Great mail day @damagemag.bsky.social

I think a good general rule of thumb is if capital voluntarily agrees to something it's not going to work out well for the working class.

Stunning analysis of the war's impact on global fertilizer markets. Trump has no idea what he is unleashing. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Something to monitor w/ regard to the Texas Senate race. Trump is actively expressing a desire for very low oil prices at a level that makes much Texas production unprofitable (ofc his Iran escapades might solve the problem).

Check out Matt’s piece and much more in our latest issue of the Eco Update 🌎👇

In "Developing a Proletarian Ecology", @matthuber.bsky.social breaks down his recent paper in Capitalism Nature Socialism and discusses the importance of prioritizing the working class in the ecosocialist movement www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

My new article on 'proletarian ecology' was featured in 'Brief Ecology' for their February issue of 'Eco-Update'. t.co/eJy84rTh8S

Since I'm teaching my course on oil for the first time since 2018, I was able to re-examine the argument that the invasion of Iraq was "all about oil".

Since I'm teaching my course on oil for the first time since 2018, I was able to re-examine the argument that the invasion of Iraq was "all about oil".

This is surprising, but I'm honored tbf.

I went to a really fantastic climate panel this afternoon, with @matthuber.bsky.social @gwagner.com and @dwallacewells.bsky.social speaking, and I learned a lot and reframed my opinions and was so happy to be among like-minded people — and god it made me miss Climate Twitter lol. 1/2

Great piece. A lot of overlap w/ my work w/ @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social We argue utilities—*both* the public TVA-kind & the private vertically integrated kind—provide the unique combo of a socialized investment model + long-range central planning needed for our new era of “load growth.”

I love David Harvey (more influential on me than basically anyone), but I actually wish he spent more time on the 'changing the world' thing (i.e. socialist politics/transition). His relentless focus has been a critique of capital (& thus merely an 'anti-capitalist' politics).

I can't recommend enough this 3-part chilling & sober discussion on the threat of nuclear war from @PPFIdeas. "There is no bigger problem than this." Also: "It's easy to isolate Trump...but the Biden admin in my mind was happier to push those escalatory risks...[in Ukraine]."

Vivek Chibber on the "essence of the socialist project" and "why degrowth is an insanely stupid idea." 😀🔥

“It’s now the college-educated, office-dwelling winners of the age of the internet and globalization, who are suddenly discovering that they, too, can become the needless things alongside the blue-collar manufacturing base that Trump and MAGA has thus far failed to revive.”

A bonkers chart I'm teaching today.

I think the critique that the Left has (wrongly) coalesced around denigrating AI as a mere 'word guessing program' is convincing. But even if that were true 3 months ago, it's def not true now w/ Claude Code, agentic AI, etc. AI that can do tasks! www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

Great stuff from @ryanzickgraf.bsky.social. We shouldn't be resistant to believe capital is doing what it is *meant* to do. jacobin.com/2026/02/clas...

I was interviewed for the Brazilian publication "CartaCapital." www.cartacapital.com.br/cultura/encr...

One week from today, I'll be at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to discuss climate and the economy with @gwagner.com and @dwallacewells.bsky.social. sofheyman.org/events/clima...

The socially necessary labor time is going down. www.ft.com/content/92df...

U.S. efforts to control Venezuelan oil reveal a stark marriage of energy capitalism and state power. This dialogue suggests this push reflects a broader reshaping of global energy governance, driven by profit motives disguised as democracy promotion. With @matthuber.bsky.social buff.ly/KutlXcv

MAGA “In blue-collar industries—such as manufacturing, construction, logging and mining, transportation and warehousing, and utilities—a cumulative total of nearly 166,000 jobs were lost from February 2025 to January 2026.” www.americanprogress.org/article/work...

Guy whose government just kidnapped your President criticizes China for not making “mutually beneficial deals.” 👍

This looks really really great and hits the nail on the head regarding how a lot of eco-Marxism has abandoned the working class Also a boon to be cited in this just a couple of days before my thesis defence =')

“Much ecological politics focuses on a kind of localism – localizing food systems, reuniting communities with ecologies – but clearly that is not what is required. The crisis is global and requires a restructuring of production at the planetary scale, at the level of the species."

“This means that it is mistaken to suggest that working classes in the global core somehow ‘exploit’ workers and peasants in peripheral states, as is sometimes suggested by contemporary accounts of the ‘imperial mode of living’.” (1/2) jacobin.com/2026/02/capi...

🚨NEW article from me: a critique of the traditions of Ecological Marxism for neglecting working-class agency and political organization. This one was a long strange trip (first submitted a version in 2023 before it found a home, after many revisions). OPEN ACCESS👇👇👇

🚨NEW article from me: a critique of the traditions of Ecological Marxism for neglecting working-class agency and political organization. This one was a long strange trip (first submitted a version in 2023 before it found a home, after many revisions). OPEN ACCESS👇👇👇

"To meet that moment, we need more than a handful of class struggle unions or socialist mayors. We need a class struggle labor movement and a class struggle political party. That requires many more capable leaders than our movement has now." jacobin.com/2026/02/fain...