While Graeber’s work has been indispensable to left organization and advocacy since before Occupy, what’s needed now is a framework for mobilizing, rather than refusing to engage, the considerable fiscal agency already at hand at all levels of governance. moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

"Kansas City went 17 years without a municipal jail." "FIFA will leave and the jail stays in our community." "That's not a World Cup investment for our City; that's a permanent expansion of incarceration disguised as event planning." #Missouri #USA #Incarceration #Sports

"China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock"- www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NEW @cplusc.bsky.social report shows how the insurance crisis: ❎Hampers development & viability of affordable housing supply ❎Gives insurance companies de facto permitting authority ❎Leads to deferred upgrades & green retrofits, making life worse for tenants climateandcommunity.org/research/ins...

what is it with these people being pathologically allergic to helping their own core constituents

By the way, if somebody tries to tell you climate change is only a concern of "educated and affluent" liberals, you can show them this map. At least half the people in *every* US state, even the deep red ones, worry about it

This Lithuanian plan to invest in bog restoration for both climate and national security looks quite good. Using defense spending for actual defense- against both aggression and warming - is much better than standard military greenwashing or using climate as an excuse to increase war spending.

As always @katearonoff.bsky.social nails it. And check out the linked polling data from @dataforprogress.org based on our agenda for green economic populism @cplusc.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2103...

Are you a seasoned policy leader with expertise in climate and economic policy, strong communication skills, and experience navigating complex political and legislative environments? Then you should be our new POLICY DIRECTOR! Applications are due 5/20. climateandcommunity.org/careers/

Palmer drought index. Worst ever. Worse than the dust bowl. Fire season is coming.

Brilliance in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social from @cplusc.bsky.social's @pmbigger.bsky.social and @karlsson-kris.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/just...

My new brief for @cplusci is out today! I tried to take on the “tradeoff” question from a different starting point: where decarbonization and affordability are stated political goals, and the task is to find the right policy and market/ownership structure to achieve them.

Great read from @dharna.bsky.social on the expansive vision putting decarbonization at the heart of breaking free from fossil fuel tyranny, reducing inequality & living well‼️ Terrific to see this ambitious vision for a "Stop Greed, build Green" working class climate agenda‼️

The worst part is that when this is over, the government won't hesitate to spend even more money to replenish weapons stocks and rebuild military infrastructure. A massive waste of talented labor and valuable resources. And it all only exists to destroy.

New modeling shows the Amazon threshold could be hit in the 2040s. With 18% already deforested, researchers say hitting 22% forest loss alongside global warming will degrade the ecosystem. Experts urge a drastic cut in emissions and a total halt to deforestation to protect the basin.

"Other Democrats and progressives are currently linking the cost-of-living crisis to climate. But CCI says it aims to go beyond short-term fixes, promoting economic democracy by confronting corporate power and working with unions and social movements..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We can get deeper affordability and decarb at the same time. Not by letting the market rip, but by ramping up public power and smart regulation. Kristina Karlsson explains in @cplusc.bsky.social’s terrific new lit review. stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/trade-...

A renewable energy transition doesn’t have to mean higher prices for consumers. On the contrary: if managed well, it could actually offer lower energy prices.

Affordability and decarbonization aren’t at odds—they go hand in hand. @karlsson-kris.bsky.social and @pmbigger.bsky.social discussed our new research with @alybatt.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🧵

It has always been time for a working class climate agenda Climate breakdown is very much a working class issue - as it will be hit sooner and harder than those who are better insulated www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s a dream come true to see our think tank @cplusc.bsky.social profiled in the Guardian! I’m so grateful to the brilliant @dharna.bsky.social for laying out our working class climate agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today @theguardian.com has a big profile on @cplusc.bsky.social and our Stop Greed, Build Green working class climate agenda. The piece does a great job of capturing where we've been, what we're trying to accomplish, and why green economic populism beats fossil fueled fascism.

@us.theguardian.com has a new piece about our working class climate agenda. As the story makes clear, we believe that climate politics must directly address the cost-of-living crisis in order to win policies that are desperately needed in the US.

these four sexy words TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE "the simple step of restoring much of the earlier progressivity to federal income taxation would solve both the private and public affordability crises. many wealthy campaign donors will of course oppose this step." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inquali...

The belief that "market forces" will magically eliminate fossil fuels if we just build enough renewable energy is empirically false, but adherents of the belief cling to it regardless, out of a quasi-religious fervor.

Today @theguardian.com has a big profile on @cplusc.bsky.social and our Stop Greed, Build Green working class climate agenda. The piece does a great job of capturing where we've been, what we're trying to accomplish, and why green economic populism beats fossil fueled fascism.

Excited for someone to explain "Friendly fire" to our illiterate president www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

31 states allow utilities to shut off electricity to force people to pay their bills and 25 have no federal bill assistance programs to step in the gap. This summer's heatwaves and nonstop rising rates are forecasted to increase everyone's bills by ~9%. neada.org/wp-content/u...

Someone should republish this book.

And this is the main thing I want to drive home. People aren’t shoplifting because it’s fun or their favorite podcaster is telling them to. They’re doing it because they’re broke or suffering from addiction more likely than not. This entire conversation is about a thing that’s largely not happening.

“Despite the growth of war spending ... the window of opportunity to collaboratively pursue alternatives is now that much more open.” @tkbarnes.bsky.social examines the decline of military industrial jobs and offers an alternative industrial strategy. 👇 transitionsecurity.org/labor-of-the...

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

We are in Santa Marta, Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Previous climate frameworks have failed to address militaries, yet both climate breakdown and rising militarism are increasingly urgent problems. Will governments in Santa Marta break the mould?

In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, nia t. evans interviews Stuart Schrader about how police unions helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

Stop Greed Build Green launched to a packed house in NYC, with Louise Yeung, @mayor.nyc.gov's Chief Climate Officer, kicking off the event.

I am so pumped on this report- it show SO CLEARLY that military manufacturing jobs are the among the worst manufacturing jobs in the country and that public investment in socially useful industries is a much better deal for everyone.

Military spending is bad industrial policy if you actually care about the working class. My @transitionsec.bsky.social colleague Lorah Steichen riffs on @tkbarnes.bsky.social's new research, detailing just how bad the jobs in the military industrial complex have become. Link to the report below

Read the brief here: climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...

I am so pumped on this report- it show SO CLEARLY that military manufacturing jobs are the among the worst manufacturing jobs in the country and that public investment in socially useful industries is a much better deal for everyone.

Best happy hour of #dcclimateweek this afternoon at the Dirty Habit! @leadlocally.bsky.social @gwaction.bsky.social @cplusc.bsky.social

People are rightly worried due to bad fires and lack of transparency. This is why an energy transition is not just about tech. An unjust transition unnecessarily increases opposition and that delays the energy transition. Just transition exists for a reason!

I am pleasantly astonished how much more the media is covering the climate & ecological impacts of war in the last year compared to when I started working on this stuff a decade ago. Just this week we have coverage in really diverse outlets- Wired on one hand, the Lancet on the other. Links below.

Why?

New for the Santa Marta conference to transition from fossil fuels: @cplusc.bsky.social has three briefings on getting 'beyond extractivism' in the next energy system. We need new approaches to sourcing materials for the energy transition- these briefs provide a glimpse of what those could look be.

JP Morgan's report on tipping points is both extremely terrifying and extremely weird how they aren't screaming in 72-point font AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO KILL FOSSIL FUELS jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c...

Fantastic proposal from David Vine- use recission to cut off the endless money spigot for this administration's parade of grotesque foreign aggressions. www.commondreams.org/opinion/cong...

We must commit to a transformative investment in green infrastructure and a clean-energy economy that protects our communities, lowers costs for families, and creates good-paying jobs.    Let’s continue to build power to pass the Green New Deal! #EarthDay

Even if not outbid, spot market prices are so much higher that it’s going to hurt. At least PK’s solar boom makes it a little more cushioned relative to Bangladesh. Poor countries reliant upon LNG imports are in a bad place.

DC, you're the next stop on our Stop Greed Build Green tour! Come to our happy hour this Thursday with @gwaction.bsky.social and @leadlocally.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of our working class climate agenda. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/stop-greed...

“we’re all hugely inspired by the Green New Deal, and the Green New Deal moment, and what that represented,” said Patrick Bigger, research director at the Climate and Community Institute. “But I think that we recognize that we’re in a radically different place...than we were eight years ago.”