This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

“We have been asked to call the centrist response to this presidency “moderation.” Recent events make it clear we should recognize it as appeasement.” Excellent piece by @rauchway.bsky.social about the importance of building an enduring coalition capable of recovery and reform.

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

🚨 LAUNCHING 🚨 State of Power 2026 🚨 Fascism and the far right are on the rise. Beyond headlines, we examine the reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, how they weaponise today’s social and ecological crises, and proposals for how to fight back. www.tni.org/en/publicati...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Nonsense, this. The idea that kicking Blackstone et al out of SFH rentals may "backfire" by choking investment in new construction presupposes they have any interest in increasing supply. They don't! Like, none. The opposite, in fact.

1) Fuck ICE, and 2) in our ongoing pursuit of a more just, more dignified, more joyful, and better future, @jlappen1.bsky.social and I are really proud of our new piece in Science on managing fossil fuel phase-out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There's no way all 100GW of that happens, but it's very important for decarbonization goals that as little as possible does. Just trying to make it happen makes it uneconomical (turbine crunch, fuel crunch).

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

China, for the past couple of years, has deployed as many wind farms and solar panels as the rest of the world combined. It's also exporting its solar tech on a massive scale, bringing down the price of electricity across the globe. 🔋

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Alex Pareene byline alert

Industrial policy for the prison & concentration camp sector

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Saw a post on instagram about how Obama & Biden did respectively 3 and 4 million deportations without ICE's spectacle violence under Trump. What is happening now is worse but it's *using machinery Obama amd Biden left in place*. They didn't just hand Trump a loaded gun they made sure it worked first

Here's what to know: Do not do this www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/a...

One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation. We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

New post by @timhirschelburns.bsky.social of @gdp-center.bsky.social re IMF-WB Debt Sustainability Framework for LICs. "LIC DSF...must correct anti-investment bias...account for ...climate risks & benefits of climate investments and ensure...a pathway to meeting...needs." www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/01/...

@jessyewaxman.bsky.social: even those pensions discussing climate risks have to date typically set only high-level commitments and set inadequate metrics. Key missing metric: how are pensions driving real-economy emissions reductions? www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

Despite everything, we are planning for and building a better world. There's a new toolkit out to help people move forward shutting down the (explosive) gas system in their neighborhoods from @sonalj.bsky.social, a fellow @cplusc.bsky.social Fellow. climateandcommunity.org/research/nei...

The purpose of the liberal rules-based order was not to constrain the actions of the United States. It was to lend legitimacy to a world system structured around US empire. Trump has torn down this façade - what's left is the reality of naked imperialism. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

It's time to stop subservience to Donald Trump. And that starts with questions about how to stop US bases on UK soil and maintain our national security. www.lbc.co.uk/article/subs...

Reinsurers – insurance companies that sell insurance to other insurance companies – are getting more profitable. Returns are up 24% over the past 2yrs. How when reinsurers supposedly take on the risk of large disasters? They aren’t covering large scale disasters anymore.

This polling shows that A MAJORITY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WILL NOT VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS THE EXPANSION OF FOSSIL FUELS, while a majority of mod Dems and Rs—as well as far right Rs—do not care enough for anti-fossil-fuel to be a decisive factor in their vote. Do you know what this means? 1/2

According to SIPRI, NATO’s five per cent target means increasing UK military and security spending by more than £130 billion per year from 2035. The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies. Watch our latest video 👇

".. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

hey, fuck yeah. this rules.

Democracy in Power is a highly detailed work of political and institutional history that recounts the struggle over electric power generation in the United States. moneyontheleft.org/2024/08/01/d...

"The world until recently believed that US-China decoupling was on the way. It turns out that most countries are now scrambling to de-risk from America." My column. as.ft.com/r/83099001-d...

Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My latest: invading Venezuela was bad and ramping up Venezuelan oil production would be too.

Tomorrow: join CCI'ers @triofrancos.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social to learn more about the dangerous return of resource imperialims.

Good news! Civil society is effective! mailchi.mp/napaba/state...

In her first piece for Drilled, our new global climate justice reporter @ninalakhani.bsky.social looks at how the U.S. invasion of #Venezuela and takeover of its oil industry intersects with the International Court of Justice's climate ruling last year drilled.media/news/Venezue...

Data centres that briefly wind down during grid stress are shaving a small slice off a net harm, they are not 'supporting the transition' In the same way CCS *might* slightly reduce emissions, but overall end up facilitating new fossil fuel use.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Times was right behind Trump in his first term, cheering him on and denouncing his opponents as elitist leftist swine who hate the working man, right up until that torchlit Nazi march where that fascist killed that girl. Then it all went sotto voce. No such concerns, this time.

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam

just seeing the words “I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act” feels revelatory actually??? especially with Senate Dems considering INCREASING their budget you’ve gotta hope at least that if they’re not listening to us, they’re listening to the angry House reps who know where their offices are

“Returning Venezuelan oil production to 1990s peak levels would result in five hundred million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions... higher than the emissions of France, or the UK”. New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger. substack.com/@climatecomm...

My latest: invading Venezuela was bad and ramping up Venezuelan oil production would be too.

"Here’s the core finding we keep coming back to: Americans support “strict immigration enforcement” in the abstract, for a vague person who has broken the law, but oppose enforcement in practice, when enforcement means violence and your neighbors disappearing" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...

The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood, & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well

"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.

Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production doesn't make economic and would be an environmental catastrophe. My new analysis shows that getting Venezuelan oil production to 1997 levels would create new annual emissions on par with entire countries like France & Thailand- the 19th biggest national emitter