Imo the only path for a while now has been Doing Reconstruction Right This Time

the US is a petrostrate, and that fact shapes our politics as it shaped our physical environment

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

ALSO rebuilding after climate disasters!

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social. Download this. Use this. It is so good. I do not work there, I just think it is neat!

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling

This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.

the data backs this sentiment up!

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

the feminine urge to

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Apropos of nothing much, profound kudos to everyone still writing (& reading) books—a radical act of attention & focus in a world increasingly warped by brain-fracking rightwing tech dipshits whose sole purpose in life is to profit off our infinite scrolling. It's practically civil disobedience! 🫡📚

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism. It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.

A flier for the Tesla of your liberal/progressive neighbors who are increasingly shaky about owning or selling @niedermeyer.online

“New Yorkers didn’t elect Donald Trump to be mayor. But under the current arrangement, he is the mayor. The governor has a responsibility to restore democratic governance to the city by removing the mayor from office.” Via @joshtpm.bsky.social

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

TRUMP CANNOT STOP CRASHING PLANE

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Top headlines: Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats

No regret rate will be small enough, no assessment procedure cautious enough, no amount of studies will ever be sufficient because what they objected to was never the health care but the lives it helps trans people lead. We are the contagion this administration wishes to eradicate.

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

"The problem with military Keynesianism is that, over time, the militarism devours the Keynesianism." That is the story of the Biden administration. @jeetheer.bsky.social has one of the best post-mortems I've seen. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

How it started. How it’s going.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

the EOs yesterday suggest a world where the federal government relaxes endangered species protections for oil and gas production in the name of an "emergency" declaration whilst those same relaxed protections are hardened specifically to halt new wind energy projects

It's clear that Musk is pushing fascist parties across the west. He is the single biggest threat to democracy in the western world.

so i missed this… cnn reported vivek saying they’re going to take a $6.6 billion dollar loan package away from rivian, a direct competitor to tesla amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

I talked to @nbedera.bsky.social about her devastating research into Title IX offices & new book On the Wrong Side: “There’s this myth men’s lives are ruined when they’re accused of sexual violence—it isn’t just untrue, it becomes justification for giving them benefits to compensate for that."

Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)

i think this is pretty much right. not a shock that the political economy of apartheid south africa produced a bunch of reactionaries who hope to replicate that political economy for the 21st century www.ft.com/content/cfbf...

Any time the perpetrator of a terrorist attack has a social media profile that says very directly that they’re a far right accelerationist, the headline is like “BAFFLED COPS PONDER THE RIDDLE OF SUSPECT’S MOTIVATION”

❗❗❗ State transportation advocates have a new superpower, thanks to @kmc39.bsky.social and Emmett Hopkins at @cplusc.bsky.social. Spend some time with it and start putting it to work to shine a light on how your state is allocating (and perhaps, misallocating) your federal transportation dollars 👇👇👇

Super happy to work w folks at CCI on this new tool to look at how states have been using flexible transportation funding!!! climateandcommunity.org/research/how... States can flex money in federal highway programs to support transit, but have tended to only relatively meager extents...

Research indicates anti-democratic backsliding was not because democracies didn't make enough progress fixing social probs, but because they didn't do enough to protect against predatory rw populist, anti-dem. party attacks #cdnpoli #Nevervoteconservative www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...

The scientists believe it is the largest documented die-off of a single species of wild birds or mammals.… One of the most sobering revelations in the new study is that the birds have not even begun to rebound. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/c...

Deeply honored that work from my team on the climate dimensions of genocide in Palestine was discussed at length at the Intl Court of Justice yesterday. War & militarism are insufficiently accounted for in climate policy; hopefully a strong advisory ruling can start to change that. Starts ~1:41:00

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...