Manifesting for 2026: Coen Brothers reunite for a Walter Reuther biopic

Seems like Dems could do pretty well capitalizing on anti-AI & data center backlash, but lots of party elites and pundit types have instead made it their mission to win back the tech billionaires who are embracing Trump

The Long Green Zone www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Wild how there are still lots of people arguing that asset-price inflation is the cure-all for everything from climate change to getting Democrats elected everywhere in perpetuity

Ford just announced that it's laying off all 1,600 people at its now-defunct battery plant joint venture with SK ON, where workers won a contested union election this fall. They're converting it to manufacture batteries for data centers www.wdrb.com/news/busines...

If people are getting checks from hyperscalers or sit on the boards of those companies then it's worth taking their claims about data center energy usage—and energy policy more generally—with a grain of salt

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

There's a whole cottage industry of wonk-ish types claiming to have the skeleton key to communicating with the The Voters That Matter, who exclusively write impenetrable drivel

Helluva a rebrand for GM

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This is a really interesting look at the knotty politics, economics, and communication challenges of climate policy, and also a good reminder that Joe Manchin has singlehandedly done more damage to America's future than any non-Republican human on the face of the Earth.

"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices." An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Democrats disproportionately rely on corporations to do their messaging. In this case, energy companies. In many other cases, corporate media. It’s delusional.

Climate change "hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices." @katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Read this. By @katearonoff.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2027...

"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work" Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>

"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work." newrepublic.com/article/2027...

I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next? No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity newrepublic.com/article/2027...

This kind of thing is less fashionable than it used to be, but really worth looking into whether people saying an enormous amount of data center expansion will actually be good for climate and affordability have financial ties to people with a direct financial interest in data center expansion

Really looking forward to joining Corey Robin & Leah Aronowsky at @remarquenyu.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon to discuss/celebrate/gush over @alybatt.bsky.social's gorgeous and important new book FREE GIFTS RSVP here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"Over the five-year span from 2019 Q4 to 2024 Q4, the average amount financed for new cars has increased 26.6%" www.milliman.com/en/insight/u...

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Longshot here but anyone have good leads on accomodations for COP30?

Obsessed with the Environmentalists for Full Employment logo

vroom vroom 🚗

Overheard in JFK, in one of the thickest Long Island accents I’ve ever heard: “Bro, you’ve gotta get an EV bro”

The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

Seems like a decent amount of new centrist-coded, anti-left formations taking off can be explained by people figuring out there's lots of donor interest in things that rankle the left, because donors are generally wealthy people whose class interests are opposed to the left & they find them annoying

I wrote about political violence, free speech and Gaza newrepublic.com/article/2005...

"At least 1 of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai factory site in GA last week was living and working legally in the US... Officials then 'mandated' that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thank you @katearonoff.bsky.social "It’s perhaps even more possible, though, that the White House saw an opportunity to, in one fell swoop, terrorize migrants, undermine EVs, and blame them both for its own failures in the manufacturing sector..."

Haven't read much about why the Department of Homeland Security would choose an electric vehicle battery factory for what it claims is its largest-ever immigration raid on a single facility, so I wrote about why that matters tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence newrepublic.com/article/2001...

I wrote about MAHA's microplastics dilemma newrepublic.com/article/1999...

I wrote about the end of the EPA's endangerment finding + limits on cars' GHG emissions, and how Trump is waging war on the US auto industry by giving it too much of what it wants newrepublic.com/article/1985...

"The trouble with so much climate discourse orbiting around questions of belief and denial is that it can leave actions out of the equation. " newrepublic.com/article/1982...

I wrote about the EPA dismantling greenhouse gas regulations, the International Court of Justice’s climate ruling and the limits of belief newrepublic.com/article/1982...

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

"Whether you’re talking about Jeffrey Epstein’s offenses or the reality of climate change, in other words, plenty of damning evidence is already out in the open." @katearonoff.bsky.social

Strange quirk of the Democratic strategist and pundit types claiming the party should only shape its messaging around whatever happens to be polling well is that lots of voters also seem to hate disingenuous liars who don't believe in anything they say

👁️ newrepublic.com/article/1980...

It was a pleasure to talk about our research on climate resilience for public transit. Unfortunately, protecting infrastructure, riders, and workers from the threats of climate change was deemed "woke", and our grant was terminated.

I wrote about just a few of the ways the Trump administration is making it harder to keep the subways (and everything else) from flooding newrepublic.com/article/1980...

In case you’re curious to know more about David Richardson’s whole deal, I read and reviewed (?) his terrible autofiction newrepublic.com/article/1951...

I wrote about chemtrails, Lee Zeldin, and how his EPA routinely brags about its participation in a conspiracy to let corporations poison us newrepublic.com/article/1978...

👉 “Climate politics in the era of Trump 2.0 ought to abandon its reliance on feel-good, far-off promises, and reckon with the actually existing nature of the climate crisis in the United States: a deadly, expensive mess being supercharged by the right.” 👈 newrepublic.com/article/1977...

I wrote about the floods in Central Texas, ICE in Los Angeles, and why this moment feels so discordant with the last decade of climate politics in the U.S. newrepublic.com/article/1977...

Howard Lutnick addressed NOAA staff yesterday and began by shedding tears over the Texas tragedy, but quickly pivoted to arguing that NWS and NOAA staff don’t really need to be on the ground and said it was silly that air traffic controllers still sit in towers when all they need is data.