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.

In retrospect seems like a mistake for so much of the climate conversation in the US to have been devoted to appreciating the value of certain asset classes

Democrats should state the obvious: Climate change is killing people and destroying communities across the United States, and Republicans at every level of government are making life here more dangerous. https://trib.al/uK0SPSZ

“Democrats should hammer Republicans not just for undermining Texas’s and America’s disaster preparedness and response infrastructure but for having spent decades blocking efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. GOP lawmakers have Texan children’s blood on their hands.“

The more say the Republican Party has over governing a climate-changed world, the more people will die newrepublic.com/article/1976...

It’s great for people who were skeptical to embrace Mamdani after he won the primary - welcome aboard! - but it’s extremely silly and transparent for people who loudly criticized the campaign to retroactively claim that he actually did everything they thought he should, and that that’s why he won

Fun fact: Trump’s OSHA Nominee, David Keeling, would take over the workplace safety agency just as it is considering rules to protect against extreme heat. His former employers, UPS and Amazon, have opposed the rules.

America still needs a Green New Deal. Green-gentry politics have collapsed, as cleantech investors hitch themselves to the data-center techno-Moloch. But eco-socialist climate populism is on the rise.

I spent the week talking to UPS Teamsters from around the country about what it’s like to deliver hundreds of packages in a heatwave, in trucks that still aren’t air conditioned, in a country without federal workplace protections for heat newrepublic.com/article/1972...

Hard to overstate just how taxing and dangerous it is to climb in and out of 130F trucks in 90-100F heat for 10+ hours, all as bosses monitor practically every movement and second of your shift with surveillance technology

I spent the week talking to UPS Teamsters from around the country about what it’s like to deliver hundreds of packages in a heatwave, in trucks that still aren’t air conditioned, in a country without federal workplace protections for heat newrepublic.com/article/1972...

The New Republic: The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves newrepublic.com/article/1970...

The Mamdani campaign offers a blueprint for the climate left: the path to full decarbonization must run through working class demands for affordability and quality-of-life jacobin.com/2025/06/mamd...

The percentage of wealthy donors to both parties who want a war with Iran is much, much higher than the percentage of the country that wants that www.axios.com/2025/06/19/i...

A war on Iran won’t only occur in Iran. There will be claims of imminent reprisal attacks to assault the freedoms of our Muslim neighbors, no matter how absurd or ignorant. There will be persecution & deportation attempts, esp vs the pro-Palestine movement. Will there be solidarity vs all this?

Centrist Democrats will say the reason people don’t like Democrats anymore is because the party got too woke or something and then spend billions of dollars to elect a sex pest who resigned in disgrace after killing a bunch of grandparents

A fun thing about my job is getting to ask really smart people kind of stupid questions, like: What exactly is a heat wave? And how does global warming make them worse? I talked to a bunch of scientists about the deadly link between extreme heat and climate change newrepublic.com/article/1970...

"Global warming isn’t some far-off worry or a problem relegated to low-lying island states. For millions of people in the U.S., it’s already costing them thousands of dollars a year, at least." @katearonoff.bsky.social @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1969...

Feels like the current trend in the U.S. is that a lot of people will experience climate change as a creeping, steady boil of rising rents, insurance premiums and prices for everyday items that fewer and fewer people will be able to swallow month to month

Justice Jackson could not be any clearer in accusing the Supreme Court of favoring the fossil fuel industry today over normal people. She is not holding back. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

ICE detained a carpenter at New Frameworks, a sustainable building co-op in Vermont, along with his teenage stepdaughter www.newframeworks.com/support-our-...

I am not a lawyer but I cannot think of a single definition of "free market" that would accurately describe the production and distribution of fossil fuels in the United States

I have been hearing for 11 years now that insurance sector will wake people up to climate change (and the some in the industry have been talking about it longer than that). Please, do not count on this!

People really responded to this! If you want to know more, here’s something I wrote about the climate crisis as a real-time cost of living crisis that threatens dire economic consequences newrepublic.com/article/1969...

I wrote about how the climate crisis is already draining people’s bank accounts in the U.S., which paid $1 trillion in climate-related damages last year, and where home insurance premiums have risen by 40% in the last 6 years newrepublic.com/article/1969...

"halting enrollments in the National Flood Insurance Program"