The conflict this piece describes captures one of the biggest issues w/ the environmental NGO space; we aren't gonna solve climate change w/ community solar agreements, even if they fulfill fetishized versions of democratic participation (more cynically: volunteers' own desire to be in charge)

Between EU sanctions threat and Powell investigation, the administration has called the question on Capital and well, I guess we're going to find out the answer soon.

Deserves to be a canonical image of 2020s USA, when the history books are written.

As per usual the key to understanding the right wing is that every accusation is a projection/confession. Remember Heather Heyer and the countless other incidents of left protestors being rammed over the past few years?

My formerly Republican cousin living in the red-part-of-Ohio is now referring to ICE as "domestic terrorists" so, uh, I think my DEMOCRATIC SENATORS from California can start talking about abolishing it.

Now that a middle-aged white lady in a minivan who dropped off her kid at school and went to defend her neighbors has been martyred by DHS I never want to hear another online left dudebro use the term "wine mom" again.

Hell yeah, Jeopardy is antifa.

I wrote about SCOTUS's attack on NEPA, which feels maybe less urgent given the, you know, illegal act of war this weekend but still matters quite a bit for the ongoing climate crisis.

One of the many things I find depressing at this moment is how we're not even engaged in some kind of crisis of late stage capitalism on which the other side is plausibly a new political order, no, we're doing shit that's illegal under the 16th century laws of war

Horribly negligent in end-of-year giving and have some we do most/all years (Homeless Action Center, KY abortion fund, Sogorea Te land trust, UNRWA) but if there is a local indigenous or immigrant support org you know who could really use smaller-scale donations, please let me know!

Finished, and I still think it's very good but I think it's interesting how often schools get overlooked at sites for the kind of left community-building Harris and others call for. I am curious how many Big Name left writers have school-aged kids (I know Harris is a parent and...

Halfway through Malcolm Harris's What's Left and can heartily endorse as a veteran of NGO climate work, political theorist, and non-communist (though I just started the communism section, maybe will be by the end of it). Amazed at how ambitious & comprehensive it is.

I used to work with Casey and so am not in the least surprised (but very glad & grateful) to see this appropriately-timed decision.

After a sustained campaign of persuasion (see below) @nanaze.bsky.social and I finally agreed that our eight year old *has* been really responsible with homework and violin and so we are getting the kids a fish for Christmas and so of course they have been absolutely FERAL these past 48 hours

I don't know why this man keeps making campaign content for me, specifically, because I'm not a constituent, and yet...

Being a woman in 2025 is getting photographic evidence that every famous dude you got creepy vibes from but if you accused of being a creep you'd be dismissed as hysterical was actually in a massive conspiracy to exploit teen girls and just...having to live with that fact, I guess?

The second-order impacts of this are really something. I teach 1Ls at Stanford and they are *withholding* first semester "grades" until after the hiring process is complete, to basically force firms to hire on pre-law record, school rank, and vibes. "Grades" because there are two: H or P....(cont)

Somehow thought that Knives Out 3, because about a village church, would be *less* explicitly political than the tech-billionaire-violates-COVID-rules Glass Onion, but it turns out I was wrong!

Since we're doing anecdata, let me add that I may have overlapped with this guy and can report that of the four folks in my law school class with tenured law prof jobs all are white and three are men. If you add the three other folks I overlapped with with TT jobs, two are white men.

My Princess Bride story: When I was in 7th grade my best friend (who was in 8th) and I were obsessed with the film. As a ploy to spend more time with her (appropriately blonde and floppy-haired) crush, she adapted and directed the film for the stage. Her crush was cast as Wesley of course...

Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

I know there have been 13,756 intervening things and everyone (myself included) moved on but I am really glad that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is home.

This is all good news but I worry the Dems, who have collectively been uh, less than active in their opposition to Trump and who continue to fail to articulate an alternative vision beyond "affordability" will learn the wrong lesson which is just lay low while the other side destroys the country.

"AI" (really LLMs) is a product pitch for automating feminized labor designed & sold by people who have never done that kind of labor and could not do it well.

1. The Roman Republic has a name for the kind of usurpation of public powers Trump is engaged in - maiestas. It was incorporated into the English crime of treason. 2. Impressed at how SFGate has become the go-to source for Trump's attacks on the National Parks.

Lot of effort among a lot of neoliberals to avoid the very obvious lesson from US history that we still rely on infrastructure built as part of a massive public jobs program using deficit spending and high tax rates and, uh, maybe we should just do that again.

We should use "LLM" rather than "AI" when talking about most the "problems with AI." Not only because it *isn't intelligent* but because LLMs, specifically, produce the social & energy harms and LLM boosters strategically conflate their slop machines with application-driven models using "AI"

Gonna claim Cassandra credit on this one (from 13 months ago): www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...

The NYTimes has another entry in it's roughly annual "San Quentin as redemption" series, a popular prestige media trope about which I am deeply ambivalent, having volunteered with one of the much-vaunted programs there off-and-on for 15 years. cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/what-good-...

I am so confused.

Two weeks ago Trump literally demolished part of the White House to replace it with a corporate-sponsored ballroom and now the venue at the most significant annual international climate change conference is on fire and I really think the writers have gotten lazy and need a break.

Because Nothing Ever Works Out, am convinced Bondi is going to manipulate the files in a way such that releasing them seemingly exonerates Trump and really hate that I'm prepared to respond to whatever is in these documents with conspiracy theories to protect my priors.

Amazing how often the answer to "seriously, that's legal?" is a law enacted in 1996. Congress + Clinton effectively eliminated habeas corpus for the death penalty and the IIRIA, which set up the immigration enforcement infrastructure Trump is using now. Worst legislative year ever of modern era.

This week I learned the NYTimes considers debates about advocacy priorities among Sierra Club chapters in 2021 worthy of more column inches than the close relationships between numerous powerful and wealthy academic and political leaders and a convicted child trafficker after the conviction.

Once I was at a friend's wedding where Larry Summers was in attendance & I came very close to confronting him about his comments about women and advanced math and was held back by my husband who felt it would have been rude to cause a scene at a third party's major life event. I have some regrets.

Relatedly, as someone who is very good at math but also A Girl, I can report that the "put up with many things" offer is only good for boys.

OK since this thread has blown up I have a couple things to add, with more time to think. Curiously absent from this article is discussion of Sierra Club's role in ensuring passage of the biggest climate law in US history in 2022 or in EPA rulemaking that would have forced the closure of...

The only way I can make sense of the Dems caving now is that they literally only care about winning elections and the point was not to protect health insurance but drive turnout and now they've got that, they'll sell out their voters. Does anyone else have any explanation of the timing?

Feels like a good day to say my first born is named after Rosalind Franklin.

I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Burying the lede here, which is ACB celebrating women's right to "choose" (her words) the size of their family and between family and career.

Posting about the election and campus free speech debates, as one does: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/trans-subs...

I regret to inform you that "child of radical academic with relatively thin political CV who does great on TV wins high executive office" is *also* the outline of a Pete Buttigieg 2028 campaign.

This thermostatic stuff is a relief I guess but also? It's just incredibly depressing how much avoidable suffering and death will happen because voters are irrational. No one even *wanted* fascism they just weren't paying attention? Or wanted a show? Who the heck knows?

Huge climate news.

Waiting for the polls to close in NYC is really testing my "never hope" mantra for protecting myself from electoral trauma.

Recently learned from @oaklandreviewofbooks.org that Osha Neumann is Herbert Marcuse's stepson and I feel like this is the Berkeley-est nepo baby revelation ever.

Platner's tattoos has apparently re-triggered the "Dems out of touch with [narrow racialized & gendered sliver of] the working class" discourse so I'll repeat what I said after the election which is the whole convo betrays the fact these guys have terrible class analyses.

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