@noahjgordon.bsky.social nails it: the market alone isn’t enough, we need states to close out fossil fuels, fully green industry, and ensure a stable climate. www.ft.com/content/1aec...

The global green transition won’t be driven by self-interest alone

States must actively tilt the playing field on renewable energy too

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Winning the battle to lose the war

It requires a huge initial investment in changing out stoves, furnaces, etc. But NYCHA is doing it. @aldasky.bsky.social has a bunch to say about public housing and climate.

Why we can't have nice things. Not that complicated! It's called oligarchy. www.ft.com/content/6a35...

For years, I've argued that we focus too much on "managed retreat" from climate danger, and not enough on movers' "managed arrival" in new places. It will take work to get that right! Thrilled to see NYT covering. Cincinnati's plans on this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/c...

A City With a Plan

Cincinnati wants to take in people fleeing climate disasters. Plus, the latest on fires in Europe.

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Here's a plan for housing as a human right: ☑️ National rent control ☑️ Universal rent and energy bill assistance ☑️ National disaster insurance ☑️ Social housing development Proud to put this forward with @aldasky.bsky.social @markpaulecon.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America

Game Changers presents policymakers with bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans.

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Here's the proposal from @aldasky.bsky.social, Maddison Wells, and myself on how we can eliminate housing and energy insecurity immediately for millions of people while also driving deep residential decarbonization for the climate. It's win-win-win policy for people, planet, and faith in government.

Toward Housing as a Human Right: Eliminate Extreme Housing and Energy Insecurity with a Safe Housing Foundation

The Problem Most Americans living in deep housing insecurity are renters, unhoused, or precariously housed. Only one quarter of households eligible for a Housing Choice Voucher are able to get one; th...

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BREAKING: centrists discover sociology

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

What Mamdani’s EDC *should* do is start transforming a neoliberal growth model that currently depends on property bubbles and wall street bonuses to fund city services. Will its new leaders do that? TBD. But you can’t run a social democratic city on a neoliberal foundation.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Affordability doesn't come from just decreasing costs, but increasing opportunity for working people. The city's Economic Development Corporation is at the heart of this work. Today, I proudly appointed Tony Shorris as President and CEO and Lina Khan as Chair of the EDC.

Another round of intense rainfall threatens to overwhelm New York City's outdated infrastructure and put lives at risk. In a new @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social interview with CCI Strategic Co-Director @aldasky.bsky.social, @ericklinenberg.bsky.social reflects on cloudburst management in the metropolis:

How to Handle a Rain Bomb

Eric Klinenberg and Daniel Aldana Cohen discuss flash flooding and sponge infrastructure in New York City

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We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

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Great interview of @ericklinenberg.bsky.social by @aldasky.bsky.social nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/how-to-han...

How to Handle a Rain Bomb

Eric Klinenberg and Daniel Aldana Cohen discuss flash flooding and sponge infrastructure in New York City

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Orange sky, dangerous air, relentless heat waves, cascading flash floods, the list goes on. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, it's time to connect the dots between fossil fuels, climate breakdown, and your own low-carbon agenda. Lfg

Last July @sfmta.com quietly published a report analyzing the performance of retrofitted extended range in-motion-charging based trolleybuses essentially confirming our high level proposal and strengthening the case for a full on electrification alternatives analysis. The upshot:

Peter Butler@peter-butler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am no expert at all on the pros/cons of wired grid vs. individual batteries, and I honestly don't love the wires myself, but if the wires are already there ... The SF Muni trolley buses are also quite modern www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/san-franc...

I just had a classic "Red Brooklyn" moment. Running through a park, overheard three joggers talking about @schooldaves.bsky.social work on school finance. One said, "And he's a PHILOSOPHY professor." Unforch, they weren't running fast enough for me to match pace & eavesdrop properly.

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

My view: we need a TVA for energy transmission. It may take a minute, but we can't limit ourselves to public planning and public subsidy. This infrastructure is just too crucial for economic and climate safety to split power and ownership w private firms. And we have to move w purpose.

I spoke to @newleftreview.bsky.social about the political economy of climate: supply chain geoeconomics, why Biden’s signature climate policy didn’t stick, political weakness of green capitalism, Chinese industrial policies, global South resource nationalism &more newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...

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always tax the rich

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · last mo.

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

Anchored in the world’s largest fossil fuel producer, and sandwiched between Qatar (2022) and Saudi Arabia (2034), we’re witnessing the Global Warming World Cup, whose profits come from the very industries that are melting us all.

Heat is a feminist issue. Heat is a disability rights issue. Heat is definitely a class issue. Heat is also definitely experienced by racialized minorities in extreme ways. In India, heat is a caste issue. Extreme heat reveals the fissures in societies and who we are willing to ‘let die’

Lyndsey Stonebridge@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · last mo.

In the 2022 European heatwave it was estimated (in Nature) that there were 56% more heat-related deaths in women than men between May & September with a steep incline for women between 65 and 79, and a steeper one still for those over 80. Heat is a feminist issue.

I'm old enough to have read research papers on the impact of air conditioning use on the urban heat island. Heat pumps and traditional AC dump heat from inside buildings to the outside, warming up the outside even more. Most people spend most of their time inside, so AC makes sense 1/

I think this is right, though my guess is most capitalists opposed decarb bc it threatens more public power & regulation, not bc decarb as such is a problem. Ofc some sectors are structurally antagonistic to decarb. But most capitalists can be mobilized to insane ends to resist being told what to do

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.

🧵A few times, I've been asked to share the best advice I have ever received. I always give the same answer: "If you go out on a limb, don't saw it off." I got from my father, Michael Klein, back when I was a student journalist. We lost him Wednesday. everloved.com/life-of/mich...

Visit Michael C. Klein's Memorial Website

Take part in remembering Michael C. Klein. Read his obituary, share your own memories, and learn about any funeral details on Ever Loved.

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@jamellebouie.net calls for someone to come up with the Green New Deal: "Democrats must have a plan for reconstruction — for building something new on the wreckage of what President Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party have wrought — not restoration of what was."

Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

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I fucking adore Cory and I'm honored by his review of my book

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

Molly Crabapple's *Here Where We Live Is Our Country* is one of the most important, timely, *salient* works of history I've ever read. It's a history of the Jewish Bund, a socialist, internationalist org that once dominated Jewish political identity: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320... 1/

I'm coming to Austria & Germany for the German edition of EXTRACTION (@suhrkamp.de) with events in Vienna, Freiberg, Berlin and Bochum. In collaboration w/ @surplusmagazin.de @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @kreiskyforum.bsky.social @dfg.de @ruhr-uni-bochum.de For info: www.suhrkamp.de/search?q=rio...

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

It's incredible how much public housing can accomplish for tenants—and the climate. I'm thrilled to share our latest at @cplusc.bsky.social, "Greening Public Housing to Lower Costs, Make Homes Healthier, and Spur Market Transformation." stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/greeni...