Biden's IRA incentives favored wealthier households while falling short on green jobs and housing. The urgency of the climate crisis demands a more ambitious agenda, one that embeds it in issues that people care about. @aldasky.bsky.social explains in this @theguardian.com story—🔗 below.

I'm thrilled to be quoted in @dharna.bsky.social's terrific piece on the candidates running on climate politics in new and surprising ways. Candidates *can* center climate politics and win—by embedding them in the everyday crises of working class life. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Disaster insurance, datacenters, right to repair: meet the midterm candidates running on green policies

Some of the everyday struggles animating voters have a climate link lurking in the background

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Objectively, humanity's greatest challenge is to combine shared prosperity for all humans with ecological sustainability. But AI boosters offer way vaguer visions of making things "better." That's the tell—they don't care about concrete, material problems.

Shades of Beyond Petroleum www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

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when people whine about learning about social housing from people who are doing it well, they are actively trying to deny us a better housing future

Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldasky.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures.

I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures.

at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 2w ago

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

“When you have lost all national power to a right-wing populist movement, it is obtuse to slam the door on your own populist insurgents.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...

Opinion | Voters Have Spoken. Why Aren’t Democrats Listening?

Less than two years after a catastrophic election, the Democratic brand remains unpopular, and the party is still in the grip of a divisive identity crisis.

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I had the fortune to meet other public power comrades in London last year, including a student from Nepal. He has shared this fundraiser asking for help to provide meals and prevent human trafficking of orphaned children in the aftermath of the climate disaster there. Please share. 1/

"We’re not meeting the future of George Jetson, but of George Orwell... as Robotaxi Handler makes clear, Waymo riders can be even more gross and depraved than their antisocial ideology reveals." From the belly of the tech beast in @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...

Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo

Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.

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The real scandal devastating high school sports is fossil-fueled climate chaos.

The footage of this flash flood, circulating on social media, is possibly the most horrifying I've seen of any climate impact. Great to see NPR highlighting the cause without any hedging.

NPR@npr.org · 4w ago

The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather. n.pr/4cvl1On

Hot (?) take: In the late 2030s, in a geopolitically stable world with rapid GHG reductions, it could be better to try SRM than risk crossing catastrophic tipping points. But in an unstable world without lockbox decarb… starting SRM would be a wild risk.

There’s a line between acknowledging the economic challenge of decarbonizing industry (pragmatism), and acting like rapid decarbonization is annoyong and optional (denialism). A lot of ppl are crossing that line these days.

A very cool new thing from @cplusc.bsky.social: a toolkit to help communities negotiate the best possible community benefit agreements. cbatoolkit.climateandcommunity.org

European cities are planting forests, greening boulevards, shading streets—and yes, installing AC. But they will have to move even faster to catch up with record warming. Read Eric Klinenberg’s latest. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The End of the European Summer

As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to adapt to a climate that they were never built to withstand.

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NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable

Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.

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The real problem in Sociology is that it's too slow to encourage work on emerging topics of massive consequence for social life: climate breakdown, AI, rise of Asian capitalisms, biotech, etc etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

Is Activism Hurting Sociology? Sociologists Are Torn.

A group of sociologists broke away in protest from their colleagues over disagreements about Israel. Some worry the political stances are harming the field.

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The galaxy brain take is that the socialist left is ascendant but we are not two years away from total hegemony!! In some ways, we’re back to the solid growth phase that kicked off in 2018-20 but paused in 2022-24. We don’t need a splashy prez campaign, tho it could help.

For perspective: This hyper polluting Amazon project, if built, will produce almost as much climate-heating air pollution as all of New York City. Horrid.

Michael Thomas@michael-thomas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US. I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it. Full story here: newsletter.cleanview.co/p/scoop-amaz...

I'm so thrilled that we continue the fight to save, renovate, and modernize every unit of public housing in the country. Nearly two million people would benefit directly, while tens of millions would benefit from good green jobs and lower-cost green appliances for all.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2mo ago

Congress must put forward bold solutions to ensure housing is affordable and resilient. Today, I'm reintroducing the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act with @sanders.senate.gov and @ramirez.house.gov to repair U.S. public housing stock while creating hundreds of thousands of union jobs.

@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 · 2mo 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 · 2mo 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.