This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
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This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
This fundraiser is 100% on the level and I just donated to it.
Please, friends around the country - especially those of you with deep pockets - help this devastated young family. Thank you.
The mass of CO₂ humans put into the atmosphere in 2025 is 4x the mass of all plastic humans have ever produced.
The conservative mind has been ruled for a generation by the fantasy of a brilliant, principled liberal who is led by the spirit of honest inquiry to a humble, weeping conversion to conservatism. And since that has never happened in reality, they have to pay each other to perform it for them.
My latest in WM: Outlets have decried Trump's industrial policy as "state capitalism" but contrasted with China, it's obvious that Trump's interventions lack any strategy. This isn't state capitalism, it's authoritarian cronyism.
Trump’s interventions by contrast are contradictory and haphazard. His administration has turned industrial policy into a personal patronage system—using tariffs, subsidies, and regulatory power not to build national capacity, but to further his own ends.
The article contrasts two authoritarian approaches to economic power. China’s state-managed capitalism—rooted in decades of industrial policy like Made in China 2025—has fostered world-leading growth in advanced technologies, energy infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity.
My latest in WM: Outlets have decried Trump's industrial policy as "state capitalism" but contrasted with China, it's obvious that Trump's interventions lack any strategy. This isn't state capitalism, it's authoritarian cronyism.
He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
—Declaration of Independence, 1776
"Conspiratorial, reactionary anti-leftism" is the defining characteristic of the US "far right imaginary" from the 1940s to present. The central premise is that anyone to the left of a right wing Republican was basically a Commie, and was working in leagues w/ the media, higher ed, Hollywood, etc
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
The modern world runs on energy, not fossil fuels, and now in the 21st century we finally have the means to leave the fossil-fueled, polluted past behind and enter a clean energy future.
Drawing from historians like EA Wrigley and Pomeranz, I show how capitalism’s relentless drive for profit--not any inherent necessity--incentivized the transition to fossil fuels. Coal (later, oil then gas) was simply the cheapest, most exploitable energy alternative at the time.
My latest on Substack: Energy Sec. Chris Wright says modern life depends on fossil fuels. But that’s a false essentialization: modernity runs on energy, not oil & gas. open.substack.com/pub/jdhasset...
Jeffries passing the mic to his spox - “Imma let my lil homies ride on you bitch-made ass progressive bitches, feel it!”
The complexity of the modern world undermines the ability to uncover the causal effects of actions taken in the political and economic sphere
How the failure to address economic and social problems can easily give way to dictatorship under the desire for “law and order”
The impotency and unresponsiveness of political parties to adequately address the problems wrought by industrial and economic development
Reading John Dewey’s Freedom and Culture. Written in 1939, he grapples with the rise of antidemocratic and fascist forces the world over, and the similarities to today are frightening - we’re still struggling with the same problems
My latest in WM - Republicans are trying to spin the energy affordability crisis as a reliability crisis, relying on distorted studies to blame renewables for a disaster of their own making.
I unpack how the grid actually works and what a clean, reliable grid really looks like.
My latest in WM - Republicans are trying to spin the energy affordability crisis as a reliability crisis, relying on distorted studies to blame renewables for a disaster of their own making.
I unpack how the grid actually works and what a clean, reliable grid really looks like.
“Don’t bring one knife to a two knife fight”
Hell yeah
Pretty sure they were just chanting ‘Free DC’ tonight at the Washington Spirit game at Audi Field
Decoupling from the American economy may be the only way to achieve decarbonization heatmap.news/ideas/ira-gl...
Alan Dershowitz Sues Farmers Market Vendor For Refusing To Sell Him Child
We need to draw the distinction between respecting cultural traditions/values and living in the modern world - science is not just a European tradition, it’s a way of knowing and understanding the world that’s indispensable to modernity
When we talk about corporate disinvestment in local newspapers, what we mean is that rural communities have been stripped of their local journalism.
When local news dies, “It essentially nationalizes content for those areas, so that local cultures no longer exist to themselves anymore.”