Emily Mayer

Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress.

This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

I’m at the world war 🎶

I’m at the gestapo raid 🎶

I’m at the combination world war gestapo raid 🎶

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

a profound argument for connection in an age (aren’t they all?) of hopelessness

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"freedom seeds" is somehow both cringe and incredibly dystopian

On Abundance: Where We Agree, Where We Disagree, and How to Move Forward - Roosevelt Institute We're in a moment where we desperately need new ideas about how government should work and what it can deliver for people. That's true for two reasons, one long-standing and complex, and one recent an...

And finally our (still new!) CEO Elizabeth Wilkins offers a big picture view: “We will have to build anew, and better than we have before. Smart people taking seriously what and how we have to build is good for our ideas ecosystem.” rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/on-abun...

I dont care much for knee-jerk, intra-left fights; I love productive debate. It's been fun the past few weeks watching different folks at Roosevelt think *with* Abundance ideas--where they overlap and where they approach with different lenses. A 🧵of a few things we've published recently:

a good piece on what overly broad critiques of abundance liberalism are missing — namely, the need to look at local organizing in context to understand the politics at work

The Abundance Discourse Trap

I wrote a longish piece about the recent abundance discourse and the tendency to treat every issue like an excuse to relitigate the 2016 Democratic primary resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-abunda...

A little funny that some of the same people who criticized the Green New Deal for lacking detail are among the loudest backers of a largely vibes-based “Abundance”