We can't make climate progress w the same old playbook. We need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn.
Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos!
Schools closed, children idly doing hastily assembled online busy work, events cancelled at short notice, ominous calm--the heat wave feels like Hot Covid
The economic problem with NYC's rental housing is, for the most part, not the high cost of operating buildings--it's the high cost of landlords' debts. Great discussion here by JW Mason.
This is so telling. So scary. So concerning. The predictions for 2050, made in 2014, on extreme heat in France, are vastly exceeded, already in 2026. Why? We have underestimated the rate of change. Warming is accelerating. Ocean heat is off the charts. Is Earth losing Resilience?
This breezy would-be authoritative dismissal of the ecological problem of economic growth is maddening. *Per capita* ecological impacts aren't the issue, or biophysical throughput per unit of GDP. The issue is *absolute* impacts or throughput, at the world scale still increasing
The politicians whining that DSA voters are "transplants" are the same ones that took real estate cash to greenlight the gentrification of their own communities.
These politicians helped displace their own base, then have the gall to complain when new people vote them out
Some thoughts on the WFP/nonprofit vs DSA debate:
1) None of our orgs have a very deep *organized* base in the multiracial working class. Appeals to identity representation =/= widespread on-the-ground power in workplaces and neighborhoods. But neither does receiving a large number of votes
After five decades of neoliberal atomization, union busting, and fraying social fabric, our common organizational weakness shouldn't be a big surprise. Structural obstacles like these are not easily or quickly overcome
This is a wild story, by @themadstone, about the deep corruption at the center of climate research at @Princeton.
TL/DR: BP helped write a research paper they funded, envisioning an essentially fictional future for fossil fuels in a decarbonized world.
Link in next tweet.
The voters who just elected democratic socialists in New York tended to be young and college-educated.
They were also racially diverse: one DSA candidate won predominantly Hispanic precincts by *35* points. Our deep dive w/@teoarmus here:
https://t.co/GPrmA8307L
While the media focuses on Europe’s heatwave:
Remember, cold kills far more Europeans than heat
Extreme heat is the smallest temperature-related killer
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PS. Both cold and heat can be deadly. Make sure you protect you and your loved ones with adequate heating in winter and cooling and liquids in summer
Kind of shocked more people aren't talking about how badly the institutional labor machine got beaten last night in NYC.
The big unions backed the establishment in race after race. Most of them lost. Another hollowed-out political institution?
@dmtrubman Arguably, the big difference is that politically, nyc’s uaw rank and file is broadly aligned w the left-reformist project of Fain, which isn’t really the case for most other big nyc unions.
🚨The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised.
Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital.
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As DSA deservingly gets their flowers for last night, we must also recognize the incredible organizing of DRUM Beats @DesisRisingUp — endorsed Mamdani on Day 1 & successfully backed 8 candidates, including @david4queens who won against a desi candidate in a desi majority district
The clear message from Tuesday night: the left isn’t just having a moment — it’s dictating how Democrats play the game of electoral politics.
“It is democratic socialists who are defining much of the political terrain in New York,” @unionGustavo told me. https://t.co/0ePHBSrBZs