Aaron Regunberg
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social
Dad, organizer, lawyer working to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate crimes. Opinions my own.
Wow. This is from *James Carville.* It really is starting to feel like economic populists have won the debate. Our haters have become our waiters -- time for us to all build a table of success for the Democratic Party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wow. This is from *James Carville.* It really is starting to feel like economic populists have won the debate. Our haters have become our waiters -- time for us to all build a table of success for the Democratic Party.
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Excellent @aaronregunberg.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com here - the centrist instinct to go silent on climate is a losing strategy
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Excellent @aaronregunberg.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com here - the centrist instinct to go silent on climate is a losing strategy
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
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"Democrats can leverage their advantage on climate to win voters’ trust on what will likely be the most significant issues in 2026 and 2028," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, summarizing a new @dataforprogress.org report.
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Here’s the Data Showing Why Dems Must Keep Talking About Climate
Centrist groups want to see Democrats retreat from climate policy. That’s the wrong thing to do—both morally and strategically.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Democrats can leverage their advantage on climate to win voters’ trust on what will likely be the most significant issues in 2026 and 2028," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, summarizing a new @dataforprogress.org report.
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
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Some billionaires, while building "apocalypse shelters" as personal escape hatches from the climate crisis, are urging Democrats to stop talking about and adopting policies to tackle this existential threat. Don't buy their bullshit. 1/ @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
Here’s the Data Showing Why Dems Must Keep Talking About Climate
Centrist groups want to see Democrats retreat from climate policy. That’s the wrong thing to do—both morally and strategically.
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some billionaires, while building "apocalypse shelters" as personal escape hatches from the climate crisis, are urging Democrats to stop talking about and adopting policies to tackle this existential threat. Don't buy their bullshit. 1/ @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...
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Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @drboguslaw.bsky.social - Epstein's Ties to Foreign Leaders & How Much the CIA Has an Epstein Problem | @faizapatel.bsky.social - In Targeting an Org That Does Not Exist, Trump Can Target Anyone | @aaronregunberg.bsky.social - Will AI be an Issue in the Next Election?
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @drboguslaw.bsky.social - Epstein's Ties to Foreign Leaders & How Much the CIA Has an Epstein Problem | @faizapatel.bsky.social - In Targeting an Org That Does Not Exist, Trump Can Target Anyone | @aaronregunberg.bsky.social - Will AI be an Issue in the Next Election?
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With AI threatening future employment on a massive scale, particularly among young people already indentured by student loan debt, Sasha Cohen speaks with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social about his @newrepublic.com article, “Americans Hate AI: Will the Democrats Join Them?” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
Will AI be an Issue in the Next Election?
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex
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November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
With AI threatening future employment on a massive scale, particularly among young people already indentured by student loan debt, Sasha Cohen speaks with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social about his @newrepublic.com article, “Americans Hate AI: Will the Democrats Join Them?” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
AI billionaires are enshittifying our lives, jacking up our electricity bills, destroying our jobs, and inflating a bubble that may crash our economy. For @newrepublic.com, I ask if Democrats will take, or waste, this obvious opportunity? newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Americans Hate AI. Will the Democrats Join Them?
There’s widespread anger at the AI industry—and last week’s elections showed that it’s a winning issue.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
AI billionaires are enshittifying our lives, jacking up our electricity bills, destroying our jobs, and inflating a bubble that may crash our economy. For @newrepublic.com, I ask if Democrats will take, or waste, this obvious opportunity? newrepublic.com/article/2028...
FYI these are Senate Democrats' internal rules. I can think of one Senate Minority Leader in particular who has earned an expulsion from the Conference.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
FYI these are Senate Democrats' internal rules. I can think of one Senate Minority Leader in particular who has earned an expulsion from the Conference.
Has there ever been a man who’s failed to meet the moment more than Chuck Schumer? Relentlessly, incessantly, unstoppably wrong at every turn, Schumer is going to go down in history as the worst Dem legislative leader in modern times, and it’s not even particularly close.
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Has there ever been a man who’s failed to meet the moment more than Chuck Schumer? Relentlessly, incessantly, unstoppably wrong at every turn, Schumer is going to go down in history as the worst Dem legislative leader in modern times, and it’s not even particularly close.
So Dems dominated Tuesday, during a government shutdown, with a message of standing up and fighting this unpopular administration, and their first response is to fold to that administration’s unpopular budget demands for zero concessions? Am I getting this right?
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
So Dems dominated Tuesday, during a government shutdown, with a message of standing up and fighting this unpopular administration, and their first response is to fold to that administration’s unpopular budget demands for zero concessions? Am I getting this right?
For @newrepublic.com I wrote about how the explosive growth of clean energy in China is a powerful piece of evidence that Big Oil's decades of climate lies should, in fact, be seen as the *cause* of today's climate catastrophes. newrepublic.com/article/2020...
Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution
In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
For @newrepublic.com I wrote about how the explosive growth of clean energy in China is a powerful piece of evidence that Big Oil's decades of climate lies should, in fact, be seen as the *cause* of today's climate catastrophes. newrepublic.com/article/2020...
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"In this age of nightmares, the siren song of despair is tempting, and resisting it takes work. But 'The Lord of the Rings' reminds us that in every way, the case for hope ... is the more pragmatic option."
By @aaronregunberg.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
By @aaronregunberg.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump, Like Sauron, Is Not Inevitable—but Only if We Refuse Despair
J.R.R. Tolkien has a message for us: Don’t give in to Trump.
www.thenation.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"In this age of nightmares, the siren song of despair is tempting, and resisting it takes work. But 'The Lord of the Rings' reminds us that in every way, the case for hope ... is the more pragmatic option."
By @aaronregunberg.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
By @aaronregunberg.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Great piece from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social
JRR Tolkien has a message for us: Don't give in to despair; don't give in to Trump.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-sauron-tolkien-hope-despair/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-sauron-tolkien-hope-despair/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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October 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great piece from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social
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“…asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers…”
This, from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, is the smartest critique of Ezra Klein’s egregious era that I’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
This, from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, is the smartest critique of Ezra Klein’s egregious era that I’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
What Is Ezra Klein Thinking?
The New York Times columnist is asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers.
newrepublic.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“…asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers…”
This, from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, is the smartest critique of Ezra Klein’s egregious era that I’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
This, from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, is the smartest critique of Ezra Klein’s egregious era that I’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Do pundits like Ezra Klein realize how dangerous what they’re doing is? They are helping MAGA construct what George Orwell described as a nightmare world, a world where MAGA controls not only the future, but the past. This prospect should, indeed, frighten us more than bombs.
September 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Do pundits like Ezra Klein realize how dangerous what they’re doing is? They are helping MAGA construct what George Orwell described as a nightmare world, a world where MAGA controls not only the future, but the past. This prospect should, indeed, frighten us more than bombs.
Like Orwell's totalitarian state in 1984, MAGA wants us to accept that 2 + 2 = 5. We cannot allow ourselves, as too many Dems and liberal pundits have been, to accept this nightmare world. Two plus two make four. It's important that we stand up and say so. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/magas-mand...
MAGA's mandatory canonization of Charlie Kirk
Like Orwell's totalitarian state in 1984, they're forcing us to accept that 2 + 2 = 5
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September 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Like Orwell's totalitarian state in 1984, MAGA wants us to accept that 2 + 2 = 5. We cannot allow ourselves, as too many Dems and liberal pundits have been, to accept this nightmare world. Two plus two make four. It's important that we stand up and say so. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/magas-mand...
Grateful for the courage of someone like Misti Leon, who is fighting to hold Big Oil accountable for the death of her mother in a climate disaster that would have been "virtually impossible" but for Big Oil's conduct.
August 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Grateful for the courage of someone like Misti Leon, who is fighting to hold Big Oil accountable for the death of her mother in a climate disaster that would have been "virtually impossible" but for Big Oil's conduct.
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this is exactly why it enrages me that the *entire* clean energy development conversation on "our" side is now focusing on NIMBYs, as if they were the only or even the main obstacle to implementing climate policy and tech. it's utter madness.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
this is exactly why it enrages me that the *entire* clean energy development conversation on "our" side is now focusing on NIMBYs, as if they were the only or even the main obstacle to implementing climate policy and tech. it's utter madness.
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Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are still promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.
And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026.
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And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are still promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.
And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026.
trib.al/sjP8Yrm
And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026.
trib.al/sjP8Yrm
Was debating yesterday whether to let our 4-year-old go outside and play in the smoky air, when it occurred to me that besides extreme disasters there's another way climate change is manifesting: enshittification. Just a million ways our lives are being degraded, bit by bit.
August 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Was debating yesterday whether to let our 4-year-old go outside and play in the smoky air, when it occurred to me that besides extreme disasters there's another way climate change is manifesting: enshittification. Just a million ways our lives are being degraded, bit by bit.
From NYTimes. We have a word for people that cause the death of millions. Mass murderers. Looking at you, Big Oil CEOs.
July 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
From NYTimes. We have a word for people that cause the death of millions. Mass murderers. Looking at you, Big Oil CEOs.
I wrote a letter to my mom about Gaza. It's personal, but I wanted to share, in case it can be useful to anyone else who’s decided it’s time to have this discussion with their parents, or any parents who’ve decided it’s time to understand their children. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/a-message-...
A message to our Jewish parents on Gaza
You taught us to say "Never Again." We need you to say it now.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I wrote a letter to my mom about Gaza. It's personal, but I wanted to share, in case it can be useful to anyone else who’s decided it’s time to have this discussion with their parents, or any parents who’ve decided it’s time to understand their children. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/a-message-...