Ilmi
@ilmi.bsky.social
Climate fixer, finance wrangler, many-hat wearer, & Overton defenestrator. Hats: Climate Technology Group, Planet Tracker and Carbon Tracker, NRDC, Sabin Center
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Kids are protesting and begging for freedom in Dilley, TX at an ICE detention center. Kids. Liam Ramos was sent here.
These are children screaming for freedom.
These are children screaming for freedom.
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Kids are protesting and begging for freedom in Dilley, TX at an ICE detention center. Kids. Liam Ramos was sent here.
These are children screaming for freedom.
These are children screaming for freedom.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Trump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end.
I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.
I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.
January 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Trump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end.
I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.
I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.
Penguins? In Greenland!? Are you Faukland kidding me!!?
He's envious of the Minnesota strike and march. A pitiful counterpoint.
January 24, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Penguins? In Greenland!? Are you Faukland kidding me!!?
It's hard to know whether the best part of this meme is the loneliness of it, the reference to a Batman villain, or the absurd zoological ignorance.
He's envious of the Minnesota strike and march. A pitiful counterpoint.
January 24, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's hard to know whether the best part of this meme is the loneliness of it, the reference to a Batman villain, or the absurd zoological ignorance.
Funny that he picked walnuts, since 99% of US walnuts are grown in California.
‘Brain the size of a walnut’: Bessent insults Newsom www.politico.com/news/2026/01... Insulting CA (world’s 4th largest economy) & our governor, HARMS the🇺🇸economy!
Is the US treasurer (known for his fabulism & corruption but infamous for Musk’s black👁️)punching us & himself in the face? #loligarchy
Is the US treasurer (known for his fabulism & corruption but infamous for Musk’s black👁️)punching us & himself in the face? #loligarchy
‘Brain the size of a walnut’: Bessent goes off on Newsom
The Treasury Secretary pushed back the California governor’s criticisms of the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Funny that he picked walnuts, since 99% of US walnuts are grown in California.
This is why the Gardens of the Finzi-Continis (1970) is, by far, the film that has influenced my view of fascism the most. It showed--personally, empathetically--how incredibly easy it is for elites to seek comfort in the illusion that they are insulated from directly suffering fascism's injustices.
I genuinely think that a lot of Democratic elected are failing to meet the moment because they look at everything happening and they think, well, nothing bad can ever happen to me personally because I went to Harvard
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
This is why the Gardens of the Finzi-Continis (1970) is, by far, the film that has influenced my view of fascism the most. It showed--personally, empathetically--how incredibly easy it is for elites to seek comfort in the illusion that they are insulated from directly suffering fascism's injustices.
Exposing hypocrisy only works, rhetorically, if you can establish that the accused party purports to uphold values you share, and then fails to do so. This is what it means to accuse something of being un-American.
(See, e.g., Douglass, F. (1852) "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?")
(See, e.g., Douglass, F. (1852) "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?")
The kind of people who are horrified at what is happening here and find it deeply un-American are, maybe counterintuitively, the kind of people who are MORE likely than average to know and remember historic abuses. It is their determination to rise above them that gives them moral strength!
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Exposing hypocrisy only works, rhetorically, if you can establish that the accused party purports to uphold values you share, and then fails to do so. This is what it means to accuse something of being un-American.
(See, e.g., Douglass, F. (1852) "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?")
(See, e.g., Douglass, F. (1852) "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?")
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The kind of people who are horrified at what is happening here and find it deeply un-American are, maybe counterintuitively, the kind of people who are MORE likely than average to know and remember historic abuses. It is their determination to rise above them that gives them moral strength!
January 22, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The kind of people who are horrified at what is happening here and find it deeply un-American are, maybe counterintuitively, the kind of people who are MORE likely than average to know and remember historic abuses. It is their determination to rise above them that gives them moral strength!
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NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
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"If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate... Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty."
January 21, 2026 at 10:40 AM
"If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate... Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty."
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One thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.
January 20, 2026 at 8:21 PM
One thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.
"The bull will have no impact on the china shop because he makes no housewares."
How much has President Trump actually accomplished one year into his second term? Yuval Levin, a conservative thinker and the director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, says there has been an “absence of durable action,” on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Opinion | A Conservative Critiques Trump’s First Year
The conservative political analyst Yuval Levin gives Ezra Klein his review of Trump’s first year back in office.
nyti.ms
January 18, 2026 at 10:06 PM
"The bull will have no impact on the china shop because he makes no housewares."
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Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.
The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.
Perhaps rose colored glasses, but...are the tariffs a climbdown?
January 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Perhaps rose colored glasses, but...are the tariffs a climbdown?
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In Indonesia, 35% of new car sales were battery-electric models last month. Quite extraordinary. But let's see what the next few months bring.
A big surge in sales of EVs in Indonesia at the end of the year.
However, the incentives that led to this will not continue in 2026.
Fully assembled imported EVs had been exempted several important taxes if the manufacturer committed to local production.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
However, the incentives that led to this will not continue in 2026.
Fully assembled imported EVs had been exempted several important taxes if the manufacturer committed to local production.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM
In Indonesia, 35% of new car sales were battery-electric models last month. Quite extraordinary. But let's see what the next few months bring.
Hey @aiannucci.bsky.social, this here's a bat signal.
there's a great sitcom to be written about Krysten Sinema and her entourage.
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Hey @aiannucci.bsky.social, this here's a bat signal.
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It's almost like, when they are at a power disadvantage, they invoke liberal standards of justice and fair play, but when they gain power, those values go out the window immediately. Like it's all in bad faith or something.
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 PM
It's almost like, when they are at a power disadvantage, they invoke liberal standards of justice and fair play, but when they gain power, those values go out the window immediately. Like it's all in bad faith or something.
It's similarly "odd" how the right's advancement of colorblindness as the better means of promoting racial justice lasted precisely until they had the political power to unleash widespread explicit race-based oppression.
It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.
January 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
It's similarly "odd" how the right's advancement of colorblindness as the better means of promoting racial justice lasted precisely until they had the political power to unleash widespread explicit race-based oppression.
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The US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
The US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
"We the People" was and remains a extremely powerful phrase, one worth reiterating
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 AM
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
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The best outcome for this is:
1. Trump wants to annex Greenland just because
2. Vance, Rubio invented "defending Greenland" as a justification
3. Trump repeats "defending Greenland" so frequently that he actually starts to believe that's the reason
4. DK gets him to settle for '51 treaty update
1. Trump wants to annex Greenland just because
2. Vance, Rubio invented "defending Greenland" as a justification
3. Trump repeats "defending Greenland" so frequently that he actually starts to believe that's the reason
4. DK gets him to settle for '51 treaty update
January 14, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The best outcome for this is:
1. Trump wants to annex Greenland just because
2. Vance, Rubio invented "defending Greenland" as a justification
3. Trump repeats "defending Greenland" so frequently that he actually starts to believe that's the reason
4. DK gets him to settle for '51 treaty update
1. Trump wants to annex Greenland just because
2. Vance, Rubio invented "defending Greenland" as a justification
3. Trump repeats "defending Greenland" so frequently that he actually starts to believe that's the reason
4. DK gets him to settle for '51 treaty update
Oooh, this looks interesting.
We're up and running with the Too Much Finance conference! Prof Thorsten Beck is giving the first keynote taxjustice.net/events/too-m...
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Oooh, this looks interesting.
Breaking: EPA to replace benefit cost analysis with cost analysis.
Narrator: That's not how benefit-cost analysis works.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
January 13, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Breaking: EPA to replace benefit cost analysis with cost analysis.
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Ponder that: deadly air pollution cuts are a major part of the total monetized benefits of ALL regulations issued under ALL US regulatory laws across ALL federal agencies, making the Clean Air Act more than arguably the most cost-effective & one of the most successful U.S. regulatory laws, ever. 15/
January 13, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Ponder that: deadly air pollution cuts are a major part of the total monetized benefits of ALL regulations issued under ALL US regulatory laws across ALL federal agencies, making the Clean Air Act more than arguably the most cost-effective & one of the most successful U.S. regulatory laws, ever. 15/