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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.

Alt text: Screenshot of an article from The Cut titled “What happened at the South Shore apartment raid, exactly?” The article reports that on September 30, about 300 federal immigration agents stormed a five-story residential apartment in South Shore during an overnight raid. Witnesses said agents rappelled from helicopters, kicked down doors, used flash-bang grenades, and detained adults and children with zip ties. Thirty-seven people were arrested, including four U.S. citizen children. A resident, Pertissue Fisher, said she was handcuffed, had guns pointed at her, and held for hours despite being an American citizen. Photos from the scene showed broken doors, scattered toys, shoes, and food.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24d

Bill McKibben (!) on our NZIPL report "what nation in its right mind would sign up to pin its energy future on the US, suddenly the ultimate unreliable nation? Instead, with a one-time buy of a bunch of Chinese tech, you control your own energy future"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26d

4/ New study from my @nzpolicylab.bsky.social lab: @davidfickling.bsky.social covers our report on Chinese overseas green manufacturing FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding every single chinese green factory across the world. The results are striking:
bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 28d

Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more

Tix free but going fast!

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks Jonas!

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · Sep 8

Issue #2 has gone to print! Featuring an incredible range of essays, photojournalism, dispatches from around the world and an interview with the excellent @triofrancos.bsky.social

check it out / subscribe via our shiny new website

www.break-down.org

The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · Sep 8

Introducing FRONTIERS Issue #2!

Publishing 22 Sept.

Pre-order or subscribe now at break-down.org 🔗

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 PANEL EVENT

To mark the upcoming launch of the Green Planning Commission, we’re hosting a panel w/ @the-breakdown.bsky.social & @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the future of climate & progressive politics after Trump 2.0 & Bidenomics.

🗓️ 25 Sept 5.30PM
📍 NYC
🔗👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

Launch: The Green Planning Commission

Join us to launch Common Wealth’s Green Planning Commission, in partnership with The BREAK—DOWN and Phenomenal World.

www.eventbrite.com

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Roy Cobby @roycobby.bsky.social · Sep 3

"IRA subsidies attempted to bribe generalised private green investment"

Reflexión de @brusselermel.bsky.social en el FT. La política industrial verde no puede ser un mero "soborno a la formación de capital" (Samuelson). El Estado debe disciplinar y coordinar al capital para dirigir la transición.

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough

Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

www.ft.com

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m always saying this. on.ft.com/4fQLru8

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks Mat!

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Anisha Steephen @asteephen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Energy bills are rising nationwide, and Trump and the GOP are to blame. They rolled back clean energy incentives and greenlit an AI surge, pushing costs onto working families and deepening economic & environmental inequality. I break it down in TIME today: time.com/7312151/ener...

Energy Costs are Rising. Trump and Big Tech Are to Blame

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to cut energy costs in half. Now, energy costs are skyrocketing.

time.com

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

I propose some later in the same piece!

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · Aug 26

The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra

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Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

lfg!

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 26

following up on my "Beyond Bidenomics" piece from last week, we have @brusselermel.bsky.social in the FT this week making the case for a more serious commitment to economic planning in future progressive economic policy work:

www.ft.com/content/dda5...

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough

Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

www.ft.com

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks Daniela!!

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy.
Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)

Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

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Shravya Jain-Conti @shravya.bsky.social · Aug 26

Worth reading!

Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · Aug 26

This from @brusselermel.bsky.social

Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

RIP to paragraph cut in copy-editing

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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Aug 26

“In the future, the US must deliver even more aggressive decarbonisation. This means envisioning a new era of green economic planning: direct public investment, co-ordination and provisioning in key sectors including but not limited to energy and electricity. “ - @brusselermel.bsky.social

The lesson to take from this is that the Green New Deal movement was right to advocate for a far more ambitious political economy of comprehensive decarbonisation and the guarantee of fundamental economic rights through public provisioning of universal healthcare, housing, education and dignity for all workers.
Progressive policymakers will not have another chance to attempt a grand programme of decarbonisation until the end of President Donald
Trump's second term. And they will only have a chance to do so if they can lay the groundwork now by setting an ambitious agenda and defining the political economic project of the post-Trump era.
In the future, the US must deliver even more aggressive decarbonisation. This means envisioning a new era of green economic planning: direct public investment, co-ordination and provisioning in key sectors including but not limited to energy and electricity. This is necessary not only for the energy transition, but to ensure universal high quality and affordable provision of life's essentials, and to maintain macroeconomic stability through an economy-wide restructuring
process.

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Will Royce @willroyce.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Catherine Fraser @cathfraser.bsky.social · Aug 20

closest thing to a pump up speech you're gonna get these days, required reading for progressives

Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Aug 20

Trump isn’t just reversing Biden’s policies.

He’s dismantling the infrastructure of policy-making itself.

Our new US Principal Economist Alex Williams says that progressives must build something new out of the rubble: an economic system worth fighting for.

www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

Beyond Bidenomics | Perspectives

On what is living and what is dead in economic policy.

www.common-wealth.org

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