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!

An anti-rent control YIMBY got booted as mayor of Providence, RI because he was perfectly happy doing streamlining for developers but couldn't support rent control for tenants. He was humiliated by being chucked out in the primary - first to ever do it 👋🏻 cnn.com/2026/10/25/business/…

It's important to understand the housing supply crisis for what it actually is: a shortage of homes that tenants can actually afford. Right now, America is short 7.1 million of those units. This is not primarily a story of under-production, but of under-regulation...

I call em the “saw the baby in half” caucus

Billionaires pay very little tax relative to their ability to pay – your patron Peter Thiel, Mr @tylercowen , is well positioned to know that.

This is my fundamental objection to @TheArgumentMag and Abundance more broadly. Getting in bed with these guys is bad news. It is insulting to be swimming in this money and lecturing people about democracy.

Brazilians have reportedly been spending 6.5% more on staple foods since sports betting was banned in the country. A month ago, Lula signed an order banning fixed-odds sports betting, a move he said was designed to tackle the problem of families falling into debt. Now the President of the Brazilian Supermarket Association says that since the ban, sales of essential foods such as rice, oil, coffee, and noodles have grown by 6.5%.

The word *while* is doing a lot of work here

Creating a public renewable energy developer in NYC wouldn't just help fight climate change—it would also help fix our utility affordability crisis. This type of coordinated planning and investment around large, thorny problems is what govt is for. hellgatenyc.com/renewables-p…

The right has won 11 of the last 16 presidential elections in Latin America. #Brazil now joins #Mexico, Uruguay & Guatemala as the exceptions. Many runoffs pitted two political extremes and were won by a whisker: Colombia and Honduras by under a point, Peru by under 50,000 votes.

This book is as good as they’re saying, and then some. Historically illuminating, intellectually rigorous, gripping. Well done @IsabellaMWeber The best argument for why books matter is ones like this. A level of sustained argument you can’t do elsewhere.

⚡ NEW: A public renewable energy developer would deliver substantial economic and reliability benefits for New York City, including cost savings of at least $170 million per year. Read our research with @publicpowerny and @PubRenewables at the link below.

Living my best Oakland life rn: PG&E power outage on my block, on a normal night, for no reason. Estimated repair time: 5 am.

This is so unbelievably vile. I think it will fail. I hope it does, and I hope the stench of it clings to him for the rest of his time on this earth.

You know how Brazil reversed deforestation. It wasn’t a bunch of conservation tax incentives for farmers. IBAMA (Brazil’s equivalent of the EPA) airdrops shock troops to firebomb illegal logging and mining camps. Yanuni (2026)

How we fight inflation doesn't just matter for the economy. It matters for democracy. If government decisions leave people poorer, more indebted and less secure, we risk deepening the conditions that have emboldened the far-right. 🔗 My article for the @FT. Link below.

Will be perfect if Angie Nixon becomes Flavio’s senator

RT @jarjoh: Brazil is such a fascinating place. You have a bad ass trans congresswoman, body slamming an arrogant right winger who has butt…