Jake Levitan

What an extraordinarily wide-ranging conversation between Barnaby Raine and @adamtooze.bsky.social! I strongly recommend opening a bottle of wine and just enjoying the ride. open.spotify.com/show/033MAse... @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

I accidentally wrote a thread summarizing Columbia law professor @michaelgerrard.bsky.social's new article on the draft federal permitting bill. Nine specific ways BAAJA would make it easier to build fossil fuel infrastructure.

pet peeve of mine that you see in all sorts of contexts: posing questions that "need to be answered" that have been answered many times. this just mires the debate in an endless loop where one side has to argue and the other just asks the same questions over and over.

I was wondering what the latest numbers would look like, as I think a lot of us have seen interconnection queue results from the last decade or so that are dominated by renewables — but Kevin shows that MISO's queue is now dominated by gas.

Let's not forget, folks: American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers told House Republicans that "This is literally what we've been asking for for over a decade, and it is a generational opportunity to get permitting reform done."

BREAKING: Transcript of Secret Pro-Permitting Deal Meeting Leaked by MechaHitler!

I'm enjoying visiting the fantasyland where trillions in private capital are poised to replace the fossil-fuel system with clean electrons for people's welfare and all that's needed is to replace our current regulatory system with AI-powered permits ...now back to the real world

Barnaby Raine reviews Benjamin Moser's Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History www.theideasletter.org/essay/encoun...

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I've been racking my brain on this, and the only answer I've been able to come up with is "permitting reform is best negotiated when environmental-justice and -protection advocates have more limited leverage." I'm very open to alternate explanations!

Given that so many of the very special energy wonk folks over on X have declared that the Permitting Deal is absolutely fucking awesome, I'm really looking forward to reading panicked fossil industry press releases!

This from 2024 on permitting reform—the underlying theory of change, role of emissions modeling, & broad array of values beyond energy infrastructure that are affected—very much holds up. Give it a read to get up to speed & understand the background of what'll prove a hotly contested fight.

My latest for @grist.org: Pipeline giant Enbridge will pay for police to respond to potential Indigenous-led protests as it begins construction of the controversial Line 5 reroute around the Bad River reservation grist.org/indigenous/e...

Check out @alonso-gd.bsky.social's summary of "The Academic Consensus on Gaza": www.youtube.com/watch?si=jOU... #genocide #genocidestudies

NEW CPE REPORT on the urgency of building an interregional transmission macrogrid! @cthelala.bsky.social and I argue that only the federal government can get it built; no other actor on the grid is capable of doing so! Really, this is a paper about the theory of transmission as an asset class:

The US needs long-range transmission, battery storage, and energy efficiency upgrades supported by Federal investment in interregional transmission, rate design reform, and incentives for long-term resilience and affordability. Read more: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/the-bl...

Good corrective to the "climate hushing" nonsense justgreentransition.substack.com/p/against-cl...

For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.

In February I wrote about 2 Bay Area cases (SF and Santa Clara) where DAs sought felony conspiracy charges vs. Palestine protesters. Update: Both juries deadlocked on the felony charges. Now SF DA Brooke Jenkins has decided to dismiss that case's felony charges. boltsmag.org/stanford-san...

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

Read the full collection for 17 essays from leading scholars and practitioners on how to govern, plan, finance, and build the next phase of the clean energy transition, so that climate policy can be more durable for 2029 and beyond:

Haven't been on here in a while, but if you want to read a very long essay about economic nationalism in @newleftreview.bsky.social you're in luck: newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...

“For decades, the grid has been operated by a deregulated patchwork of rent-seeking firms with insufficient incentives to build ahead of demand. Without dramatic changes to grid planning and governance, that status quo will persist.” Grayson Flood on the grid phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gov...

new from me on the Verso blog: what happened to the U.S. climate movement? what can we learn from it's dissipation? and in a time of quietude, what can be gleaned from contrasts with the data center rebellion? www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...

If you want to do one sure positive thing in the world then give what you can to the Sameer Project. Their work is as important as ever and it would be devastating if they couldn't continue because of a lack of funds.

Read our full report on AI: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/ai-first

Today, Aslı Bâli argues that in this moment of deepening constitutional and geopolitical crises, the left must recover traditions that refused to separate democracy at home from anti-imperialism abroad. And no recent text has done this better than Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind.*

Faculty Writing | @barnabyraine, "What Do People Panic About When They Panic About Anti-Semitism?" | @salvagedotzone | buff.ly/ay6HARR

So, this is in print now. Title pretty much says it all. virginialawreview.org/articles/abo...

This season started out as a 6 to 8-part season, and grew to a 22-episode season, with a dozen or so companion stories on our website as well. Obviously, this trend is going nowhere, so while this season is technically complete, we'll continue to cover it. drilled.media/investigatio...

In NLR 159: The New World Climate Order. An interview with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) on the current state of global climate politics, from anti-extractivist protests to the persistence of fossil capital. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

My forthcoming book now has a cover, a publication date (December 2026) and a link! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192646/

Adam Hanieh breaks down the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, an annual report on global energy trade, production and usage.

been waiting for this article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all... @leninology.bsky.social writing for @parapraxismag.bsky.social.

I wrote about America’s enemies, across 250 years and 1000 days of genocide proteanmag.com/2026/07/27/t...

Global decarbonization is a necessity to secure a safe & livable future. Supporting global green development is central to decarbonization. The structure of the global economy & financial system poses a problem. Here’s what we can do about it. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

“Is the founding some kind of affirmative, usable past we can hold on to, or something that enchains and continuously drags us backward?” The video and transcript of our recent event on America at 250—featuring Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, & @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh:

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

In this News Brief, "Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support," we talk to @dylangyauchl.bsky.social about her recent report on the obscene amounts of money going into pushing Abundance and the PR hurdles the latest neoliberalism rebrand is facing.

I'm pleased the articles from our Special Issue on Political Marxism & Open Marxism are published! This piece - written with @alexismoraitis.bsky.social, @harveymurenow.bsky.social, Teddy Paikin & Sam Salour - traces the historical emergence of PM/OM and maps their intersections. shorturl.at/WJWnx

Maybe he's overconfident Dems won't have the courage to actually check the Court, but the Court's most conservative justice is emphatically on board with Congress stripping his power to issue any more ridiculous interpretations of the Constitution.

🚨 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. 🖊️ @arneness.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...