Aaron Regunberg
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social
Dad, organizer, lawyer working to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate crimes. Opinions my own.
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.
newrepublic.com
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
www.thenation.com
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.
aaronregunberg.substack.com
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-...
Rightwing Christian preachers condemn anything related to consensual same sex love or women’s bodily autonomy as devil worship. Meanwhile I’ve never heard a single word from them on AI. I guess if it’s profitable for billionaires, even the tools of literal devil worship are okay.
July 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Rightwing Christian preachers condemn anything related to consensual same sex love or women’s bodily autonomy as devil worship. Meanwhile I’ve never heard a single word from them on AI. I guess if it’s profitable for billionaires, even the tools of literal devil worship are okay.
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...it is actually the party’s centrist establishment, not its progressive wing, that’s most likely to violate the maxim of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”
Centrist Democrats Are the Actual Traitors to Their Party
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
newrepublic.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
...it is actually the party’s centrist establishment, not its progressive wing, that’s most likely to violate the maxim of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”
New piece about the failure of so many centrist Dems to rally around Zohran, illustrating an underrecognized dynamic in Dem politics: It's actually the party’s centrist establishment, not its progressive wing, that’s most likely to violate the maxim of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.” t.co/hZaQPdH0UV
July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New piece about the failure of so many centrist Dems to rally around Zohran, illustrating an underrecognized dynamic in Dem politics: It's actually the party’s centrist establishment, not its progressive wing, that’s most likely to violate the maxim of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.” t.co/hZaQPdH0UV
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2026 LG watch: Hearing that Providence City Councilwoman @sueanderbois.bsky.social (D-Ward 3) is looking at running for lieutenant governor. Below is what she said when asked ⬇️
July 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
2026 LG watch: Hearing that Providence City Councilwoman @sueanderbois.bsky.social (D-Ward 3) is looking at running for lieutenant governor. Below is what she said when asked ⬇️
A competent opposition party would have its best communicators doing a full court press - now, today - on every single bro podcast blasting Trump on Epstein. Will Democrats do it? Do they care more about stopping fascism or protecting sex pests like Bill Clinton? Here's hoping!
July 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A competent opposition party would have its best communicators doing a full court press - now, today - on every single bro podcast blasting Trump on Epstein. Will Democrats do it? Do they care more about stopping fascism or protecting sex pests like Bill Clinton? Here's hoping!
Gonna go out on a limb and say the richest man in the world turning the AI for a major social media site into “MechaHitler” should be more concerning to folks scared about rising antisemitism than the prospect of a thoughtful NYC mayor who thinks war crimes are bad.
July 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Gonna go out on a limb and say the richest man in the world turning the AI for a major social media site into “MechaHitler” should be more concerning to folks scared about rising antisemitism than the prospect of a thoughtful NYC mayor who thinks war crimes are bad.
The explanatory model that would have done the best job predicting the actions Republicans have taken this year is: this is a party of demons (not metaphorical — actual evil satanic beings from hell) who are trying to fill the world with as much cruelty and suffering as possible.
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The explanatory model that would have done the best job predicting the actions Republicans have taken this year is: this is a party of demons (not metaphorical — actual evil satanic beings from hell) who are trying to fill the world with as much cruelty and suffering as possible.
It seriously sucks that this monstrosity now goes back to the House, where the margin will be razor thin, and where multiple Democratic seats are empty because the reps chose to try to hold onto power through the bitter end and die in office rather than retire.
July 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It seriously sucks that this monstrosity now goes back to the House, where the margin will be razor thin, and where multiple Democratic seats are empty because the reps chose to try to hold onto power through the bitter end and die in office rather than retire.