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Jake Levitan
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Berkeley Law '26. More active at the other place: https://x.com/jklev_
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pkashwan.bsky.social
Largest Ever Land Back-Conservation Deal in California. The 73 sq miles Blue Creek project more than x2 Tribe’s land holdings and aides efforts to protect the Salmon, Wildlife and Forests of the Klamath River #Decolonization @yuroktribe.bsky.social www.yuroktribe.org/post/largest...
Largest Ever Land Back-Conservation Deal in California Now Complete:
Western Rivers Conservancy Conveys Final Acreage to Yurok Tribe in a 47,000-Acre Effort Critical to the Salmon, Wildlife and Forests of the Klamath RiverTotaling 73 square miles, Blue Creek project ma...
www.yuroktribe.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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advaitarun.bsky.social
The Senate used the fact that I was out in the woods all weekend to craft a dumpster fire of a bill. Thankfully, I am now back from the woods.

@cthelala.bsky.social and I broke down what's in, what's out, and what's breathtakingly stupid about this IRA repeal:

publicenterprise.org/one-big-beau...
One big beautiful blackout
It’s not just about cost—the bill text imposes new and perhaps insurmountable uncertainties on project developers and investors.
publicenterprise.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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andrewelrod.bsky.social
To understand where US fiscal policy is going and the politics driving it there, @phenomenalworld.bsky.social spoke with Ted Fertik, VP for Manufacturing @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social. The best, most comprehensive map of internal GOP politics I've yet seen. www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
The Fiscal Crisis of the Energy State | Jack Gross, Andrew Elrod
“The budget,” Austrian sociologist Rudolf Goldscheid wrote in 1917, “is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies.” Currently, Trump's coalition is fracturing over contradictory ...
www.phenomenalworld.org
June 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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angus.bsky.social
Asked if the White House is contemplating deporting the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, a US citizen, because of rap lyrics he wrote a decade ago, Leavitt says this:

"Surely, if true, it's something that should be investigated."
nikkimcr.bsky.social Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jun 30
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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proteanmag.com
In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the historical, ideological, and tactical parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the United States.

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Third Red Scare, Same as the First • Protean Magazine
In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the tactical and ideological parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the...
proteanmag.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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victorpickard.bsky.social
These episodes with Aziz Rana have been fantastic and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
danieldenvir.bsky.social Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · May 3
I've completed my four-part @thedigradio.bsky.social series w Aziz Rana reexamining the entirety of US history through the politics of Americanism and constitutional fetish. This ep traces great unraveling of American empire from 1970s to our present MAGA 2.0 moment. thedigradio.com/podcast/rogu...
Rogue State w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the final in a four-part series, traces the great unravelin...
thedigradio.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
the basic throughline from the Court’s first amendment cases today is that the presence of children essentially removes constitutional protection from what would otherwise be clearly protected free speech.
June 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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hahauenstein.bsky.social
Hey folks, the thing Palestinian analysts have been shouting for weeks is now confirmed by Haaretz - you’re now allowed to believe it. 👋
June 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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illanwall.bsky.social
Nate Holdren takes Rob Knox's analysis of critical legal strategy and the Iraq war, and sets it to work on the question of Trumps Lawlessness. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/18/t...
The Critique of Trump's Lawlessness Misses the Point
The Trump administration has felt like a nonstop emergency: bigoted attacks on trans people, immigrants, and civil rights in the name of a war on
criticallegalthinking.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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alybatt.bsky.social
in the meantime you can read the first excerpt in the new @dissentmag.bsky.social, now unpaywalled: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Value of Nature - Dissent Magazine
Why have some gifts of nature remained free?
www.dissentmagazine.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
jlev.bsky.social
Always read @hamayel.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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jaywillis.net
The official position of the Roberts Court is that Republican presidents are allowed to ignore parts of the Constitution they don't like, and that it would be extremely inappropriate for federal judges to do anything about it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
The Republican Justices Are Simply Doing What the Republican President Asks
The position of the Roberts Court is that presidents are sometimes allowed to break the law, but only if they are Republicans.
ballsandstrikes.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
jlev.bsky.social
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...
Humanity is being buried in Gaza. We must rise up to save our collective future.
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net
May 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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advaitarun.bsky.social
"The United States may be hemorrhaging the political capital that coordinating the energy transition requires, but it still controls the currency of decarbonization itself."

My latest for @heatmap.news, about the Inflation Reduction Act and the global dollar system:
heatmap.news/ideas/ira-gl...
Why the Rest of the World Can’t Just Work Around U.S. Climate Policy
We’re too enmeshed in the global financial system for decarbonization to work without us.
heatmap.news
May 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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htwvmag.bsky.social
In his contribution to our dossier, @jamiemerchant.bsky.social argues that the latest iteration of Trump's economic policy represents a window into the global restructuring of class conflict, "a renewed ruling class offensive." Read Jamie's piece below👇
May 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"a real 'sleazebag' named Leonard Leo"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 30
Trump turns heel on the Federalist Society
The U.S. Court of International Trade incredibly ruled against the United States of America on desperately needed Tariffs but, fortunately, the full 11 Judge Panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court has just stayed the order by the Manhattan-based Court of International Trade. Where do these initial three Judges come from? How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of “TRUMP?” What other reason could it be? I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real “sleazebag” named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions. He openly brags how he controls Judges, and even Justices of the United States Supreme Court — I hope that is not so, and don’t believe it is! In any event, Leo left The Federalist Society to do his own “thing.” I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgotten! With all of that being said, I am very proud of many of our picks, but very disappointed in others. They always must do what’s right for the Country! In this case, it is only because of my successful use of Tariffs that many Trillions of Dollars have already begun pouring into the U.S.A. from other Countries, money that, without these Tariffs, we would not be able to get. It is the difference between having a rich, prosperous, and successful United States of America, and quite the opposite. The ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade is so wrong, and so political! Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY. Backroom “hustlers” must not be allowed to destroy our Nation! The horrific decisio…
May 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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michellegoldberg.bsky.social
This guy misrepresented himself as a lawyer -- he hadn't passed the bar -- to represent Andrew Tate
tomdreisbach.bsky.social Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · May 29
Trump is nominating Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia has ties to multiple antisemitic extremists.

He called for X to remove a ban on Nick Fuentes and was spotted at a Fuentes rally, and also appeared at events with an alleged Nazi sympathizer.
May 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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benbraun.bsky.social
Our attempt to make sense of Trump II, sans sane-washing.

Big thanks to @andrewelrod.bsky.social and Maya Adereth whose editing made the piece much, much better.
andrewelrod.bsky.social Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · May 29
This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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volts.wtf
Oooof. Those direct air capture machines built by Climeworks in Iceland, to pull carbon dioxide out of the air? Turns out ... they have generated more CO2 than they have captured.
Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...
heimildin.is
May 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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volts.wtf
Highly recommend this FT story on China's headlong electrification. The more our dipshit president makes us an unreliable trading partner, the more they want to escape oil & gas imports.

Seems like a pretty good idea!
How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution
Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US
www.ft.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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jeremywallace.bsky.social
These are terrible times. But I for one am placing big bets on a better future. Real climate realism celebrates China building megabases and thinks about how to move forward in a world where Donald Trump is President but the crisis is already here.

thechinalab.substack.com/p/big-bets-o...
Big Bets on a Better Future
China's megabases matter and real climate realism
thechinalab.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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johnmerrick.bsky.social
Geoff Mann and Adrienne Buller's editorial from the first print issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is up on our site www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
The Heat of the Moment
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
www.break-down.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
ICE kidnapping a mayor, the bombing of a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, ethnic cleansing laid bare in playbooks of Greater Israel & Akhand Bharat, babies bombed on timelines & elders starving in man-made famines from Gaza to Sudan, jingoism of nuclear war as a flex..

how do we metabolize fascism-
May 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM