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Michael Brownstein
@michaelbrownstein.bsky.social
professor of philosophy and department chair, John Jay College
professor of philosophy, CUNY Grad Center
alum, Deep Springs College
author, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@bradlander.bsky.social here is the book I mentioned. I would be honored to give you a copy if you'd like.

somebody-book.com
Somebody Should Do Something
A new book about how individual people, working together, can create systemic social change Where to find it... MIT Press Penguin Bookshop Amazon Porchlight Books Greenlight Books Montclair Book ...
somebody-book.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Michael Brownstein
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Michael Brownstein
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.

The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!

The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM