Melanie Brusseler

Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights

How Do We Rebuild After Trump? - The American Prospect Many Trump critics are focused on what he is doing to our basic democratic compact. But there’s a reason that all the presidents who led us through our worst previous crises also had an aggressive pro...

“A major focus for Common Wealth is building out a lefty response to the affordability crisis—one that isn’t just recapitulating the price-lowering strategy of neoliberalism.”

Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The Prospect 👇

🖊️ @ryanlcooper.com

prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...

“It is very easy to forget that society has massively changed in the past, and it can massively change again.”

The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach.

We must plan for our future.

This is how.

@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today!
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner

So thrilled to be a part of the Green Planning Commission with so many smart progressive thinkers! I can't wait to support
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social in coordinating the future of climate policy.

Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises 😎☀️

Join us TODAY to launch the Green Planning Commission, rethinking planning to recover a democratic & decarbonised future from the crises of our age.

🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social

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🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics & practice of planning for a democratic & decarbonised future

🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🪑 Sarah Nankivell

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Alt text: Screenshot of an article from The Cut titled “What happened at the South Shore apartment raid, exactly?” The article reports that on September 30, about 300 federal immigration agents stormed a five-story residential apartment in South Shore during an overnight raid. Witnesses said agents rappelled from helicopters, kicked down doors, used flash-bang grenades, and detained adults and children with zip ties. Thirty-seven people were arrested, including four U.S. citizen children. A resident, Pertissue Fisher, said she was handcuffed, had guns pointed at her, and held for hours despite being an American citizen. Photos from the scene showed broken doors, scattered toys, shoes, and food.

It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.

Bill McKibben (!) on our NZIPL report "what nation in its right mind would sign up to pin its energy future on the US, suddenly the ultimate unreliable nation? Instead, with a one-time buy of a bunch of Chinese tech, you control your own energy future"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more

Tix free but going fast!

🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
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Thanks Jonas!

Issue #2 has gone to print! Featuring an incredible range of essays, photojournalism, dispatches from around the world and an interview with the excellent @triofrancos.bsky.social

check it out / subscribe via our shiny new website

www.break-down.org

🚨 PANEL EVENT

To mark the upcoming launch of the Green Planning Commission, we’re hosting a panel w/ @the-breakdown.bsky.social & @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the future of climate & progressive politics after Trump 2.0 & Bidenomics.

🗓️ 25 Sept 5.30PM
📍 NYC
🔗👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

"IRA subsidies attempted to bribe generalised private green investment"

Reflexión de @brusselermel.bsky.social en el FT. La política industrial verde no puede ser un mero "soborno a la formación de capital" (Samuelson). El Estado debe disciplinar y coordinar al capital para dirigir la transición.

I’m always saying this. on.ft.com/4fQLru8

Thanks Mat!

Energy Costs are Rising. Trump and Big Tech Are to Blame On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to cut energy costs in half. Now, energy costs are skyrocketing.

Energy bills are rising nationwide, and Trump and the GOP are to blame. They rolled back clean energy incentives and greenlit an AI surge, pushing costs onto working families and deepening economic & environmental inequality. I break it down in TIME today: time.com/7312151/ener...

I propose some later in the same piece!

The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra

lfg!

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

following up on my "Beyond Bidenomics" piece from last week, we have @brusselermel.bsky.social in the FT this week making the case for a more serious commitment to economic planning in future progressive economic policy work:

www.ft.com/content/dda5...

Thanks Daniela!!

Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy.
Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)

Worth reading!

This from @brusselermel.bsky.social

RIP to paragraph cut in copy-editing

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

“In the future, the US must deliver even more aggressive decarbonisation. This means envisioning a new era of green economic planning: direct public investment, co-ordination and provisioning in key sectors including but not limited to energy and electricity. “ - @brusselermel.bsky.social