Aaron Regunberg

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.

"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
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Great piece from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social

What Is Ezra Klein Thinking? The New York Times columnist is asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers.

“…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.
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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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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.

MAGA's mandatory canonization of Charlie Kirk Like Orwell's totalitarian state in 1984, they're forcing us to accept that 2 + 2 = 5

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.

How the Calvinball Supreme Court Upended the Bar Exam All across the country, law students are studying for a test that the high court has made obsolete.

few years back I got @aaronregunberg.bsky.social to blog it

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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.

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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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.

A message to our Jewish parents on Gaza You taught us to say "Never Again." We need you to say it now.

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.

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.

...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

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!

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.

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.

I imagine I'm not the only one feeling more than a little despair, following the Senate's passage of the worst piece of legislation in American history. So I wrote a bit about how we might think about hope in such despairing times. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/fighting-d...

Abundance Praise for Trump Appointees | Revolving Door Project Abundance supporters were big backers of Trump appointees including Chris Wright, Doug Burgum and Jay Bhattacharya. They want you to forget.

We are all at work in America's ruins. What once was is no more. As we battle our way to new terrain where we can rebuild, let us remember who—whether in their naïveté, lack of humility, ill-conceived ideas, or bad-faith argumentation—provided cover for Trump 2.0's devastations.

We are losing to China in a competition for the future.

Instead of producing energy smarter, the U.S. is defunding cleaner, safer, and cheaper energy.

So the way to make America great is to fall behind???

Make it make sense.

The War Powers Resolutions from @rokhanna.bsky.social +
@kaine.senate.gov will create the next “it’s about judgment, unlike my opponent I did not support the Iraq War” line that Obama eviscerated Clinton with in 2008. If you want a future in Dem politics, you want to be on the right side of this.

God damn it, I've started a Substack.

Here's my first post! "This is how we beat Trump" aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

The "immediate answer" is "Trump's DHS goons assaulted one of your caucus members" -- are you going to sit there asking questions, or are you going to start treating this fascist takeover with the urgency it deserves and shut down the U.S. Senate?

I wrote about the wrongful death suit against Big Oil filed last week by Misti Leon, whose mother, Julie Leon, was killed in the Pacific NW Heat Dome, a lethal disaster that scientists have concluded would have been “virtually impossible” but for climate change. newrepublic.com/article/1959...