Kate Aronoff

The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence

In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

I think people might be underestimating just how much of the goal of these things is to get a rise out of the left vs. pushing for any kind of coherent project

Potent combo of relatively good-faith actors who subconsciously want to discipline what they see as their own side bc they feel alarmed/powerless under Trump 2.0 & have understandable gripes w how center-left spaces work + edgelords who see Trump 2.0 as permission to stop pretending they have values

Whether on the part of donors or the people chasing their money, there seems to be some palpable libidinal energy in "telling truths" that feel edgy to people who've been steeped in progressive-ish non-profit world but are actually just hegemonic

Seems like a decent amount of new centrist-coded, anti-left formations taking off can be explained by people figuring out there's lots of donor interest in things that rankle the left, because donors are generally wealthy people whose class interests are opposed to the left & they find them annoying

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I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

I wrote about political violence, free speech and Gaza newrepublic.com/article/2005...

"At least 1 of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai factory site in GA last week was living and working legally in the US... Officials then 'mandated' that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Worth noting that DHS claims it raided the Hyundai-LG plant to protect workers. The fact that Hyundai is a shitty boss shouldn't trick anyone into believing that the Trump administration is defending the working class

It's divide and conquer 101, now with EVs newrepublic.com/article/2001...

Thank you @katearonoff.bsky.social

"It’s perhaps even more possible, though, that the White House saw an opportunity to, in one fell swoop, terrorize migrants, undermine EVs, and blame them both for its own failures in the manufacturing sector..."

ICE’s Raid on Hyundai Was as Stupid as It Was Cruel ​Trump is cheering an immigration crackdown on​ a ​new​ plant​ in Georgia. Now how exactly was he planning to make American manufacturing great again?

Haven't read much about why the Department of Homeland Security would choose an electric vehicle battery factory for what it claims is its largest-ever immigration raid on a single facility, so I wrote about why that matters

tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
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It’s Time for the MAHA Moms to Turn on RFK Jr. Too The health and human services secretary campaigned on curbing environmental toxins. He’s done next to nothing to limit microplastics in our brains or our bodies.

I wrote about MAHA's microplastics dilemma newrepublic.com/article/1999...

Trump’s EPA Is Hurting the Automakers It’s Claiming to Help EPA head Lee Zeldin is touting his agency’s plans to deregulate tailpipe emissions as good for car manufacturers. But fewer rules will actually weaken the U.S. auto industry.

I wrote about the end of the EPA's endangerment finding + limits on cars' GHG emissions, and how Trump is waging war on the US auto industry by giving it too much of what it wants newrepublic.com/article/1985...

Trump’s EPA Is Now Flouting the World’s Highest Court A new ruling from the International Court of Justice means that, at least in theory, the U.S. could be held liable for trashing climate regulations—and made to pay up.

"The trouble with so much climate discourse orbiting around questions of belief and denial is that it can leave actions out of the equation. " newrepublic.com/article/1982...

I wrote about the EPA dismantling greenhouse gas regulations, the International Court of Justice’s climate ruling and the limits of belief newrepublic.com/article/1982...

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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"Whether you’re talking about Jeffrey Epstein’s offenses or the reality of climate change, in other words, plenty of damning evidence is already out in the open." @katearonoff.bsky.social

Especially galling how many of the guys claiming climate change is a third rail issue that Democrats can never talk about also spent most of 2024 saying Biden's brain worked really good

Strange quirk of the Democratic strategist and pundit types claiming the party should only shape its messaging around whatever happens to be polling well is that lots of voters also seem to hate disingenuous liars who don't believe in anything they say

The Common Thread Between Epstein Denial and Climate Denial There’s a reason Donald Trump’s claims about the Jeffrey Epstein “hoax” sound so familiar.

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It was a pleasure to talk about our research on climate resilience for public transit. Unfortunately, protecting infrastructure, riders, and workers from the threats of climate change was deemed "woke", and our grant was terminated.

How Trump is Ruining Your Subway Commute Republicans’ frantic project to end “woke” climate research has led them to axe funding aimed at helping mass transit cope with extreme weather events.

I wrote about just a few of the ways the Trump administration is making it harder to keep the subways (and everything else) from flooding newrepublic.com/article/1980...

In case you’re curious to know more about David Richardson’s whole deal, I read and reviewed (?) his terrible autofiction newrepublic.com/article/1951...

I wrote about chemtrails, Lee Zeldin, and how his EPA routinely brags about its participation in a conspiracy to let corporations poison us
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Climate Disasters Are Catnip for Cynical Republicans ​While Democrats are ignoring the climate crisis, the right​ is using ​it as a handy source of chaos they can exploit to advance their own aims.

👉 “Climate politics in the era of Trump 2.0 ought to abandon its reliance on feel-good, far-off promises, and reckon with the actually existing nature of the climate crisis in the United States: a deadly, expensive mess being supercharged by the right.” 👈

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The answer isn’t better storytelling, but offering tangible ways to make people’s lives more comfortable and affordable as temperatures rise

It’s hard to go from thinking of climate action primarily as charity and/or a great business opportunity, to reckoning with the fact that it’s rapidly destroying lives and municipal budgets

I wrote about the floods in Central Texas, ICE in Los Angeles, and why this moment feels so discordant with the last decade of climate politics in the U.S. newrepublic.com/article/1977...