Daniel Aldana Cohen

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

The missing piece in Canada’s economic resistance to Trump and climate mobilization: new Crown corps A key missing piece in our economic resilience plan, not to mention in our moribund efforts to decarbonize our society: modern public enterprises, a new generation of what in Canada we call “Crown” co...

NEW from me: column on the need for a new generation of public enterprises - a key missing piece in both our economic resistance to Trump and our climate mobilization 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/o...

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

In 2022 France implemented a new law stating that 50% of any new public building should be built from timber or other bio materials.

An outcome is new schools that look like this!

Designed by Le Penhuel & Associés, in Paris.

This is the other crucial chart, capturing inequality in carbon footprints (*including carbon caused by investment holdings*). Once a story of global colonial inequality, unequal carbon pollution is now overwhelmingly a story of class inequality all over the world. This is universal class struggle.

There people on the left and right who will tell you this is only an issue for elites. Those people are insane. The obscenely unequal power of the rich is what caused this emergency. I’ll never cede “preventing mass death” as a cause of the mass left.

Or we could just learn from Seattle

In the 1920s & 30s, Vienna taxed luxuries like champagne to fund social housing. Today we should tax luxuries like yachts to fund climate safety for all. Working people need green infrastructure, they build rich ppl's wealth, that money should benefit workers' communities.

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

The NDP comeback starts now.

We're building power & growing the party in every region of the country — through organizing, trusting our base, & having the courage to propose solutions as big as the crises we face.

My remarks from the all-candidates Q&A hosted by the Calgary Confederation EDA.

Reclaiming Socialism in Canada’s NDP Leadership Race NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says socialism, defined by bold public solutions, not managerial caution, can rebuild the party after historic losses. He’s betting it can unite a majority across di...

I haven't felt this much hope for Canadian politics in a long time. Such a brilliant interview w @avi.im. Lfg

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‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation

I really hope everyone understands that this antiscientific nonsense that totally ignores tipping points, first of all the AMOC. Shameful stuff tbh.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

Trump Is Strong-Arming the World Out of Climate Action Washington is leveraging its power to intimidate countries that are trying to protect the planet.

The US has become a climate bully.
The sabotage of the IMO shipping levy is the most dramatic example. The pressure on Vanuatu to stop its legal efforts is the most recent.
My new piece for @foreignpolicy.com

foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/t...

Yeah, I wonder about the options to invest in trying to decrease wait times, and maybe even cut fares (never mind free)... you have to start with populist impacts, and work backwards.

To be fair and clear, the IRA was MANCHIN's policy, not Biden's. BBB was Biden's plan, it was smarter, holistic

Exactly

Not a strategy for making working class ppl feel included in climate policy, or care about, or even feel like it's good for them. But for sure has been the strategy for growing the industry, which has had a certain logic as you point out...

End of EV euphoria triggers $65bn hit for carmakers Manufacturers rethink US strategy in pivot back to petrol and hybrids

Right... and IRA made a minimal impression on US electorate, automakers are now pivoting their strategies dramatically, and climate has fallen off the political map.

Maybe the admin did best they could, maybe not. My point is that green=luxury is not inevitable.

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My point is that Dems ended up creating a political brand for green that undermined their effort to create a working and middle class alliance behind green industrialism.

I think everyone is aware that there are elections every 2 years... but yes, there were ofc many constraints.

Bidenomics ended up being pro-labor for the tiny% of ppl in affected factories (unfortunately, many of those planned but not yet built), but it wasn't at all pro-workers in terms of the mass of US consumers, which vastly outnumbers the % of ppl who might have gotten a good green job under IRA.

I'm not even saying this to dunk on Biden. I just think it's easy to conclude that climate policy and greening are inevitably elitist politics, but that's 0% true. It's a question of how do you construct a political culture around climate policy.

Exactly. I wonder now why they didn't make the affordable, union-built EV the moonshot of the IRA. I prefer transit, but this is USA...

Manchin killed Biden's effort to link rebates to union-construction. Public chargers hard to build fast... but even culturally, didn't prioritize cheap EVs 🤦🏻‍♂️

2nd Bonus: One can argue this was the only viable EV policy available 2021-24. Fair enough. But this was the *only* high-profile, consumer-facing element of IRA. Green housing subsidies were subtler—and even *more* skewed toward the affluent.

For consumers, the IRA was trickle-down greening.

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Bonus: Yes there was the Bolt. But GM never saw it as a profitable long-term model. As seen in current write-downs & strategy resets, US automakers are only NOW trying to focus on affordable EVs. That wasn't anyone's priority under Biden.

Whatever ppl's intentions, this was a predictable fail.

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There were subsidies for used EVs, but this was a tiny market. And lower-income buyers often lacked the garages or driveways needed for EVs to seem reasonable.

All the hype was around expensive EVs, like the Mach-E.

Rhetoric aside, this was trickle-down greening.

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Why did Biden's climate policies fail to cement EVs in US life? Only well-off ppl have been buying lots of new cars—IRA leaned into that.

The EV subsidies for expensive cars had income caps—but were de facto most relevant for buyers earning just under the limit. Not much help for working class.

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screenshot of a website for the Olympic Shop selling a t-shirt commemorating the 1936 Olympics. At the top is information about the shop and below is a t-shirt with images from Berlin 1936 on it. To the right there are sizes for the t-shirt and a tab to click to add to cart.

The IOC has banned the courageous & principled Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych for his “helmet of memory” commemorating Ukraine’s war dead.

Meanwhile the IOC is selling a $42 "Heritage T-shirt" commemorating the 1936 Olympics, known as the Nazi Games. shop3.olympics.com/en/olympic-g...

$38B for gestapo jails to divide and conquer us, instead of $38 billion for green social housing to bring us together and make us safer.

Taxing the rich… is a pretty effective strategy

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.

The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...

(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)