Zohran Mamdani and the Left Made Kathy Hochul Tax the Rich In New York City, a tax on superexpensive second homes is a victory for Zohran Mamdani and the socialist movement and should mark the beginning of a larger project of redistribution.

I wrote @jacobinmag.bsky.social on what’s happening in NYC: we are taxing some truly parasitic oligarchs who can definitely afford it! And we can do more
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Today we're thinking of all the "experts" who, as recently as a month or two ago, said that data centers were here to stay, and that we should give up on fighting them and instead try to "make them sustainable."

Never, ever listen to anyone who tells you that what you want isn't possible.

Lee Zeldin Is the Most Lethally Boring Man in the Trump Administration The EPA administrator’s bland personality has provided cover for the most destructive reign since the agency’s creation.

Somehow, Lee Zeldin hasn’t been perceived as an extremist. trib.al/5e5NUml

Yet, he's cut billions from Biden-era climate grants, eviscerated pollution rules and enforcement capacity, and completely wiped out the legal basis of much climate regulation: the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

Extremely dangerous, efficient fascist.

"No other EPA head has ever done as much damage as he has, undoing climate progress and other environmental regulations."

Americans only see a small portion of the damage Trump and his people are causing. Like cockroaches scuttling around in the dark, people like Zeldin are quietly taking apart our government at the direction of oligarchs and CEOs.

In contrast to the plastic visage of Kristi Noem, you probably can’t picture Zeldin’s forgettable face. It’s also hard to recall any memorable utterances from him.

But the EPA administrator’s blandness has provided cover for the most destructive reign since the agency’s creation. trib.al/GMfq5cR

Zeldin is human garbage who, like everyone else in this criminally corrupt admin is responsible for suffering and death.

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thanks, Nathaniel!

Lee Zeldin Is the Most Lethally Boring Man in the Trump Administration The EPA administrator’s bland personality has provided cover for the most destructive reign since the agency’s creation.

Let's all amplify this great Liza Featherstone piece on how EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's quiet ghoulishness will kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.

@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2089...

We can't afford to ignore Lee Zeldin: he has cut $3 billion in environmental justice grants, and under his leadership, the EPA has pursued or completed 54% of the recommendations for the agency in Project 2025.

A must-read by @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social

Lee Zeldin Is the Most Lethally Boring Man in the Trump Administration The EPA administrator’s bland personality has provided cover for the most destructive reign since the agency’s creation.

"He was just as forgettable as usual. But this average-looking fortysomething lawyer was greeted like a K-pop star at the climate deniers’ conference because he has delivered for them beyond their wildest dreams," I wrote about Lee Zeldin @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2089...

Zohran Mamdani’s 100 Days of 21st-Century Sewer Socialism In his first one hundred days as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has realized that New Yorkers — and all Americans — need to see the government working for them.

In his first one hundred days as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has realized that New Yorkers — and all Americans — need to see the government working for them.

Hey, Washington Post! You’re Wrong: Congestion Pricing Is Great. Data from numerous cities suggest that even people who start out skeptical wind up supporting the traffic-reducing measure once they experience its benefits.

“Like so much else emanating from @washingtonpost.com, these words represent the grisly death rattle of a dying order” newrepublic.com/article/2083...

Julie Menin Is Protecting New York’s Ultrawealthy Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs.

The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.

Julie Menin Is Protecting New York’s Ultrawealthy Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agend...

New York City's leadership needs to unite for the good of the city -- but oligarch Speaker Julie Menin is standing in the way:
jacobin.com/2026/03/meni...

Julie Menin Is Protecting New York’s Ultrawealthy Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agend...

Speaker Julie Menin, I wrote @jacobinmag.bsky.social, is a class warrior for her own class: the ultra-wealthy:
jacobin.com/2026/03/meni...

Bush Sr. Solved the Acid Rain Problem. Trump Is Bringing It Back. With bombs in Iran and deregulation at home, Trump seems determined to resurrect one of the most apocalyptic images of the 1980s.

It seems fitting that Trump, a creature of the 80s, is bringing back the most hellish features of that decade:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...

The Signal (Episode 3): The Radical History of International Women’s Day and the Feminist Movement, with Liza Featherstone - Bucks County Beacon On this episode, I welcome Liza Featherstone to the show. Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) is an author, journalist, essayist and critic. She is a

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Radical History of International Women’s Day and the Feminist Movement, with
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social. #IWD #InternationalWomensDay

re: jobs, among everything that needs coverage, for people starting their work lives, it feels like an impossible labor market to break into. Impossible for everyone, but with less work experience or start of work shaped by the start of the pandemic, there's a LOT impacting young workers right now.

The Iran War Shows Why It’s Time for Chuck Schumer to Go Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.

just look at this grotesque warmonger! for @jacobinmag.bsky.social I wrote this week on why Chuck Schumer is even worse than you think -- and why it's time for him to exit the stage:

jacobin.com/2026/03/schu...

so charming!

GOOD RIDDANCE, Kristi Noem. 👋

Seems like more people in Epstein's orbit have been held accountable for writing emails to Epstein than for actually assaulting women

Last week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency—when will they rename it?—rolled back Biden-era limits on the amount of mercury pollution that coal plants can emit.

It will disproportionately harm his own voters. trib.al/oRLbkmI

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For The startling rapidity of the bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.

Merchant’s piece on the politics of AI goes perfectly with @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social’s recent piece on the politics of data centers. newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Labor's electoral realignment with the Left is an essential condition for transforming government into a force of, by, and for the many.

This realignment is emerging via @claireforny.bsky.social's campaign—and she's not even an incumbent. I'm telling you: this is a big opportunity. Let us seize it.

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DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

This administration felt a need to interrupt its virtually nonstop death drive to reassure Americans it would "force” companies to absorb the cost of data centers.

That means the mass revolt against AI data centers is working. trib.al/mBIaQda

This is a screenshot of text from the linked article. It reads: "It also shows that many of us rise to the occasion when we are given something to do. One ubiquitous complaint about climate change is that it can be hard to know, as an individual, what to do about such a global, diffuse problem. And similarly, it’s hard to know what an individual can do about the other abstract and distant problems that a data center represents: a destructive tech mogul class unaccountable to the masses, the surveillance state, a possible tech bubble, the affordability crisis, a far-right leadership class that doesn’t get off its phone long enough to even notice the great outdoors it is destroying. Most of us can’t give up our work and family responsibilities to protest every day in Washington, D.C., or Silicon Valley. But an individual data center brings the entire constellation of problems to your town—and many Americans are showing that they know what to do when it shows up."

What if people aren't apathetic? What if they just want something to DO?

Insightful stuff from @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social about the data center backlash and the mechanisms of political change.