Ilmi
Climate fixer, finance wrangler, many-hat wearer, & Overton defenestrator. Hats: Climate Technology Group, Planet Tracker and Carbon Tracker, NRDC, Sabin Center
- Reposted by IlmiFederal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds." This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
- Reposted by IlmiKamala Harris ran a good, very aggressive campaign, but started at a significant deficit, and ran headlong into a ocean of misogyny, which has continued to dog her even more post-election, now that people feel empowered to say what they REALLY think about her
- As a lawyer, this is the wildest stuff I've ever read in my life.
- I'm really having a hard time understanding what this editor meant.
- People think the m-dash I the AI tell when we all know it's really the incessant "not X, but Y" sentence construction.
- I—really—cannot emphasize this enough.
- Oh my: nuance!
- I know that framing isn't everything, but I humbly propose we start calling congestion pricing a "share fare."
“congestion pricing by a number of measures is working as planned, a reality that may turn New York’s experiment into a blueprint for other US urban centers.” Cc: @metrolosangeles.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by IlmiThere are big grand-strategic issues involved in developing nuclear weapons. One of the biggest: if you aim to build a coalition of like-minded middle powers to defend the rules-based international order, then you probably shouldn't trash nonproliferation, one of that order's keystones, on the way.
- Reposted by Ilmi“How could this week possibly be worse than the last? Oh…” www.ft.com/content/fd1d...
- Reposted by IlmiI don’t know if I’ve ever read a judicial ruling that radiates this much righteous contempt for the executive branch in my lifetime: “Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence.“ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Ilmithere's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
- Life comes at you fast!
- While they pretend their loyalty is with America, they also tell us where their real loyalties lie.
- Nick Fuentes called Alex Pretti a “race traitor” for opposing ICE. I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
- "Cartelization of knowledge and expertise" is just fancy professor-speak for "stop guys you're ganging up on me."
- Reposted by IlmiKids are protesting and begging for freedom in Dilley, TX at an ICE detention center. Kids. Liam Ramos was sent here. These are children screaming for freedom.
- Reposted by IlmiA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
- Reposted by IlmiTrump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end. I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.
- Penguins? In Greenland!? Are you Faukland kidding me!!?
- It's hard to know whether the best part of this meme is the loneliness of it, the reference to a Batman villain, or the absurd zoological ignorance.
- Funny that he picked walnuts, since 99% of US walnuts are grown in California.
- ‘Brain the size of a walnut’: Bessent insults Newsom www.politico.com/news/2026/01... Insulting CA (world’s 4th largest economy) & our governor, HARMS the🇺🇸economy! Is the US treasurer (known for his fabulism & corruption but infamous for Musk’s black👁️)punching us & himself in the face? #loligarchy
- This is why the Gardens of the Finzi-Continis (1970) is, by far, the film that has influenced my view of fascism the most. It showed--personally, empathetically--how incredibly easy it is for elites to seek comfort in the illusion that they are insulated from directly suffering fascism's injustices.
- *Garden, singular!
- Exposing hypocrisy only works, rhetorically, if you can establish that the accused party purports to uphold values you share, and then fails to do so. This is what it means to accuse something of being un-American. (See, e.g., Douglass, F. (1852) "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?")
- Reposted by IlmiThe kind of people who are horrified at what is happening here and find it deeply un-American are, maybe counterintuitively, the kind of people who are MORE likely than average to know and remember historic abuses. It is their determination to rise above them that gives them moral strength!
- Reposted by IlmiNEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus. From me: prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
- Reposted by Ilmi"If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate... Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty."
- Reposted by IlmiOne thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.
- "The bull will have no impact on the china shop because he makes no housewares."
- Reposted by IlmiBetween Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.
- Perhaps rose colored glasses, but...are the tariffs a climbdown?
- Reposted by IlmiIn Indonesia, 35% of new car sales were battery-electric models last month. Quite extraordinary. But let's see what the next few months bring.
- A big surge in sales of EVs in Indonesia at the end of the year. However, the incentives that led to this will not continue in 2026. Fully assembled imported EVs had been exempted several important taxes if the manufacturer committed to local production. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
- Hey @aiannucci.bsky.social, this here's a bat signal.
- Reposted by IlmiIt's almost like, when they are at a power disadvantage, they invoke liberal standards of justice and fair play, but when they gain power, those values go out the window immediately. Like it's all in bad faith or something.
- It's similarly "odd" how the right's advancement of colorblindness as the better means of promoting racial justice lasted precisely until they had the political power to unleash widespread explicit race-based oppression.
- Reposted by IlmiThe US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants
- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
- Reposted by IlmiThe best outcome for this is: 1. Trump wants to annex Greenland just because 2. Vance, Rubio invented "defending Greenland" as a justification 3. Trump repeats "defending Greenland" so frequently that he actually starts to believe that's the reason 4. DK gets him to settle for '51 treaty update
- Oooh, this looks interesting.
- We're up and running with the Too Much Finance conference! Prof Thorsten Beck is giving the first keynote taxjustice.net/events/too-m...
- Breaking: EPA to replace benefit cost analysis with cost analysis.
- Reposted by IlmiPonder that: deadly air pollution cuts are a major part of the total monetized benefits of ALL regulations issued under ALL US regulatory laws across ALL federal agencies, making the Clean Air Act more than arguably the most cost-effective & one of the most successful U.S. regulatory laws, ever. 15/
- Reposted by Ilmijust a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
- It me.
- Venezuela is about oil in the way that when your child frees the hand break of your car and goes "vroom" as he rolls backward down the hill, it is about driving.
- I suppose this would require thought in the first place.
- Hassett & Walsh must be having second thoughts? www.ft.com/content/a423...
- Reposted by IlmiThe Fed and markets have a very serious problem ft.com/content/21b5...
- Working at the African Development Bank for a couple of years, the main development policy lesson I took away was that economic progress in Africa over the previous several decades was disproportionately due to establishing central bank capacity and independence.
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- White the heck am I looking at here?
- This person analyzes american politics for a living writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
