staff writer @ The New Republichttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mltvrgkvyk2fI’ve written more than most people on the failures of the U.S. climate politics over the last decade-plus. Plenty of room for more self-reflection, but the primary Groups responsible for killing the momentum on climate over the last few years were the GOP and the fossil fuel industry14 May 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltvrgkvyk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mlqpi6pc6c26Amazing how much “NIMBY“ is used as a stand-in for “the incentives baked into private property ownership”13 May 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqpi6pc6c26https://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mlqgepsurk24I wrote about the debate over whether Democrats should talk about “climate,” which is kind of a nonsensical question, and how it’s sort of like a debate over whether to talk about capitalism https://newrepublic.com/article/210319/democrats-should-talk-climate-change13 May 2026 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqgepsurk24https://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mlmsqdhguk2nCertain strains of AI millenarianism are just redirected climate despair12 May 2026 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmsqdhguk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mlhdqhtpds2tIMO talking about climate change as a matter of inflating green asset values didn’t resonate with voters and the Democrats talked relatively little about climate change itself during the Biden administration09 May 2026 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhdqhtpds2thttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mlbhu6debc2jI think it’d be great to stop equating a rapid proliferation of renewable energy with an energy transition, which means something else07 May 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbhu6debc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mlbge66nmk2fI wrote about the Republican climate plans in Louisiana https://newrepublic.com/article/210031/louisiana-republicans-seem-content-let-new-orleans-drown07 May 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbge66nmk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mkskaevil22eSpirit Airlines: another victim of Donald Trump’s global carbon tax https://newrepublic.com/article/209801/trump-iran-war-smashing-fossil-fuel-dreams01 May 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkskaevil22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mkqrowvi522kReally seems like a huge thrust of centrist politics over the last few years has been trying to run 1980s right-wing talking points about the “New Class” back against climate activism, and cast activism more broadly as an inherently out of touch PMC activity30 Apr 2026 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqrowvi522khttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mknaoz422k2cI wrote about this exchange, and why Zeldin and co. are trying to downplay their administration’s efforts to protect a German chemicals and pharmaceuticals company from cancer patients https://newrepublic.com/article/209617/lee-zeldin-trying-dodge-maha-critics [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknaoz422k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mkikbmpzg22wI went long on Waymo and robotaxis, which are not silver bullets for making the United States’ abysmally dangerous roads safer https://newrepublic.com/article/209475/waymos-wont-solve-traffic-deaths27 Apr 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkikbmpzg22whttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mkasaxkdac2pAs far as I can tell Centrist Dems on X are yelling at Jia Tolentino over a New York Times podcast because otherwise swing voters will think they’re soft on crime (??)24 Apr 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkasaxkdac2phttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mkar63xwm22mReal chicken or the egg question as to whether a certain strain of Silicon Valley-style Rationalist thinking attracts or cultivates insufferable personalities24 Apr 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkar63xwm22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mk3tmj6l5s2rHappy Earth Day! I wrote about the shadow docket and John Roberts citing a study prepared for fossil fuel lobbyists to justify stopping the Clean Power Plan https://newrepublic.com/article/209318/chief-justice-john-roberts-shadow-docket-fossil-fuel-lobby22 Apr 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3tmj6l5s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mjpesgxe222pSomething to be said about politicians and pundits taking AI developers' apocalypse preaching more seriously than decades of very good climate science17 Apr 2026 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpesgxe222phttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mjpdrd3le22pI wrote about AMOC https://newrepublic.com/article/209185/democrats-may-believe-climate-change-real-dont-act-like-it17 Apr 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpdrd3le22p