Director, Industrial Policy & Trade, @RooseveltInstitute.org, @RooseveltForward.org. Political scientist of economic transitions, administrative states, Bidenomics, Trumpnomics. PhD.https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mlnhav7p2k2b"By nationalising British Steel, UK government will now be able to take control of company strategy and press ahead with a shift from using blast furnaces to a greener electric-arc furnace." In contrast, the US only partly controls US Steel, isn't greening it, and doesn't own it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnhav7p2k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3ml4cwkk4bc2zNEW from me and Oskar Dye-Furstenberg for @rooseveltinstitute.org: Against Manufacturing Doomerism: Why and How Making Stuff Matters. In which we give you over 50 pages of charts and graphs showing why manufacturing still matters. 🧵with some highlights! https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/against-manufacturing-doomerism/?utm_campaign=institute20260505&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=againstdoomerism05 May 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4cwkk4bc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3ml4cwkk4bc2zNEW from me and Oskar Dye-Furstenberg for @rooseveltinstitute.org: Against Manufacturing Doomerism: Why and How Making Stuff Matters. In which we give you over 50 pages of charts and graphs showing why manufacturing still matters. 🧵with some highlights! https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/against-manufacturing-doomerism/?utm_campaign=institute20260505&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=againstdoomerism05 May 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4cwkk4bc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mkfw5iwios2qFirst the junior millennial dramatic actors came for ballet and opera, now novels?! The humanities can't catch a break. NYT: "Novel that explains the world?" Barry Keoghan: “I’ve not read a novel, not ever. I can’t lie about that.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/t-magazine/barry-keoghan-films-food-books-music-art.html26 Apr 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfw5iwios2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mk3tzbvz5k23US is going to get a flag carrier?! DOC/DOT to loan Spirit Airlines $500 million in exchange for warrants https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/trump-administration-nearing-rescue-deal-for-spirit-airlines-2f6a5556?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_122 Apr 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3tzbvz5k23https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mk3km3lipk2yChinese hyper competition has produced a CATL 930 mile range EV battery, reports @financialtimes.com Several models take only minutes to charge. Electrochemistry innovation > fossil dependence. https://www.ft.com/content/1773de37-2595-4d9f-9536-dbe03ff1f8d3?syn-25a6b1a6=122 Apr 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3km3lipk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mjz66qahr22wTrump-backed USA Rare Earths to buy Serra Verde - Brazil's only rare earth company that had previously received US public money from DFC. The project will also benefit from a government -backed price floor. https://www.ft.com/content/8bd0a7bf-2ff1-4a50-8a1b-7d3feca59e45?syn-25a6b1a6=121 Apr 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz66qahr22whttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mjmvu4z2ps24NEW from @rooseveltinstitute.org: 🔥Major report from @betonyjones.bsky.social @joepeck.co.uk on how Biden pursued pro-labor clean energy policy. 🔥Me 👇on why this matters, and what a new World Bank about-face on industrial policy tells us about this era https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-the-biden-admins-labor-forward-clean-energy-strategy-tells-us-about-inclusive-industrial-policies/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=staffshare202604&utm_content=inclusiveindustrialpolicy16 Apr 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmvu4z2ps24https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mjmvu4z2ps24NEW from @rooseveltinstitute.org: 🔥Major report from @betonyjones.bsky.social @joepeck.co.uk on how Biden pursued pro-labor clean energy policy. 🔥Me 👇on why this matters, and what a new World Bank about-face on industrial policy tells us about this era https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-the-biden-admins-labor-forward-clean-energy-strategy-tells-us-about-inclusive-industrial-policies/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=staffshare202604&utm_content=inclusiveindustrialpolicy16 Apr 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmvu4z2ps24https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3miojdoueac2eCongrats to @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on the publication of Muskism. Exciting to see this out in the world and be an FT Best Book of the Week. https://www.ft.com/content/33940b40-b60b-47d4-99af-c9e24320809c?syn-25a6b1a6=104 Apr 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3miojdoueac2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mijpzxoiws22#LifeGoals Macron: “When we’re serious, we don’t say the opposite of what we said the day before every day, and maybe one shouldn’t speak every day." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/world/middleeast/macron-trump-nato.html02 Apr 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijpzxoiws22https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3migul6l7vc25Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of "Liberation Day" - Trump's on-again, off-again tariff frenzy. Here's a recap 🧵. First, there was this infamous chart👇, which declared that trade surplus and deficit countries alike constituted an emergency. https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/trump-admin-tariffs/01 Apr 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3migul6l7vc25https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mi5iyn5wzs2e"Bomb this country? Trump effed around, and we’re all finding out." Daniel Immerwahr on Trump's turn to regime change nihilism. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/23/whats-behind-trumps-new-world-disorder?_sp=02014926-2610-472e-a83c-c071b20a1ea0.177473062411428 Mar 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5iyn5wzs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mhsw4qh2vs2fNEW from me and @joeldodge07.bsky.social for @rooseveltinstitute.org / Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator: Trump is using the Defense Production Act to promote fossil fuel of a major donor. We show how it could instead be used to promote clean energy Abundance. https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/trump-wields-defense-production-act-to-promote-fossil-fuels/24 Mar 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsw4qh2vs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mhnvylxwfs27IEA: "More oil has been lost than during the twin shocks of the 1970s that triggered recessions and fuel rationing around the world." The Iran War is "the greatest global energy security threat in history." https://www.ft.com/content/09524a74-db3c-4aef-b4f7-51eda3068320?syn-25a6b1a6=122 Mar 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnvylxwfs27https://bsky.app/profile/toddntucker.com/post/3mhbjid46k22eThis policy simultaneously is: 1) a taxpayer funded corporate handout for nothing in return; 2) actively damaging to our national security; and 3) worsening energy affordability in the middle of a self-inflicted energy shock. So. Much. Winning. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/climate/offshore-wind-settlements-trump.html17 Mar 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:vgw6mpdixbt6babaexklnbie/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbjid46k22e