Jon Rynn
@jonrynn.bsky.social
Writing about a Green New Deal since 2008, PhD political science from CUNY,author Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The power to rebuild the American middle class. Writings at jonrynn.com, GreenNewDealPlan.com
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Jon Rynn
@jonrynn.bsky.social
· May 21
How National Infrastructure Can Defeat Trumpism
How did we get here? How can we get out of this mess? From Nixon to Reagan to George W. Bush to Trump, Republican presidents have been getting worse and worse. We can no longer afford to hope that we ...
www.counterpunch.org
My article at Counterpunch, with some cool pics from Jeffrey St. Clair
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/h...
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This is MOST IMPORTANT thing Mamdani is doing, rebuilding state capacity so progressives don't just pass nice-sounding laws but DELIVER results.
It's also about ending mindless contracting out - and having govt control the tech it deploys.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
This is MOST IMPORTANT thing Mamdani is doing, rebuilding state capacity so progressives don't just pass nice-sounding laws but DELIVER results.
It's also about ending mindless contracting out - and having govt control the tech it deploys.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”
What PIT Crew says about how he is governing, and tech in government
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Read this story.
This is MOST IMPORTANT thing Mamdani is doing, rebuilding state capacity so progressives don't just pass nice-sounding laws but DELIVER results.
It's also about ending mindless contracting out - and having govt control the tech it deploys.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
This is MOST IMPORTANT thing Mamdani is doing, rebuilding state capacity so progressives don't just pass nice-sounding laws but DELIVER results.
It's also about ending mindless contracting out - and having govt control the tech it deploys.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
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The same strain of community organizing that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the BQE for good. The only caveat: the BQE, like the old West Side Highway, would have to fail first.
Opinion: The Case for Letting the BQE Fail - Streetsblog New York City
A movement in favor of tearing down the BQE altogether is gaining momentum.
buff.ly
June 25, 2026 at 1:15 PM
The same strain of community organizing that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the BQE for good. The only caveat: the BQE, like the old West Side Highway, would have to fail first.
Applies to the US too --
"If some fraction of the new [European] defense spending were directed not toward conventional military hardware but toward renewable energy deployment ...the security benefit would be real, lasting, and ours." stansburyforum.com/2026/06/13/c...
"If some fraction of the new [European] defense spending were directed not toward conventional military hardware but toward renewable energy deployment ...the security benefit would be real, lasting, and ours." stansburyforum.com/2026/06/13/c...
China’s Accidental Green Revolution — and What Europe Should Learn From It | The Stansbury Forum
stansburyforum.com
June 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Applies to the US too --
"If some fraction of the new [European] defense spending were directed not toward conventional military hardware but toward renewable energy deployment ...the security benefit would be real, lasting, and ours." stansburyforum.com/2026/06/13/c...
"If some fraction of the new [European] defense spending were directed not toward conventional military hardware but toward renewable energy deployment ...the security benefit would be real, lasting, and ours." stansburyforum.com/2026/06/13/c...
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You can transit while avoiding the missiles for free, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Premium to switch the missiles off.
June 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
You can transit while avoiding the missiles for free, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Premium to switch the missiles off.
Opinion | One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis
www.nytimes.com
June 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Comrade Ezra Klein endorsing a public AI:
"Perhaps there should be at least one frontier-level model under direct public control."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
An example of using AI to decrease consultant costs, empower employees & aid government:
nateglubish.substack.com/p/they-said-...
"Perhaps there should be at least one frontier-level model under direct public control."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
An example of using AI to decrease consultant costs, empower employees & aid government:
nateglubish.substack.com/p/they-said-...
They Said It Would Cost $54 Million. We Said “No Thanks.”
How Alberta’s public servants are using AI to save 95% on the cost of rebuilding critical government systems.
nateglubish.substack.com
May 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Comrade Ezra Klein endorsing a public AI:
"Perhaps there should be at least one frontier-level model under direct public control."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
An example of using AI to decrease consultant costs, empower employees & aid government:
nateglubish.substack.com/p/they-said-...
"Perhaps there should be at least one frontier-level model under direct public control."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
An example of using AI to decrease consultant costs, empower employees & aid government:
nateglubish.substack.com/p/they-said-...
"When you have resisted the propaganda that has enslaved the minds of millions of your fellow citizens, and grasped the hidden truth that the authorities have sought to conceal, your burden is heavy, and the desire to share your revelations irrepressible." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party
Democrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"When you have resisted the propaganda that has enslaved the minds of millions of your fellow citizens, and grasped the hidden truth that the authorities have sought to conceal, your burden is heavy, and the desire to share your revelations irrepressible." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
[Using money created by the govt], "Capital investment, would use borrowed funds to build tangible national assets ... Because this builds physical capacity and raises productivity, rather than driving consumer spending, it doesn’t cause consumer inflation."
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/22/e...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/22/e...
Eat the Bond Traders!
The biggest winner in England, unfortunately, was Reform U.K., led by the racist, corrupt, and irrepressible Nigel Farage. It captured 1500 seats nationwide and gained control of 14 municipal councils...
www.counterpunch.org
May 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM
[Using money created by the govt], "Capital investment, would use borrowed funds to build tangible national assets ... Because this builds physical capacity and raises productivity, rather than driving consumer spending, it doesn’t cause consumer inflation."
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/22/e...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/22/e...
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We do have an “incredible history,” Jeff Bezos. But a long tradition of historical scholarship challenges the idea that “free markets” was a “founding pillar” of the United States. I trace some of this history and historiography in my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY.
May 21, 2026 at 12:08 PM
We do have an “incredible history,” Jeff Bezos. But a long tradition of historical scholarship challenges the idea that “free markets” was a “founding pillar” of the United States. I trace some of this history and historiography in my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY.
My article at Counterpunch, with some cool pics from Jeffrey St. Clair
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/h...
How National Infrastructure Can Defeat Trumpism
How did we get here? How can we get out of this mess? From Nixon to Reagan to George W. Bush to Trump, Republican presidents have been getting worse and worse. We can no longer afford to hope that we ...
www.counterpunch.org
May 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
My article at Counterpunch, with some cool pics from Jeffrey St. Clair
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/h...
May 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM
@neildegrassetyson.com speculates that "If an alien emissary landed in Los Angeles, for example, its first impression might be that Earth’s dominant life-form is the automobile."
Guess what? They would be correct!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
Guess what? They would be correct!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
Opinion | Neil deGrasse Tyson: Give Us the Aliens
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
@neildegrassetyson.com speculates that "If an alien emissary landed in Los Angeles, for example, its first impression might be that Earth’s dominant life-form is the automobile."
Guess what? They would be correct!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
Guess what? They would be correct!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
"We don’t need to take on its political system — China, of course, hasn’t adopted ours. But when it comes to industrial focus, farsighted infrastructure investment and long-term national planning, there is now much that we can learn from China." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Coming to a China That Has Moved On
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"We don’t need to take on its political system — China, of course, hasn’t adopted ours. But when it comes to industrial focus, farsighted infrastructure investment and long-term national planning, there is now much that we can learn from China." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...
A good roundup of research on labor markets, and why technology is not the main reason workers have less power, it is the nature of the economy in general:
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
Unbalanced labor market power is what makes technology—including AI—threatening to workers: The best “AI policy” to protect workers is boosting their bargaining position
The root causes of sluggish wage growth for most workers are intentional policy decisions that have led to an extreme imbalance of power between employers and typical workers–technological advances, l...
www.epi.org
May 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
A good roundup of research on labor markets, and why technology is not the main reason workers have less power, it is the nature of the economy in general:
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
May 1, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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The amount of inequality created by capitalism depends on how we structure it cepr.net/publications...
We Don’t Need Billionaires, and We Can Structure the Market So We Don’t Have Them
Innovation does not depend on billionaires, but on how capitalism is structured, meaning inequality can be reduced without slowing progress.
cepr.net
April 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The amount of inequality created by capitalism depends on how we structure it cepr.net/publications...
