The NYT has some very real problems — they are very much in the pocket of the oil industry — but they also have a huge audience and some trustworthy reporters working for them. Publishing an op-ed in the NYT is a good way to reach a much broader chunk of the population the Bill McKibben would reach through his own newsletter or the New Yorker.

In general, the problem with that narrative is that Trump was openly promising to act in ways which were guaranteed (and in fact have) raise prices and take away healthcare from people, while transferring money from the pockets of the less wealthy into those of billionaires. The US also had a better economic recovery than most other developed nations.

While it is in fact important to run government in ways which help people, a lot of what was going on was using economic concerns as a socially acceptable excuse for racism.

We're going to need to hold power first — and that likely means a meaningful restructuring of the US government.

I care about the consequences of financing the fossil fuels industry. Having the banks stop would limit extraction and burning.

I think the plan is electric scooters and motorcycles. They work really well with battery swap stations, since the batteries are small enough for a person to pick up and stick in a charging station.

Making it hard to learn the details is one of many actions they're taking. People in general are really confused about what is needed, which makes meaningful action harder.

Yes but it's a lot harder for people to find, which means that essentially nobody will every look at it.

We may well have locked in meaningful change, but that doesn't mean the fight is over: the bulk of fossil fuels are still in the ground.

Or...people who might actually change policy as they act.

That's the problem with being on the side of the rule of law: you're constrainted by it, but the side of lawlessness is not.

The problem is that as a random cemetery worker who can't afford bodyguards 24/7, pressing charges stands a significant chance of getting you killed.

The thing that's amazing is that Walz did these things in the 1990s, when it was still reasonably common to fire teachers for any kind of hint they might be gay. That takes real courage.