Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 25/09/2026I'm bullish on the policy opening for climate going forward, as I argue here with a bunch of folks. bsky.app/profile/todd... 010
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 25/09/2026Smart piece from @jasondovemark.bsky.social about the trade-offs for the climate movement in hitching a ride on the affordability and/or data center agendas. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...theatlantic.comWhat Does the Climate Movement Do Now?Advocates are searching for a political wave to catch. 231
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 21/09/2026TODAY! NYC Climate Week! 130 pm. Midtown. Come on down! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...rsvp2.americanprogress.orgThe Future of Clean Industrial PolicyClimate policy around the world has integrated key elements of industrial policy, marking a significant change from relying solely on market-based mechanisms to driving down emissions to now focusing ... 000
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14/09/2026New from our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social: As AI companies push for voluntary safety rules, the latest warnings about AI risks make one thing clear: we can’t just hand the industry the keys to its own oversight. ⬇️rooseveltinstitute.orgFear Itself: AI Anxiety Is No Excuse for Self-Regulation - Roosevelt InstituteAI companies are sounding the alarm about the technology they’re building—and asking for more room to regulate themselves. Elizabeth Wilkins argues that real AI safety requires something different: pu... 0124
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 14/09/2026Jake Sullivan calls for a Strategic Investment Fund: "Loans and guarantees would stretch each public dollar and crowd in private capital, and convertible and equity-like instruments could give taxpayers a share of upside when investments succeed." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comHow to Reindustrialize AmericaThe case for a strategic investment fund. 030
Reposted by Todd TuckerTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Bill Graves, the Republican governor of Kansas from 1995 to 2003, writes an oped today endorsing the Democratic nominee for Senate in the state (Adam Hamilton, who's challenging Senator Marshall). www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...kansascity.comBill Graves: Elect Adam Hamilton to put Kansans first in the US Senate | OpinionThe former governor says Roger Marshall has turned his back on the people he’s supposed to represent. | Opinion 0385131
Reposted by Todd TuckerNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“Democrats would be better advised to follow the example of Thomas Jefferson’s Republicans,” this WSJ oped says about court reform. They thought the courts were so partisan they abolished entire circuit courts and prevented the Supreme Court from meeting for a year! www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...wsj.comOpinion | Is Court Packing Constitutional? Don’t Be So SureThe precedents don’t support what the Democrats want to do, which would be an assault on the separation of powers. 2531072
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 08/09/2026Jared Abbott: "if the goal is passing a New Deal–scale economic agenda to ensure economic security for all ... as Jentleson says his is, electing more Landrieus and Manchins amounts to a Pyrrhic victory, because they will undermine it at every step." jacobin.com/2026/09/jent...jacobin.comHow the Left Can Win a SupermajorityThe US left has had some success winning primaries in Democrat-held constituencies. But this can’t be a strategy for national success and the implementation of New Deal–style programs. For that, we’ll... 010
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 28/08/2026New episode from @volts.wtf: @toddntucker.com discusses our 2029 climate policy agenda and how a future administration can build on the new tools of economic statecraft this administration has put into practice—and actually employ them toward positive, environmental ends. Listen 🎧:volts.wtfCould we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?A conversation with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute. 2166
Reposted by Todd TuckerSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A really terrific report from @rooseveltinstitute.org on "How to Make Green Statecraft Durable." Lots of great ideas here. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgBuilding Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft DurableExplore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production. 083
Reposted by Todd TuckerMegan Corton Scott @mcortonscott.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Excited to be heading to NYC for Climate Week this month, and to be speaking on this panel on Monday 21st. Getting clean industrial policy right is good for the country, good for the economy, good for citizens and good for the climate. Looking forward to discussing! 021
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 03/09/2026And for more on what Trump’s “golden shares” could mean for future progressive economic policy, catch up with our Director for Industrial Policy, @toddntucker.com ⬇️ 022
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 03/09/2026Government equity stakes can be a powerful tool for industrial policy, but only when they’re structured to advance the public interest. A new @politico.com piece cites our research on how public ownership done right can help advance climate, energy, and labor goals. www.politico.com/news/2026/09... 164
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 04/09/2026In NYC September 21 for Climate Week? Come by @rooseveltinstitute.org offices for a panel discussion on The Future of Clean Industrial Policy with @americanprogress.bsky.social @mcortonscott.bsky.social @lcefuk.bsky.social @cleanenergycanada.org + more! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...rsvp2.americanprogress.orgThe Future of Clean Industrial PolicyClimate policy around the world has integrated key elements of industrial policy, marking a significant change from relying solely on market-based mechanisms to driving down emissions to now focusing ... 031
Reposted by Todd TuckerAthul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 03/09/2026It’s fun and cool that “does the law apply equally to Republicans and Democrats” is just a normal part of our national conversation now. Extra fun and cool that the answer is obviously “no.” 0105
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 03/09/2026The growing use of golden shares - and whether they can be used for progressive ends without SCOTUS asymmetrically blocking it - was a big theme in my conversation last week with @volts.wtf bsky.app/profile/todd... 193
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 03/09/2026Joe specifically discusses the chapter by @lenorepalladino.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/todd... 121
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 03/09/2026Why Trump’s ‘golden shares’ are enticing progressives. @politico.co story discusses new @rooseveltinstitute.org report and rethinking of public equity stakes, w/ @bharatramamurti.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and me. politi.co/4xDIGEIpoliti.coWhy Trump’s ‘golden shares’ are enticing progressivesDirect government intervention in specific companies may be on the way to becoming a bipartisan feature. 142
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 03/09/2026Great @thedigradio.bsky.social w/ @astra.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social and @madisoncondon.bsky.social At 1:40, Madison shares her National Climate Service idea. For more, see her "Building Up in 2029" chapter from @rooseveltinstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/todd... 0104
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202617. Last but definitely not least, @tedfertik.bsky.social calls for greater empowerment of labor in the next phase of the clean energy transition. It's not just normatively desirable, but good for making policy stickier. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgRebalance Capital and LaborA case for putting organized labor at the center of U.S. climate and industrial policy to build durable political support for the clean energy transition. 143
Reposted by Todd TuckerDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/09/2026If you're in Seattle, come and see me chat with Leah about her new book on Sep. 14 at Town Hall!townhallseattle.orgLeah C. Stokes with David Roberts | Town Hall SeattleThey were perhaps an unlikely trio: the professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together, they crafted the boldest... 211717
Reposted by Todd TuckerPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Little-known governing hack: Find out what things people like, then give them that 418734
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 01/09/2026How Golden Share in US Steel might give the Steelworkers' union a leg up in contract negotiations, and set standards at other firms as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...news.bloomberglaw.comUnited Steelworker Talks Test Reach of Trump ‘Golden Share’ DealA novel national security agreement between US Steel and the Trump administration complicates labor relations for the company and competitor Cleveland-Cliffs as they race to negotiate new contracts wi... 020
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 01/09/2026New from @shahrzadshams.bsky.social: Prediction markets are becoming increasingly entrenched in major American institutions. Across sports, media and finance, these once-niche platforms are being woven into institutional infrastructure, data and marketing. That creates a problem for regulation. 🧵rooseveltinstitute.orgPrediction Markets Across Sports, Media, and Finance: Institutional Entrenchment and the Risk of Path Dependence - Roosevelt InstituteIn just a few years, prediction markets have gone from obscure tools concentrated in the niche corners of elite policy, academia, intelligence, and analytics communities to rapidly expanding fixtures ... 1106
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 31/08/2026"It makes a tremendous bit of sense for Democrats to play it straight, unlike Roosevelt. We live in a populist moment in which people care more about authenticity than institutional abstractions. Everyone will know what this is really about." 061
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202616. CEA alum @jonasnahm.com and @danieldrisc.com turn to the question of America's growth model - and how different clean production strategies can lean into it, or may need to tilt against it. They call for an honest reckoning with the trade-offs of either. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgDecarbonize America’s Growth ModelHow the U.S. growth model shapes climate and industrial policy, and why balancing domestic manufacturing with consumer demand is key to decarbonization. 154
Reposted by Todd TuckerLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge. 1395338945
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 29/08/2026"The Hayekian conclusion always remained contingent — and only true so long as governments lacked the necessary informational and computational capacity for central planning to outdo free markets. The question is whether AI changes that," writes @martinsandbu.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/cd3f...ft.comCould AI revive the socialist dream?Artificial intelligence has the potential to both reignite and overturn the century-old debate over central economic planning 253
Reposted by Todd TuckerDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/08/2026Today on Volts: even as he is dismantling climate policy, Trump is demonstrating how to use the tools of aggressive state capitalism. A new volume of essays from the @rooseveltinstitute.org argues that those tools could be harnessed for green policy. I talk with RI's @toddntucker.com about it.volts.wtfCould we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?A conversation with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute. 3549
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 28/08/2026I'm on @volts.wtf podcast today on the lessons from our new @rooseveltinstitute.org book: "Building Up in 2029: Making Green Statecraft Durable." We talked about how equity stakes, SCOTUS reform, & subfederalization are climate policy. www.volts.wtf/p/could-we-u...volts.wtfCould we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?A conversation with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute. 183
Reposted by Todd TuckerAdam S. Hersh, Ph.D. @ahecon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Canada should rename Lake Superior as Lake Epstein. 173
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202615. @joeldodge07.bsky.social uncovers the hidden history of publicly-owned factories in the US, and shows how they could be used to bypass permitting and other challenges that have bedeviled the clean energy buildout. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgConstruct Public FactoriesWhy public ownership should play a larger role in U.S. green industrial policy, reducing reliance on private markets to build the clean energy economy. 152
Reposted by Todd TuckerAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The business model of spam fundraising depends on hooking a group of elderly donors who give at a disturbing frequency, summing to sizable amounts. Most of them don't appear especially wealthy. I've compiled a handful of these cases. There are thousands of cases like these in the FEC data. 🧵 1217759
Reposted by Todd TuckerJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Consistent with the judicial philosophy that the law exists only to bind Democrats but not Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...nbcnews.comMaryland court blocks Democrats’ redistricting amendment from November ballotThe judge paused the ruling, however, pending an expected appeal to the state’s highest court. 27722
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 26/08/2026As I noted with @joeldodge07.bsky.social earlier this yr, the DPA's preemptive power is vast. Now that glass has been broken by Trump - and upheld by courts - future administrations should certainly use it to get around subfederal veto points for clean energy. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgTrump Wields Defense Production Act to Promote Fossil Fuels. It Could Instead Be Used to Promote All-of-the-Above Energy Abundance.Reasonable people might think the DPA is no longer serving its purpose and should be abandoned. We argue this would be a short-sighted mistake, given the likely severity of the crises the US will soon... 031
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 26/08/2026The judge also distinguished this from other cases by noting that the federal government here was not trying to wriggle out of its obligations, but choosing to take on new ones by regulating California oil production. 100
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 26/08/2026The California district court judge noted that when state law interferes with the federal government addressing a declared emergency, federal law must prevail. He didn't second-guess the merits of the DPA declaration. 100
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 26/08/2026Courts side with Trump's use of the Defense Production to preempt California state law in order to restart Sable Offshore's oil pipeline. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...news.bloomberglaw.comSable Operational Order Expands Trump’s Power to Sidestep StatesA federal judge last week allowed the Trump administration to bypass local regulators and restart an oil pipeline, a decision attorneys say could create a legal opening for favored energy projects to ... 110
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202614. @leahstokes.bsky.social takes us to the world of production, and how support for electrification can put US manufacturing on sounder footing. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgClean Up the MachinesExploring how electrification, battery storage, and affordable electricity can reduce industrial emissions and strengthen America's clean energy future. 1126
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 25/08/2026The US has an economy exceptionally good at invention, but less good at turning these breakthroughs into competitive industrial ecosystems. In her latest report, @betonyjones.bsky.social argues the opportunity is here, but only if we address the structural failures holding industrial policy back. 🧵rooseveltinstitute.org3 Failures Threatening US Climate Industrial PolicyCapital markets, labor markets, and fragmented government policy are weakening America’s industrial capacity. This brief offers 15 reforms for a high-road clean energy economy. 3156
Reposted by Todd TuckerSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026And as soon as tomorrow, Judge Talwani may also issue a TRO against the new rule the USPS issued Friday night to implement the EO. In other words, this is a small win for the Trump administration, but *not* a ruling that fully clears the way for Trump to mess with mail-in ballots come November. 502211720
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202613. Making domestic policy sticky is better when international frameworks are also sticky. @erinrgraham.bsky.social addresses the urgent need to figure out a global climate finance strategy at the World Bank and elsewhere. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgBuild Durable Capacity InternationallyA roadmap for making U.S. international climate finance more resilient through stronger institutions, green statecraft, and sustained political support. 172
Reposted by Todd TuckerRoosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 20/08/2026NEW: Our @toddntucker.com interviews @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social on how their research helped inspire Bernie Sanders’s AI tax proposal. They make the case for public ownership of AI and explain what it could mean for workers, creators, and the public. ⬇️firesidestacks.comHow Bernie’s AI tax idea came to be (with Jeremy Bearer-Friend + Sarah Polcz)Meet the experts who put AI public equity stakes on the map. 064
Reposted by Todd TuckerTimothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My latest is about bond markets and the death of TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out). newrepublic.com/article/2145...newrepublic.comHas Trump Lost His Fear of Markets?The madness in the bond market suggests that the death of T(rump) A(lways) C(hickens) O(ut) is nigh. 121
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202612. One thing a sovereign wealth fund might do is take equity stakes in companies. @lenorepalladino.bsky.social looks back on the recent experiences with this tool from Obama to the present, and argues for better and more publicly accountable guardrails. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgTake Equity Stakes for Public PurposesHow public equity stakes in private companies could reshape U.S. industrial policy, strengthen corporate governance, and support the clean energy transition. 131
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 20/08/2026I wanted to learn more about @sanders.senate.gov's proposal for taxing the shares of AI companies, so I went to the academics that helped inspire the proposal. Here's my conversation with @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social. www.firesidestacks.com/p/bernies-ai...firesidestacks.comHow Bernie’s AI tax idea came to be (with Jeremy Bearer-Friend + Sarah Polcz)Meet the experts who put AI public equity stakes on the map. 085
Reposted by Todd TuckerTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/202611. One particular way to make finance work better for climate ends is a US sovereign wealth fund. @stomarova.bsky.social shows how this could help leapfrog capacity and budgeting challenges. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgCreate a New Kind of Sovereign Wealth FundAn analysis of sovereign wealth funds, public investment institutions, and how the United States could build a durable National Investment Authority. 142
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 20/08/2026Thanks to @jacobinmag.bsky.social for this film recommendation of 1969's Mister Freedom in the latest issue, streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social Anticipated The Boys and other superhero satires by about five decades. Plus it's Serge Gainsbourg acting! 140