Björn Wahlroosin muistelmien uusin osa on dynamiittia suomalaiselle talouspoliittiselle keskustelulle. Meillä on hellitty kuvaa, että Etla on poliittisesti neutraali tutkimuslaitos eikä sen omistava elinkeinoelämä ohjaisi Etlan toimintaa aktiivisesti. Wahlroos osoittaa tämän olevan hölynpölyä. 1/x

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

Ehkä kaipaisimme "esseen" sijaan jotain uutta kirjallista muotoa, jonka nämä vapaa-assosioijat voisivat lunastaa omakseen. Kenties "mutuilu"? "Sepustus"?

We are only beginning to understand what these machine Gods are capable of

”[Bessent] said that options for a support package “may include, but are not limited to, swap lines, direct currency purchases, and purchases of US dollar-denominated government debt from Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund”. ” The dollar system as public service, but only for fellow autocrats

Wie ich die AfD halbierte, indem ich ihr Politik kopierte. Friedrich Merz Öl auf Leinwand 2025

Ah so asset stranding IS possible – just happening in the wrong place

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

Yksi huomioni tästä Kirk-saagasta. Suomen mediat ovat tainneet uutisoida siitä enemmän kuin Ranskan hallituskriisistä ja USA:n Brasilialle uhittelusta yhteensä. Onko tässä mitään järkeä ja onko yksikielisyytemme vajottanut meidät näin syvälle?

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

"Yhdysvaltain kanssa ajettu liittouma on osoittautunut nopeasti liian ennakoimattomaksi, jotta se voisi yksin taata turvan [Venäjän] uhalta." @jooseppi.bsky.social ja Joel Pyykkönen peräävät ulkopolitiikkaan realistista asentoa. Golf ja hampparit eivät riitä. www.ulkopolitist.fi/2025/09/12/m...

Ruodimme ystäväni Joelin kanssa Nato-Suomen tilaa Ulkopolitistin Suomi-toimitukselle. www.ulkopolitist.fi/2025/09/12/m...

Many years ago, I got into a nasty fight with the late David Graeber over a post I wrote, "The World Economy Is Not a Tribute System." Trump has been doing everything he can to make the argument for Team Graeber stick.

‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

This is the skyscraper of American society

Excellent analysis as always www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-rec...

Die Katastrophe war nicht die „Staatsgründung Israels“, sondern was sie für die palästinensische Bevölkerung bedeutete. Wie immer kann die deutsche Medienklasse nicht verstehen, dass es in Palästina neben den jüdischen Siedlern noch andere Menschen mit Rechten gab.

Gaza: the European Union’s legal & moral responsibility to act has never been more urgent. Along with 9 European trade union federations, we've sent this letter to @kajakallas.bsky.social calling for immediate action.

Data centres tend to cluster together, often around cities. This can lead to bottlenecks in local grids. They’re also growing in size. The largest data centre under construction will use 20X more electricity as a typical hyperscale data centre today 👉 iea.li/4fbUWni

Perussuomalaiset uudistaa politiikan prosesseja. Se on ensimmäinen hallituspuolue ikinä, joka julkaisee oman vaihtoehtobudjettinsa. Vieläpä etuajassa ja VM:n sivuilla. vm.fi/-/valtiovara...

Today, Ukrainians have once again shown the world how to stand for democracy. But does it mean that Ukraine’s democracy is beyond threat now? Of course not.

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity The future is panels everywhere"[email protected] Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

Next up in @ecb.europa.eu Strategy Assessment debriefing: the inflation story, as told in Occasional Paper 371 📣Key message: this was not our grandparents’ inflation📣 1/7

As we saw during the pandemic, when schools shut, it's mostly mothers who have to leave the workplace & stay home with kids. This is just one of the many ways climate change is short-changing women, as we explain in our blog for @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social 👉 www.wbg.org.uk/article/man-...

One of the more serious attempts at doing an international political theory of Trumpism

This series of articles in the Guardian is really truly great stuff -- if also very depressing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How much resistance does a leader face when he's preparing to start World War III for no reason? By this measure the US political system (no resistance) is far more broken—and the US far more dangerous—than people are ready to acknowledge. Contemplating this is painful but let's be real.

"Ah Mr. Bond, seems that you have uncovered my torture and zoonotic virus factory!"

Pieni yritykseni säilyttää mielenterveyttä ja rakennetta

As attention has shifted to Iran, killing in Gaza proceeds in a steady pace, with people seeking food targeted daily. In “Almost Genocide” I try to refocus legal thinking on Gaza, and to contribute to a broader discussion of state intent. verfassungsblog.de/almost-genoc...

Etenkin Politik als Beruf on täynnä käsittämättömän tarkkoja huomioita ja hyviä käsitteellistämisiä. Kiva nähdä, että nämä pääsivät yhteen niteeseen suomeksi.

Just a reminder from October www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

I'm gonna listen to this at 3x speed and tell everyone I read it

My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...

Quick reminder of Wilders PVV electoral trajectory

”Yhdysvaltain presidentti Eisenhower varoitti vuonna 1961 kuuluisassa puheessaan, kuinka sotateollisuuden kasvu on riski demokratialle. Vaihtoehtoja on, vaikka sotamenoja haluttaisiin kasvattaa. Toiseen maailmansotaan varustautumista rahoitettiin velalla ja progressiivisella verotuksella.”

Kirjoittelin itselleni tärkeästä aiheesta. Kalju mies kuvassa EI ole Kekkonen. Saa diskuteerata yms.

‘Whatever the domestic repercussions, the US imperial machine gets the money it needs.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Pentagon’s relationship with Silicon Valley: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy: "A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift" 1/ A brief thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1356...

ISSUE #2 OPEN CALL We are now open for pitches for The BREAK—DOWN ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers), which explore the physical frontiers of the climate crisis. Please send pitches to [email protected] by 10 June.

My new article in Political Studies: ‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk