The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

I welcome the decision of the Council on our proposal to continue the immobilisation of Russian Sovereign Assets. We are sending a strong signal to Russia that as long as this brutal war of aggression continues, Russia’s costs will continue to rise.

Ah yes, very novel. A Schicksalsgemeinschaft, as it were.

Israel’s largest defence company has been suspended by NATO. A key figure associated with the company is wanted internationally for alleged bribery. The suspension blocks the company from competing for contracts worth millions. 🔗 Read the full story: www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...

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Stop the press! Massiivinen uutinen – kenties koko vuoden merkittävin. Yhdysvaltojen uudessa kansallisen turvallisuuden strategiassa Eurooppa määritellään hyvin selvästi Yhdysvaltojen vastustajaksi ja Yhdysvallat kertoo ottavansa aktiivisen roolin vastarinnan organisoimisessa Euroopassa. 1/3

These factions of American capital are in an unholy alliance with the Trump-administration to undermine all that is good in the European Union in all the ways the can.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Our annual deep dive on China’s climate transition is out! China’s CO₂ emissions are set to remain flat for a second year in 2025. Record additions of solar and wind, accelerating electrification, and declining construction-material demand are the main drivers.

Back to the future! Happy to note that my reconceptualisation of the Brussels Effect has just been published in the January 2026 issue of the @jcms-eu.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Haastattelin menestyvää yrittäjää 1800-luvun talousliitteeseen. www.apu.fi/artikkelit/o...

EU migration policy is already grim, but what exactly is the difference between a U-turn and a total shift??

A bunch of cool doc and post-doc positions open in Helsinki!

'There is no peace process. This is not negotiations over peace: it is the transmission of surrender demands from Russia with the active facilitation of the United States.' Read @keirgiles.bsky.social analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine⤵️

Unerwartet, trotzdem da: Rossmann Deutsche Bank Antifa.

⚡️'Donetsk and maybe a land swap' —Witkoff promised Russian aides he could sway Trump, pressure Ukraine into peace deal in secret phone recording.

All the geoengineeering researchers fr rn that a volcano has erupted near the equator

We are reaching heretofore unseen levels of copium

Punavihreä hallitus on suomalaisten selvä suosikki. Suomalaisten enemmistö haluaa SDP:n takaisin hallitusvaltaan. Tavoitteena pitäisikin olla SDP:n johtama hallitus vihreiden ja vasemmistoliiton kanssa. Lähes koko 2000-luvun jatkuneen oikeistovallan jälkeen suomalaiset kaipaavat suunnan muutosta.

This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.

The Danish model, pace Labour, in action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Important to remember on occasions like this that ”AI’s parity with humans” has two variables. Answering document requests with ChatGPT might be evidence of the latter going down rather than the former up.

Reading headlines about the US massing forces to Venezuela and ”what is Trump’s aim with the troops ?” reminds me of a certain other country that massed troops at a neighbour’s border 4 years ago and headlines were wondering what Putin’s aim could possibly be

I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

🚨 Common Wealth is hiring a Researcher to work full time on Transition Security Project. @transitionsec.bsky.social is a research and policy centre that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. Find out more 👇

”If the data is accurate — which we can't guarantee, to reiterate, but we’re writing this post after giving both companies every opportunity to tell us that it isn’t — then it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor.”

For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma" Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃 www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...

Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right). It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.

What can I say, I live for the stage 💅

"On hyvä tunnistaa, että sota ja rauha ovat sosiaalisesti rakennettuja olotiloja. Ne mahdollistavat, estävät ja määräävät tiettyjä toimintatapoja – joista äärimmäisin on organisoitu väkivalta." yle.fi/a/74-20192393

That this is populist guff shouldn't obscure the significance of Le Pen's RN shifting from total rejection of the EU and Euro to making policy demands within the EU system that accepts it is there to stay

Our very own Bruno @brunoleipold.com wins an ERC Synergy Grant! We are thrilled!! Huge boost for political theory @lsegovernment.bsky.social.

"The intimidation included approaching country officials during coffee breaks to warn them they might not be able to transit via the US, or that they and their families could face restrictions on entering the country if they acted against American interests" on.ft.com/3WBh428

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power: 💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million 🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists 🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day @lobbycontrol.bsky.social

Big polling shifts in the last days in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 - far-right PVV (and JA21) trending down. - Christian democratic CDA trending down - center-right D66 trending up - race for biggest party seems to affect “strategic” voters BUT: one third of voters has not decided yet!

China, India and Indonesia used 73% of the world's coal in 2024. Without their emissions growth, global energy sector CO2 would have peaked before 2020. Coal use grew 15% in China, 42% in India, and 150% in Indonesia 2015-2024, while consumption in the rest of the world fell 23%.

Redeemed www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Iso juttu, ja etenkin iso saavutus Lakiasiaintoimisto maailman tyypeiltä!

Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.

NEW: The startup Stardust Solutions has raised $60M to develop the “technological building blocks” of solar geoengineering by 2030. The for-profit firm, which hopes to patent its proprietary particle, says it won’t deploy until governments authorize it. My exclusive: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Just going to plug this here. jacobin.com/2025/08/colo...

Remember how in 2022 Russia was going to be defeated with European ”War Ecology” – pursuing strategic autonomy with renewables and decoupling from Russian hydrocarbons? This ain’t that timeline.

My submission to the ”most Andreas Malm thing Andreas Malm ever wrote” -competition.

Excuse me ” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Shaking my head at my Chinese homework so the other people on the bus know I disagree with it

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...