No niin, ehdin viimein tehdä ketjun UTAKin tuoreen selvityksen keskeisimmistä tuloksista. Vuodesta 2031 alkaen velkajarru edellyttää, että Suomen julkinen velkasuhde laskee keskimäärin vähintään 0,75 %-yks. vuodessa, kunnes velkasuhde on alle 40 % BKT:stä. 1/x

Oman receiving revenue for doing nothing

Finally: Empedocles, in his own words...

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

76/ The amount of pain and misery that the US is heaping upon the world is staggering. Everyone knows that fuel fertilizer food shocks are coming. While millions go hungry & governments are destabilized www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war... bsky.app/profile/bloo...

»Können wir jetzt endlich eine ernsthafte Diskussion über eine antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik führen?« Unser Buch des Monats kommt erst im Oktober – kann aber jetzt schon vorgemerkt werden: »Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik« (shrk.vg/Wirtschaftsp...) von @isabellamweber.bsky.social.

And even though the 🇭🇺 public is considered rather conservative, the data here show that, together, ~50% are actually left-liberal-leaning. These people are currently barely represented (and won't be under a Magyar government). That's a crisis of democratic representation then, if you ask me. 9/

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

I don't think either political party -- or anyone in politics, really -- is thinking in ambitious enough terms about the electricity grid. We need to start thinking of it as the foundation of our 21st century economy & prosperity. It needs to be rethought, rebuilt, & made a solid base for growth.

Eurooppa ei ole kiihdyttänyt Ukrainan sodan alkamisen jälkeen tarpeeksi energiasiirtymää. Nyt EU joutuu Iranin sodan seurauksena tukemaan entistä enemmän fossiilisten tuottajia ja käyttäjiä. Muitakin vaihtoehtoja olisi. Lue ne @anttironkainen.bsky.social blogista: sorsafoundation.fi/iranin-sota-...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker" "There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster" Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband" x.com/implausibleb...

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said the death toll from Israeli strikes has reached 826, with 2009 people wounded since March 2. Officials warned the toll could rise further as attacks continue to intensify across the country. #Infograph

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Just a reminder that they will keep doing this, they will not reward the EU’s sycophancy and the best time to start decoupling and a broad green transition was yesterday.

Ei kukaan: keksiikö kukaan vielä yhteisöveron laskuakin huonompaa kasvutoimea, joka kohdistuisi vielä enemmän suurituloisille? Kokoomus: www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Lees a expertos en petróleo y otras commodities y hablan en términos apocalípticos sobre lo que se viene. Que esto es parecido al ejercicio que les ponen a los estudiantes para pensar el peor caso posible de sacudidas en el suministro. Por otra parte, por aquí yo percibo cierta tranquilidad.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

New article out in Climate Policy with @james7jackson.bsky.social: "Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unable to defend European interests, unwilling to hold Washington and Tel Aviv accountable, and therefore impotent in the face of great-power predation. This failure is not merely moral — it is strategic.

“Last week the profit American LNG exporters stood to pocket by sending cargoes to Asia rather than Europe hit its highest since December 2022, when the loss of Russian gas after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a Eurasian bidding war.”

This is what ecocide looks like.

Ein historischer Moment: 65 Jahre nachdem der erste türkische Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland kam, wird mit @oezdemir.de erstmals ein türkeistämmiger Deutscher Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg. Das erfüllt mich mit Stolz auf dieses Land. Glückwunsch an Ba-Wü und Cem!

we came *so close* to going nuclear in Korea, and entertained the idea repeatedly in Vietnam. in both the justifications made by deranged generals and monstrous politicians was the impossibly high cost of otherwise facing unrelenting resistance by demonized hordes of enemies with no regard for life

Chad perro 🫡

NEW – Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change? ✍️ By @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comment from @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social, Li Shuo, Li Zheng, Yao Zhe, Ma Jun, Pan Jiahua, Joseph Dellatte, Rebecca Nadin Read here ➡️ bit.ly/474QNPx

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I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance. Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.

My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Breathtaking statement from Carney. Basically that Iran's regime is evil and therefore Canada stands with US and Israel's war of aggression. So much for the "middle powers" leading a nonaligned post-American world order. @katemac.bsky.social

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

"The investment costs have fallen faster for [solar] panels than for any other investment good in modern history, including computers and communication equipment" (Goldman Sachs) www.gspublishing.com/content/rese...

Years - 4 Victories - 0 Casualties - 1,260,000🌻 Coups -1 Ruble -💩 War crimes -♾ NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪 Goodwill gestures - 🤷 Warships -Submarines Submarines -Sub marine Aircraft - 🚀💥 Refineries -🔥🦩 Raccoons -1🦝 Tankies - 😭 Tanks -🚜 Red lines - ➡️ I remain a master strategist

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes. Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates. Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

Snow really suits Vienna

On the history of the primate trade and colonial/postcolonial ecologies of extraction, conservation and care. Thanks to my co-editor Tara Suri and all who contributed to this Focus section in Isis. FREE ACCESS! #envhist #sts #conservation #primates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

With the future of nuclear arms control so bleak, I wanted to repost a brief comment from last year. Nuclear deterrence is not automatic. In the Cold War it was organized through elaborate bureaucracy, in the neoliberal period through market mechanisms. All of that is now gone!

Siis miten helkkarin näköalatonta on politiikasta tullut Suomessa, jos esitys maksuttoman aamupalan kokeilusta kouluissa johtaa siihen, että niin oikeisto kuin pääkirjoitustoimittajat repivät pelihousunsa? 1/2

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

I'm starting to get a feeling this Henry-character WASN'T a nice guy!?

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

In Sweden, over €400,000 were raised to help Ukraine's energy sector in the first five minutes of the SVT channel broadcast, Ukrainian Ambassador Svitlana Zalishchuk said. According to the organizers, they "have never seen anything like this," referring to the pace of fundraising

Just out today: The report “A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping” reviews the current state of science on the risk of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) shutdown. 🌊 Conclusion: it's "a serious risk which requires a dedicated risk management framework". pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

INVERNADERO | Una defensa de las iniciativas comerciales europeas Si la oposición a los acuerdos comerciales tenía sentido hace años, ¿qué hacer cuando aquel orden global ha muerto? @jorgetamames.bsky.social explora las potencias de estas iniciativas para crear una nueva arquitectura internacional.

Criticism of the Nordic Nuke Debate™️ in Aftonbladet: "We've gone from 'we can't join NATO because NATO has nukes' to asking 'shouldn't we get our own?'" "If a country like Sweden develops nuclear weapons the [NPT] would collapse, and with it, in practice, the rules based international order."