This may interest some of you: a new, open access book on gender economics in the countries of the global South www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Unsuprised to see the backlash against Hannah Spencer from all the usual suspects but good on her for calling it out. Parliament remains one of those places where everyday alcoholism, sexism and weird predator behaviour - that wouldn't get tolerated in any other workplace in the UK - still goes on.

Not unlike Rob Ford at city hall when all was running amok, international farce, heard little from the likes of the Board of Trade. Very weak democracy in Canada. Nobody stands up for it.

Silence of the Canadian elites as democracy dies slowly and sometimes quickly.

This is happening in the middle of Tel Aviv 👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💙

I can't get over this. according to @stevemagness.bsky.social: Sawe's *second half* of the marathon was faster than the US half-marathon record. a century ago people wondered if it was physically possible to run a mile under 4 minutes. Sawe's *24th* mile was 4:12, only 12 seconds slower than that

unbelievable

No, this is what a CD player looked like

As AI models get even more powerful, a conversation has been growing about ways the U.S. government might seize greater control over the AI industry. @matteowong.bsky.social and @lilashroff.bsky.social investigate what AI nationalization really would look like:

Sharp rise in European spending amid war and new #NATO spending target: The main contributor to the global increase in military spending in 2025 was a 14% rise in Europe to $864 billion. New #SIPRI data out now ➡️ bit.ly/3QWVcOW #MilitaryExpenditure #GDAMS #GDAMS2026

Want to get people off SNAP (food stamps)? Raise the federal minimum wage (still $7.25/hour). www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

Heaven forbid your tiny singing boss gives you the instruction “I only want to see you dancing in the purple rain.” It has, by my count, at least six potential meanings.

Agreed. The UN Population Division's forecasts are unbelievably reliable. Check out the 1950 forecast for 2000

I've signed. So should you. defendourjuries.net/lift-the-ban/ actionnetwork.org/forms/we-sup...

A new Nazi database prompts Germans to confront their families’ dark pasts The search engine containing 12m party membership cards shatters the illusion that few ancestors were active supporters of Hitler, writes Isabel Coles https://bit.ly/4mQK4iE

Man who inherited father's business, mom's house, lashes out repeatedly. how long will the ontario voter caress his teflon coat? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Three Palestinians were killed and seven others injured in an Israeli strike on a group of civilians in the Al-Nasr area, northwest of Gaza City.

The week in review: Patrick Lin on surveillance pricing, and @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on the political economy of Elon Musk. Plus, a call for hot new LPE scholarship, a law and political minor at (gasp) the University of Chicago, and more! 🧵

Israeli warplanes launched strikes on Deir Aames in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon.

❗️Change:NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority IIPP Professors @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, and @jryancollins.bsky.social will be speaking at the upcoming Change:NOW! conference on May 30 2026. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/TwW22xy @pef-online.bsky.social

In the podcast I draw on 4 strands of research: 1) Our book (w/@devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social) on Decolonizing Economics politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... 2) My work on mining, Eurocentrism, the Obuasi mine in Ghana: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"José" shares, "I've been working in agriculture for 20 yrs. Currently, I am driving a water truck in Soledad. I water the roads where lettuce is being harvested. This way when the trucks pass by, they don't kick up a lot of dust that might settle on the produce." #WeFeedYou

24 April 1936 | A Czech Jewish boy, Thomas Gross, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. Did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

The world is searching for oil. This summit is looking to get rid of it.

Let's be clear, there is no reason not to celebrate the decrease of the law enforcement population in this country. But, the numbers are only a small part of the problem. It is what they do, how they do it, and in which political context. And none of those things have changed.

Join us this weekend and get involved 2/2 www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

23 April 1940 | A German Roma girl, Marianne Geisler, was born in Halle. In #Zigeunerlager in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 8 March 1943. No. Z-1482 She perished on 24 April 1943. --- Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz: 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/4pIRyEJ 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/44EVuxY

At the NonProfit Chamber conference in Calgary, and am surrounded by so many people with such smarts and so much sass and style it feels like a New York City of social policy and economic development! ❤️

The House of Commons trade cmte considered "free trade within Canada" at today's meeting (video at link). CEO of Maple Leaf Foods attacked what he called unsafe, sub-par provincial food inspection systems. www.ourcommons.ca/committees/e...

The Global Council for a Common Good Economy, launched with Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Cuerpo in Barcelona, will rethink the economic ideas that guide how governments invest, spend, and shape markets. It will offer an updated economic framework for progressive govts ready to do things differently.

Even I wondered if this would be a snorefest, but this is an incredibly good, captivating book Much more than a biography of a Dutch farang or a dry recounting of irrigation, it's a sprawling epic about political ecology, state development, and clashing political cultures in fin de siecle Thailand

CBG's second counter-motion—at Bayer's AGM—on the use of #glyphosate as a chemical weapon concerns how it has been used in Brazil. There, industrial (GMO) soy producers are waging chemical warfare against farming communities & Indigenous people in order to displace them and appropriate their land.

One CBG counter-motion is on Israel's use of glyphosate as a chemical weapon in the Middle East—where in southern Lebanon alone 9,000 hectares of farmland have been made unusable. Bayer is also the sole US producer of white phosphorous, which has been used over homes & farmland in southern Lebanon.

The @cbg-network.bsky.social has submitted 10 counter-motions to the Bayer AGM this Friday. The topics range from #glyphosate as a chemical weapon and the pesticide side-effect "Parkinson's disease," to PFAS, lobbying, the EU-Mercosur agreement, drug trials, and executive salaries.

We must build grass-roots pressure for Canada to finally take a principled stand against the US blockade of Cuba. More voices are being heard, including the United Church, the CLC, Unifor, and more. Please sign this petition: petition.web.net/CanadaActNow.... #canlab

Hello everyone please put this in your diaries it'll be REALLY fun also @chadpbown.com will be there so you can observe in person the biggest height difference ever between two book coauthors

“Our baby was born deaf, and now he can hear” -- New Gene Therapy Enables Some Deaf Children To Hear. Otarmeni treats otoferlin deafness, a rare form of hearing loss caused by a mutation in a single gene, by Gina Kolata www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/s... via @nytimes.com

Don’t worry, market concentration is what the USA is all about!

No trade deals with thugs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Francisco" shares "The hard part about harvesting oranges is we must fill a 70lb bag full of oranges and dump it in a 900 lb bin. It takes at least an hour to fill a bin. On a good day we might fill 6 bins. We earn $24/bin. When we finish for the day, our backs ache." #WeFeedYou

Democracy implies freedom. But freedom is empty if not accompanied by social justice. Not the concentration of wealth, but its distribution. Not imposition, but participation. Not war, but peace. Not indifference & exclusion, but cooperation & inclusion. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

For 55 years, we’ve fought to dismantle hate and build a future rooted in justice. We’re confident in the road ahead — and in the people and partners who stand with us to defend civil society. Together, we will confront injustice. bit.ly/3Qh3HnY

A couple of years ago, when my college age Goddaughter was coming to NYC to visit, I made "Auntie MK’s Broke Young Person Guide to NYC Culture – Free Museum Days in Manhattan edition." - She used it to plan her time here while staying with me. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Key point: "Crucially, the Labour government’s own actions between now and the next election could amplify the effect of Reform’s policies or almost neutralise them." Government's proposals not just damaging, but would make it far easier for Reform to deport 100,000s. www.ft.com/content/a762...

The @policyalternatives.ca joined hundreds of organizations in calling on governments to exit the antidemocratic #ISDS system. Read the letter here: europeantradejustice.org/2026-isds-st.... #climate #cdnpoli

“Investment treaties and ISDS will not help Canada build big things. They are a corporate handout with huge costs to the public and a barrier to a more democratic economy." - Stuart Trew, @policyalternatives.ca director of @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social. @eurtradejustice.bsky.social

Congratulations! That is quite an honour

The King has appointed Peter Hennessy, Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, to be a Knight of the Garter. I'm so pleased. Peter has gone from reporting on our constitution, to studying it, to being a vital voice in its defence in Parliament. Such a deserved honour. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

“Very real harm to very real people,” as the judge put it in his ruling blocking RFK Jr.’s policy on gender-affirming care—acknowledging that the harm here is not to the rule of law alone, that the result of putting unserious leaders in the federal government is pain, chaos, and avoidable danger.

Calling out genocide and ethnic cleansing is not antisemitism. Supporting freedom for Palestinians and all people is not antisemitism. Opposing ethnonationalism is not antisemitism.