Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...

2. What Epstein wrote to Thiel in 2016 lines up with what he wrote to his business partner Ehud Barak in 2014: “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Social collapse is a business opportunity.

how can we suffer these people to live among us, let alone purport to rule us? they're not just our enemies. they're an affront to the human experiment. they're hostile to all life not their own. they'd burn any number of us alive to avoid even a moment of mild discomfort. hideous

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

they’re being mean to Ezra Klein, no! no!!

burning the planet but at least we get more slop everywhere www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with a problem core to their field: how to stop so-called “AI slop” from damaging confidence in the industry’s scientific work." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

Drop Site claims that an Arab government was informed that attacks on Iran could commence as soon as Sunday, local time, and "would not be limited to nuclear or missile sites but also target regime change"

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF... An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Instant classic

An Eyewitness Account

Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.

again incredible bravery, people showing up like this when the border cops have shot yet another person

Tucker Carlson interviewed Peter Brimelow this week. For those interested in the latter's arc from financial journalism to immigration restrictionism see the chapter in Hayek's Bastards or the article version here, open access in the Journal of American Studies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council. /1

Between 2007 and 2024, power-sector projects accounted for 45% of China’s investments in Latin America’s largest economy, totaling $35 billion. So now that Brazil needs batteries for the grid, guess who is set to benefit? 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant 💥 www.ft.com/content/f789...

I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short @thebaffler.com Link ⬇️

Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse. With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

And mentioning this book, which everybody should read

just about everyone seems to be going on about tables and menus these days. an era-defining metaphor?

"Can’t wait to get back to even more active posting" writes Adam Tooze while publishing his newsletter twice a day 😂😂

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Kicking off 2026 with a new piece in @sciasculture.bsky.social titled “Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s Technological Republic and the Nationalist Faction of the Tech Oligarchy". The piece is part of the forum on "Tech Oligarchy" edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social. A brief summary:

Someone wrote something on the current global capitalist crisis and Russia's place in it

Russia is often derisively referred to as a “gas station masquerading as a country”. Yet this derision obscures a crucial point: namely, Russia’s ruling class is no different than any other in its utter refusal to tackle our planetary crisis.

The price is ... very, very wrong. In 2019, a Scottish pension fund invested £104 million in a portfolio of Swedish wind farms; the investment is now worth ... £17 million. They say "nothing can stop the renewables revolution" because renewables are "cheap". Unfortunately, it ain't that simple.

With the politics of monetary policy much in the news, this is a great new piece by the always excellent Jeremy Green on the hidden importance of gold ­supply from Apartheid South Africa to Bretton Woods and postwar international monetary stability

"I was gonna vote AfD but then I saw this one SPD poster"

Until now the party had been merely motorists-in-themselves.

“Was it not humiliating to have to pretend that Saudi sustainability goals were legitimate while the construction materials and transportation behind its projects wrested more carbon from the earth than most small countries do in a year?” - @katewagner.wehwalt.net www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The example of Sudan is indicative: after the revolution of 2018 was successful, a broad coalition with a relatively strong progressive wing came to power. But western sanctions against the previous government weren't lifted (in contract to, for example, post-Assad Syria)

A good time to expand on this a bit. I think we still critically lack analytic instruments to assess the current situation re: the interplay of global and local politics, "foreign interference," and such. The debate tends to degrade to tired clichés and analogies very quickly.

We used to do real science

My mouldering, unpublished dissertation was picked as book of the year in this(?!)

Thousands here now. Absolutely enormous crowd. People are chanting, "ICE out! Fuck ICE!" Organizers are taking the street but it's a slow process because there is SO much ice (the water kind). People helping each other up left and right after slipping.

When your unions are basically an arm of the empire: gcaptain.com/maritime-uni...

mapping of int law debate (in the NLR & elsewhere) always seemed strange to me: should you understand basic limitations of int law (or any law for that matter)? Ofc, otherwise you'll end up forever bogged down by formulations that aren't designed to be applied to certain subjects (white, western

My new post on this: Has the Left Given Up on Climate Justice? Yes, it's a provocation. But serious. Both Malm and @triofrancos.bsky.social see a left in denial. wenstephenson.substack.com/p/has-the-le...

all politics are geopolitics, and vice versa. moreover, all politics are Western (i.e. American) politics. ergo, all politics are some underhand dealings over value chains and genocides by a bunch of pedophiles on private islands

What do Venezuela, Greenland, Honduras, Nigeria, and “Freedom Cities” have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. Thread. ⬇️

Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are betting the entire American economy on the continued growth of AI, a mission that’ll require spending billions of dollars on datacenters and new energy infrastructure. These researchers are tracking their physical imprint with an interactive map:

Daniela Russ - Working Nature A History of the Energy Economy À paraître en avril chez Verso