RT @blimpjuice.bsky.social "Here is @triofrancos.bsky.social explaining the failure of the IRA in three paragraphs better than anyone has explained it, and debunking the entire new wave of "don't talk about climate" left punching bullshit in the process" THEA RIOFRANCOS, THE NEW WORLD CLIMATE ORDER

Bowling alone in the peloton; domestics as the grocery tenants

When you hear/read "populism party/vote bla", you should translate into far-right most of the time

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Être journaliste, c'est aussi s'intéresser à la recherche. Et celle-ci a établi depuis longtemps l'inanité de la thèse du gaucho-lepénisme. Le basculement de certaines terres de gauche au RN est avant tout dû au ralliement des électeurs de droite et au renouvellement générationnel.

NEW! Combining my two obsessions of cycling and political economy data into a new Substack: Tour de Data. Daily posts for every stage of the Tour de France, digging into what the race tells us about money, place, and power. Not just who's in yellow;) 🚴📊 tourdedata.substack.com

So when people criticize Beijing for propping up the car industry, what they're really complaining about is the fact that Beijing implemented strategic financial and industrial policies, and the West failed to do so. 4/4

All tram service suspended in Leipzig, Germany due to the extreme heat, the bitumen grouts on the rails are melting. Please tell me how heat is a problem that can be fixed with ACs www.yahoo.com/news/weather... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

In 2026, 11 years after the Paris Agreement, the flurry of net zero pledges peak oil discourses and even in the midst of the IA boom/bubble, the best way to increase your wealth on the markets is still to put your money on fossil fuel compagnies.

In 2022, we warned about the dangers of Housing as an Asset Class in a report for the European Parliament. Lots of wise heads nodded. But here we are again, and we cannot even blame China for this political failure

In Europe, we suffocate in thermal ovens. Lack of proper rentals' regulation and private equity gobbling up housing markets organise one of the largest wealth transfers from the poorest to the richest. EU wants to solve this housing crisis. Guess how?👇

Who are the crypto bros? The amazing Izaura Solipa crunched the data. Short answer: Crypto bros share the same privileged traits, educational credentials, and institutional access that characterize elites in 'traditional' Wall Street segments. Just out in SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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Imagine if hundreds of people died in an extreme hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many people. They are an extraordinary silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear.

Les presque 30 °C (29.5 °C) de T° minimale à la station Meteo-France de #Paris Lariboisiere la nuit dernière sont possiblement un record mondial à une latitude aussi nord (48°51') , venant souligner le caractère absolument hors norme et dangereux de la chaleur nocturne dans les rues de Paris...

Tightening against an energy price shock is a crude response, that only works if it chokes the economy, and green investment with it. It shouldn't be so controversial for the ECB to accept it.

Everyone: laughing at this out of touch dude. Central bankers: oh, who would have thought that core inflation metrics were used in forecasting at Fox, just like us!

UvdL 2.0 in a nutshell

Ahlalala, il etait vraiment temps d'aider les entreprises europeennes à retrouver leur competitivite. Mais, mais ca veut dire quoi competitivite? La capacite a maximiser ses marges de profits en empoisonnant ses clients et le poison sera europeen, pas chinois, voilà ma bonne dame

"We chated mining on the moon". Starring Musk as Danny Stevens, in the role of the unreliable priviledged heritier, getting high at work and killing many people out of incompetence ("For all mankind" is not very good but the comparison was just too neat)

Its been more than 24h but I didnt recover yet and I still have the feeling to be lost in a time space vortex spanning from 2013 till today #sas #nbafinals

Visibilising social reproduction in academia is great and important. We will also need at a certain point to include class and family background as part of the EDI guidelines alongside other factors. I never saw one job position doing it.

@benbraun.eurosky.social asked me to share my latest rant on chatbot's use in academic writing. Here it is. The main message is: using chatbots to write your paper is bad practice, making us loose much time for nothing and exposes you to reputational risk. Journals must adapt policies accordingly

A donkey never hits the same stone twice, but central bankers do. Less central bankers, more donkeys please 🫏

The ECB just rose its interest rates, against Ormuz's related inflationnary pressures. No alternative was discussed. Inflationnary pressures come from our fossil fuel dependence. Rising IR kills the EU renewable energy industry. Why excempting renewables from rising IR wasn't discussed? Why?

In a week (Friday 19th), the Belgium Political Economy Working group organises its 6th bi-annual conference in Brussels. On the menu: a doctoral session, two sessions on green and european political economies and a fantastic keynote speaker: Andrea Binder. Info: politicaleconomy.be/news/2026-06...

As expected, @thunen.bsky.social is absolutely on 🔥 in this interview. There’s no one out there with more receipts on the international political economy of US empire. Every sentence full of insight. phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...

In the 1870s, a Bombay civil servant built a working solar steam engine. This piece shows how colonial officials and mill owners rejected the idea less on technical grounds than because it conflicted with imperial trade interests. By @egholmlund.bsky.social in @theconversation.com

Morocco has also played the Friedman fantasy wildcard: designing a offsgore free trade/no business taxes zone on Europe's borders to attract foreign capital (zone was designed by rapist and ex imf head/socialiste ministre des finances Strauss Kahn. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

This is a really striking paper. It shows that vehicles "Made in Germany" are mostly not made in Germany at all.

Genuine fuel security should not look like a Chinese tanker full of EV cars but rather as:

When NOT refereed by Tony Brothers, Spurs are up 3-1 against Hartenstein's armlocks, Dort's headbanging and three faults per possession's OKC team.

Central bankers shooting down drones as long as they got own ressources to do so. Under Putin, Russia central bank looks now like Monty Python's Crimson permanent assurance

The distance between "smart money" hiring preferences and our universities' AI policies (blabla, it's like Internet, you cannot escape it, better teach them something they will use anyway, blablayou are a luddite if you want to ban IA from your teaching blabla) is much wider than Hormus straits.

Think using a chatbot makes your work better? Think again. 1/3

Change my view: carbon credits are one of the most vicious technocractic/technological fantaisies about our ability to engineer the ecological "transition", perpetuating old and dirty forms of domination under shiny new market savy clothes. Fascinating research here.

April 2026 Bailey is very much like October 2007(!) Trichet

Must read by @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social "This, we argue, is the pathway for the Santa Marta countries to achieve the decarbonized sovereignty imperative—the strategic pursuit of decarbonization as a matter of national security" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...

Matrix's LLMs generated hallucinations as a policy template

Our next @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social seminar will be an exciting discussion about planning the future in twentieth century Europe, organised by Zoe Evrard and Margaret Pulk, with Alexander Aerts, @jonaselvander.bsky.social, @hugocanihac.bsky.social, Dimitri Zurstrassen and myself (1/2)

New report: wind and solar are driving down wholesale electricity prices across Europe. On average, prices were ~24% lower in 2023–2025 than if gas had set the price at all times. Thread below👇

There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is a far bigger fuel,fertilizer,food crisis for Asia & Europe than it is for US. That has been my argument since war began That weakest people will suffer most.Again, just as after Ukraine 20-30% SUPPLY is out.Asian govts now doing Covid-style DEMAND-side reductions tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

Another @laurenleek.eu classic

Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words. Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... @katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...

Very useful comparative oil shock data viz.

It is vital that EU policymakers find effective ways to syphon off the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies. It is the only way to lessen the economic shock, using price controls or transfers, while limiting the pressure on public finances. 1/4

As with renewables, European authorities are, again, on the wrong side of history for this one www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Avec @jvtk.bsky.social, nous avons écrit une tribune pour le monde, appelant la @ecb.europa.eu à ne pas renouveler les erreurs commises en 2022, quand elle devra réagir au nouveau choc énergétique et inflationniste qui s'annonce. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Let's prepare for "long lasting" energy shock, without mentionning once "renewables", says the EU commissionner for energy. www.ft.com/content/7d3a...