The Trump administration’s plans to incinerate $9.7 million in birth control pills and other contraceptives stored in a Belgian warehouse have left European governments struggling as they try to prevent the destruction.

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

DOGE cut staff without cutting work—thats not efficiency, its chaos. Far from an entrepreneurial state, Trump creates a predatory one combining pageantry & institutional looting. Thanks @damonsilvers.bsky.social‬ @naikalema.bsky.social‬ @choprausa.bsky.social‬ for joining me at #RethinkingTheState

Super excited to kick-off IIPP Forum 2025 with a panel I’m hosting featuring: @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @damonsilvers.bsky.social in conversation w/ @choprausa.bsky.social‬ on lessons for rethinking public value in the AI age. Join us in-person or online! 🔗: buff.ly/NbKqllY #RethinkingTheState

As we all try to make sense of the still-unfolding tragedy in Minnesota, please read the new article by @brianklaas.bsky.social, Associate Professor of Global Politics @ucl.ac.uk (& fellow proud Minnesotan). #OneMinnesota, #RethinkingtheState www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

One Minnesota.

💭Rethinking Public Value in the Age of DOGE IIPP Forum 2025: #RethinkingTheState Join the @naikalema.bsky.social, @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @damonsilvers.bsky.social in conversation w/ @choprausa.bsky.social‬ on lessons for rethinking public value in the age of AI. 🔗 register: buff.ly/NbKqllY

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

➡️ Decolonising Public Administration IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState Join leading voices in policy and public administration to explore how decolonising approaches are reshaping how governance is taught, practiced, and experienced. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/S8QNrSe

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Here is Harvard's new lawsuit, over the international student revocation, filed by the same team of lawyers behind the first lawsuit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking News: A judge blocked a Trump administration move to bar Harvard University from admitting international students, hours after the school filed suit.

✨As a proud Minnesotan (and product of its public schools), I was delighted to meet Tim Walz, the 41st Governor of Minnesota and the 2024 Democratic nominee for US Vice President, and ask him about digital transformation and public value! It was a great evening!

Spending summer in London? Join the @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Annual Forum on Rethinking the State. We'll explore governance, knowledge & econ power. From decolonising public administration to reclaiming digital sovereignty, let's listen, co-create & reimagine public purpose today. #RethinkingTheState

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

💭What does equity have to do with city governments’ dynamic capabilities? IIPP's @naikalema.bsky.social analyses the importance of equity in cultivating dynamic capabilities, drawing on key lessons from research in Cape Town, South Africa. ✍️Read more here: buff.ly/RiDqOpq

If you're around KCL on 9 April, join us for a timely panel on 'AI & DATA ECOLOGIES'. We will have amazing speakers: Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , @tavmos.bsky.social, Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. You can register here: lnkd.in/eQSTNGBp

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

🎤Governance in Times of Change and Uncertainty. IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social delivered a keynote at the Smart City Exchange Forum 2025, presenting the work done by the IIPP Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI) team. ✍️Read the latest PSCI report here: buff.ly/7Xcoioe

Health has always been political, long before Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr took power. Denying this is what’s been killing us, says Eric Reinhart https://go.nature.com/4kIYhwq

🌍 My chapter discusses the geopolitical rivalries for global digital dominance fueling the coloniality of global digital transformation (GDT), arguing that decoupling coloniality from GDT—decolonising GDT—is crucial for cultivating more just and humanist digital futures. 🔗: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

A huge loss for us all. An important voice on the political economy and power of inequality falls silent.

💭What does equity have to do with city governments’ dynamic capabilities? IIPP's @naikalema.bsky.social analyses the importance of equity in cultivating dynamic capabilities, drawing on key lessons from research in Cape Town, South Africa. ✍️Read more here: https://buff.ly/4b9YpRp

🌍 Does Equity Matter for City Government’s Dynamic Capabilities? 🤔 My new blog dives into that key question, exploring lessons from the City of Cape Town, SA. 🇿🇦 🔗: medium.com/iipp-blog/do... It's part of the @ucl-iipp.bsky.social Public Sector Capabilities Index, led by @rainerkattel.bsky.social

Excellent blog by @naikalema.bsky.social on Doge, democracy and algorithms: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr... @ucl-iipp.bsky.social

✨New article alert! 🤖What's the ‘Digital Transformation for Development’ (DX4D) Anti‐Politics Machine, and how's it transforming many governments worldwide today via #DPI? 🌐Check out my new article examining global governance-driven digital dev. as digital statecraft. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/poi3...

Having defeated an algorithm that Arkansas used to cut Medicaid home-care benefits, Kevin De Liban has pioneered successful multi-dimensional advocacy strategies that win against unjust AI www.techtonicjustice.org

The metaphors we use in framing LLMs can pivotally affect not only how we interact with these systems and how much we trust them, but also how we view them scientifically, and how we apply laws to and make policy about them www.science.org/doi/full/10....

☀️🌺 🌊 Delighted to be in Honolulu for the #4S2023 conference next week to present at the '202. Big Data & AI Global Asymmetries: Infrastructures, skills, uses, values & side effects (3)’ session. Excited for the sessions, collabs, convos & meetups! Let's connect! #4sHonolulu