A heavyweight synthesis of the turn toward green industrial policy. Impressive range. Makes me wonder, what if geoeconomics was always the central force in climpol? Previously, it manifested as distributional conflict over the decarb costs, stifling action. Now, it drives a race for benefits?

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

The utility industry's business model is one of the key drivers of the electricity affordability crisis underway. A key part of the story flagged here: low-income ratepayers being forced to transfer wealth to high-income utility investors.

Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary. fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.

please bro just let us sacrifice one more minority. bro please i promise everything will be good bro your material conditions will improve if you let us scapegoat one more minority bro

“Those who remain have watched as the little autonomy they had built under the auspices of Oslo has been eroded, paving the way for the right-wing’s ultimate goal, the annexation of Judea and Samaria into Israel itself.” 2/2 www.ft.com/content/9b90...

My uni, the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, co-organises a rally for the struggle of palestine today, denounces the genocide, supports the Sumud Flotilla, and has cut many Israeli collabs. They could do even more, but it makes me proud that they are among the pioneers of european unis.

Using labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97 percent of the world population to explore working hours determinants, from Amory Gethin and Emmanuel Saez https://www.nber.org/papers/w34217

Pretty good diagram showing the chain of logic

Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

Yes! www.ft.com/content/3a91...

Remember, if you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪

Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

"Cambridge U. applied to the High Court for an extension to an order banning staff and students from protesting in certain places owned by the university. (...) It invoked the threat posed by Palestine Action, which might ‘embolden groups such as Cambridge for Palestine to take direct action'"

2/ Chinese firms have committed $227+ billion across 461 green manufacturing projects in 54 countries since 2011 - with 88% of investment occurring just since 2022. This dwarfs the $200 billion Marshall Plan (in today's dollars).

OK, what job do we give this guy next? CEO of Man United? www.ft.com/content/639a...

Skadorna verkar vara ytliga och inte gjort någon större inverkan på skrovet. Spekulation: Kraftigare än nödraket. Svagare än ett strikt militärt eldvapen.

The ship “Family” of the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza, was hit by a drone during the night while anchored in the harbour of Tunis. The crew are reported safe. #sumudflotilla #freedomflotilla #shiptogaza

Eyal Weizman from Forensic Architecture: "Genocide denial is what enables genocide"

Imagine choosing to model scenarios that implicitly assume a) terraforming-scale carbon capture and permanent sequestration is technically, politically and economically feasible, while e.g. b) shifting from car-dependent sprawl to denser cities with good public and active transit is impossible.

This is how Id imagine a cartoon dictatorship.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Hey #polisci: we need more work like Gilman’s new FP piece: plausible scenarios of how world order is reorganized by climate, or more accurately, the shift from fossil to green assets. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Gosh, it's just all so complicated, isn't it.

👉La #UAB expressa el seu suport a la Global Sumud Flotilla : https://www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-premsa/detall-noticia/la-uab-expressa-el-seu-suport-a-la-global-sumud-flotilla-1345829508832.html?detid=1345962986546 🇵🇸

Det her er enormt problematisk. Jeudan (som også udlejede Lars Løkkes Nyhavn lejlighed til spotpris) er en kæmpe spiller på det københavnske boligmarked og tæt integreret i magteliten politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

The idea that insurance premiums are a good way to mitigate climate risk to housing is a common misconception that, unfortunately, can obscure real solutions to the risks of climate change and perpetuate existing inequities. Why is that? Well... 1/8

"Cool and Equinor-mal" and "Petroganda, Norways official religion" had me good!

Norway's government has a new tourism ad out, and it's refreshingly honest By @thejuicemedia.bsky.social!!!!

“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.” Cities need smart, specific strategies to manage vehicle size. It’s about space & safety.

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

@carbonbrief.org factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power: interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so... by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🔌💡

Any disinfo researchers out there might have fun with what seems to be a generative AI slop content machine paired with climate denial / delay Showed up in a Google News summary. Fake staff. Other slop sites listed under same owner. Man, the internet is really dying

Israel continues to target journalists for assassination. This week's toll includes reporters for: @reuters.com: Hossam al-Masri TheIndependent and AP: Mariam Abu Daqqa @nbcnews.com: Moaz Abu Taha @aljazeera.com: Mohamad Salama Radio Diwan FM: Ahmed Abu Aziz @rsf.org: rsf.org/en/gaza-leas...

The piece (and book's) core claim is that we haven't been getting energy transitions—new sources substituting for prior ones—but energy ADDITIONs: piling up new energy sources, which wouldn't cut carbon. Despite article's tone of revelation, this is a well-known issue!!! 2/

Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists. This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Poor integrity of carbon offsets : "all key market participants benefit from inflated claims about carbon credits" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Israel is currently imprisoning 323 Palestinian children. Over 100 of them have never been charged with any offence. But the UK mainstream media never talks about these hostages, does it.

This paper shows a strong passthrough from carbon prices to energy prices, with spillovers into other consumer prices, yielding a sizeable average welfare loss in consumption. Hardest hit: younger, poorer, and less educated households, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe.

CEO of AkademikerPension: “we don’t want a small portion of revenue related to nuclear weapons activities to stop us from providing capital support to help build European defenses." What else is there to say about ESG!? Excellent reporting with two (less spectacular) quotes from me. 1/3

After decades of decline, the number of people dying from hunger is increasing as starvation spreads from Sudan to Gaza on.ft.com/45OVR9c

Måste vara första gången i historien som en VD som levererar 10% avkastning de senaste kvartalen blir avsatt med en 63-årig ålder som ursäkt. Förmodar att regeringen vill ha någon som lägger sig helt på platt när tåg nedprioriteras

the main argument is pretty straightforward: obsessing over ‘objective indicators’ is enabling companies and investors to continue business-as-usual and is facilitating the (totally ineffective) ‘rule of markets’ in the context of sustainability governance

“The idea that all of this happened because, like, twelve professors at Berkeley used “Latinx” on their syllabi is just detached from reality, from my point of view.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social In full form www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

The IPC: there is famine in Gaza city Israel: that's blood libel. The IPC is antisemitic.

Detta är bisarrt. Antalet dollarmiljonärer i Sverige är fler i absoluta tal än i Ryssland och Brasilien. Svenskarnas totalförmögenhet är den sjätte mest ojämlikt fördelade i världen - värre än USA, Indien, Turkiet och Mexiko. www.flamman.se/ny-rapport-s...

In the 1970s, landlords burned their buildings for profit, displacing thousands of tenants in poor neighborhoods. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about @benchansfield.bsky.social's excellent “Born in Flames” and the consequences of the arson wave. thebaffler.com/latest/ring-...