it’s about oil and yet from an energy markets perspective that doesn’t make much sense, unless we assume USG all but seizes control of US oil companies. Karthik Sankaran outlines the doesn’t-make-sense reasons here: responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-oil/

Last call for Europe for the next 10 years: we need a strong EU that is energetically and militarily independent from the US, that brings internal peace through a strong welfare state and communitarian networks, and that curbs inequality and division along ethnic and wealth lines.

perdonad que me meta, hay un factor importante que es que al sector maga aislacionista le entra el petróleo como coartada mejor que cualquier otra consideración. No hace falta decir el peso que tiene la gasolina en USA en la percepción de la economía micro.

Trump seeks direct access to Venezuelan oil, which is of much higher quality than the fracking the Americans can produce. Energy and imperialism. Leaving fossil fuels behind is urgent.

🔑 El debat sobre l’habitatge és més vigent que mai: recuperem “L’habitatge, un dret a garantir” de les XXI Jornades UPEC. 👥 Un debat entre Irene Sabaté, Oriol Nel·lo i @davidpalomera.bsky.social, moderats per Clara Blanchar (@elpais.com). ▶️ Conferència completa:

Molt agraït a Justin Mikulka per reconèixer l'error no només per l'honestedat sinó també perquè posa dates a un error que hem comès tots els defensors de les renovables al pensar en l'electrificació. Al 2021, ens semblaven impossibles els camions elèctrics corrientecalida.com/sedientos-de...

Aftet watching Sally Wainwright's movie about the Brontë sisters & their decision in 1845 to use male pseudonyms to get published – I read that women on LinkedIn now define themselves as male in order to fool the algorithm and generate more followers...Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose,..

Experts suggest humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

“Concrete la fecha de mi muerte con Satán; Le engañé y ahora no hay quien me paré ya los pies Razonar es siempre tan difícil para mí... para mí ¡Qué más da!, si al final todo me sale siempre bien Del revés” Descansa en paz, Robe Iniesta. (1962-2025)

We’ve just held the first advisory-board workshop of TRANSPOSE, our project studying how pension systems can remain resilient in a world of ecological limits. A dense and fascinating conversation that brought pensions, climate and wellbeing into the same frame. davidpalomera.com/2025/12/10/b...

🔵OPINIÓ | 'El cotxe elèctric: eina necessària per a una transició realista a Catalunya', per @davidpalomera.bsky.social ✏️"Calen mesures en clau de transició justa, però l’últim que hem de fer és fer el joc al lobby fòssil, que ens vol energèticament dependents"

Al margen de las mentiras evidentes, el argumento retardista más absurdo es la critica a la exportación de energía porque eso nos convierte en una "colonia". Es algo que en cualquier otro caso suena a locura: "colonia porcina", "colonia aceitunera", "colonia naranjera"...

What makes me realise I'm getting older is not the white hair, it's getting emotional more easily with little things.

Quieren cargárselo y privatizarlo, pero el sistema de pensiones público en España es sostenible, es un gran estabilizador y contribuye a una sociedad integrada. Incluso con las proyecciones más pesimistas para el pico de 2050, tendríamos un gasto más bajo que el que ya tienen para 2025 otros países.

Cansat de sentir a la tertúlia de Cat Ràdio que es posa el moviment ludita com a exemple de reacció a l’innovació. El moviment ludita no anava contra la màquina en sí, era un moviment que feia sabotatge al capital per voler fotre la gent al carrer. El moviment ludita era sindicalisme.

The story of Rockefeller bankrolling the establishment of the University of Chicago is fascinating (he paid for everything). He generally abstained from meddling but somewhow the one guy who got fired was a political economists who advocated for ... public ownership of the energy infrastructure.

This is nuts. 10 million people being displaced due to climate change.

Amazing narrative of the class-communitarian origins of the wind turbine industry in Denmark and its decline due to global competition and an unfit EU governance and macro-finance regime.

BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels” She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels. #FossilFreePolitics

"Labouring through blistering heat and violent storms, migrant crews from Indonesia, the Philippines, and African nations form the backbone of the industry. But many endure brutal, dehumanising conditions similar to Bunanda, trapped at sea for months or even years, their rights routinely ignored."

FT Alphaville on Nvidia’s results…the chipmaker company selling "the pickaxes and shovels before people find the gold” that is AGI... www.ft.com/content/6b1c...

El 75% de los jóvenes defienden la democracia. Sólo el electorado de Vox muestra tendencias autoritarias. El electorado joven de derechas se radicaliza. Hay mil opciones para titular, pero el objetivo sistemático es sobre representar y producir pánico moral contra la juventud.

Big win by the left in CPH (Ø, F and A). It opens up for the possibility of a non-Socialdemocrat leadership, unable to tackle the housing affordability crisis and in a reactionary spiral. This quite a break in a historical feud for A.

The political science singularity is here.

Magníficas noticias desde Chile!

Last month saw the highest number 🇺🇳 has ever recorded of 🇮🇱 settler attacks causing casualties or damage. Amid the olive harvest, lives, livelihoods and whole #WestBank communities are being shattered. Read more: www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

Varoufakis: “We want your technology. We do not want the property rights operated by a tiny tiny minority who use it against the interests of humanity” Google employee: “I don’t disagree with that”. Exactly this. Socialising property, getting tech workers on board 😉 youtu.be/5dMIuCdLL7Y?...

6/ "1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think." - @brianschatz.bsky.social

L'Ajuntament de Barcelona fa marxa enrere i obre un procés participatiu per a modificar el pla urbanístic de Vallcarca https://directa.cat/lajuntament-de-barcelona-fa-marxa-enrere-i-obre-un-proces-participatiu-per-a-modificar-el-pla-urbanistic-de-vallcarca/ Una informació de Jesús Rodríguez

Ayer @esantiago.bsky.social estuvo en «El Intermedio» hablando de la reacción fósil, de cómo la extrema derecha está siendo su ariete político y de una revolución electrotécnica que puede sentar las bases para un sistema no solo más sostenible sino también más democrático. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Shell decides to eliminate the real investment part and just keep the speculative part. Western energy multinatonals need some discipling.

"Egan-Jones has just 20 or so analysts and managed to issue more than 3,600 ratings last year alone" That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.

Benestar sense creixement econòmic: la necessitat als països rics de no dependre d’un creixement que ja no garanteix seguretat, ni social ni ambiental

Kaiser Kuo on China’s astonishing transformation, and how it has profoundly upended liberal Western notions of modernization: “Even those of us who have followed China closely, who pride ourselves on seeing past Western prejudices, have found it difficult to fully absorb what we are witnessing.”

Si no vas poder assistir a la jornada #EuropaIrla 🗨️ «Objectiu 25: Habitatge social per a una Europa social», la pots tornar a veure al nostre canal de #Youtube Un debat molt necessari sobre com abordar la crisi de l'habitatge a Europa 📺👇

Offering affordable public transport, socialising care and taxing billionaires to boost public investment (only to mention some of his policies) is part of a post-growth agenda.

Shocking new report from @foejapan.bsky.social showing that JBIC's (Japan's publicly backed export credit agency) drove 408 million tons of CO2eq in 2024 - mostly in overseas fossil projects. If JBIC were a country, that would make it the 20th largest global emitter. foejapan.org/en/issue/202...

Covering half of parking lots with solar canopies in the USA would generate ~1.4 terawatts. ☀️🇺🇸 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

The “Solar Sharer” plan, announced on Tuesday, would also extend the benefits of the country’s solar transition to renters and those living in flats without solar panels.

u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman

Second-time getting by train from Barcelona to Denmark to reduce postdoc emissions. I enjoy it a lot. You see things slowly and with attention, you can make visits, and you can always work effortlessly. However, this is only an option if you can afford it. Making trains cheaper is urgent.

Ja podeu descarregar l'estudi "Objectiu 25", publicat per les fundacions @irla.cat i Coppieters, en que Ferran Elias, @davidpalomera.bsky.social i Marta Ribera delineen la fita que el 25% de les llars europees arribin a viure a habitatge públic, social i comunitari. irla.cat/publicacions...

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@raulromevairueda.bsky.social obre la presentació de l'Objectiu 25, una proposta d'habitatge de Ferran Elias, @davidpalomera.bsky.social i Marta Ribera, i publicada per les fundacions @irla.cat i Coppieters. La idea: que el 25% de les llars europees visquin en habitatge públic, social o comunitari.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

📚 In our Collection on #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe Bridging gaps: how investment in public childcare affects women’s employment in #Italy and #Spain 🔓#OpenaAccess article by @laramaest.bsky.social, @davidpalomera.bsky.social & R. Rizza 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

He escrito una cosa sobre esperanza, utopías y ser capaces de imaginar vidas mejores en mundos mejores basándome en una charla que di el otro día. #HopePrevails politicasdeladescarbonizacion.substack.com/p/imaginar-v...

Feliz día de las bibliotecas! Que vivan esos pequeños trozos de socialismo que son uno de mis sitios favoritos del mundo. 🤓📚

España necesita la prestación universal por crianza y no vamos a parar hasta conseguirla. Porque ha funcionado en 17 países, porque es inaceptable que haya pobreza infantil, porque nos hará avanzar también en justicia fiscal.