Prisen for å kutte avgiftene på diesel og bensin i et halvt år koster like mye som nasjonalt månedskort, tannhelsereform eller gratis barnehage. Det kunne finansiert underskuddet i frie midler til kommunene eller sørget for innføring av billigere tannhelsetjeneste. Matmomsen kunne også vært halvert

Well the banner is up. Nothing more nerve-wrecking than to send your manuscript to people you respect & wait for their opinion. V.grateful to @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @ciaranm.bsky.social @gavinesler.bsky.social and especially the generous @jameshawes.bsky.social for supporting my book.

I want to put this as plainly as possible: This site has way too many self-righteous, underinformed assholes looking to pick a fight. We need fewer of them and more people with Mark's expertise.

NEVER FORGIVE • NEVER FORGET On March 31, Ukraine marks four years since the liberation of Bucha, the Kyiv suburb whose name became synonymous with the brutality of Russian occupation. It became the proof the russians are the absolute evil of this world. RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES

Trump is now apparently willing to leave Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz because reopening it will take too long What an incredible own-goal. If this happens, it will studied in our textbooks as one of the most disastrous, and self-inflicted, strategic blunders in military history

Trump is asking everyone to wait on Iran, promising long-term benefits. But this goes against Trump’s entire political schtick, which is one reason it’s not working. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

@ejprjournal.bsky.social even timed the publication to my birthday 🎉😀 More seriously: so happy to see this published, and grateful to have worked with and learned from @plutscher.bsky.social & @draege.bsky.social Propaganda—>Diff’t Emotions—>Protest behavior Check out Philipp’s thread 👇

Se for deg reaksjonene, debattene, fordømmingen som hadde kommet hvis noen i den (unge) klimabevegelsen *truet* med noe sånt som dette. Om Greta hadde gjort det… Enormt talende hva vi ser på som ekstremt og radikalt og hva som er innafor. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/j0...

The theme of public excellence is something Mamdani emphasized in his inauguration address. One big potential he mentions here is inhousing tech talent rather than spending too much on contracts that don't deliver.

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After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities. By Oren Ziv & Ariel Caine, with @thenation.com & @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/israel-settl...

I wrote a book! A whole, real, actual book! Ada Limón, genius poet, said nice things about it! As did other absolute heroes! And now it's in libraries and bookstores in several countries! Be careful what you wish for, it might turn out awesome bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

💡 What does V-Dem Data not cover? Watch the V-Dem Methodology video or read in the thread to find out! 👇 🧵1(9) #Polisky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #Academia #VDemMethodology #VDemDataset @vdemamlat.bsky.social

"The number of countries falling into critical food insecurity could almost triple to 24 if global temperatures increase by 2C, research has shown" Sober reading. Just one thng wrong That 'if' should be a 'when' Late 2030s at the current rate of heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Trump gleder seg over Robert Muellers død. Hadde Adam Serwer rett i at selve poenget med trumpismen er grusomhet? Skriver her: snoen.substack.com/p/grusomhete...

Philippe Lazzarini’s final op-ed as he ends his tenure as Commissioner-General, warning about relentless efforts to destroy UNRWA, amid growing disregard for international law. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Eg visste at Havanna lenge stod som eit forfalle monument over nittitalet, men trudde dei hadde rive det no. Folk På Min Alder™ (🙄) er jo ofte plaga av sviktande eller beint fram falske minne, men her er alt _nøyaktig_ sånn som eg ville sagt det var. Nesten skremmande kor godt eg hugsar det.

"the pentagon didn't even have a plan to deal with iran closing the strait!" okay but the thing is: that's not the pentagon's job. that's never going to be the pentagon's job. the pentagon's shown serious incompetence here but this isn't it let me explain

Paul Ehrlich has died. His 1968 book,The Population Bomb, is mostly remembered for predictions that didn't pan out. But its influence on the radical environmental movement is underappreciated. A thread on Ehrlich's complicated legacy from my interviews with current and former eco-activists.

If we let them, these people will destroy everything that makes human civilization worth saving. It’s frightening how much power and influence we have allowed these tech feudalists to accumulate - and it will be one of the twenty-first century’s defining struggles to wrest it back from them.

Mini thread. I have, for book research purposes, devoted quite a bit time to thinking about this sort of thing over the last few years.

"There are no small fascisms, there are no small, benign Nazisms. That is what I try to talk about in my books, the importance of remembering." - Daša Drndić, 2017

Useful rundown of issues in the “science of scaling” interventions, from Rasul. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Does telling an adversary reliant on asymmetric tactics to stop doing that usually work asking for a president

“If deep reading cultivates empathy,” Joel Halldorf writes, “the attention-fracturing, dopamine-hitting, scroll-spurring design of digital media often undermines it”:

THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS

“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake” Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway Read it in English here: verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin... And in German here: verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...

Trump continues to light diplomatic capital on fire. My thread on this: bsky.app/profile/prof...

🆕 Fostering negotiation skills in land and forest agreements Today on VoxDev, Darin Christensen (UCLA), Alexandra Hartman (UCL Political Science), Cyrus Samii (NYU) & Alessandro Toppeta (The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)) outline research on Liberia: https://ow.ly/OXlE50Ypvug

CNN's Natasha Bertrand: "Officials acknowledged during a closed-door briefing Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge + U.S. air defenses will not be able to intercept them all." "Only one country has learned how to deal with Shahed drones at scale: Ukraine." AWKWARD.

One of the best of all time. “You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.” Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

Dette er noe av det mest komiske jeg veit om i den norske besteforeldregenerasjonen. Hvis det blir krig så kan man jo bare dra på hytta hvor man er blitt helt avhengig av den innlagte strømmen og storhandle på kiwien nede i bygda en gang i uka. Og så må staten huske å ettersende helsepersonell.

I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain. The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today. The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.

Tomorrow in the Commons: debate on cuts to FCDO – it faces the largest cuts of any department, especially in overseas development; Foreign Affairs Committee chair Dame Emily Thornberry warns staff cuts of 15–25% without a clear strategy are 'alarming' (h/t Hansard Society)

I learned a lot from my @brookings.edu colleagues here on the many implications of the Iran war. My own piece w/ O’Hanlon examines why the air campaign likely won’t produce democracy and stability. www.brookings.edu/articles/aft...

As a long time fan of @economist.com going back to the last century, when James Callahan was PM (yes, that old!), it's a thrill to appear in print on their pages. Revised version of a web essay on the Supreme Court decision.

Authoritarian regimes are often undermined by low human capital among the people willing to work for them

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

If you think empathy is a bad thing, you’re almost certainly a bad person.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

A few more thoughts. USFP/natsec usually works from bottom up, even for prez-directed policies. Bureaucrats, mid-levels, political appointees work the problem, then top people bless it. Diplomacy (JCPOA) works like this. Military planning can move faster w/ prior plans, but similar. 1/

1. Å fy f…. Ikke rart Arkitekturopprøret elsker dette her. La meg presentere: Haslehaven. Et mildt sagt omstridt utbyggingsprosjekt nær Hasle T-bane. Og jeg avskyr det. La meg forklare.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/