And 🇺🇸 has been extricating itself from its reliance on 🇹🇼 (again for those at the back of the room - US reliance on Taiwan) for semi-conductor chips, by building its own state of the art plants. 🇺🇸 is much less likely to defend 🇹🇼 if 1) it no longer has mil stocks to do so, 2) it doesn't need...

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Thank you so much to @tombhamilton.bsky.social and @eldrclaire.bsky.social for all their work putting this together, and to @brettrushforth.bsky.social @rosetande.bsky.social @singaravelou.bsky.social @guillaumblanc.bsky.social @editionsduseuil.bsky.social

C’est à un voyage passionnant auquel nous convient Guillaume Blanc et Antonin Plarier. Leur ambition : « renouveler la compréhension des territoires impériaux » et « donner à voir comment l’histoire des empires peut s’écrire d’un point de vue environnemental ». Par Christophe Patillon

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Private equity firms now employ roughly 10% of Michigan’s private sector workforce and own everything from hospitals to housing across the state, according to a new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. @amorrow.bsky.social @abdulelsayed.bsky.social #health #healthcare #publichealth

Why do I get the impression this article has identified a problem and then committed the classic category error of doubling down on the symptoms rather than the causes? @graceblakeley.substack.com @thomaspiketty.bsky.social A Keynesian solution to global imbalances share.google/ORqCk1x5NWdP...

Wellbeing economics is not much of a thing in the US of A methinks... From 'Good Economics for Hard Times' by nobel prize winners Abhijit Banerjee amd Esther Duflo 👇

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Important economic points in this article, with useful hyperlinks to background. Excessive flow of money out of a community/country is degenerative... What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse | CNN Business share.google/gxkRyLXYHhfN...

Now through June 9th, save 50% on Standing for Nature: Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice. This book offers advocates a blueprint for creating, implementing, and safeguarding rights of Nature laws. Use code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📅 EVENT: How can we improve trust & transparency in public decision-making? 📍 2pm | 18 May OGP is an international initiative that brings government & civil society together to promote trust, and integrity. Join UKACC & Open Data Manchester for an online session to shape this work. Details ⤵️

‼️ Hungary returns stolen Oschadbank funds and gold to Ukraine

Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service is reversing course and will allow limited access to its file on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, currently held at the Federal Archives. www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...

Pourquoi faut-il cultiver son jardin @rfi.fr? Pour faire chacun son petite contribution à attenuer la crise de sécurité alimentaire qui se produit à cause de la guerre avec Iran. Quand on pousse ou ramasse la nourriture de la nature, ça baisse un peu la stresse de la marché qui... rfi.my/CdT2

Poland prepares...

📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky

There's never a lack of opportunity to point out that conflict prevention & de-escalation are a thing. Conflict & violence occur in many ways, often lingering longest below the radar where cycles of conflict pass on through families, societies & states... Behind every aggressor is a world of pain.

The Kent State Massacre unfolded on this date in 1970 in the vicinity of Taylor Hall on the Kent State University campus. The Ohio National Guard wounded 29 students – & killed four unarmed Americans: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, & William Knox Schroeder.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Alienation of any kind is dangerous - but with great power (and money) comes responsibility... they also need help.

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...

This is one of the best geopolitical political economic analyses I've heard for a while of why populism is rising around the world and we are digging ourselves into polycrises. A lot of economic and political analysis suffers a major category error, something that requires a bold correction.

Happy Earth Day 🌍🌎🌏 We need more community wealth building for a common-good wellbeing economy. Good for people and planet. Congratulations Scotland on passing the world's first c9mmunity wealth building bill. @weallscotland.bsky.social

Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo: "What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency." In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social

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Read our paper on a mission-aligned World Bank with @laramerling.bsky.social ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Always fascinating to see how 'countries' engage on the partnership- domination spectrum - one-to-one, in blocs, and in regional contexts. Magyar wants to put the Austro-Hungarian Empire back on the map – POLITICO share.google/XAMD7ldGhIRb...

We cannot stabilise food prices without getting fossil fuels out of food systems. A stark warning from the FT: a new global food crisis is unfolding. "We need to loosen the grip of hydrocarbons on our food system… More sustainable farming is both possible & necessary" 👉 www.ft.com/content/3634...

NEW: How is the UK govt aiming to "break the link between gas and electricity prices" – and will it work? While headlines “suggest a decisive shift", says Aurora's Marc Hedin, "the reality is more incremental” + comments from UKERC, Regen & more www.carbonbrief.org/...

"The long day ends with massive outbound fires. I watch tracer rounds chasing each-other to their objective, striving to protect the intended target. As ever, I urge on the gunners in their stalwart defense as I retreat to my bed for a short night’s sleep and a 0230 alarm." bsky.app/profile/jsar...

Insp'rational friends, Fighting the good fight, thank you. Diversity rules. Happy International Haiku Day.

This a great opportunity to make impact for a talented big tech campaigner. If you know someone it could fit, please share. Thanks! 👇

Scientists say an exception in the #MontrealProtocol for the use of ozone-depleting feedstocks could set the ozone recovery back seven years, in new study co-authored by MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon and CS3 Research Scientist Luke Western. 🧪

News for women in security @jgmaber.bsky.social @lynnkuok.bsky.social @dcafgeneva.bsky.social @wilpf.bsky.social @lordrickettsp.bsky.social @suzylevy.bsky.social @helenebismarck.bsky.social @dovzhyk.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @callumwatson.bsky.social @smallarmssurvey.bsky.social

Ooohhh what an interesting potential read - looking forward to it. Available for download. Promises a completely different take on urbanisation, urban warfare, and potentially even dominance-partnership relations. ❤️ human geography.

Post is live! In which I observe the logistics of the logistics: PROCUREMENT DAY 1. It's all meta now, baby! Now, with musical accompaniment. www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

It's great that both #Canadian as well as #Australian Armed Services are now led by #Women! 😁 well I think it's awesome.😅

Today is World Art Day. I chose four paintings by four of my favorite Ukrainian artists: Top row: Oleksandr Murashko — Viktor Zaretskyi Bottom row: Anatolii Lymariev — Ivan Marchuk Their names deserve to be heard. 🇺🇦

Lt Gen Susan Coyle to be the first female Chief of the Australian Army. What's significant about this is, yes she's the first woman, but the experience she brings that makes her so relevant for the job in today's geopolitics of info warfare, cyber, space, & ... www.forcesnews.com/women/lt-gen...

❗️“The war in Ukraine may end soon,” — Budanov tells Bloomberg. “Everyone understands that the war has to end.Unlike us, the Russians are spending their own money.These are enormous sums that are already measured in trillions. That’s why they are negotiating. I don’t think it will last much longer.”

Highly hazardous pesticides are bad #ForPeopleForPlanet, but safer alternatives exist. UNEP’s guidelines help countries reduce risks and shift to healthier, more sustainable pest management. Explore the solutions: https://ow.ly/Sah950YGrcg

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We need a better message for young men – speaking to JimmyTheGiant www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqf...

Am @garyseconomics.bsky.social maxxing right now. ❤️ this analogy from Jimmy the Giant - thinking an immigrant has taken your job is like thinking the world is flat because that's what you see outside (min 37 of the podcast) 💯% We all need to understand macroeconomics better, in school already.

This is well worth a listen - so simply said... "Assets prices are really high, wages are really low...assets are expensive, people are cheap, why not pay a bunch of people to go and take someone else's assets". This is resource wars. Not cos of scarcity, but cos they can. Listen more for why.

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If you were feeling disenfranchised before, thinking the state doesn't care about you, then you'll be even nore disenfranchised if you don't vote. Politicians interpret non-voting as a sign that people don't care - they ignore those people, like they're trash, somebody else's problem...