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'Multiple Dutch universities have announced reorganisations that are likely to involve layoffs, in the wake of drastic government budget cuts that will amount to about €500 million (£414 million) a year across higher education and research.' 1/2

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Viele ärgern sich, dass Habeck Die Linke gerade "den Extremen" zugerechnet hat. Aber Leute: "Unsere Ideologie heißt Wirklichkeit." 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦, die sich im Besitz einer Ideologie befinden, sind extrem!

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Once I asked a Czech historian why he chose history when couldn't publish freely earlier in his career. He said he was a medievalist. Censors didn't care what he wrote. It was all pre-capitalist. I study finance, so maybe I shouldn't worry about patriotic history now. Not sure that's true, though. 🧵

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Bessent, who in the past self-styled as a longue durée savant, with musings about the rise and fall of global hegemons, cites as measure of superpower grand strategy that Ukraine's bonds traded up on news of his minerals 'plan'. Literally everything is a macro bet for the hedge funder bird brain.

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Bessent, who in the past self-styled as a longue durée savant, with musings about the rise and fall of global hegemons, cites as measure of superpower grand strategy that Ukraine's bonds traded up on news of his minerals 'plan'. Literally everything is a macro bet for the hedge funder bird brain.

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„Die taz hat versucht, mit CDU-Politikern über die Sache ins Gespräch zu kommen. Nicht nur die Parteiführung sagt ab, sondern auch … Schäuble und sein Vorgänger … Lammert. Manche Politiker schicken kurze Statements. … Keiner der Politiker erwähnt, warum Lübcke höchstwahrscheinlich ermordet wurde“

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Zutiefst verstörend. Zur Ermordung Lübckes and dann zu Gaza-Protesten. Ein bis ins Mark radikalisierter Menschenhasser. www.youtube.com/live/S9GVltb...

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Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.

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Spam email offering "to re-develop your website using the latest technology". Thank you, but my website is built with #quarto, and there's no way your technology is later.

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Admittedly, this was low-hanging fruit, prediction-wise. However, turns out that reality is, as usual these days, more brazen: The Development Finance Corp (DFC), which is set to absorb the remainder of USAID, will be led by Ben Black, son of the Apollo founder, and a private equity GP himself.

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I've written about the method in the DOGE USAID madness. It's not bullying as power, it's good Wall Street Consensus on steroids, by and for private equity www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...

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Last week, I was in Jenin and Tulkarem, reporting on Israel’s ongoing operations in the refugee camps of the northern West Bank. Displaced Palestinian residents say Israel is deliberately making the camps unlivable. My report: @972mag.bsky.social www.972mag.com/jenin-tulkar...

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Christoph schafft diese Orte und Bildungsformate. 👇

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Apply for CAPE's 6th Annual Summer Academy at UC Berkeley, May 28-31! Advanced graduate students (ABD), post-docs, and junior faculty interested in APE are encouraged to apply by February 24: forms.gle/qYrDEpdFTfcF... More info on our website: americanpoliticaleconomy.org/events/summer-academy

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A piece I wrote for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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L'anti Musk.

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Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.

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Dass vor diesem Hintergrund ausgerechnet der Postkolonialismus so gegeißelt wird, als woke, wird als ist Treppenwitz in die Geschichte eingehen.

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Wir fordern Gerechtigkeit. Jetzt! Schluss mit Sparmaßnahmen auf Kosten von migrantisierten Communities und der Kriminalisierung von Armut vor Gerichten! Mehr zu den Forderungen für nicht-reformistische Reformen im Strafrechtssystem 2025 auf #Racismontrial www.racismontrial.org/de/resources...

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Officially launched by @yolandadiaz.bsky.social today: the 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦. Led by the great @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we're working on a report for the minister. Vision & ambition from a left party in power are possible!* *in Spain

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Next week, the new European Commission will put forward its clean industrial policy plans. In a new paper, @ph-jaeg.bsky.social and I dig into what this strategy needs to deliver— backed by lots of brand-new sectoral data on the distribution of national subsidies. Here are our main takeaways:

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Wir stellen am 04.03 unser Buch in Berlin vor - kommt vorbei :)

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Sozialdemokrat:innen und Grüne, deren Herz links schlägt, sollten dieses Mal die Linke wählen. Innerhalb ihrer Parteien stärken sie so Positionen, die über die vorauseilende Anbiederung an die CDU hinausgehen. Und der AfD schadet eine Stimme am effektivsten, wenn sie der Linken über die 5% hilft.

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Eyes on the prize in the Project 2025 tracker www.project2025.observer

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I wrote about this in 2019, am surprised it took this long to get here. The whole show-me-the-gold routine came from Peter Boehringer, now an AfD delegate in the Bundestag. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

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Piecing together all the ways in which we've self-sabotaged is taking time and effort, but the picture is coming together. Eventually it will dawn on people just how far we've fallen behind, and that we've only got ourselves to blame.

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Ouch

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No one embodies our predicament [gestures wildly at everything] the way Draghi does. Strong Weltgeist on horseback vibes emanating from his recent Brussels appearances.

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I wrote a long (and laudatory) review of Sandeep Vaheesan's excellent book on the history of democratic struggle over the US electricity system. Published at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. A big acknowledgement goes to @andrewelrod.bsky.social for helping the piece along.

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So much political economy of finance in this headline, amazing on.ft.com/41lc9Wk

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The energy system is undergoing transformation, but so far few signs of a transition: Three slides I prepared for last week's class and will show at the climate capitalism event tonight: The 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹, the 𝕓𝕒𝕕, and the 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶.

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Kriminalisierung und moralische Panik: Im Wahlkampf überbieten sich Parteien mit Forderungen nach mehr Kontrolle und Ausgrenzung. Dabei schürt die Anti-Migrationsdebatte einen rassistischen Generalverdacht. Mehr dazu im Artikel von @aobst.bsky.social www.racismontrial.org/de/perspecti...

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