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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · Dec 23

I res, que he fet aquests càlculs i els he dibuixat al mapa perquè tinguem temps d'anar corregint el tret. Potser un semblarà una cosa per a nerds de l'habitatge, però jo diria -ja em perdonareu la immodèstia- que és important...
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Desqualificacions. El sudari de Laertes de les polítiques d’habitatge | Lleiengel.cat

El Pla Territorial Sectorial d’Habitatge de Catalunya (PTSHC) no reverteix la insuficiència i els errors d'anteriors polítiques d'habitatge

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Ismael Peña-López @ictlogist.bsky.social · 1d

"El concurs de trasllat i estabilització de funcionaris deixa el servei d'atenció a la infància víctima d'abusos sexuals sense tres quartes parts dels tècnics"
@lamartix

Aquest és un exemple de manual de pq l'Administració necessita una revisió a fons
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Llistes d'espera per entrar a les Barnahus per falta de personal

El concurs de trasllat i estabilització de funcionaris deixa el servei d'atenció a la infància víctima d'abusos sexuals sense tres quartes parts dels tècnics

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 4h

Una cosa assenyada sobre el despoblament: "A pesar de los esfuerzos, hay cierta consciencia de que revertir la despoblación va a ser prácticamente imposible en algunos lugares (...) Lo que sí es problemático es que no haya dinamismo en los núcleos articuladores de estas zonas"

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 4h

If you want to understand why urban planners love bicycles, just watch how a city moves...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 5h

Ja fa una setmana de la pseudo-polèmica aquesta però encara hi ha qui acusa de racistes a Junts per proposar certs anys d'empadronament per poder optar a un HPP. No seré jo qui els defensi, però exigir ingressos mínims com fem actualment és igual de discriminatori i no es resol amb temps...

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 7d

També et diré que el requeriments d'ingressos mínims que tenim ara ja deixen fora la immensa majoria de llars amb origen estranger sense necessitat de gaires carències de padró...

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 20h

El Pla Territorial Sectorial d'Habitatge de Catalunya es va aprovar l'octubre del 24, però cuejava des de feia anys. La majoria de xifres anunciades per Illa al debat de política general surten d'aquest pla. Que hi hagi gent del sector que ho tracti com a repte nou i audaç és, si més no, sorprenent

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 22h

Un altre 👇🏼

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 23h

The Spanish centre-right is taking a tumble and the far-right is on the rise.

I was lucky enough to present some new causal work on Friday at LSE showing that the PP does better when it signals distinctiveness from VOX.

~1.5K tests, same result. Rejecting far-right benefits centre-right

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Stefano Porciello @steporciello.bsky.social · 1d

The EU found some courage. Let’s see for how long

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 1d

Brussels to back net-zero shipping deal despite Trump sanction threat

Trump administration threatens 'sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies'

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Orapmagon @orapmagon.bsky.social · 1d

Es lo malo de recortar que luego reconstruir lo destruido lleva mucho más tiempo y dinero... Y muchas más vidas.

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 1d

El Gobierno andaluz anuncia refuerzos en los cribados de cáncer de colon y de útero. La Junta reconoce que será complicado contratar a los 65 radiólogos previstos en el plan de choque para las afectadas por el escándalo de las mamografías

El Gobierno andaluz anuncia refuerzos en los cribados de cáncer de colon y de útero

La medida se anuncia cuando la propia Junta reconoce que va a ser complicado contratar a los profesionales previstos en el plan de choque para dar una solución a las mujeres afectadas por el escándalo de las mamografías

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Álexxx @almujul.bsky.social · 2d

15 años sin que le ocupen el piso.
www.levante-emv.com/sucesos/2025...

Encuentran los restos de un hombre que llevaba muerto 15 años en su casa en València

Unas filtraciones de la lluvia en el edificio han permitido descubrir el cadáver

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 2d

New: The US has for months been helping Ukraine mount long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities, in what officials say is a co-ordinated effort to weaken Vladimir Putin’s economy and force him to the negotiating table.
w/ @a-mackinnon.bsky.social @maxseddon.bsky.social
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Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help

Trump administration supported Kyiv’s operations since summer in co-ordinated push to weaken Moscow

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 2d

Per si heu de començar a trobar explicacions a la prevalença de les ocupacions irregulars a l'Estat espanyol, potser podríeu començar per aquí...

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 2d

Costa de creure que hi hagi tanta gent amb dificultats per entendre què és el padró. Que arribin a alcalde encara és més sorprenent...

"Si un jutge m'obliga a empadronar ocupes, la societat està malalta"

"El paisatge urbà ha canviat perquè ha vingut molta gent de fora, que de vegades no té habitatge ni feina, i això inquieta la gent" "La multireincidència és en tot, també en les ocupacions. Hi ha per...

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 3d

Els habilitats nacionals paralitzen el funcionament ordinari de l'ajuntament de Mollerussa? Un cas interessant de la "burocratització" que realment importa: "el cas posa de manifest la "indefensió" dels càrrecs electes davant dels funcionaris quan les coses no rutllen"
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 13d

"This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 4d

Americans are dying from extreme heat

Examination of 100s of autopsy reports reveals tragic stories

They show lives cut short in ordinary, preventable ways

Exceptional reporting by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social

#climatcrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona (PEMB) @pemb.cat · 3d

📢 Avui hem presentat un informe jurídic que conclou que limitar la compra d’habitatge només per a residència habitual en zones tensionades és legalment viable.

🚫 Aquesta mesura pot ser clau per frenar l’especulació.

T'ho expliquem🧵⤵️

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/oihjjlxspk

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 3d

1/ New rare earth restrictions mark escalation in China’s weaponization of interdependence — adopting US extraterritorial permission structures. This is not just an export ban but regulated how global firms use Chinese equipment and material.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

China expands rare earth restrictions, targets defence, semiconductor users

China tightened its rare earth export controls on Thursday, saying it planned to limit exports to overseas defence firms and semiconductor users and adding five rare earth elements to its list.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 3d

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 5d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 6d

Good point this. The macroeconomic point of raising taxes is not to raise money but to cut consumption, thereby diverting resources to the public sector & investment. That requires taxes on the middlingly rich. Taxing the mega-rich is necessary (if not sufficient!) to legitimate such rises.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 5d

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike.

Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 5d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 5d

Al FT, sobre el pretés revival del ICE. "The danger is that in the long run, does this become the buggy whip challenge"

Why carmakers are falling back in love with petrol

Revival comes as industry confronts higher tariff-related costs and rising threat posed by cheap Chinese EVs