Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
Public policy ( #climate / energy policy, more specifically ) & IR prof (but also ex-🇨🇦 trade diplomat). PoliSciSky 🗺️, EnergySky 🔌💡, & GreenSky 🌱.
Cf. same handles on birdsite & mastodon.social/@robshum
Cf. same handles on birdsite & mastodon.social/@robshum
Chilling effect of libel threats in action. (5/n)
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Chilling effect of libel threats in action. (5/n)
The future that “national conservatives” want. (19/n)
Orbán is failing on demographics, in addition to having turned his country into the most corrupt and one of the poorest in Europe
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The future that “national conservatives” want. (19/n)
I don’t know what chasing the vibes and pandering to the sentiment of a low-information audience is good for — becoming a podcaster or influencer, maybe.
But it’s definitely going to be bad for governance.
But it’s definitely going to be bad for governance.
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I don’t know what chasing the vibes and pandering to the sentiment of a low-information audience is good for — becoming a podcaster or influencer, maybe.
But it’s definitely going to be bad for governance.
But it’s definitely going to be bad for governance.
Predictable, but not so good for the part of the world falling behind. (11/n)
"The problem for Elon Musk is not just his own cars and the Chinese carmakers. The problem for Elon Musk is also that the Europeans have caught up," Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, head of the CAR think tank at the University of Duisburg-Essen, told @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Predictable, but not so good for the part of the world falling behind. (11/n)
Reposted by Rob Shum
ICE placing kids in shelters, though, when they have parents or guardians to care for them, echoes the widely condemned policy of separating families at the border in Trump’s first term attorneys said: “They are creating unaccompanied children this way.” 8/ www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
ICE placing kids in shelters, though, when they have parents or guardians to care for them, echoes the widely condemned policy of separating families at the border in Trump’s first term attorneys said: “They are creating unaccompanied children this way.” 8/ www.propublica.org/article/ice-...