Yusuf
@yusufimaadkhan.com
political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him
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I went for a longer post-budget take last time. I think the conclusion still stands.
The potential criticism of today's budget is that it's further can-kicking. Maybe growth holds up and they manage to avoid touching income tax. Maybe.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey...
The potential criticism of today's budget is that it's further can-kicking. Maybe growth holds up and they manage to avoid touching income tax. Maybe.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey...
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I went for a longer post-budget take last time. I think the conclusion still stands.
The potential criticism of today's budget is that it's further can-kicking. Maybe growth holds up and they manage to avoid touching income tax. Maybe.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey...
The potential criticism of today's budget is that it's further can-kicking. Maybe growth holds up and they manage to avoid touching income tax. Maybe.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey...
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This Thurs 27 Nov at LSE: "Palestine & the Limits of Liberal Freedom"
Speaker: Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)
Register below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Speaker: Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)
Register below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom
“Freedom Is Always the Freedom of Those in Power: Palestine and the Limits of Liberal Freedom”
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November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This Thurs 27 Nov at LSE: "Palestine & the Limits of Liberal Freedom"
Speaker: Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)
Register below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Speaker: Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)
Register below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
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LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
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If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.
censor.net/en/news/3586...
censor.net/en/news/3586...
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.
censor.net/en/news/3586...
censor.net/en/news/3586...
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Israel has violated every ceasefire it ever agreed to. It is a rogue apartheid state that will not stop committing genocide - it must BE STOPPED.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue, medics say
‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Israel has violated every ceasefire it ever agreed to. It is a rogue apartheid state that will not stop committing genocide - it must BE STOPPED.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Carbon Brief has published its 20,000-word summary of everything that happened at #COP30, incl:
🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP
🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text
💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal
💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism
⌨️ And so much more
www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...
🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP
🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text
💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal
💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism
⌨️ And so much more
www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...
COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Carbon Brief has published its 20,000-word summary of everything that happened at #COP30, incl:
🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP
🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text
💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal
💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism
⌨️ And so much more
www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...
🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP
🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text
💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal
💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism
⌨️ And so much more
www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...
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if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist
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QMUL is hosting the book talk of *Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine* on 1st Dec. I’ll be attending it; booked my spot- lucky I get into London that afternoon.
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine - Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
QMUL is hosting the book talk of *Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine* on 1st Dec. I’ll be attending it; booked my spot- lucky I get into London that afternoon.
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
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I've written for this week's @theobserveruk.bsky.social about economic forecasts and how they are (mis)used.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've written for this week's @theobserveruk.bsky.social about economic forecasts and how they are (mis)used.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
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Between this, the Epstein emails, and global far right being paid off by Russia I’m going full Q anon conspiracy theory insane
The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Between this, the Epstein emails, and global far right being paid off by Russia I’m going full Q anon conspiracy theory insane
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(With apologies for my typos)
Reminder that we should judge COPs for what they are — instruments to bring countries together to discuss how to coordinate climate policies, which will always be glocal (globally minded, locally bounded).
They aren’t magic substitutes for lack of domestic govts.
Reminder that we should judge COPs for what they are — instruments to bring countries together to discuss how to coordinate climate policies, which will always be glocal (globally minded, locally bounded).
They aren’t magic substitutes for lack of domestic govts.
I believe the better question is:
would a world without COPs work better, worse, or the same for climate?
I don’t think if it would crazily different but I for one want an annual timeline in which the climate cards are on the table, however partial and horrific.
would a world without COPs work better, worse, or the same for climate?
I don’t think if it would crazily different but I for one want an annual timeline in which the climate cards are on the table, however partial and horrific.
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
(With apologies for my typos)
Reminder that we should judge COPs for what they are — instruments to bring countries together to discuss how to coordinate climate policies, which will always be glocal (globally minded, locally bounded).
They aren’t magic substitutes for lack of domestic govts.
Reminder that we should judge COPs for what they are — instruments to bring countries together to discuss how to coordinate climate policies, which will always be glocal (globally minded, locally bounded).
They aren’t magic substitutes for lack of domestic govts.
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After Baku and Dubai, messy decision making rears its ugly head again in Belém. Objections have been raised in final plenary to two decisions *after adoption*, by several countries who say their flags were ignored.
It would be almost unprecedented for the President to go back on the decision.
It would be almost unprecedented for the President to go back on the decision.
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
After Baku and Dubai, messy decision making rears its ugly head again in Belém. Objections have been raised in final plenary to two decisions *after adoption*, by several countries who say their flags were ignored.
It would be almost unprecedented for the President to go back on the decision.
It would be almost unprecedented for the President to go back on the decision.
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See also @joannadepledge.bsky.social’s excellent treatment of the mode and history of decision-making under the #UNFCCC.
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t...
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t...
Guest post: The challenge of consensus decision-making in UN climate negotiations - Carbon Brief
COP decisions are always adopted by consensus. How has consensus decision-making played out over the decades during UN climate negotiations?
www.carbonbrief.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
See also @joannadepledge.bsky.social’s excellent treatment of the mode and history of decision-making under the #UNFCCC.
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t...
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t...
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It appears the #COP30 presidency tried to pull a Baku – ignoring calls for the floor when adopting a decision to force a delegation’s hand and/or allow them to save face – and it was taken badly by a number of parties.
Shots fired #COP30 plenary
PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It appears the #COP30 presidency tried to pull a Baku – ignoring calls for the floor when adopting a decision to force a delegation’s hand and/or allow them to save face – and it was taken badly by a number of parties.
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"We must not tell ourselves that the indeterminate, the uncertain, the un-obvious, is a weakness.
We must say to ourselves that it opens our minds to unexpected forms of complexities."
- Édouard Glissant, Manthia Diawara's film "Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation"
We must say to ourselves that it opens our minds to unexpected forms of complexities."
- Édouard Glissant, Manthia Diawara's film "Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation"
October 12, 2023 at 11:54 AM
"We must not tell ourselves that the indeterminate, the uncertain, the un-obvious, is a weakness.
We must say to ourselves that it opens our minds to unexpected forms of complexities."
- Édouard Glissant, Manthia Diawara's film "Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation"
We must say to ourselves that it opens our minds to unexpected forms of complexities."
- Édouard Glissant, Manthia Diawara's film "Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation"
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Bored now. I think I'll go over to the fash parade route to make polite remarks like "gosh what a small crowd" and "I didn't know Burberry made dryrobes"
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Bored now. I think I'll go over to the fash parade route to make polite remarks like "gosh what a small crowd" and "I didn't know Burberry made dryrobes"
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Bill Gates, Tony Blair, CFR are rethinking climate change in the Trump era: more "realistically." Can we dismiss this trend or do we need to understand what it means global climate politics? 🧵
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
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@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Bill Gates, Tony Blair, CFR are rethinking climate change in the Trump era: more "realistically." Can we dismiss this trend or do we need to understand what it means global climate politics? 🧵
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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The entire UK energy system makes me so mad. Introduce everyone who made this insane system to The Wall.
There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis.
This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals
This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The entire UK energy system makes me so mad. Introduce everyone who made this insane system to The Wall.