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climate-policy.bsky.social
🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 8 is out now, with the latest on #climatefinance, agro-pastoral #adaptation, the gap between #mitigation targets and #climatepolicy, the IMF's #climatepolicy approach, & more 💡

📣 Insights from @benclift.bsky.social @aliceclimate.bsky.social @lukemoffett.bsky.social & more ⬇️
Climate Policy, Volume 25, Issue 8 (2025)
www.tandfonline.com
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Reposted by Ben Clift, John Hogan

agendapub.bsky.social
Just arrived:

The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social

Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...

#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
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by Ben Clift

benclift.bsky.social
“DONALD IS FINISHED—HE IS NO LONGER “HOT.” FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME—GAVIN C. NEWSOM—HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS “STEP.” MANY ARE SAYING HE CAN’T EVEN DO THE “BIG STAIRS” ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE—USES THE LITTLE BABY STAIRS NOW. SAD!”

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Reposted by Ben Clift, Stephen M. Walt, Cristina F. Fominaya , and 2 more

mcopelov.bsky.social
We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28
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Reposted by Ben Clift, Archon Fung, Fernando Andrés Rubia

warren.senate.gov
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.

This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
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by Ben Clift

benclift.bsky.social
We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies.

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

deadline is approaching - July 31st.

Please spread the word
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matthewlbishop.bsky.social
It’s remarkable how rarely our “public service broadcaster” now asks serious questions about the “small boats crisis” that do not reflect Farageist framing

One is: how can refugees fleeing persecution actually get to the UK safely so that we can uphold our commitments under international law?
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by Maria Sobolewska — Reposted by Ben Clift, Jonathan Portes

mariosrichards.bsky.social
The problem with "policy-consultancy-by-polling" is not that the public are stupid or uninformed ...

... the problem is *it's not their job*.
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by Scott James — Reposted by Ben Clift

drscottjames.bsky.social
Great to host this workshop on Epistemic Politics with @benclift.bsky.social at Warwick yesterday
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by Ben H. Ansell — Reposted by Ben Clift

resprofnews.bsky.social
Jacqui Smith: Levy on international student fees ‘would show value of foreign students’

Smith said that if the government went ahead with the levy, it would “really demonstrate that [contribution] in terms of money that could then…be reinvested”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Jacqui Smith: Levy on fees ‘would show value of foreign students’ - Research Professional News
Skills minister says “there has been an over-dependence on international students” for higher education funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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Reposted by Ben Clift, David Britain, Kate Bradley , and 1 more

hetanshah.bsky.social
Counterpoint: new Public First research shows every UK resident working adult (on a full time equivalent basis) is £466 a year better off on average as a result of international students. So let’s just publicise that instead of levying them
www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-...
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mariellepm.bsky.social
How I'm thinking about gen-AI in a university context. Thoughts?
Tools like ChatGPT are known to often provide imprecise, incorrect or even blatantly false information. If you ask those tools to provide sources, they might invent them. There are a lot of ethical challenges with using generative AI tools. Those are related to, for instance, data privacy (how the data were obtained or where the data you are feeding the tools come from and whether you are authorized to share them) and environmental costs (how energy-intensive the use of gen-AI is). I do not believe generative AI will make you a better student or a better professional. Maybe in the short run it will help you conduct some tasks more quickly, which could be useful. As a non-native English speaker, I sometimes use it to rewrite my sentences because the right word doesn’t always come to my mind quickly enough. But my (AI-free) training and career have taught me enough to know whether the sentences proposed have the meaning I want to give them. Doing research is inherently about taking the time to find the right data, sitting with them to come up with an accurate analysis and then taking more time to reflect on it. Research is supposed to be slow. In the long run, using generative AI will disincentivize you to analyze what you read, to write, or to think. Those activities are what you learn in a political science programme. If you are just here to get a degree to get a job, maybe you don’t think you need to acquire those skills (after all, you have generative AI). And at the junior level, maybe you don’t. But at the senior level, you most certainly do. Again, think long-term. Also, if you stop using your brain, well, let’s just say that probably won’t lead to a favourable outcome.
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schumer.senate.gov
Sen. Padilla thrown to the ground, manhandled, brutally taken down, handcuffed

It's disgusting
Reeks of totalitarianism
Un-American
Not what democracies do

Sen. Padilla was in that building to ask questions of what's going on in California, doing his duty to his constituents

We need answers now
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 12
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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financialtimes.com
US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...
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maxwellfrost.bsky.social
We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.
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markjacob.bsky.social
As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
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by Equality — Reposted by Ben Clift, Jamie Morgan, Robert S. Chang , and 3 more

esqueer.net
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
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Reposted by Ben Clift, Rex Brynen

edburmila.bsky.social
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
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by Ben Clift

benclift.bsky.social
I’m looking forward to presenting my research (co-authored with Sahil Dutta at City University) on the IMF and Climate Finance at Science Po in Paris this Thursday, 12.30-2 CET. Also on Zoom.

thanks to Matthias Thiemann for organising

You can register here:-
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
[Séminaire d'axe] The Disappointments of ‘Billions into Trillions’ & IMF Contradictions on Climate Finance
In 2015 the IMF and World Bank announced its ‘billions to trillions agenda’ a developmental framework which recognised that market forces alone would fail to build crucial infrastructure in Developing...
www.sciencespo.fr
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50501newyork.bsky.social
“They are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. We can see that happening in real time. This is huge amounts of data on every single person in America that can and will be used in opaque & unaccountable ways—and it is terrifying.”

Must watch interview with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
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cmmonwealth.bsky.social
They don’t fear questions. 

They fear an end to the gravy train. 

The only way to stop the rip off is to return water to where it belongs: public essentials run for public benefit.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water chair could face questions after comments to MPs on bonuses
Exclusive: Sir Adrian Montague told select committee paying bonuses out of emergency £3bn loan was insisted upon by creditors
www.theguardian.com
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by Anand Menon — Reposted by Ben Clift

anandmenon.bsky.social
Hear, hear once again, @johnmct.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Why Labour shouldn’t shift right
The answer to these bruising election results is to govern as the party of social democracy.
www.newstatesman.com
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nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
The government is legitimising Reform with anti-migrant rhetoric while alienating long-time Labour voters by shifting to the right.

This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.
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by Cas Mudde — Reposted by Ben Clift, Emiliano Grossman, Jean Bonnet , and 2 more

casmudde.bsky.social
This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
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cmmonwealth.bsky.social
“Public development of renewable capacity ... isn't a suspension of the profit imperative but its subordination to social need”

@brusselermel.bsky.social @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on the UK’s CfD scheme & derisking energy.

🔗 @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/nod...
Nodes for Socialization | Melanie Brusseler & Chris Hayes
The UK’s carbon for difference scheme and the future of derisking energy
www.phenomenalworld.org
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by Daniela Gabor — Reposted by Ben Clift

rosiecollington.bsky.social
Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington
How the politics of investability determine climate financing
www.phenomenalworld.org
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jhasselbalch.bsky.social
"The green state must rise from the ashes of the derisking state... plan for a future of resilience or resign ourselves to chaos and the perils of climate adaptation under authoritarianism." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind.... @cornelban.bsky.social #decarbonization #planning #ClimateSky
Green Indicative Planning | Phenomenal World
With derisking regimes falling short of meeting governments' pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions, what lessons can we learn from governance through indicative planning? Historically strong coor...
www.phenomenalworld.org
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warwickpais.bsky.social
PAIS recently hosted a half-day conference for UG and PG students on Big Questions in Climate Politics.

The event, held at the University of Warwick, featured panels on the economy and democracy. PAIS academics took part alongside external speakers working on climate policy.
Image of the Climate Politics ‘Big Questions’ Conference
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Reposted by Ben Clift, Joanne Spetz, Colombia , and 13 more

eric-reinhart.com
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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will-davies.bsky.social
*Gold standard vibe intensifies* www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement
Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key services
www.theguardian.com
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