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Aeron Davis

@aerond.bsky.social
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Prof of Political Communication at THW-VUW in Wellington. Also, research on Media/Journalism, Elites, Economic Sociology and Policy/Financialization, currently looking at the Housing Crisis in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

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Tom Dark @darkpublisher.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Catching up on @poltheoryother.bsky.social and reminded of the continued relevance of @aerond.bsky.social analysis of the 'reckless opportunists' in the formation of today's political class (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526127280/)
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Manchester University Press - Reckless opportunists
Reckless opportunists - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Reckless opportunists by Aeron Davis
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Great what AI can do ...
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
All a bit Louis XIV really ... on.ft.com/4mgeQzU
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Donald Trump plans to build new $200mn White House ballroom
Addition to historic mansion to be paid for by US president and ‘patriotic donors’, says administration
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Britain is very much not the US but this is a nice example of such research
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Manchester University Press - Reckless opportunists
Reckless opportunists - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Reckless opportunists by Aeron Davis
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It's not trickle down, it's trickle up ...
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This week's cover, on the newsstand from tomorrow.
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Lib Dems (Vince Cable) was on side as was Nick Macpherson top dog at the Treasury...Dunn's review draws on Aeron Davis's book- Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bsilouts - another must-read.
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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The extraordinary thing was Labour going along with the lie, on the grounds that they didn't want to challenge the right wing papers (a Blairite obsession with the idea that doing so will lose you votes). Even Corbyn didn't challenge it directly enough, maybe felt he had enough fights on his plate.
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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
People looking back on this period will never understand, because there is no way to understand, how Israel deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, how food aid piled up at every border of the Gaza strip and the entire world could not compel Israel to let it through
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Dear Grok How corrupt is Elon Musk?
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
How many days have passed since Trump said he would end the Russian-Ukraine war (invasion really) on day one of his presidency ...?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/05/2025
The US is now almost alone in climate change denial. Worse, the Trump administration is destroying even our capacity to understand it www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...
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The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So gutted that one of the last people the pope saw, probably under duress, was JD Vance.
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
please keep spending Elon ... all the way to those mid terms www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
Liberal judge says victory is against ‘unprecedented attack on our democracy’ after defeating Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New from 404 Media: a site called 'Dogequest' claims to be doxing Tesla owners across the U.S. Verified that at least some of the people in there are Tesla/Musk supporters. Comes as Trump has said that violence against Tesla would be domestic terrorism www.404media.co/dogequest-si...
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‘Dogequest’ Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
The site also has information on Tesla dealerships and members of DOGE. “At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.”
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Was never a fan of short selling ... until now on.ft.com/4kXGcej
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Short sellers make $16bn profit from Tesla’s share price plunge
Payday follows years of pain for hedge funds that bet against Elon Musk’s electric carmaker
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In fewer than 2 months, the US is approaching North Korean levels of Dear Leader sycophancy--not just at the federal level, but in the states. Oklahoma, which already forced public schools to buy Trump Bibles, is now trying to get them to teach "Stop the Steal." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
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Oklahoma Proposes Teaching 2020 Election ‘Discrepancies’ in U.S. History
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some Republicans.
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The best bit is noone actually signed the letter for fear of getting fired 😂
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🤣😂 on.ft.com/3Fu2eVX
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Tesla warns Trump administration it is ‘exposed’ to retaliatory tariffs
Elon Musk’s electric-car maker says levies could make it costlier to produce vehicles in the US
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘I feel utter anger’: From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading
Tesla sales are falling and apps and online groups are springing up to help consumers choose non-US items
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 11/03/2025
Make Billionaires Fret Again
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/03/2025
Today on Volts: you may have noticed that some climate/energy types (like me) have become obsessed with housing & urban land use lately. Why? Why are they climate issues? What's the connection? The great @mateosfo.bsky.social and I attempt to answer those questions.
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Why housing is a pass/fail question for climate
Housing is a climate issue we can't afford to ignore — Matthew Lewis explains why.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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The universities are next
Friends,
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Revealed: House of Lords members have given £109m to political parties
Conservatives benefit most from donations provided either before or after peers secured their seats
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Nothing will ever trickle down.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
And this is part of an ongoing series intended to provide academics a space to reflect on the challenges the sector is going through right now (not just in the UK). You can find out more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers Scholarship as Struggle: Stories of Censorship, Marketisation, and Resistance
Submission deadline: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New article with Narzanin Massoumi in the @bjsociology.bsky.social: ‘Elite Status-Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society.’ Thread.👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards
This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous res...
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 27/02/2025
🗳️ As we creep towards #ausvotes 2025, my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @vilkins.bsky.social and I took stock of critical scrutiny options for social media campaigning, and the picture is sobering. Australian politicians must do more to demand social media data access. 360info.org/how-digi...
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How digital giants let poll scrutiny fall - 360
The changing social media world, already hostile to oversight, is making monitoring election activity even more difficult. Yet policymakers still have options. A seismic change in the social media landscape — described by one industry insider as a ‘Cambrian explosion’ in digital options — poses fundamental challenges to those who would monitor the digital world. […]
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Love it ... www.ft.com/content/6bbd...
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Apple promises to fix dictation bug that replaces ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
Glitch comes as the iPhone maker is seeking to shore up its relationship with the US president
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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor. And that’s the point.
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
There is a small part of me thinking "I told you six years ago that higher education will eventually turn into precarious teaching-only gig with a weak guarantee of minimal income and healthcare". The greater part of me is just sickened. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts - Research Professional News
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
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Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
My review of the 2024 paperback version of Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of The Treasury Since 1976 by @aerond.bsky.social for @bjsociology.bsky.social. A wonderful analysis of the Treasury's role in the hollowing out the UK economy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Shannon Bond @byshannonbond.com · 13/02/2025
After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...
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Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas
That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Very pleased to see this out ... www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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Media Pasts and Futures: Critical Reflections on Power Without Responsibility
This collection of short essays from leading media scholars reflects on critical issues of media history, power, ownership, influence and impact. The book uses the acclaimed media title Power Without ...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 06/02/2025
this new polling actually blew my mind -- support for Musk's influence over the White House, even among ardent Trump supporters, has rapidly crumbled since the election. he's running on absolute fumes futurism.com/elon-musk-su...
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Public Support for Elon Musk's Government Rampage Is Falling Catastrophically, Even Among Trump Voters
Public opinion polling shows that support for Musk's rampage is falling at an astonishing rate, even among Trump voters.
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
No! Every country should retaliate, all at once. Collective action. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Hunt: Starmer should not retaliate if Trump hits UK with trade tariffs
Former chancellor says UK does not have enough economic firepower to start a trade war with the US
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/02/2025
"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ of the United States Government
Elon Musk’s bureaucratic coup is under way.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Cornell, with its massive ag school, is also affected. So far we’ve heard nothing.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is very bad & dumb but also - does not one of these tech babies know about stemming or lemmatization?
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm wondering if Mexico and Canada are doing all that border stuff or just giving Trump an out as he's realised he couldn't go thru without screwing many of his MAGA base?
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How many times in the 21st Century has a UK frontbench minister said we will create a British Silicon Valley? Answers anyone? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge
Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
From the FT ... shows it's probably not a good idea for top politicians to believe every big tech claim
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
For those further interested in the political emptiness of polarization, you can read the longer, more academic screed that @dkreiss.bsky.social & I published. It’s #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Bit shocking to see how share prices rise when CEOs their give money to Trump, and those of their rivals fall. Has someone coined a term for this financialized autocratic techno crony capitalism?
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