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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 10h

The (justified) collapse of diesel sales in France is quite something. You could barely find an EV in France 5 years ago.

Chart showing vehicle sales by technology by year for France. Battery EVs and hybrids are the majority, whereas diesel and gasoline car sales have declined dramatically.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 20h

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: For the past month or so I've been deep diving the narratives behind the concept of "petrodollar recycling". This is the first of three pieces I'll be writing debunking this narrative. www.crisesnotes.com/debunking-th...

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Debunking the Petrodollar “Recycling” Myth: Part 1

This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe to Read I’m going to tell you a secret: for many years I’ve rolled my eyes when people talk about “recycling petrodollars”....

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

France, sponsored by Roger Federer

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"A resounding repudiation of the predatory economics and politics that govern our time." 📚 Kirkus Reviews describes ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS as a manifesto calling for an economic regime that “serves life.” That's exactly why I wrote this book. Preorder your copy today.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EU still stuck on stupid. The polycrises aren't going away. There are many ways to meet the moment with fiscal and regulatory tools without excessive inflationary results.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Across the world, insulin manufacturers have been shifting their production lines to GLP-1s, after entirely discontinuing some insulin products that were widely used and still profitable – just less profitable than GLP-1s."

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the evening that Elif Eralp won the Berlin mayoral race with a Mamdani-style campaign, I arrive in NYC for an event hosted by Mayor Mamdani and am welcomed at the hotel by my first review copy of «Anti-fascist Economics». 🌹

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This admin has (tragically) been propped up by a coincidental investment boom that has covered a multitude of blunders & horrific policy decisions. One can hope for a reversal well before his term ends.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/07/2025

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

title and abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 1 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Most unethical human behavior, from petty crime to genocide, comes wrapped in a story the perpetrators tell themselves; such stories require overlooking certain facts, which is why some discomfort remains, and why a better-crafted story helps dispel it."

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

MIND YOU, @standupforscience.net HAS BEEN CALLING FOR RFK JR.'S REMOVAL, BY ANY MEANS, FOR OVER A YEAR. We worked with Congress to introduce articles of impeachment in DECEMBER 2025: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr We delivered over 150k signatures! www.einpresswire.com/article/8492...

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Stand Up For Science delivers petition and 'Quack-O-Grams' calling for the removal of HHS Secretary Kennedy

On September 16th, Stand Up For Science Executive Director Colette Delawalla will deliver to Congress the signatures to the petition to impeach and remove

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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This project was born out of our frustration at how people are absent from the visual and written lexicon of heat. Scan stock photo sites for “India heatwave”: it’s either poor kids doing backflips into a polluted river, or a woman in a sari holding an umbrella, waiting for rain.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Integrated assessment models make contact w physics, hilarity ensues: It's one thing to say "IAM negative emissions are unrealistic" - but needing to produce largest global carbon capture facility every ~36hrs from today through 2050 to hit lower end of net zero goals does put some mustard on it.

From https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2753-3751/ae987b

Achieving gigaton rates of sequestration in 2050 as most energy system models suggest would require building 250 Gorgon-scale sequestration projects every year between now and 2050, based on realized injection rates of about 0.4 Mt y−1. Compounded over a 25 year buildout to 2050, this yields ∼2.5 Gt CO2 y−1 of cumulative operating capacity, consistent with the lower end of net-zero sequestration targets. Realistic planning across diverse geologies must assume modest injectivities of 0.2–0.5 Mt y−1, consistent with a majority of on-going projects (Ringrose and Meckel 2019). At this rate, achieving even the lower end of projected sequestration—1 Gt y−1 by 2050—would require drilling thousands of wells each year until 2050. For comparison, the total number of active drilling rigs (onshore plus offshore) in the US at the end of June 2026 was 581 (Hughes 2025). The drilling activity alone needed to achieve projected levels of sequestration—2–5 Gt CO2 y−1—would be larger than the entire existing oil and gas industry.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The July CPI continued to build the case for disinflation. Core CPI rose 0.2% in July (or annualized 2.6%), firmer than flat prices in June, but still helping to move the trend down. Even so, two months is not enough, and the PPI will also shape whether it's a good PCE print.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sure, sure, this is okay, but god forbid we have global carbon taxes on fossil fuels and invest in a decarbonized future.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How would taxing bank profits reduce their contribution to the rising cost of living?

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The real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

The effort to repeal the income tax in Missouri losing 80-20

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New US tariffs on Canada are illegal, but allowed under the Supreme Court’s established standard that Trump is special and can violate the Constitution if he feels like it, except sometimes, but those times when courts strike down his policy as unconstitutional he can do it again with minor tweaks.

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Packy Griffin @packygriffin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

An interview worth your time from one of the administrators leading USAID before if was needlessly dismantled. This discussion is a rare, seemingly unfiltered look into the near and long-term implications of the U.S. surrendering its leadership on global humanitarian aid. Please read.

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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This could have been a climate-focused fiscal-driven economy under a different administration.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This 💩 is a big deal. Vought is wrecking havoc and Congress is allowing it. The need for institutional reform is massive on the back end of this regime.

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gwchilly.bsky.social @gwchilly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

*Banger* “The odds that market participants put on outcomes are treated as just as reliable, maybe even more reliable, than polling. This is remarkable for all sorts of reasons, not least of which is that political betting markets only became legal in the U.S. in 2024..” (Photo from author’s piece)

“The odds that market participants put on outcomes are treated as just as reliable, maybe even more reliable, than polling. This is remarkable for all sorts of reasons, not least of which is that political betting markets only became legal in the United States in 2024.”

CNN’s Harry Enten with graphic showing Kalshi odds of Michael Bennet winning CO Democratic primary over Phill Weiser at 82% on June 1st and 25% on June 29. Weiser won 57-43 on June 30. Snapshot provided by author.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"The marriage of Unitary Executive Theory, big tech and the “market information processors” has created a powerful engine for attempting to crush democracy, and remake the world in Silicon Valley’s image." Insightful stuff from Nathan.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Loving the cricket in the timeline - keep it up

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Having been on the business side of economic shocks, I've noticed it's hard for analysts to see the degree to which businesses etc scramble, renegotiate deals, and collaborate across supply chains & even with competition to mitigate harms. Same for predicting innovations that resolve constraints.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Official policy: exporting racism and importing racists

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Swiss love an engineering challenge in the Alps! Also, I don't believe the "everyone said" line. It's well known that solar panels prefer cold, thin air (less resistance = higher efficiency), unlike wind where altitude reduces output.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What is it about the (racially charged) "taxpayer" label that is so appealing to the media? No taxes are increasing as a result of the graft & incompetence of these crooks. The cost of this presidency is violence toward humans, undermining public health & education, destruction of security, etc.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm guessing it's no coincidence they chose July 4th for this

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025

The late, great Ossie Davis reading Frederick Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July" youtu.be/H-cVwuMmylA?...

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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July"

YouTube video by Ossie Davis - Topic

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

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Geoff Coventry @geoffcoventry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And the same goes for all the other anti-democratic and anti-human things this admin is doing. The time to present a different societal structure, along with the required institutional reforms, is now.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I cannot fucking believe that birthright was 5-4! On whether the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship!

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