“A tanker carrying LNG to Europe U-turned and may be en route to Asia, according to Kpler, an early indication that a bidding war between Asian and European buyers could be underway.” Via @wsj.com
A massive hole in global airspace
Via @theguardian.com
Seems you're not alone:
A tale of economic and political geography from @adamtooze.bsky.social
“Netanyahu persuades Trump to attack Iran, which responds by attacking Qatar, which responds by shutting down LNG, which spikes fertilizer prices in India which upsets the Indian fiscal consolidation effort!”
cc: @geosky.dev
Great personal energy consumption comparison tool by @hannahritchie.bsky.social 👏
hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-c...
Who, exactly? As @matthewstoller.bsky.social pointed out. "...half of the Democratic Party took the attitude of California Governor Gavin Newsom, which is to say they are happy for the war, but wish they had been given a heads-up first."
More 'merican-born living in Norway than Norwegian-born.
"The U.S. saw 675,000 deportations and 2.2 million “self-deportations” last year, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security." @wsj.com
Mission Accomplished?
Northrop Grumman, which makes defence missile systems, and military aircraft including the B-2 Spirit “stealth bomber”, are up 4% in early trading.
Lockheed Martin, the defense and aerospace manufacturer behind the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, are up 3.8%. @theguardian.com
Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT.
Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.
Where is Iran?
Each dot represents an American's guess.
pro.morningconsult.com/articles/can... 🌐
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What did 90s Redmond reveal about America? That law while can widen access to hiring, politic can narrow belonging. #Migration #Place @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
When security language shifts from republic to “homeland,” what surveillance powers start to feel normal? #Rights #State @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Can a state be “colorblind” while using neighborhoods, risk scores, and borders to sort people by status? #CivilRights @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
What if equality began with a simple rule: be treated as one of the public wherever you go? #CivilRights #BlackHistory @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
It's not worth overthinking this speech which basically reads like an essay Stephen Miller submitted to the local American Legion Chapter when he was 11 for their July 4 contest for which the top prize was a $50 savings bond. But it's still a massive, reactionary, fascistic erasure of US History.
Is your “right” really a privilege, claim, power, or immunity, and how does place change which one you get? #Law #Rights @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
In the same decade the federal government expanded access to the US through the Immigration Act of 1990, it also tightened security in the “homeland.”
A term Clinton substantiated in 1998 when he signed the act, “Protection Against Unconventional Threats to the Homeland and Americans Overseas.”
How did a 1990s tech boom and the rise of “homeland” politics reshape who feels in place in America? #Geography #Rights @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views
George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."
Donald Trump in 2023⬇️
In January, NYTimes. “White people were very badly treated.”
"Even though traditional lithium-ion batteries are firmly in the lead as the default power source for electric vehicles, alternative chemistries are rapidly advancing..."
cc @volts.wtf
h/t @dailychartbook.bsky.social
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Cool active transportation tool from my geography undergrad alma mater, UCSB @spatialucsb.bsky.social 👏
www.sbactivetransport.org/dashboard/sa...
Clock ticks toward Trump reviving the Chinese Exclusion Act.
“Purdue’s alleged ban would be among the most severe [] Trump’s campaign against international students. Last year, [he] abruptly canceled the visas of thousands of students – many of them Chinese…”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"In his famous Madison Garden speech of 1936 FDR declared war on 'Government by organized money,' and he won that war. Progressive taxation and mass unionization drastically reduced the wealth and even more drastically diminished the power of big money."
"The number of U.S. billionaires rose 85 percent between 2010 and 2023, from 404 to 748. But billionaires’ share of political contributions rose by 1700 percent."
From @pkrugman.bsky.social "Citizens United was a 2010 ruling by a narrow majority on the Supreme Court that effectively removed all restrictions on political spending by wealthy individuals and corporations."
This seems bad.
