Andy Scerri

hi faculty! I cannot emphasize enough how much you should join @aaup.bsky.social if you work at Virginia Tech!

also if you're a reporter who wants to know about some stuff, I highly encourage you to follow what's going on at our institution's Board of Visitors!

:-))) be thankful for small blessings

At least they have train stations dude, and trains

Petitions in the Park · Lily for Delegate Stop by the park and sign petitions to help get Lily Franklin and other candidates on the ballot. Bring the kids and enjoy an afternoon at the park! We’ll have some snacks available.

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Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers? Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs • Current Tax Rate: 3.27% • Top Federal Tax Rate: 37% Cost Comparison (Bar Chart): • Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple) • Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red) • Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green) X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries. Impact on Federal Workforce: • Average Federal Salary: $106,000 • Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees) Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart): • A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”. Sources: • Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica • Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024) • Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?

Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.

Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda A growing research agenda: Timeline of the cumulative number of news articles (black, left axis), white paper reports (red, right axis), and peer-reviewed and academic publications (green, right axis....

Critical and groundbreaking research on fossil fuel ties in higher education & the university-fossil fuel partnerships that obstruct climate action from CSSN scholars S. Hiltner, E. Eaton, N. Healy, A. Scerri, J. C. Stephens and G. Supran: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Banging on about "joy" when half the country is racing from a minimum wage shift at McDonald's to one at Burger King, then onto a third at Home Depot must have had something to do with it eh ...

Abstract: W.E.B. Du Bois’ theorization of the ‘wages of whiteness’ has factored prominently into recent scholarship examining the roots of Trumpism and resurgent right-wing movements in the United States. How might the ‘wages of whiteness’ shed light on contemporary anti-environmental politics? To provide insight into this question, I put Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America, as well as more recent work in whiteness studies, into conversation with environmental and social histories of the mid-nineteenth century frontier. I observe that struggles over access to and control over land and natural resources, and anger over exposure to polluted air and water, were central to class and racial formation during an historical period that continues to weigh heavily on contemporary American politics. I argue that understanding the origins and evolution of the natural wages of whiteness can help us develop strategies for combating anti-environmentalism and mobilizing in pursuit of env justice

It's time to announce the Environmental Politics Article of the Year Award 2023!
The Volume 32 (2023) winner is John Hultgren, with 'Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness''.
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

Week in review for Environmental Politics The Friday Post

Week in review for Environmental Politics.
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Our new research shows how the fossil fuel industry has been strategically investing in universities to block transformative climate action and prevent fossil fuel phaseout. OPEN ACCESS wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Does the Fossil Fuel industry try to influence university research and teaching? Here’s the first comprehensive review, you be the judge.
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
And, here's a news report on our research:
www.theguardian.com/business/art...

AI is a scam

“Total Exemption from Trouble and from Risk”: Adam Smith on the Time of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Despite Adam Smith’s seemingly firm entrenchment within the liberal tradition, in Theory of Moral Sentiments, he forwards several positions that fundamentally challenge this understanding. Chief am...

We are proud to announce Jennifer Corby's "Total Exemption from Trouble and from Risk: Adam Smith on the Time of Subprime Mortgage Crisis" in our latest Issue of NPS❗️

Check out the full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've a new article in latest edition of J. of Environmental Politics. Thanks to everyone who commented or made suggestions, this piece was a long time in the making. Thanks too to the anonymous reviewers and ed. Sherilyn Macgregor for sound advice on revisions.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Michel Houllebecq, Soumission

Check out Robert Flahive Book Review of "Cultural Values in Political Economy" in our latest issue of NPS!
Available at: www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../07...

Proud to announce William J Nichols Book Review of Jeffery Haynes, "From Huntington to Trump: Thirty Years of the Clash of Civilizations" in our latest issue of NPS!

Available at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everyone should get their library to order this one!

hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out

Wrote up chapter summaries of my forthcoming book today, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx. Figured I'd share here for interested parties.

Hire a theorist, never have to worry about their data. Just saying

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

America has a thing called Trunk or Treat where people dress up, drive to a parking lot, and pretend it's ok we don't have walkable communities anymore.

@avishaybsg.bsky.social can you please add me to poltheory, thanks! I copied this from Fridirike Spang's msg just, please add me too!

Hello Bluesky ...