Jeff Colgan

If the Fall Olympics didn't have axe throwing, it would be a terrible waste of an absurd sport 🪓

Thanks for sharing @jeffcolgan.bsky.social, inspired by your work. Delighted to see this article out in the world, hopefully the start of more to come on a topic that is a major factor shaping the future of geopolitics.

Maybe Iran is considering the mountain of evidence that making a deal with Trump is a bad idea? 🤔

Nooooooooooooooo

🇨🇦🇺🇸 #nailbiter

"Sounding like"??

SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs, Failing to Solve Any Problems and Creating New Ones The Supreme Court expanded the “major questions” doctrine to strike down Trump’s tariffs, signaling broader limits on executive power.

NEW from me @rooseveltinstitute.org:

SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs, Failing to Solve Any Problems and Creating New Ones

Quick Thread🧵
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The best possible kind of …

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

It is shocking how quickly one of the biggest benefits of U.S. higher education, the ability to recruit the best students from around the world, is eroding.

Eve of Disruption: Decarbonisation and the Changing Salience of Oil in Petrostate Conflicts As the world transitions away from oil, the future for petrostates is uncertain. This article makes two arguments: first, petrostates may become aggressive in existing conflicts to take advantage o...

Interesting new article on how decarbonization driven by climate change affects petro-aggression by @sascha-nanlohy.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Just a loaded gun for the next time more Epstein files appear ...

Petro-imperialism. 🛢️🇺🇸🤮

Thread from @fgenovese.bsky.social on the tensions related to "climate realism." See her and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social's essay for more:

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Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
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Ottawa’s shift away from US defence manufacturers aims to create 125,000 jobs ‘Buy Canadian’ strategy will raise military spending to 5 per cent of GDP and boost economy, new plan says

These are mostly US jobs being sent north of the border, Mr. Trump. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

Ottawa’s shift away from US defence manufacturers aims to create 125,000 jobs

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A capture of Manhattan facing downtown ward, with an incoming sunset with a navy blue opaque rectangular box and white text overlay that reads: “After just one year of implementation, New York City’s congestion pricing policy is already improving air quality in the city and in parts of New Jersey.” Besides the image and the text, in the top right corner lies the YPCCC logo, which is circular, with a hollow center, and a band of 5 colors.

New York City has recorded a 22% reduction in particulate matter, a dangerous pollutant, indicating that the city’s congestion pricing policy may be improving air quality across the city. insideclimatenews.org/news/0302202...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Exxon knew. 🌎🛢️🥺

2026 in a nutshell

The Soviet People's Republic of Florida

Make The Onion Parody Again

Carney Stakes Canada’s Auto Future on E.V.s as It Pulls Away From the U.S.

For decades, Canada integrated into US supply chains for car manufacturing so both could compete globally. As Trump raises tariffs and doubles down on inefficient gasoline-powered cars --> Canada builds its own EV industry, looks to trade globally, and US firms lose a market.

Is this winning, 🇺🇸??

Is the US posing a hidden risk in the West’s critical minerals strategy? The Trump administration’s recent official guidance on supply chain vulnerabilities related to critical minerals reached a striking conclusion. US policymakers are acknowledging that the United States...

The US seeks price floors with allies to build ex-China mineral supply chains.

If US allies and trading partners start pricing US political risk alongside Chinese leverage, Western minerals coordination will get much harder to sustain.

My latest at @piie.com.

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How a warming climate is changing the Winter Olympics Nearly half the places that once hosted the Winter Olympics may not have the right climate conditions to ever do it again. For The National, CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault travels hig...

"Nearly half the places that once hosted the Winter Olympics may not have the right climate conditions to ever do it again."
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I just used the example of Harvard at a roundtable on international relations at this moment--that Trump sucks at coercive diplomacy as he can't accept yes as an answer. He is always asking for more.

Driving decarbonization? Corporate responses to the Paris climate agreement in the global automotive sector Did firms accelerate decarbonization as a result of the 2015 Paris Agreement, particularly in industries where low-carbon options were technologically…

New publication out by CSL Director @jeffcolgan.bsky.social! Check it out to learn more about whether the 2015 Paris Agreement shifted corporate strategy in the automotive sector:
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A Wonkish Note on Tariffs and Inflation There isn’t really a puzzle here

An experiment: A wonkish post that isn't emailed out to subscribers

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for us Americans, that's 98°F at night and 120°F in the day