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Virginia Haufler

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Professor, international political economy, corporations, CSR/ESG politics, cat lover, wannabe mando player

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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

NEW from ProPublica:
A trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

05.03.2026 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

That’s a big mission the Navy probably doesn’t have the force for while offensive operations are ongoing.

03.03.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Scenes from a personalist regime

03.03.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2522    πŸ” 859    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 136

We are being led by mad christofascists who bombed Iran to bring about the book of Revelation oh joy.

03.03.2026 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 7
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National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might β€˜disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

Exclusive: An internal government database reviewed by The Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national parks.

02.03.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 178    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 12
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can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.

www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

02.03.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 14

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us β€œsexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

02.03.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5208    πŸ” 3311    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 33

The rate of destruction of U.S. science is just senseless. It's willful, still senseless.

01.03.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 296    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

28.02.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4972    πŸ” 2069    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 23
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Well well well

28.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1185    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 20

x.com/SecWar/statu... Anthropic has just been designated as a "Supply Chain Risk to National Security." This is so fucking insane it is hard to describe how insane it is.

27.02.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

This has not stopped despite people here being tired and tapped out of money. πŸ‘‡

bsky.app/profile/whst...

27.02.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated The policy is the latest in a trend of organizations capitulating to Trump over transgender people.

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.

The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

27.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1681    πŸ” 657    πŸ’¬ 207    πŸ“Œ 282
The Biden Administration enacted over $198 billion in clean energy and manufacturing incentives, with the expectation that delivering material economic benefits could yield political dividends. This nationwide study examines whether these investments affect public opinion. Although proximity to green projects makes them more visible to the public, it does not bestow credit on the Biden Administration which pushed for them. The most substantial political beneficiaries are governors, who more actively claim credit than the White House. For policies to affect politics, voters need to be able to trace them back to the responsible political actors, which is challenging in a complex information environment. Green spending channeled through private firms alone is unlikely to build ground-up coalitions for climate policy.

The Biden Administration enacted over $198 billion in clean energy and manufacturing incentives, with the expectation that delivering material economic benefits could yield political dividends. This nationwide study examines whether these investments affect public opinion. Although proximity to green projects makes them more visible to the public, it does not bestow credit on the Biden Administration which pushed for them. The most substantial political beneficiaries are governors, who more actively claim credit than the White House. For policies to affect politics, voters need to be able to trace them back to the responsible political actors, which is challenging in a complex information environment. Green spending channeled through private firms alone is unlikely to build ground-up coalitions for climate policy.

The Biden administration did a lot of good things that did not generate political gain. This paper argues that "voters need to be able to trace them back to the responsible political actors" made harder by federalism and the role of private actors in delivery
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

27.02.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

I don't know why this is so hard. Fighters winβ€”we see that over and over, because often it's *not* about their politics! Trump was perceived as a fighter!

The most effective way to reduce Trump as a foe is undermining his narrative as a tough guy... by fighting him.

27.02.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 853    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 12
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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8160    πŸ” 3446    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 221

But unfortunately the shadow can loom large in the wrong direction...see Vanguard's capitulation to Republic AGs in the US
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

27.02.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

β€œI see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

27.02.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 654    πŸ” 347    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 29
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Vanguard Settles Case Claiming It Tried to Kill the Coal Industry

Gift link here:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

27.02.2026 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Why has climate action has fallen off the political agenda?

Not because people don’t care! According to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social Americans are as concerned now as they were in 2019.

No. Decisionmakers are retreating because the right wing is going after them full bore & they are folding.

1/2

27.02.2026 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

This is the swamp in which we work. To pretend that these men are exceptional mistakes the deep misogyny & racism built into American higher ed. These same men have fashioned themselves as heterodox thinkers against the world of woke but this is who they really are. www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

26.02.2026 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

25.02.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8434    πŸ” 4158    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 141
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🚨🚨Check this outπŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️

20.01.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2083    πŸ” 1315    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 140

Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.

25.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2577    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 18
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Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

25.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Broadly speaking, there are 2 political factions. Not Labour v Tory/Reform, Republicans v Democrats etc, but an economic elite, operating globally, versus all of us. Though they are small in number, through the power of the political, media and social media systems they control, they keep winning.

25.02.2026 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 8
Jeffrey Epstein appears in a black-and-white portrait overlaying a red-tinted image of a Deutsche Bank sign.

Jeffrey Epstein appears in a black-and-white portrait overlaying a red-tinted image of a Deutsche Bank sign.

FT exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser ft.trib.al/4obT91p

25.02.2026 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 457    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 24
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Multinationals and Organized Business (Chapter 5) - The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society - February 2026

New chapter on " Multinationals and Organized Business" with @pierreunil.bsky.social

-> explores how multinationals have collectively defended their interests
-> examines the broader societal impacts of these efforts (standards, investments and tax treaties)

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

25.02.2026 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Market-Shaping States: A new theory of public sector capacities and capabilities Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel

Market-Shaping States reframes the state as a co-creator of public value, not just a market corrector. This requires capabilities to set direction, coordinate across silos, experiment under uncertainty and learn from what works.

Read more ➑️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

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