Iris
@irisab.bsky.social
Historian, wife, mother, citizen; I think facts matter, climate change is frightening, democracy is on the line and Russia should get out of Ukraine; interested in waste studies.
Volume 4 of the YHGD, co-edited by Matthias Heymann and me, is about Competing Perspectives of Development. It contains 12 chapters on contradictory or ambigious outcomes, including my text, discussing whether global development is getting "better" or "worse".
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Competing Perspectives of Development
Developmental policies frequently have contradictory effects. These typically play out in different sectors of life and are analyzed in different academic disciplines, using different assumptions, met...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Volume 4 of the YHGD, co-edited by Matthias Heymann and me, is about Competing Perspectives of Development. It contains 12 chapters on contradictory or ambigious outcomes, including my text, discussing whether global development is getting "better" or "worse".
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Volumes 4 and 5 of the Yearbook for the History of Global Development have been published open access.
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Yearbook for the History of Global Development
The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) aims to bring together scholars from a range of regional and academic backgrounds and to facilitate dialogue among the different fields and ap...
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Volumes 4 and 5 of the Yearbook for the History of Global Development have been published open access.
www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/yhgd-...
www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/yhgd-...
Amnesty International is certainly getting a lot of new work these days.
ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.
October 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Amnesty International is certainly getting a lot of new work these days.
At least nobody can claim they were not warned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTt...
Murphy Floor Speech on Trump's Authoritarian Takeover
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
At least nobody can claim they were not warned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTt...
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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns." […]
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October 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns." […]
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"Renewable energy surpassed coal as the world’s primary energy source in the first half of 2025, according to a new report.
The milestone was led by solar and wind power adoption in China, with the US and EU relying more on fossil fuels in the first half of 2025 than in the previous year."
The milestone was led by solar and wind power adoption in China, with the US and EU relying more on fossil fuels in the first half of 2025 than in the previous year."
Renewables overtake coal as world’s primary source of electricity
The milestone was led by solar and wind power adoption in China, with the US and EU relying more on fossil fuels in the first half of 2025 than in the previous year.
www.semafor.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"Renewable energy surpassed coal as the world’s primary energy source in the first half of 2025, according to a new report.
The milestone was led by solar and wind power adoption in China, with the US and EU relying more on fossil fuels in the first half of 2025 than in the previous year."
The milestone was led by solar and wind power adoption in China, with the US and EU relying more on fossil fuels in the first half of 2025 than in the previous year."
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I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.
Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...
Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.
Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...
Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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I like this thinking. I hope someone in Newsom's entourage reads the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan
States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I like this thinking. I hope someone in Newsom's entourage reads the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is pretty exactly what it feels like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall
Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is pretty exactly what it feels like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The speech of the President of Finland at the UN Assembly. He makes it sound so obvious and easy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaq...
Finland’s President Delivers Most Inspiring, Powerful UN Speech Yet on Multipolar World Order | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The speech of the President of Finland at the UN Assembly. He makes it sound so obvious and easy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaq...
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Jimmy Kimmel: “You almost have to feel sorry for him. He did his best to cancel me. Instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Jimmy Kimmel: “You almost have to feel sorry for him. He did his best to cancel me. Instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”
Some nights, I am sincerely scared that I may be witnessing the end of democracy in the world. If the US becomes an authoritarian state that actively supports the extreme parties in Europe (not a far-fetched scenario at the moment), will democracy survive in Europe?
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Some nights, I am sincerely scared that I may be witnessing the end of democracy in the world. If the US becomes an authoritarian state that actively supports the extreme parties in Europe (not a far-fetched scenario at the moment), will democracy survive in Europe?
I have for a long time wondered why US farmers voted for Trump in such large numbers, after they experienced the negative effects of a trade war last time and had to know it would be coming again this time. Here is an explanation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
Why Farmers Voted For Trump
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I have for a long time wondered why US farmers voted for Trump in such large numbers, after they experienced the negative effects of a trade war last time and had to know it would be coming again this time. Here is an explanation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
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Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Maybe the times are a-changing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUN9...
Newsom’s Trolling BREAKS the Internet...AGAIN!!!
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Maybe the times are a-changing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUN9...
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There is so much to say, and at the same time, nothing to add.
The reaction to Alaska by the Ukrainian artist.
The reaction to Alaska by the Ukrainian artist.
August 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
There is so much to say, and at the same time, nothing to add.
The reaction to Alaska by the Ukrainian artist.
The reaction to Alaska by the Ukrainian artist.