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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1h

A modest wish for 2026: for the big European newspapers to up investments in quality newsletters/serious dispatches from the East.

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1h

judging from how many US citizens are boarding on my imminent Eurostar train, lots of Americans are into self-harm, enjoying way too much the very destructive moral ideas behind our big capitals’ lifestyle

Kingston Reif @kingstonareif.bsky.social · 9h

“If they [the UK and France] allow themselves to be overwhelmed with very destructive moral ideas, then you allow nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of people who can actually cause very, very serious harm to the US.”

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity

unherd.com

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 6h

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

Kingston Reif @kingstonareif.bsky.social · 9h

“If they [the UK and France] allow themselves to be overwhelmed with very destructive moral ideas, then you allow nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of people who can actually cause very, very serious harm to the US.”

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity

unherd.com

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the volume. Happy holidays Pavi!

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d

Been meaning to continue reading a book on Italy’s 20th century history so today I cracked open the 1920s chapter and it really does feel like reading the news in 2025.

Italian history of the 20th century chapter (2 pages)

Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 1d

New extraordinary reporting affirms our studies—from the man at the center of our network map.

“The Brown study actually was fairly accurate about writing down all the people involved. … I was probably the common denominator for those groups,” said Stevenson.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

The man behind the fall of offshore wind

David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?

www.canarymedia.com

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d

the housing crisis is a tragedy, the Pope gets it

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”

Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.

www.reuters.com

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”

Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.

www.reuters.com

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d

All I want for Christmas is less fascism around the world

Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 3d

This is madness

Washington is increasingly brazen in its offensive against our right to make our own laws and hold our own values
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators

State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

www.theguardian.com

Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica

sociologica.unibo.it

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d

can’t wait to see how Nolan’s aesthetics fit with this landscape (view from Lipari, august 2025)

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d

**so** excited about this, not least because various scenes were shot last year in Favignana and the Aeloian islands of Sicily, which is historically associated with several key episodes of the epic 💙🌊🌬️

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 4d

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is here 👀

In theaters July 17, 2026

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 4d

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is here 👀

In theaters July 17, 2026

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.

Maue did not respond to requests for comment from E&E News. But he wrote on X that he was enlisting artificial intelligence to help with the latest National Climate Assessment. He cited the Gemini 3 Pro program as well as Grok, an Al chatbot developed by xAl, the artificial intelligence company led by tech tycoon Elon Musk. https://www.eenews.net/articles/its-the-gold-standard-of-us-climate-research-contrarians-could-write-the-next-one/

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds like they wanted an attribution paper (or did they?)

Either way, the IPCC dig is intense

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 5d

🥶🥶🥶

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d

I appreciate the need to keep diplomacy going and the toxicity of pointing fingers when things are particularly tense and polarized around the world, but it would also be unfair to point to an imaginary median party/politician to blame the 2025 backsliding of climate ambition.

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d

This is not semantics: we need to hold accountable those the broke the consensus and are deviating from climate economics and science. Not condoning the technocratic parties and the moderate left voices that are reconsidering climate action, but by far the more structural change comes from the right

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent thoughts and notes, but recall that in 2025 there is not really such a thing as a “center” in EU politics — here we are really talking about the political right rowing back on climate ambition due to fear of being eaten by the far rights.

Philipp Jäger @ph-jaeg.bsky.social · 7d

End of year reflections on EU climate policy: it’s really not looking good for the Green Deal.
@jannikjansen.bsky.social and I wrote a short piece on why we're far from "staying the course" - and why that's a strategic mistake for Europe (1/12)
tinyurl.com/jdc-green-deal

Europe is hollowing out its Green Deal, leaving a vacuum of political

www.delorscentre.eu

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 7d

Ofc we know from history that economic instability/stagnation is bad for political stability, and good to show the patterns of inevitable polarization consequences.

But stop w/ pro immigration, green and pro housing Mamdani or Polanski being extreme “anti system flanks”. The center is not immovable

Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics

A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left

www.ft.com

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, just to say that that Yglesias oped from this week was really wrong and that you should probably spend your time reading this instead:

newrepublic.com/article/2044...

Here’s the Climate Message That Can Help Democrats Win Big in 2026

Rising home insurance costs are making life unaffordable for both homeowners and renters. Robust climate policy and public disaster insurance could save many households’ finances.

newrepublic.com

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 7d

So yes things are complex.

The 2019-20 “green” wave was powered by a “social justice and climate action can go hand in hand” idea.

2024-25 showed that projecting inequality-based perceptions onto climate can kill the project.

Both positive & negative economic association frames *can* work.

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 7d

Many people say that the farms’ protests in 2025 were epitome of the climate backlash.

No doubt that they were weaponized that way by the conservative agenda, but it is too simplistic to say farmers reject climate action. They are prob. more concerned about trade exposure (see Mercosur protests…)

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 7d

When somebody says “politicians should abandon the climate agenda, ppl are fatigued, it‘s a vote killer”, question it for a moment.

Sure voters are myopic, retrospective, pull many tantrums, but ultimately most people want leaders to bring prosperity. it’s up to leaders to let people envision that

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 7d

People say 2025 was the year of greenlash.

Ofc it was at the political *elite* level.

However, far less obvious if it was among the public, which gets climate only to a certain extent and is malleable to frames.

Among the public climate volatility is still scary and energy transition appealing. 🧵

Philipp Jäger @ph-jaeg.bsky.social · 7d

End of year reflections on EU climate policy: it’s really not looking good for the Green Deal.
@jannikjansen.bsky.social and I wrote a short piece on why we're far from "staying the course" - and why that's a strategic mistake for Europe (1/12)
tinyurl.com/jdc-green-deal

Europe is hollowing out its Green Deal, leaving a vacuum of political

www.delorscentre.eu