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Aeron Davis

@aerond.bsky.social

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Prof of Political Communication at THW-VUW in Wellington. Also, research on Media/Journalism, Elites, Economic Sociology and Policy/Financialization, currently looking at the Housing Crisis in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great what AI can do ...

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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Aug 1

All a bit Louis XIV really ...

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Donald Trump plans to build new $200mn White House ballroom

Addition to historic mansion to be paid for by US president and ‘patriotic donors’, says administration

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Karen Lopez @datachick.bsky.social · Mar 13

One person familiar with the process of sending the letter said: “It’s a polite way to say that the bipolar tariff regime is screwing over Tesla.”

Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Mar 13

🤣😂

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Tesla warns Trump administration it is ‘exposed’ to retaliatory tariffs

Elon Musk’s electric-car maker says levies could make it costlier to produce vehicles in the US

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · Jul 7

Britain is very much not the US but this is a nice example of such research

Manchester University Press - Reckless opportunists

Reckless opportunists - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Reckless opportunists by Aeron Davis

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Jun 9

It's not trickle down, it's trickle up ...

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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Jun 3

And the UK? Not in the top 10 here?

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · May 21

Will Dunn in the New Statesman on Osborne's "most consequential and obvious lie in modern British politics" (that Labour and not the City/Wall Street was to blame for the collapse of the economy and therefore the rise in public debt) - is refreshingly honest.

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · May 21

The Lib Dems (Vince Cable) was on side as was Nick Macpherson top dog at the Treasury...Dunn's review draws on Aeron Davis's book- Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bsilouts - another must-read.

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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · May 20

Dear Grok

How corrupt is Elon Musk?

Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · May 20

How many days have passed since Trump said he would end the Russian-Ukraine war (invasion really) on day one of his presidency ...?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · May 20

The US is now almost alone in climate change denial. Worse, the Trump administration is destroying even our capacity to understand it
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...

The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 16

People looking back on this period will never understand, because there is no way to understand, how Israel deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, how food aid piled up at every border of the Gaza strip and the entire world could not compel Israel to let it through

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · May 14

This week's cover, on the newsstand from tomorrow.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 26

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election

FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney

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Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Apr 21

So gutted that one of the last people the pope saw, probably under duress, was JD Vance.

Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Apr 2

please keep spending Elon ... all the way to those mid terms
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate

Liberal judge says victory is against ‘unprecedented attack on our democracy’ after defeating Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history

www.theguardian.com

Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social · Mar 18

or anyone remotely critical of MAGA