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Christian Elliott

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Asst. prof at the Penn State School of International Affairs. Writing/reading/thinking about finance, global governance, and climate politics. www.christianmorinelliott.com

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Jan 12

Building a starter pack on climate change and finance.

It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!

go.bsky.app/8XqqNtg

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 5d

Best practice in academia: prepare 2-3 jokes based on out of date cultural references

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 7d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 9d

Hi! Added.

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 13d

The important dividing line in left politics is not Ezra v Ta-Nehisi.

It is people who think "goddamit, once again I was moved to tears in public listening to pod audio with Ta-Nehisi waxing poetic, I never learn my lesson" versus "this was an informative podcast"

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 19d

In this moment of crisis for America, I am relieved to receive this reassuring message from Senator Fetterman

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20d

I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 21d

We can have the dig and the ezra klein show

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 21d

I don't need him to be my superman, he can take an L from time to time

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · Sep 10

hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Sep 9

Don't worry everyone, AI will fix it, just like climate change

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 7

I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

www.nytimes.com

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Sep 2

Held together by glue

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Sep 2

I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Sep 1

mandatory @verybadwizards.bsky.social

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Aug 24

Discipline versus subject matter I'm assuming?

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Aug 5

Upping my OTM donation

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Aug 4

Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out.

NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take:
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Taco is Dead. Long Live Empanada

EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...

buttondown.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 17

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!

An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.

🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants

Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

www.science.org

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Jul 7

STOP

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Jul 5

"Despite closures being over twice as likely to occur in the Republican-controlled states that did not expand Medicaid, closures were associated with reduced support for federal Democrats and the Affordable Care Act following local closures."

YIKES

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior

Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...

link.springer.com

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Jul 4

If a political movement never gains power, is that counting as a failure?

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Jul 3

Get to spending, folks

Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jul 3

Bad news for the "Carney will be good for Canada's climate policy" camp. Sigh.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 3

Canada’s bid to become an energy superpower https://on.ft.com/4exA8Gs

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