David Mallery
@dmallery.bsky.social
Lecturer in ecological economics | complexity theory | post-normal science | ecological political economy
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I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
I felt this way in 2008 as well, and I still believe we're where we are now because we didn't bother to do this back then.
"Should the opposition ever regain power, it should commit to prosecuting members of this regime at every level to the fullest extent of the law."
The Distance Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism
It’s not a hypocrisy. It’s a coherent worldview.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I felt this way in 2008 as well, and I still believe we're where we are now because we didn't bother to do this back then.
“The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers,” said Malte Humpert, founder and senior fellow at The Arctic Institute. “You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.”
‘Completely bonkers’: Trump’s Greenland mining dreams collide with reality | CNN Business
Greenland’s untapped mineral wealth has landed the island at the top of President Donald Trump’s empire-building wish list.
edition.cnn.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
“The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers,” said Malte Humpert, founder and senior fellow at The Arctic Institute. “You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.”
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The gall to treat the 2024 election like it was a binding referendum on American culture, a lasting “vibe shift” to which others must accommodate, then within a year proclaim the cultural change over, as if a bystander, not an active contributor manufacturing vibe shifts by overdetermining results.
December 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The gall to treat the 2024 election like it was a binding referendum on American culture, a lasting “vibe shift” to which others must accommodate, then within a year proclaim the cultural change over, as if a bystander, not an active contributor manufacturing vibe shifts by overdetermining results.
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking.
Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.
But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?
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New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...
Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.
But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?
🧵
New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...
Why Clarity Feels Dangerous (Especially If You’re an Academic)
The Hardest Work in Writing Is Saying What You Really Mean
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking.
Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.
But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?
🧵
New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...
Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.
But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?
🧵
New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...
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Why? Because neoliberalism replaced empowered freedom with economic freedom, it hollowed out the democratic functions of public life, while at the same time failing to deliver, and even betraying, those functions at the institutional level.
Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds
Support is lowest in France, Spain and Poland, while 21% back authoritarian rule under certain circumstances
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Why? Because neoliberalism replaced empowered freedom with economic freedom, it hollowed out the democratic functions of public life, while at the same time failing to deliver, and even betraying, those functions at the institutional level.
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"If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.“
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies.
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies.
June 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.“
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies.
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies.
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Can't help but think of a paraphrase of William Gibson's old chestnut: The war is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
June 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Can't help but think of a paraphrase of William Gibson's old chestnut: The war is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
This recalls Nordhaus insisting climate impacts on agriculture would not produce "a very large effect," since ag is only 3% of GDP. 40% poorer is the least of our worries at 4C hotter. The issue isn't economic models underestimating CC; it's that monetary valuation cannot encompass the true cost.
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This recalls Nordhaus insisting climate impacts on agriculture would not produce "a very large effect," since ag is only 3% of GDP. 40% poorer is the least of our worries at 4C hotter. The issue isn't economic models underestimating CC; it's that monetary valuation cannot encompass the true cost.
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Smart, sober response from Canada’s Prime Minister to the destruction my government is wreaking. The US won the geo-political lottery having Canada and Mexico as neighbors, and the Trump Administration is destroying our advantages.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Smart, sober response from Canada’s Prime Minister to the destruction my government is wreaking. The US won the geo-political lottery having Canada and Mexico as neighbors, and the Trump Administration is destroying our advantages.
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I spent my Tuesday at an event in Warsaw listening to representatives from Polish civil society discussing their experience in fighting back against authoritarianism. Maybe it's time for pro-democracy groups in the US to start engaging with them because that's clearly not happening at the moment.
March 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I spent my Tuesday at an event in Warsaw listening to representatives from Polish civil society discussing their experience in fighting back against authoritarianism. Maybe it's time for pro-democracy groups in the US to start engaging with them because that's clearly not happening at the moment.
'The Trump/Musk team hopes to complete dismantling and then reordering the Deep State before the base catches on. Then, once the media, universities and liberal donors have been intimidated sufficiently, it will be too late to protest effectively. That is the plan.'
Fighting the Neoliberal-Fascist Coup by Trump and Musk | Common Dreams
Time is short during a fascist takeover attempt. And Trump and Musk are moving at breakneck speed. The stakes could not be higher.
www.commondreams.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
'The Trump/Musk team hopes to complete dismantling and then reordering the Deep State before the base catches on. Then, once the media, universities and liberal donors have been intimidated sufficiently, it will be too late to protest effectively. That is the plan.'
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Thomas Homer-Dixon: "The rules-based international order on which the principle of territorial sovereignty is based – is unravelling towards something akin to Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature – a world governed by brute force and the will of the strongest." #Canada cascadeinstitute.org/prepare-for-...
If you want peace, prepare for war—an ancient lesson Canada must remember - Cascade Institute %
Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against a the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.
cascadeinstitute.org
March 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Thomas Homer-Dixon: "The rules-based international order on which the principle of territorial sovereignty is based – is unravelling towards something akin to Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature – a world governed by brute force and the will of the strongest." #Canada cascadeinstitute.org/prepare-for-...
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The US is not doing a "reverse Kissinger" (splitting Russia from China). It is destroying the Western Alliance from within, thereby helping Russia and China. Hard to get your head around. Best attempt is this here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/18/u...
The Key to Understanding Trump’s Chaotic Foreign Policy
Around the world, the White House seems to be aiding autocracies at the expense of democracy.
foreignpolicy.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The US is not doing a "reverse Kissinger" (splitting Russia from China). It is destroying the Western Alliance from within, thereby helping Russia and China. Hard to get your head around. Best attempt is this here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/18/u...
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Together, these two faiths crave the end of American liberal democracy and government. You can smell it at GSA.
They won't replace us with AI because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.
They won't replace us with AI because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Together, these two faiths crave the end of American liberal democracy and government. You can smell it at GSA.
They won't replace us with AI because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.
They won't replace us with AI because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.
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Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
March 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
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Evidence mounting of a secret Putin-Trump agreement to subjugate Europe.
Telegraph reports:
" “Trump is angry that they [Europe] appear to be pushing for war,” a source close to the White House said. "
(...)
"the president is considering redeploying troops from Germany to Hungary"
Evidence mounting of a secret Putin-Trump agreement to subjugate Europe.
Telegraph reports:
" “Trump is angry that they [Europe] appear to be pushing for war,” a source close to the White House said. "
(...)
"the president is considering redeploying troops from Germany to Hungary"
March 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Evidence mounting of a secret Putin-Trump agreement to subjugate Europe.
Telegraph reports:
" “Trump is angry that they [Europe] appear to be pushing for war,” a source close to the White House said. "
(...)
"the president is considering redeploying troops from Germany to Hungary"
Evidence mounting of a secret Putin-Trump agreement to subjugate Europe.
Telegraph reports:
" “Trump is angry that they [Europe] appear to be pushing for war,” a source close to the White House said. "
(...)
"the president is considering redeploying troops from Germany to Hungary"
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1/ Donald Trump may be aiming to annex the Great Lakes – and possibly south-eastern Ontario in a maximalist scenario – and kick Canada out of NORAD, judging by first-hand accounts of talks between Canada and the Trump Administration. ⬇️
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1/ Donald Trump may be aiming to annex the Great Lakes – and possibly south-eastern Ontario in a maximalist scenario – and kick Canada out of NORAD, judging by first-hand accounts of talks between Canada and the Trump Administration. ⬇️
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This is not how or why I wanted liberal democracies to come around to the idea of taxing the wealthy, but, at this point, I'll take what I can get. Why is it there's never a "magic money tree" until we suddenly need to bail out the banks, or build tanks and drones?
French economy minister floats taxing the rich to fund military buildup
To raise money for an increase in defense spending, Paris is looking at tapping into “those with substantial savings.”
www.politico.eu
March 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is not how or why I wanted liberal democracies to come around to the idea of taxing the wealthy, but, at this point, I'll take what I can get. Why is it there's never a "magic money tree" until we suddenly need to bail out the banks, or build tanks and drones?
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the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it
If you listen to that last clip of the US VP doing the rounds, it does feel like some sort of analysis showing what these people are huffing on the regular is sorely missing from mainstream commentary
This is it. You cannot explain in polite conversation that the higher echelons of US policy making are on personal terms with something called Bronze Age Pervert without yourself sounding like a maniac
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it
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Tyranny has come to America and our political class is so convinced of the fact that political ideas must be disguised in the language of grocery prices that it is unwilling and unable to even say what’s happening
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Tyranny has come to America and our political class is so convinced of the fact that political ideas must be disguised in the language of grocery prices that it is unwilling and unable to even say what’s happening
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Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days
in this house, we have heckin' doggos, we adult like a boss, we drink IPAs, we listen to Matt and Kim, and we also are apparently the only age cohort meaningfully committed to liberal democracy
March 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days