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Jan Fichtner

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Senior Research Fellow SuFi Project @UniWH & @UvACorpnet | Global finance, age of passive investing, index providers, ESG, sustainable finance, greenwashing, decarbonization | www.jfichtner.net

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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · Jan 30

🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social

Channels of influence in sustainable finance:
A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our main arguments:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jesse Griffiths @jesselgriffiths.bsky.social · 8h

RIP the Net Zero Banking Alliance, & effectively RIP GFANZ & the idea that big financial institutions would lead us in the just transition.
Only governments can provide this leadership, with support from financial sector allies & impetus from active citizens:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch | Jesse Griffiths

RIP GFANZ. The hope that large financial sector companies would lead the green transition is dead, but it was never realistic. Only governments - through policy and regulation - can push the financial...

www.linkedin.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Nico Beckert @nicobeckert.bsky.social · 9h

"Dummerweise verwechselt man die vermeintlich klugen Texte mit echter Klugheit und gesundem Menschenverstand."

Was passiert, wenn wir bei KI-Nutzung nicht nachdenken, zeigt der Fall Deloitte.

www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/d...

Deloitte: Peinliche KI-Fehler in Bericht für Arbeitsministerium

Deloitte Australien gerät in die Kritik wegen KI-generierter Fehler in einem Bericht für das Arbeitsministerium. Falsche Zitationen und erfundene Quellen sorgen für einen kostspieligen Rückschlag. Unt...

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

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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Bentley Allan @bentleyallan.bsky.social · 19h

Today we at the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab are launching ACTIVE MATERIALS, our monthly newsletter so you can stay up to date on our research.

Subscribe here: mailchi.mp/jh/subscribe...

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Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 12d

Just arrived:

The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social

Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...

#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 23h

MAGA’s energy narrative erodes quickly:

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices

The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

www.politico.com

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Forests & Finance @forestsandfinance.bsky.social · 20h

Data via Forests & Finance
From 2016 to September 2024, major financiers, including several Brazilian banks, as well as HSBC and JP Morgan Chase, have backed Minerva’s operations across tropical regions.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the story of 2024-2025 in a nutshell:

"shit sucks, let's give this trump guy another chance"

"wait a minute, we hate donald trump!"

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Brutal BBC piece on how fast Switzerland’s glaciers are melting.

Drill baby drill. 🎶🎵

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Sánchez came to power in 2018 as a dead man walking. He has only ever led wobbly minority coalitions. Yet he has built a strong left-leaning project rooted in its own achievements: public investment, secure work, social openness. The result is a remarkably resilient government and a booming economy.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 1d

There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

A memorandum filed by Illinois and Chicago in support of their motion to stop Trump from sending in the National Guard lists almost every single reference Trump has made to invading Chicago, including social media posts.

On August 25, President Trump again referenced plans for a Chicago troop deployment,
stating: “We go in, we will solve Chicago within one week, maybe less. But within one
week, we will have no crime in Chicago just like we have no crime in D.C.”54
• On August 30, after Governor Pritzker voiced opposition to a potential Chicago troop
deployment, President Trump posted on social media that the Governor “better straighten
it out, FAST, or we’re coming!”55
• On September 2, President Trump called Chicago “a hellhole” and worse than Afghanistan;
when asked whether he had made up his mind “on Chicago,” the President answered
simply: “We’re going in – I didn’t say when, we’re going in.”56
• On September 3, President Trump sent a fundraising email to his supporters with the
subject “We’re going to Chicago!” The email began: “WE’RE GOING INTO
CHICAGO. I’m not saying when, but we’re going in!” Claiming he had “turned our Great
Capital into a Safe Zone,” President Trump declared: “NOW I WANT TO LIBERATE
CHICAGO!” After decrying that “The Radical Left Governors and Mayors of crime
ridden cities don’t want to stop the radical crime,” the President assured his supporters:
“WE’RE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY.”57

In its imagery, language, and font, the post evoked a character from the 1979 Vietnam War film,
Apocalypse Now, who led a helicopter attack on a Vietnamese village, massacring several

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

"We discuss how an excess profit tax could be used to both lower inequality and accelerate the energy transition as increasing geopolitical tensions and #climate impacts threaten continued volatility in oil and gas markets"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality

The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 3d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 2d

Zur Erinnerung: DAS ist das Problem der deutschen Automobilindustrie. (Grafik von Ember) Sie hat die Elektro-Revolution verschlafen und will jetzt verzweifelt Zulieferer retten, die nur Teile für Verbrenner herstellen können. Innovator's Dilemma in Reinkultur.

Autoexporte - Deutschland stagniert, China hat Deutschland durch gigantisches Wachstum in 2022 überholt und exportiert schon jetzt 2,5 Mio Autos mehr pro Jahr.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 3d

This is mandatory reading on what US universities seem to be facing rn

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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