โฎ๏ธ Catch up on our recent PhD In Conversation event featuring @naikalema.bsky.social in conversation with academics on 'Decolonising Global Digital Transformation', drawing on her research on the World Bank Groupโs Global Digital Transformation initiative
๐บ Watch the event recording: buff.ly/qVnLbPu
Europeโs imperial chickens are coming home to roost.
This reads like an Onion article. Macron speaks against colonialism, as France continues to siphon vast wealth from West & Central Africa via the CFA franc. Denmark demands the US respect its sovereignty over Greenlandโa colony. #PotmeetKettle
Me as well.
โEven if a regime change operation succeeds at first, history again shows that long-term outcomes are often disappointing,โ write Alexander Downes and Lindsey OโRourke.
The America First Global Health Strategyโs melding of biocolonialism w/ data colonialism is a 21st-century Henrietta Lacks situation scaled to entire nations & continents. Entrenching Predatory AIโs extractivism aims in health policy deepens global medical apartheid.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-o...
New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. Theyโre too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when itโs medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Good morning New York, while you were sleeping this was our most read story. on.ft.com/4a2VQC9
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities on.ft.com/4iNVdim
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
During his second term, President Trump has upended 60 years of civil rights, largely under the guise of attacking DEI. On "The Daily," our reporter discusses the growing fears of what a post-civil rights government will mean for Black Americans.
The Trump administrationโs plans to incinerate $9.7 million in birth control pills and other contraceptives stored in a Belgian warehouse have left European governments struggling as they try to prevent the destruction.
Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.
Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ
DOGE cut staff without cutting workโthats not efficiency, its chaos. Far from an entrepreneurial state, Trump creates a predatory one combining pageantry & institutional looting. Thanks @damonsilvers.bsky.socialโฌ @naikalema.bsky.socialโฌ @choprausa.bsky.socialโฌ for joining me at #RethinkingTheState
Super excited to kick-off IIPP Forum 2025 with a panel Iโm hosting featuring:
@mazzucatom.bsky.social & @damonsilvers.bsky.social in conversation w/ @choprausa.bsky.socialโฌ on lessons for rethinking public value in the AI age.
Join us in-person or online!
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#RethinkingTheState
As we all try to make sense of the still-unfolding tragedy in Minnesota, please read the new article by @brianklaas.bsky.social, Associate Professor of Global Politics @ucl.ac.uk (& fellow proud Minnesotan). #OneMinnesota, #RethinkingtheState
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
One Minnesota.
๐ญRethinking Public Value in the Age of DOGE
IIPP Forum 2025: #RethinkingTheState
Join the @naikalema.bsky.social, @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @damonsilvers.bsky.social in conversation w/ @choprausa.bsky.socialโฌ on lessons for rethinking public value in the age of AI.
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Rest in peace Ngลฉgฤฉ wa Thiongโo
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
โก๏ธ Decolonising Public Administration
IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState
Join leading voices in policy and public administration to explore how decolonising approaches are reshaping how governance is taught, practiced, and experienced.
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How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (๐งต)
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Case 1:25-cv-11472 Document 1 Filed 05/23/25 Page 2 of 72 1. For more than 70 years, Harvard University ("Harvard" or the "University") has been certified by the federal government to enroll international students under the F-1 visa program, and it has long been designated as an exchange program sponsor to host J-1 nonimmigrants. Harvard has, over this time, developed programs and degrees tailored to its international students, invested millions to recruit the most talented such students, and integrated its international students into all aspects of the Harvard community. Yesterday, the government abruptly revoked that certification without process or cause, to immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders. 2. This revocation is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and the "ideology" of its faculty and students. The government's actions are unlawful for other equally clear and pernicious reasons. They disregard the government's own regulations-under which Harvard should remain certified to host F-1 and J-1 visa holders. They depart from decades of settled practice and come without rational explanation. And they were carried out abruptly without any of the robust procedures the government has established to prevent just this type of upheaval to thousands of students' lives.
REQUEST FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Harvard respectfully requests the following relief: A. Declare that Defendants' actions to revoke Harvard's SEVP certification through 69 Case 1:25-cv-11472 Document 1 Filed 05/23/25 Page 71 of 72 B. D. the Revocation Notice are unconstitutional and/or unlawful because they violate the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the APA; Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving effect to the unlawful revocation of Harvard's SEVP certification; Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from giving any force or effect to the Department of Homeland Security's May 22, 2025 Revocation Notice; Permanently enjoin Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from issuing a NOW or otherwise initiating proceedings to withdraw Harvard's SEVP certification in retaliation for Harvard's exercise of its rights under the First Amendment, or because of the viewpoint of Harvard's First Amendment protected speech, or because of Harvard's refusal to comply with the April 11 Demand Letter.
Here is Harvard's new lawsuit, over the international student revocation, filed by the same team of lawyers behind the first lawsuit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
