Javid Ibad
@javidibad.bsky.social
#MSCA #PhD Candidate @vortex-europe.bsky.social
Research Assistant, Faculty of the European Studies, UBB,Cluj.
#PolSci #MainstreamRight #FarRight #Parties #Radicalization #Europe
Research Assistant, Faculty of the European Studies, UBB,Cluj.
#PolSci #MainstreamRight #FarRight #Parties #Radicalization #Europe
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Not too shocking from an extremist like Fuentes.
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Not too shocking from an extremist like Fuentes.
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
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A Europe-led NATO would be very French.
February 14, 2026 at 5:25 PM
A Europe-led NATO would be very French.
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Together, we are America.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Together, we are America.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
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Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/
Home - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.sv.uio.no
February 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/
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The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse".
Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".
Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
January 26, 2026 at 12:01 AM
The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse".
Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".
Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".
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Yes, I am single-issue posting. Because, here in the U.S., the regime's ICE attack on the country is the main story. No one is safe here as long as heavily armed gangs of thugs are roaming the streets and the regime is covering their crimes with lies.
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Yes, I am single-issue posting. Because, here in the U.S., the regime's ICE attack on the country is the main story. No one is safe here as long as heavily armed gangs of thugs are roaming the streets and the regime is covering their crimes with lies.
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Absolute drivel from the BBCs live feed. Despite there being abundant evidence to contradict the repulsive Noem, her words are reported uncritically, in line with the apparent belief that presenting a lie alongside the truth and calling both “narratives” has anything to do with journalism.
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Absolute drivel from the BBCs live feed. Despite there being abundant evidence to contradict the repulsive Noem, her words are reported uncritically, in line with the apparent belief that presenting a lie alongside the truth and calling both “narratives” has anything to do with journalism.
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1
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🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Transphobia destroys your capacity to evaluate the world and politicians.
This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.
This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 21, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Transphobia destroys your capacity to evaluate the world and politicians.
This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.
This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.
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Utterly extraordinary. Trump is clearly very serious about using every tool at his disposal to help his far-right allies abroad. This would ordinarily surely be grounds for revoking the culprits' diplomatic credentials.
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
January 20, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Utterly extraordinary. Trump is clearly very serious about using every tool at his disposal to help his far-right allies abroad. This would ordinarily surely be grounds for revoking the culprits' diplomatic credentials.
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Portuguese presidential election yields 2nd round between center left Seguro & far right Ventura.
Honestly shocking that the main center right party (PSD) fails to endorse Seguro. They would benefit from reading @dziblatt.bsky.social’s historical work on the topic www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Honestly shocking that the main center right party (PSD) fails to endorse Seguro. They would benefit from reading @dziblatt.bsky.social’s historical work on the topic www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Cambridge Core - Political Sociology - Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
www.cambridge.org
January 18, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Portuguese presidential election yields 2nd round between center left Seguro & far right Ventura.
Honestly shocking that the main center right party (PSD) fails to endorse Seguro. They would benefit from reading @dziblatt.bsky.social’s historical work on the topic www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Honestly shocking that the main center right party (PSD) fails to endorse Seguro. They would benefit from reading @dziblatt.bsky.social’s historical work on the topic www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Bateu mal ou devolveu de propósito? Brahim Diaz foi de cavadinha e perdeu o pênalti
January 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Bateu mal ou devolveu de propósito? Brahim Diaz foi de cavadinha e perdeu o pênalti
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Woah - we're deep in injury time at the end of the Afcon final, Morocco are given a soft VAR penalty... and Senegal's manager has taken his players off the pitch in protest!
January 18, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Woah - we're deep in injury time at the end of the Afcon final, Morocco are given a soft VAR penalty... and Senegal's manager has taken his players off the pitch in protest!
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If you asked me what I believe is one of the biggest threats to European democracies today, I’d say it's the self-proclaimed political centre, which is either too dumb, too ignorant, or too hypocritical to admit that they themselves are constantly doing the far right’s work.
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
If you asked me what I believe is one of the biggest threats to European democracies today, I’d say it's the self-proclaimed political centre, which is either too dumb, too ignorant, or too hypocritical to admit that they themselves are constantly doing the far right’s work.
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New blog post! Joshua Farrell-Molloy explains how Irish #far-right groups use #masculinity and republican symbols to frame themselves as defenders of #Ireland. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Masculinity and Militant Traditions: The Shaping of a Home-Grown Irish Far-Right
- C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
Joshua Farrell-Molloy elucidates how masculinity helps explain performances of militant republican aesthetics by Irish far-right actors, who bind a revolutionary past to contemporary opposition to imm...
www.sv.uio.no
January 10, 2026 at 10:34 AM
New blog post! Joshua Farrell-Molloy explains how Irish #far-right groups use #masculinity and republican symbols to frame themselves as defenders of #Ireland. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed.
Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.
Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed.
Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.
Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.
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Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months."
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months."
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
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If we end up in a large European war, it will be somewhat funny to write the story of how we sleepwalked into it. How many people preferred to obsessively ramble about "trans women in bathrooms" as the supposedly most important issue at hand, while the Russian threat so obviously kept growing.
January 7, 2026 at 7:41 AM
If we end up in a large European war, it will be somewhat funny to write the story of how we sleepwalked into it. How many people preferred to obsessively ramble about "trans women in bathrooms" as the supposedly most important issue at hand, while the Russian threat so obviously kept growing.
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A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.
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An article from December 1996 warns that Bulgaria has no chance of joining Europe and the euro would replace the lev only after the second coming of Christ. Brace yourselves, the euro replaces the lev tonight at midnight! 🤣(and, of course, Bulgaria did join the EU in 2007).
December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
An article from December 1996 warns that Bulgaria has no chance of joining Europe and the euro would replace the lev only after the second coming of Christ. Brace yourselves, the euro replaces the lev tonight at midnight! 🤣(and, of course, Bulgaria did join the EU in 2007).
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Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
December 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...