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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · 20h

The "3.5% rule" is neither a magic spell nor a law of physics. I think that @chenoweth.bsky.social and @mariajstephan.bsky.social 's most important research finding is about the tactic of dividing an authoritarian regime from its pillars of support.

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Even if protests don’t hit 3.5%, the resistance can topple Trump

An all-hands-on-deck moment

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Jun 24

New article out from me, in which I consider: what if I'm wrong about everything re: what's important for a flourishing democracy?

I use a recent book attacking institutions & advocating disintermediated localism to explore the limits of my view.

Get it free here: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Being a Citizen in the Rubble of Institutions
Kevin J Elliott

Abstract

What is the best foundation for democracy: citizenly habits sustained informally by the spontaneous effort of citizens themselves, or formal institutions and the law? C. L. Skach's How to Be a Citizen tells us how someone who dedicated her career to the importance of law and institutions lost her faith in them and came to see the habits and informal relations of citizens as the real site of democracy. Like many observers of politics in recent years, Skach has concluded that the regnant social order based on law and institutional mediation has fatally discredited itself. But giving up on institutions and law is no small thing. There are powerful reasons for, and immense social forces tied up with, coordinating modern societies by means of them. This review article explores the tensions between Skach's approach and some of these reasons and forces. Yet it does so not in the spirit of critique but rather as a challenge for those who view institutions and law as almost unquestionably fundamental to modern life. It seeks to explore what value there is in Skach's informal, anti-institutional approach for those who have not yet entirely lost the faith she once affirmed in modernity's legal and institutional workhorses.
democratic theory, constitutionalism, modernity, judicial supremacy, institutionalism, coordination

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Where we are

Two adjacent posts:
I assume we're at war with Venezuela now.

Has the U.S. attacked Norway yet?

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 1d

"During periods of crisis ... outside pressures for purging the universities of their supposedly disloyal elements increased ... Professors and administrators responded by revising the ... definition of academic freedom to exclude ... the types of behavior the rest of the community did not like."

Book cover of No Ivory Tower by Ellen W. Schrecker.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Over 15,000 university job cuts made in the last year, UCU claims.

“This analysis exposes a UK-wide crisis in higher education,” said Jo Grady, the union’s general secretary.

Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Over 15,000 university job cuts made in the last year, UCU claims - Research Professional News

Union urges government to “stop looking the other way”, ahead of ballot for nationwide strikes

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 1d

Onnittelut!

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 1d

No-bel for Trump. Maybe a doctorate from Trump University then, as a consolation prize? Or he could strongarm Harvard and a few other Ivies into giving him a few different ones.

Or hey...there's the University for Peace in Costa Rica. President Donald J. Trump, Peace Doctor. It has a ring to it.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

Apprehension in Canada has been shifting from "God, what if these guys invade us?" to "God, what if we have to send peacekeeping forces down there?"

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

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Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 2d

Dreaming of a world without leaf-blowers.

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 2d

I think the way out for the Nobel Committee is to give Trump every single Nobel Prize this year.

Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 2d

Might as well say he'll nuke Norway if they don't give him the prize.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

This is 🤌🤌 chef's kiss beautiful.

The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 3d

"The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix", writes @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social.

Read their full piece now: https://bit.ly/4mWSYtp

Yes, Robert Jenrick, we have an integration problem: raci...

The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 3d

Asking homeowners for entry permission would kill the burglary industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 3d

A fossil fuel dominated economic power will lose in the 21st century.

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal & other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🔌💡

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4d

Jaguar with gunshot wounds rescued from river in Brazil.

A wounded jaguar, reportedly injured by gunfire, is rescued by Brazilian military police and members of SEPET — the Animal Protection Secretariat for the Amazonas, in the waters of Rio Negro, Brazil

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 4d

Ja tosiaan olen tässä jo puolisolle varovasti ehdotellut maastamuuttoa, jos velkajarru saadaan juntattua kehiin, koska Lindtmanin SDP:n johdolla sitä tullaan noudattamaan. Siinä on sen verran monta leikkausvuotta edessä, että itse kunkin työpaikat tulevat vaarantumaan.

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 4d

Velkapelko on tähän maahan syvästi institutionalisoitunut. Valtionvelka on ns. liberaalille väestön osalle sama kuin maahanmuutto persuille: sen varjolla aivan kaikki menee läpi.

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 4d

Procrastination 101

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