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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Samenleving & Politiek @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · 1d

@jdceulaer.bsky.social, Mark Elchardus, Rudi Laermans, ... zijn geen fan van gelote burgerpanels.

Filip De Rynck onderzoekt de scherpe kritiek én belicht de verrassende meerwaarde in de praktijk.

Gelote burgerpanels: versterking of uitholling van de democratie

Zijn gelote burgerpanels een verrijking van de democratie of een elitaire illusie? Ik onderzoek de scherpe kritiek én belicht de verrassende meerwaarde in de praktijk.

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apache/ @apache.be · 1d

Op de tweede verjaardag van een oorlog die uitgroeide tot een genocide, staat Gaza aan de vooravond van wat velen “vrede” hopen te noemen. Maar wie goed kijkt, ziet: deze vrede werd en cours de route al verwrongen en gekoloniseerd.
apache.be/2025/10/07/v...

De vredesonderhandelingen rond Gaza zijn nu al doordrenkt van koloniaal onrecht

Na twee jaar oorlog heerst ook in het vredesplan de straffeloosheid.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷‍♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'“We need a more long-term strategic partnership,” he said, noting that this could mean fewer but larger grants being awarded across the research landscape.' 2/3

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Call for Proposals is now 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍

🏛️ 13th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
✅ Submit Panels & Papers across 18 Sections buff.ly/to6v8Km
📆 1 – 3 July 2026 📍Università di Catania
🔔 Deadline: Wed 10 Dec buff.ly/a3kcN3s

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Ewout Klei @ewoutklei.bsky.social · 2d

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 4d

When I was a kid, I saw diversity all over the media I consumed because we all understood it was a good thing. Now suddenly any display of diversity is considered dangerous. Wonder why.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 6d

This is perhaps the ultimate expression of the phenomenon feminist theorist Marilyn Frye described 50yrs ago: that many self-proclaimed heterosexual men neither like nor desire women.
This is why the bros invented RealDolls & now AI "actresses:" they want femininity, not human beings who are women.

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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 5d

This ultimately comes down to the EU's well-known dilemma: there are instruments which *could* be really effective, but the best instruments don't help you if you have no strategy for using them because you lack a definition of your interests and objectives.

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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 5d

"An anti-coercion instrument adopted two years ago was supposed to be the gun on the table to deter economic bullying, but it has done no such thing. EU has been shaken down for its lunch money by browbeaters from all sides this year & shown that it does not have the pain threshold to punch back."

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 5d

Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise against China in age of economic warfare

My report on the search for leverage against coercion from Beijing and Washington.

The elephant in the room: would it take for Brussels to act?

Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise in a new age of economic warfare

Bureaucrats look for leverage against coercion from Beijing and Washington but what would it take for Brussels to act?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 6d

When writing this we did it with the hope that it wouldn't remain an ever-green comment on the state of the Labour Party.

For a brief moment during Starmer's conference speech I became more hopeful. As Starmer talks about Labour's latest radical right policy today, I've corrected myself.

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 6d

"When radical-right words come from Labour mouths, the nativist and illiberal values attached to these words become increasingly normalised, shifting the boundaries of what is politically acceptable"
@tabouchadi.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7d

Here's the argument that bans on Pride marches fall within the scope of EU law (and are in breach of EU law), by Attila Szabó - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/04/buda...

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 8d

This is grounds for Congress to remove Trump today.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8d

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

I moan about British politics but I suppose we should be glad that our party leaders are not yet asking the generals to declare war on their own citizens.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

benansell.substack.com

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 8d

Can’t wait to see how the New York Times both-sides this and how Ezra Klein exhorts us to engage with it in good faith.

Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 8d

So, what do we do now that Donald Trump has officially declared war on...us? Serious question.

www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...

Trump: Military should use "dangerous" U.S. cities as training grounds

He told military leaders "we have to handle" the so-called "enemy from within."

www.axios.com

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 10d

You can trust analytic truth because you can trust analytic truth.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trust-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update where a woman comments that she hates the phrase "Trust the Science" (featured here on a t-shirt) because science is a never-ending process and at best we can say that we trust people with a greater expertise in a given question. She then reveals her ideal shirt slogan: Trust Analytic Truth P⮕P

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 9d

Powerful Speech

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaq...

Finland’s President Delivers Most Inspiring, Powerful UN Speech Yet on Multipolar World Order | AC1G

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb delivered one of the most powerful speeches at the 80th UN General Assembly. He laid out a roadmap to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, warned about global power…

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 10d

None of this makes any sense and everyone else is supposed to be running around taking them seriously and treating their idiotic ideas with respect.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 10d

New at Tusk: According to Ben Shapiro and other conservatives, they were promised a post-racial nation, and Barack Obama broke the deal.

When the right broke, according to the right

"That's what radicalized you all?"

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · Sep 9

this is very exciting for me because I co-wrote this movie, along with you and everyone else who has ever posted words on the internet

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8

OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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Nigel @nigelvs.bsky.social · 13d

Het is heel snel een dominant mediaframe aan het worden dat verzet tegen extreemrechts onnodig polariserend is

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