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Philippe Marlière @phmarliere.bsky.social · 23h

Par rapport à 2024:
Le RN confirme sa large domination (33-34%).
Le bloc macroniste recule nettement (14-16%).
LR remontent un peu (12-13%).
Reconquête en hausse (5-6%).
Le NFP, le meilleur scénario, mais il mais baisse par rapport à 2024 (-4%). Le PS confirme qu’il est le premier parti à gauche.

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 3d

Le retour de Bruno Le Maire démontre que la littérature érotique conserve ses lettres de noblesse dans les plus hautes sphères de l’Etat. Je m’étonne que l’on ne s’en réjouisse pas plus bruyamment, notamment dans les casernes.

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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Invincibles Day.

a man holds up a trophy with a crown on top

ALT: a man holds up a trophy with a crown on top

media.tenor.com

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 3d

And yet another reminder that genuinely progressive, emancipatory politics must focus on places as much as on people.
No one lives in the liberal abstract contractual sphere. No one.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 4d

Brussels should indeed. Also, I note that Tisza (the Magyar-led opposition in Hungary) is focusing a lot of organising effort on rural areas. Partly because Orban has skewed the electoral system away from opposition-controlled urban areas, but also because rural areas are feeling very left behind.

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 4d

#Czechia re-elects #Babiš. The map tells the tale: #Prague holds out, towns & rural areas—where status, jobs & faith have faded—swing.
Brussels should invest in the places time forgot or brace for irrelevance.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Dec 15

If you like a piece of writing, don't just screenshot it with a post saying how much you like it.
Link to it. Support the person who wrote it and the outlet that published it.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

If you would like to become a Fellow or Member of the Society, we have several membership categories for historians of different backgrounds and career stages: bit.ly/4gXhsBw

Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2

Image of urban map with text: 'Join the Royal Historical Society. Closing dates for next application rounds: Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025.

The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.'

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 9d

Long day; happy day… 🤓
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10d

I think this is very insightful and has come through in many right-wing narratives since the Tea Party.

Essentially, right-wing America accepted Obama under the condition that he would absolve them and the country of racism. When he didn’t, they felt victimized and went unapologetically racist.

When the right broke, according to the right

"That's what radicalized you all?"

smotus.substack.com

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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 11d

The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available!

firstworldwarstudies.org/wp-content/u...

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 11d

Peut-être n’est-ce pas si surprenant. @jlmelenchon.bsky.social est-il vraiment autre chose qu’un national-populiste ?

Ses dérives traduisent sans doute la vraie nature de son projet.

On peut hurler être de gauche et avoir cessé, comme lui, de l’être depuis bien longtemps.

Laurent Mauduit @laurentmauduit.bsky.social · 11d

Le soutien de @JLMelenchon à #Dassault, dont les ramifications avec l'extrême droite sont nombreuses (cf mon livre #Collaborations), laisse pantois. Et, concernant Dassault, ce n'est pas le premier dérapage du genre...

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 15d

14-year-old son listening and singing along to Careless Whisper wasn’t quite on my 2025 parenting bingo card… 😂

a man in a pink shirt and yellow gloves

Alt: George Michael in a pink shirt and yellow gloves, proper 80s glamour

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18d

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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Guillaume Horn @guillaume-horn.bsky.social · 20d

Un grand merci à @borisvallaud pour son soutien 🙏✨

🗳 Les Français de la 5ème circonscription des Français de l’étranger pourront voter électroniquement dès le vendredi 19 septembre.

Ensemble, faisons entendre une voix de gauche et d’union Parlement ✊🌹
#Vote #FrançaisDeLEtranger #Élections

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Guillaume Horn @guillaume-horn.bsky.social · 20d

Réunion publique à Barcelone !
Jeudi 18 septembre à 19h30

📍 PSC Barcelona – Carrer Consell de Cent, 416, 08009 Barcelone

Avec: Nathalie de Oliveira et Ferran Pedret i Santos , Président du groupe parlementaire socialiste

#GuillaumeHorn #PartiSocialiste #PRG #FrançaisDeLEtranger #Barcelone

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 20d

Il fut un temps où l'anarchie se revendiquait à visage découvert et s'affirmait avec un talent et un courage qui manifestement vous échappent. Bon vent.

Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 21d

On se connaît ?

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 21d

I wonder how they’ll square this with the REF scores when only a fraction of 3/4 star work is externally funded, at least in SHAPE subjects.

Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 21d

Hard to shake off the impression that this discourse is little else than an attempt to disguise shrinking budgets as strategic choices.

Who is going to decide what is not internationally competitive and how?

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UK research ‘trying to do too many things’, warns new UKRI leader - Research Professional News

Ian Chapman wants funding emphasis on world-leading areas, but experts warn of system “inertia”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 21d

“A quand un Puy du Fou de gauche ?”
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www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Arnaud Fossier, historien : « A quand un Puy du Fou de gauche ? »

TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », le médiéviste se demande quel Moyen Age mettre en scène pour contrer les projets culturels des milliardaires d’extrême droite.

www.lemonde.fr

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23d

"We stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech. HOWEVER, that right does not extend to speech that incites harm OR UNDERMINES THE DIGNITY OF OTHERS."

Emphasis added because holy fuck

@ClemsonUniv on X: A statement from Clemson University: [image of statement]

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 24d

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TMH (@thememoryhole)

“People who can’t make love, make money”

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Guillaume Horn @guillaume-horn.bsky.social · 25d

Retour à Lisbonne, où la remontada se fait sentir auprès des électeurs ! Merci à Nathalie de Oliveira, qui m’accompagne sur cette terre qui lui est chère et dont la connaissance du terrain est inégalée.

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 26d

Make that five for good measure!
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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 26d

“You don’t want to score first, we’ll put four past you.”
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“Your choice”

Arsenal Women reminding everyone London is Red!!

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 26d

“You don’t want to score first, we’ll put four past you.”
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“Your choice”

Arsenal Women reminding everyone London is Red!!

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 26d

Un plaisir de suivre à distance la belle campagne de @guillaume-horn.bsky.social le prochain député de cette belle circonscription. 🌹
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Guillaume Horn @guillaume-horn.bsky.social · 26d

MADRID : 5 : 3 : Rencontre avec Valérie Parra Palayé et Jesus Gallego, représentants du syndicat UGT.

6-7 : Passage à l'Entraide, association historique qui apporte son aide aux personnes les plus précaires, et donation de plusieurs aliments de premières nécessités.