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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

Make that five for good measure! 🔴⚪️

“You don’t want to score first, we’ll put four past you.” … “Your choice” Arsenal Women reminding everyone London is Red!!

Un plaisir de suivre à distance la belle campagne de @guillaume-horn.bsky.social le prochain député de cette belle circonscription. 🌹 👇👇👇

There is a piece to be written about the inexorable rise of the #highered “leaders” who learned the job at Birmingham under Eastwood. Press, Peck, Tickell, etc: a remarkable collection of politically tone-deaf, arrogant managers… 1/2 www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?

Gabriel Zucman : « Il va être très difficile de demander aux Français de faire des efforts tant que les milliardaires paieront si peu d’impôts » www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Where I speak to the Guardian about the current political crisis in France. 👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Je ne suis pas grand fan de Rabiot mais le supporteur moyen du PSG n’est manifestement pas une lumière… 🤷

Nous sommes prêt·es : qu’Emmanuel Macron vienne nous chercher ! – @borisvallaud.bsky.social #UneAutreVoieEstPossible

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

Encore un enfant de l’élite qui embrasse le populisme réactionnaire faute de n’avoir eu le destin que le monde semblait lui devoir. Les arômes des années 1930 se font persistants. 👇👇👇 www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...

Back at the Emirates to celebrate the Champions of Europe! Come on you Gunners!! #AWFC #WSL

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

Aucun débat sur la dette publique française n’aura de sens s’il n’est pas en même temps un débat sur l’effondrement annoncé et avéré de l’Etat et des services publics. Le narco-trafic en est un des symptômes. 👇👇 www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

À Matignon pour réaffirmer que nous voterons contre la confiance au gouvernement de François Bayrou lundi. ✊ Il est temps de rompre avec la rigueur et l'injustice budgétaires des macronistes. Une autre voie est possible : une voie de gauche, juste et soutenable qui améliore la vie des Français·es.

The kind of good news we have been waiting for far too long: 👇👇👇 "UK preparing for Erasmus reunion" www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

Hard eye roll. Policy Exchange puts out a report which conveniently erases the UK Govt's GFA commitments on the ECHR and The Telegraph rush out stories that the experts have spoken, even as the plain wording of the GFA gives a lie to this. Patrick Minford syndrome lives on.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

The idea that insurance premiums are a good way to mitigate climate risk to housing is a common misconception that, unfortunately, can obscure real solutions to the risks of climate change and perpetuate existing inequities. Why is that? Well... 1/8

Oh hi. Just trying, as a total outsider, to build a reading list on the Middle East in the 20th c. without accidentally including something that is politically reprehensible. If any fine soul out there with expertise in this area would be willing to look over what I have, I'd be eternally grateful.

Authoritarian-style propaganda (images via Gemini)

The fact this confected issue has smothered everything else in the national debate – and is being allowed to by the government – is a tragedy and going to end very badly if the course does not change quickly.

🗃️History Hive! I need your advice. I am leaving behind the clunky, expensive database software I have been using to manage my archival notes. What tool do you recommend? For context: I write with Scrivener, organise pix with Tropy, manage references with Zotero, take note with Evernote. Thanks!

"We're just asking questions." — The Spanish Inquisition

No nation is perfect or intrinsically better than any other; not mine, not yours. But few national communities today are as deserving of our admiration and support as the proudly independent and freedom-loving people of Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Arsenal fans so giddy with excitement this morning, we’ve collectively managed to overwhelm the ticketing hub!! #COYG

I think a clarinetist just moved in next door and I am all for it! 🎶

The only solution to the war is Ru realizing it CANNOT take Ukraine. Instead, the West's thinking is wrapped up in how to convince Ru to stop wanting to take Ukraine. That's why they're looking for a solution Ru would agree to. Stop wanting to make Ru content/secure at other countries' expense!

All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home - How many times will Ukrainians have to say this? How many times? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

You have probably read this already. But, if you haven’t, you should read it, because it is a masterpiece.

Nearly half of UK universities on Bluesky not posting 👇 www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk... @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Actual Conservative front bench politicians are calling for the government to overturn a not guilty verdict returned by an independent jury in respect of a political rival. Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.

The Fundamental Truth About U.S. Strategy That Putin Knows and Trump Ignores by @mashagessen.bsky.social 👇👇👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

There is a real disconnect between media outlets putting together live coverage of A-level results and celebrating those going to university whilst also ignoring the decimation of the higher education sector and the impact that, over time, this will have on the experience of most of these students.

The diagnostic among the political class seems to be: the masses don't want uncertainty; they want us to be firm. Radical. That's been translated as: they want us to be populist and right-wing. But you can be firmly progressive. Radically honest. Radically smart. Radically competent. Just try it.

One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one! It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism. Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

Excoriating. I am not sure this is a condition that only affects US intellectuals though. I wouldn’t set much more store in their British or continental European counterparts in the same situation. This is probably - more than anything else - a matter of class.

Very strong TW sexual violence I’ve read many horrible things but the testimony given by Katie Johnson is among the most horrifying I have read. Thank you @katemanne.bsky.social for the very important work