For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands

Three top Italian officials in Giorgia Meloni’s government helped a Libyan warlord escape justice earlier this year and concealed secret meetings about his case from parliament, according to a report to the legislature summarizing the prosecution’s case.

Meloni: "Israele a Gaza ha superato il limite". Che evidentemente era di 19.999 bambini uccisi. [ibico]

MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience. His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way." His followers won't hear it from a woman. www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Can we please stop using this toxic rhetoric of stardom in academia?

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

MOSKOWITZ: Will you be opening up an investigation into the Epstein state for putting out a fake document w/the president's signature linking him to the world's largest pedophile ring? PATEL: On what basis? M: They literally put out a fake document according to the president! P: Sure, I'll do it

Patel's hearings are a new entertainment genre.

If Trump wasn't in the Epstein files, Kash Patel would be happy to say so plainly. His evasiveness says plenty.

Patel is completely unhinged

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

Raskin to Patel: "In a few short months, how did you go from being a crusader for accountability and transparency with the Epstein files to being part of the conspiracy and coverup? The answer is simple. You said it yourself -- because of who is on that list."

Ezra Klein, watch this.

The Party of European Socialists has voted to permanently kick out Slovakia’s Smer party, led by Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to two officials with knowledge of the decision.

This a.m. I spent 2 hours in a high powered international climate policy meeting focused on understanding mitigation narratives in advanced economies. Three personal and loosely elaborated thoughts on hearing the experts in the room (these are “technocrats” à la advisors in UNEP, EDF, etc).

The official language of Jamaica is....wait for it.... English. These performances truly are targeted only at the stupidest people alive

A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

before we even know the identity of Charlie Kirk's shooter, Joni Ernst blames "the left" for "silencing voices through violence"

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Nearly 50,000 Americans die by shooting every year and were now being asked to see the shooting of a guy who thought it was a price worth paying for freedom as some kind of horrendous injustice

it took the president more than 12 hours to come up with this

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Trump has made it quite clear that he is going to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as an opportunity to crush his perceived enemies. He’s already blaming the ‘radical left’ - even though we do not know the identity or motives of the shooter. Dangerous times for a president to play with fire

Extending what is happening in the federal government into higher ed: faculty being purged because they are disfavored by the new regime

The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Sorry it is like this but the truth is: The media won’t save you from fascism. The courts won’t save you from fascism (in the short term). People need to rebel and resist. It is a lot of mental work, resistance, and investment. But the alternative is to lose the rest of humanity we have left.

REGROUP has officially ended! Over the past three years, we explored a resilient post-pandemic EU through papers, events, blogs & videos. Huge thanks to all who contributed and supported us! Our website stays online for 3 more years. Explore our findings here: regroup-horizon.eu

What's next? 👉 The project ends this week, but research on a resilient EU doesn't stop here! 🇪🇺 After diagnosing the key challenges in EU pandemic governance and policy responses, work packages 1–4 share where future research is headed. Read more here: regroup-horizon.eu/about/

New blog article! 🖊️ Should the EU trade democracy for efficiency in emergencies? During COVID, oversight of delegated powers nearly vanished, only 1 act was vetoed. Giulia Gallinella, at LUISS, suggests that future crises need stronger safeguards. Read more here: regroup-horizon.eu/blog-galline...

New blog article! 🖊️ Credibility in disinformation isn’t just about content, it’s shaped by identity cues. Martijn Schoonvelde and Elizaveta Gaufman argue that EU policy must go beyond fact-checking to fight #disinformation properly. 👉 Read the recommendations: regroup-horizon.eu/blog-credibi...

New blog post! 🖊️ How can digitalisation strengthen democracy instead of undermining it? Christopher Lord, at @unioslo-arena.bsky.social, argues we need more than “ethical” tech, we need democratic standards. That means equal access and respect for rights. Read here: regroup-horizon.eu/blog-lord/

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik

If fascists feel comfortable "protesting", it's because they have been made to feel comfortable by mainstream politicians and media accepting their politics as "legitimate grievances", shamefully lapping up the idea these people care about women and children rather than white male supremacy

#minipublic explainer 👉 Scientific communication! This refers to how scientific knowledge is shared with the public. At the transnational mini-public, a discussion arose how to present information at times when knowledge is scarce and rapidly changing. See here: regroup-horizon.eu/transnationa...

Asking the team of work package 6: "What advice would you give to an EU-policy-maker?" To address the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and strengthen democratic governance, they recommend the below measures. 👇 Read the papers on our website: regroup-horizon.eu/work-package...

Motherfucking wind farms…

In our “Meeting with...” video on political expertise, Piero Tortola (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) dives into the complex dynamic between policymakers, experts, and citizens during the pandemic. What made it complex? It was a multidimensional crisis. 👇 Watch the full video here: shorturl.at/k2Exf

European politics in turbulent times: What did we learn? 👉 New blog At our project's final conference, leading experts and researchers came together to reflect on this critical issue, which concluded three years of #regroup research! Read the key take-aways here: regroup-horizon.eu/final-confer...

"The most employable person in conservative circles today is usually the one who makes the loudest claim to have been rendered unemployable."

Curious about the keynote by Prof. Ferrera at our final conference? Watch the recording and read the highlights in the new blog article by the European University Institute. 👉 Dive into the policy lessons learned for a stronger, more responsive Europe. Read more here: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

🎥 New #regroup video! 👉 What is #NextGenerationEU and has it delivered on its promises? @andreacapati.bsky.social, at LUISS University, unpacks NGEU's impact on EU policy-making and what it means for upcoming initiatives like #RearmEurope. Watch the video here: regroup-horizon.eu/video-capati/

What does the EU public think about COVID-19 experts? Using a multi-level mini-public approach, Benjamin Leruth and Piero Tortola explore how EU citizens view the credibility and influence of experts in shaping COVID-19 policy decisions. Read more here: shorturl.at/bFiQi

These DC bureaucrats need to learn how the world actually works: by having things handed to you because your dad was a Senator.