Tak til de socialdemokratiske borgmestre 🙏🙏🙏 Mens minister Kaare Dybvad lidt frisk siger at kontanthjælpsreformen ikke for alvor er trådt i kraft kan lokalpolitikerne fortælle om børnefattigdom og en bekymrende frygt for stigende hjemløshed #dkpol www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

“…following popular demands and reacting to the political void of incapable states, the church has systematically filled a rhetorical space for political action.” - @fgenovese.bsky.social “Politics ex cathedra: Religious authority and the Pope in modern IR” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

New Etched in Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... Timothy Garton Ash has for decades chronicled Europe’s upheavals with a historian’s depth & a journalist’s eye. In my conversation with Garton Ash, one theme stood out: writing as a defense of democracy. 🧵

Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.

Gavelink til dagens måske mest frustrerende artikel om forurening af vores drikkevand www.information.dk/indland/2025...

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very sorry to read of the passing of Dame Jane Goodall, who was - among many, many other things - every bit the interviewee you might have hoped she would be. This was recorded in 2018, and was a total delight. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Heard it in a meeting last week and have to say had the same reaction. But then again... following the EU's contract earlier this year... makes just as much sense as any other trade deal

The ideas and the infrastructure for an authoritarian regime are all there, the institutions are doing almost nothing to halt its development, there is no significant organised opposition. What am I missing?

Apparently the UK site Bookshop.org has now expanded to provide ebooks as well as just physical (this was standard in the US but has only just reached the UK site).

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

These are the people in the room, just to emphasize the point here.

Many students use AI to get their work done. I think this is a disaster for higher education — it circumvents the process of learning, and expertise never gets built. I wrote about it for The Argument today, with findings from our latest poll on AI attitudes. www.theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-an...

The President of the United States tells assembled US top brass that he wants to use the US military to kill US citizens on US soil.

For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)

No longer on a weekly basis, but I could not resist .... open.substack.com/pub/adamprze...

All NATO member countries should be summoning the US Ambassadors to their states and asking "What the hell was that?"

For what it may be worth, current and former senior military are among the people I've met who take climate change most seriously: they're the ones who'll lose wars if they don't adapt to shifting physical and geographical environments.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

Skidt for mediepluraliteten i Danmark, når mediehusene opkøber mindre konkurrenter. I Frankrig er der store problemer med koncentration af ejerskab. I Danmark er ejermodellen anderledes, men i mine øjne er det bedre med flere små medier til at bide de store i hælene.

“I warn you not to lose your job. I warn you not to have a workplace accident. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to make plans.”

So utterly sad. This is how democracy dies.

How well are young people represented along the recruitment ladder? The pipeline problem for the Danish youth is within parties, since they are eager to stand for election and well represented at the parliamentary level. New article out in @ecpr.bsky.social's EPS. Open access: rdcu.be/eIiM1.

Fra og med i dag kan I på tro og love bestille vacciner for influenza og Covid, hvis I har en kronisk tilstand der gør dem nødvendige vacciner.dk/FAQpage/Page...

As a culture we really need to normalise not clicking on clickbait, and rewarding non-clickbait outlets with clicks. Call it an investment in not having a media that treats us like idiots.

Det her er et fantastisk interview med demokratiforskningens nestor @adamprz.bsky.social. Hvis du interesserer dig for USAs demokratis fremtid (og det bør du, for det er afgørende for både din og dine børns egen fremtid) er det læsværdigt!

Feel the same about British pundits and politicians - the type that produces pieces like: « party loyalty is fragmenting and a populist far right party is threatening to take 30% of the vote. This is a uniquely British problem, no other country has ever seen this, it’s probably about Brexit. »

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

I feel like this needs to be said, as I don’t feel many Americans get this: THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!! No, not even for authoritarian leaders in nominally democratic regimes. In Hungary, Poland, even Turkey*, authoritarian leaders do/did not regularly send the military into its peaceful cities!

"I am a Gramscian in that I believe that to become hegemonic an ideology must offer a vision of a future in which the interests of those who rule coincide with the interests of everyone else. MAGA fails to offer one...Yet the opposition to MAGA also fails to offer an alternative."

Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly. What then must we do? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

And it cannot be repeated enough: this goes for all social democratic parties in Western Europe

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...

After buying tea at the oldest tea shop in Copenhagen I had a hard fall in another shop (a step they forgot to mark), so all I can do on this sunny day is to have coffee (or tea) and use my right arm as little as possible.

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is a good point. At this stage Trump saying something crazy is like saying the sun rose again. It’s not newsworthy.

"I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. In America we've taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration." –Trump to the UN Suddenly feel the need to share my article "Beyond the Nation State: Rereading Hannah Arendt's 'We Refugees' Eighty Years Later" again

thoughts and prayers for all the political text analysis folks soon trying to make sense of UN general assembly statements

Some of us do.

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

Nothing could be more American <positive and derogatory> than a sitting governor using an Andor quote about Jimmy Kimmel being off air for a week.

I guess they did switch Disney off and on again and it kinda worked

Sparta was an authoritarian state that suppressed all forms of cultural and political expression in order to brainwash its citizens into a life dedicated to war. Every year they carried out a murderous campaign against their slave population, the Helots, to keep them in place.

Deporting groups of people, ripping them out of the society they are part of, is always ugly and cruel. I published an off cut of Borderlines about it some months ago when Americans were cheering and chanting for it. Now the darkness is spreading here. lewisbaston.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Love the book ‘Disorder’, great to get to read about the process open.substack.com/pub/catherin...