Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

👀 Check out this special issue of #BJPIR - European responses to the Russia-Ukraine War - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) 🔗 buff.ly/0uENSms @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

NEW: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Indian oil companies are reportedly significantly reducing direct purchases of Russian oil in the short term, and the European Union (EU) passed its 19th sanctions package against Russia, primarily targeting the Russian energy sector. 🧵(1/8)

Notre Dame is investing in democracy research in lots of exciting ways, including these hires. Happy to talk to senior folks about working at Notre Dame and living in South Bend. (Spoiler: There are lots of good reasons I've spent my entire career here).

This is bad

👇🎯 As with university presidents, the Democrats' current Congressional leaders have spent their entire career advancing & being selected for leadership positions based on qualities/skills that were rewarded in a political system that simply no longer exists in the United States of America.

The excuses Westerners make for Ru society’s consistent/broad support for the attempted conquest of Ukraine are endless! After « they don’t know the truth » and « they are afraid of repression », we now have « they have to make a living ».

US higher ed basically started to copy the German research-university model in the early 20th century. Then Germany tore it down themselves. Not unrelated, one reason Germany lost the race for the A-bomb is that Hitler thought theoretical physics was essentially Jewish

PLEASE GIVE ME MORE WACKY DATA! Crazy questions make memorable examples! My students will thank you! buff.ly/a3hUOBA Speeding tickets! Cookie consumption! Feeling thermometers about cats and dogs and people who eat anchovies straight from the tin!

Here are 10 essential reads on African politics for this summer. From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa. goodauthority.org/news/10-esse...

I like that the NYT story on Mamdani's college application is sparking dialogue on how race is a political expression. ~100 years ago, Minnesota expelled Finnish labor organizers by declaring them Asian and Alabama let a Black man marry a Sicilian woman because Italians weren't "White."

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Democracy, 1865-2025

There’s not one rule that says you can’t use kittens

We're also going to find out that RFE/RL, USAID and the rest of the American soft-power apparatus was also load-bearing. It turns out a radio station is a lot cheaper than if you have to intervene to fight a war or control refugee flows. A *lot* of this stuff is load-bearing.

The US Supreme Court rules that there is no law and there is no constitution

Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing future may seem outlandish to some, but only because no nation has detonated a nuclear weapon in conflict since 1945. Our 2023 story on if old nukes would actually work.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Call for Participants: APSA Working Group on American Civics Undergraduate Course Requirements | Deadline: July 7, 2025

Assassin was Trump voter

No Kings protest sign with a Ukrainian flavor

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Chicago is showing up.

I once confronted then-Rep Keith Ellison at an event in '16, and asked if he understood that Democrats ideally want to work with Republicans, but Republicans ideally want to jail Democrats. His quick reply was "brother, don't I know it, you have to convince Chuck Schumer, I've tried"

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Forces loyal to the president still appear to be in control of the broadcasting stations

Please call Congress today. Programs for survivors face catastrophic cuts, and we will all be less safe without this funding.

Vitamin D builds your bones and keeps your gut sealed, among many other essential functions − but many children are deficient.

Russia has declared ASEEES @aseees.bsky.social an "undesirable organization." ASEEES is the largest Western academic association for Slavic studies. This ruling puts Russian scholars at risk of prosecution for being members or participating in the annual conference. ovd.info/express-news...

Your body already has a built-in weight loss system that works like Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro – food and your gut microbiome. #health #weightloss

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

1000% this!

I have a type!

- Putin not interested in peace - Gaza will now be “Conquered” - India and Pakistan on the brink This week is quite the week for the world to be forgetting the lessons of 1945 www.worldpoliticsreview.com/world-war-2-...

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Right because they are not running for re-election. I don’t know how else to say this. They. Aren’t. Running. For. Reelection.

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

🚨BREAKING: U.S. House passed GOP voter suppression law. 220-208. Every Republican voted to disenfranchise millions. It now goes onto the Senate where Democrats will be able to block it.

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In a functioning political system the past week would kill the Republican party. Nobody with an R next to their name would be able to win a national election for decades.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

Again, if you've got a Republican representing you in Congress -- and I don't care who it is -- call them to complain about the tariffs. They're panicking.

Quick reminder that Congress can stop ALL THIS anytime it wants.

The state of Australia’s democracy blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

In case you missed it last night, here's my first take on the new tariffs imposed by the US. Recorded a few minutes after the Rose Garden press conference. A massive moment in geopolitics & economics. And one we'll be reckoning with for a long time to come youtu.be/RjtVQANSQf8?...

3 years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, knowledge production about Eastern Europe still mainly follows pre-war patterns. Sociologist Nataliia Otrishchenko, #UNET Fellow at ZOiS, examines the status quo & discusses how institutional change can be achieved in the new #ZOiS_Spotlight.