In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Russia’s and China’s best assets in the West

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

”– Sekä sodan jälkeen että 1990-luvun laman jälkeen velkasuhde laski nopeasti, koska talous kasvoi ripeästi. Kasvu on velanhoidon ykköslääke, [Heikkinen] sanoo. […] Heikkinen arvioi, että harva ymmärtää valtionvelan mekanismia, kuinka eri tavalla se toimii kuin kotitalouksien velka.”

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

For a man who genuinely understands (or at least has understood) how to work a camera and the importance of media presence, this is a distinctly shocking set of images. As is the one of him just standing like (as one person put it) an idling NPC during the medical event in the Oval.

X:än puolella Matias Turkkila valittaa, että Marinin uudessa omaelämäkerrasa Marin puhuu melkein pelkästään itsestään 🙃

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

This is the kind of thing that should get a product recalled. I'm not joking. This should stop a thing being sold till it's tested fully.

Laittaakseen sinne mämmiä vai jostain muusta syystä?

Next week, November 13th at 1:00 pm CST, please join The University of Chicago Graham School in welcoming Susan C. Stokes for a discussion of her new book, The Backsliders, and the global phenomenon of democratic erosion. Register for this virtual event here: graham.uchicago.edu/event/the-ba...

Senior German officials have accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of deliberately abusing parliamentary powers to collect and likely pass secret information about the country's military capabilities and the state of critical infrastructure to Russia. Source: Der Spiegel

Unprecedentedly warm November day in eastern Finland, especially in North Karelia. Multiple monthly heat records, including Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C (shown with magenta in the map)

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

🤯 Shahed was flying into a high-rise building, but was hit by an anti-aircraft interceptor drone!

very normal dancing, sir

How concentrated economic and political power in America protects elites and fosters violence of all kinds. Marie Gottschalk's new book, Crime and No Punishment, arrives on November 18 (13 Jan UK pub). Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliticalScience #PoliSci

My guess? He did the thing where he misreads the teleprompter (skipping from commentary about Cuba to South Africa) and then refuses to acknowledge he misspoke. bsky.app/profile/atru...

For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13% Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006) The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

⚠️ Don't forget: #ecprgc26 Call for Sections is OPEN 🔎 Seeking proposals across #PolSci, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Political Theory, IR & European Studies ✔️ 1 Chair & 1 Co-Chair per Section ✔️ Chair must be an ECPR Full Member affiliate ⏰ Submit by 10 Nov #Polisky #IRSky

Paras kokoomuslainen mies valittiin, pulinat pois!

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it. This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

🚦 Changes in road deaths in the EU from 2019 to 2024: 🇵🇱 -35% 🇸🇮 -33% 🇱🇹 -33% 🇧🇪 -27% 🇩🇰 -27% 🇲🇹 -25% 🇧🇬 -24% 🇷🇴 -21% 🇨🇾 -21% 🇨🇿 -20% 🇭🇷 -20% 🇱🇺 -18% 🇭🇺 -17% 🇦🇹 -16% 🇫🇮 -15% 🇱🇻 -15% 🇪🇺 -12% 🇵🇹 -10% 🇩🇪 -9% 🇮🇹 -5% 🇸🇪 -4% 🇬🇷 -3% 🇸🇰 -3% 🇳🇱 -3% 🇫🇷 -1% 🇪🇸 +2% 🇮🇪 +22% 🇪🇪 +33%

Ukraine uses various tactics to intercept massive swarms of Russian drones, even gunning them down from helicopters.

Kuuminta hottia: Rock Siltanen Group ja Syntinen yö.

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Clocks in USA go back one hour. Clocks in Russia already went back to 1937.

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Last night Ukraine attacked Russian targets (including Moscow) with hundreds of drones and Russian authorities downplayed the event. Three years ago we were told if Ukraine attacked Crimea, Russia would go nuclear. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.” Read the full investigation: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

A JWST wonder, once again! 🔭 This is the image of the NGC-2440 planetary nebula as seen by the JWST one year ago, that I processed last night! Look how wonderful that thing is 😍 And if you zoom on the centre, you can see a little dot which is suspect is the white dwarf! HD: flic.kr/p/2rCzjR1

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.

In short, the ANES data shows: 📉 Social media use is shrinking 💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right 🧩 Platforms are splintering 🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

How much did Elon's takeover reshape Twitter/X? How did the partisan tilt of social media use change from 2020 to 2024? The ANES 2024 data is out — and this thread answers all your burning questions! 🔥

1/n - Trump says something about nuclear weapons tests...It’s hard to know what he means. As usual, he’s unclear, all over the map, and wrong. 1. The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. Wrong. Russia has more nuclear weapons than the United States.

"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"

How Americans’ trust in information from news organizations and social media sites has changed over time

We continue the Kremlin's long tradition of alliances with Europe's far right.

Elon’s daily post to incite political violence

"The Mainstreaming of Gutter Racism" will be a section head in the history book chapters about the 2020s.

Keksin hyvän kysymyksen kansalaisuuskoetta varten: Mikä puolue on erityisesti kunnostautunut sukulaisten ja puolisoiden palkkaamisessa kansanedustajien erityisavustajiksi?

Our researchers found that most users accept ChatGPT's first answer and overestimate its performance. Surprisingly, higher AI literacy leads to more overconfidence. Professor Robin Welsch notes that AI-literate users aren't better at judging AI systems. www.aalto.fi/en/news/ai-u...

Paperback day for Liberalism as a Way of Life, @princetonupress.bsky.social I’ve been moved and amazed by the book’s reception—thank you to everyone who’s read, taught, or shared it. If you’re so inclined, give it one more repost for the road.

A new interesting article by Christianna Sirindah Parr is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Does social media undermine trust? Institutional trust in civil society and governance institutions”. Enjoy it here: t.ly/J86eT