I am excited for this challenge @GIGA, where our goal is to produce policy-relevant social scientific research for the benefit of society. This mission is esp. important now & I look forward to working w//colleagues in & outside GIGA @redpolitologas.bsky.social www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/mer...

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

So many failures here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

When I worked in the Michigan Senate Repubs would let us know they had a family member w a particular medical problem, bc they would vote w their caucus on nearly everything but the rare times they voted w Dems it was on amendments about a particular medical problem www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

Die Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg droht eine Professur für Internationale Beziehungen zu verlieren. Bitte teilt und unterschreibt den Protestbrief auf uhh-ib-erhalten.de

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Abortions in the US up www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The New York Times has really lost its way…

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Timely, relevant and well-analyzed policy brief by @johannapieper.bsky.social -check it out!

a Chris Murphy-retweeting pope. The ResistLibs really do have the Mandate of Heaven

The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.

The El Faro reporting is how we know that among those kidnapped by the U.S. and sent to CECOT are some actual gang members who were set to be indicted in the U.S. and possibly testify to Bukele's deals with them. I did a deep dive about this here: youtu.be/AB8ZREZNLOQ?...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

🚨NEW: Four weeks ago, Trump terminated funding for legal services to support unaccompanied children. Now, children as young as 4 years old are having to represent themselves in court when facing deportation. How does America come back from this?

Enforced disappearances have come to the United States. Hear from people who have fought them in Latin America. A week from Wednesday. Happening online. Join the discussion 4/30 at 2pm Eastern. Or bookmark it and watch later. Announcement: bit.ly/apr-30-disap... Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

This is really a worthwhile read, for a summary of what has happened and what we as individuals can do

As German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA)we are making an urgent plea to the German Government to uphold its commitments to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. W/ U.S. withdrawing 13 % of Gavi’s funding, 1 million kids could die in next 5 years. Doc in German & English here lnkd.in/edDQWWyK

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

You truly could not make it up. You could not.

In other news, Der Spiegel found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online www.spiegel.de/internationa...

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h... "the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result." Can other countries & orgs step up ? @bmz.de

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Non-Americans, including Germans: reconsider travel to the US. A female German tourist has also been held for over a month, including in solitary confinement, on no grounds. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

New feed just dropped! A place to find or discuss social science funding opportunities. Aggregates posts that include #FundSocSci. If you see opportunities to share, post with #FundSocSci. Pin feed to browse. Envisioned by & co-moderated @judychevalier.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/did:...

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

„Die Quote schadet ja in aller erster Linie den Frauen selbst.“

A tracker estimating deaths caused by the partial PEPFAR funding suspension: pepfar.impactcounter.com. Methodology here: pepfar.impactcounter.com/methodology.

My (admittedly less) expert take away on projected results in Germany: 1) strong pro-democracy vote—AFD at 19.5% underperformed in relation to recent polls. 2) If FDP stays at 4.9%, coalition will be btwn Christian Dems and Social Dems, which should be faster and smoother for governability.

Here is what to watch out for in the 6pm exit polls: 1) does the CDU cross 30% & how large is the gap to the AfD? 2) is there a majority of seats for a CDU-SPD coalition? This is the easiest (but by no means easy) coalition to negotiate. 3) are FDP and BSW in or out? 4) how well does die Linke do?

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.