📖NOW OUT IN PRINT📖 Connective Action and the Rise of the Far Right Feat. my chapter with Ulrike Klinger on "In-Groups and Outrage" & how various types of network connectivity are radicalising right-wing parties! The digital version is open access, and available here: academic.oup.com/book/60493

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy?

"Trump’s war on drugs during his first term performed an ideological war that had lethal consequences—mobilizing fear, justifying racialized punishment, and projecting authoritarian resolve—while leaving underlying structural crises largely unaddressed." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The university is not a sanctuary; it is a frontline site in the global struggle over justice and human rights. To study global structures of power without acknowledging how our own institutions are shaped by them is not an act of neutrality—it is a failure of scholarly responsibility."

This is just appalling, disgusting, gutter racism.

𝗢𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆: 𝗨𝗦 🆚 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 @ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇 @geopolitieknu.bsky.social

The book is now available for pre-order through Manchester University Press and has its dedicated webpage: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183194/. #China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social

FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition. Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?

@ssregilme.bsky.social‬ argues that #Trump’s #Tariffs mask a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Americans while weakening the economy and global alliances: buff.ly/cST8TYj

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806

The liberal insistence that Trump et al are just “stupid” and not deliberate in their choice of words and policies is absolutely infuriating. If they’re just “stupid” and you can’t beat them, then what are you? They’re intentional. They’re brutal. They’re organized. And they’re genuinely dangerous.

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️

Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.

Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.

"people are willing to engage with and learn policy-relevant facts both for and against their initial attitudes; and that this increased factual knowledge shifts individuals towards more moderate policy attitudes"

As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press

Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade. This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.

My article now available in @nature.com:"If nations are willing to set benchmarks for gross domestic product for military spending, they should do the same for education, science and health. Universities are not luxuries; they are crucial democratic infrastructures..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither.

"As the first Asian leader to be arrested and detained in The Hague, Duterte is also the first to face trial specifically for state-initiated mass violence in the name of narcotics control. Yet, Duterte is not an outlier in waging an expansive state-led war on drugs"

I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

I hope that the @isanet.bsky.social and @apsa.bsky.social as well as the American Sociological Association could do something like this…

“China is using more factory robots than the rest of the world combined, and most of them are made in China by Chinese companies, although some components are still imported.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...

“We must stop viewing political life through the lens of American politics as we have known it, and adopt the viewpoint of dissident movements in autocratic states.” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social, Indignity: A Life Reimagined - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025 us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Read "Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South" by Salvador Santino F. Regilme from the latest issue of SAIS Review of International Affairs S2O open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/950958

Thanks for the interest in my article!

Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency @us.theconversation.com Fred L. Pincus theconversation.com/trumps-execu...

"Europe must reject austerity-driven militarisation and instead embrace a fair economic model: funding security through progressive taxation on extreme wealth and dismantling the oligarchic remnants within its constitutional order. "

Ministers are drawing up plans to stop Musk using his fortune to interfere in UK politics.

State-sanctioned enforced disappearances are now becoming more widespread in the United States under Trump?

"There are countless possibilities and moving parts in the saga of the quest for justice. But for now, Duterte will spend more time in detention, away from a country, parts of which he turned into a killing field."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzdh... #WarOnDrugs #Duterte

Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?

"The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given a timely boost to the International Criminal Court, which is facing US sanctions and an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by its chief prosecutor."

"Officials in Beijing are increasingly worried that President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico may be the start of a broad campaign to force developing countries around the world to choose between trade with the United States or with China."

As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review: 1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence) 2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.

Tariffs are a tax cut! Democracy is fascism! Black is white! Night is day!

#WarOnDrugs #Duterte www.rappler.com/philippines/...

BREAKING: Philippines says former President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Congrats again to the well-credentialed & well-connected elites who told us Scott Bessent was a well-qualified Treasury Secretary because he also had the right credentials & elite connections

#isa2025 Children’s Rights in Crisis spotted. @manchesterup.bsky.social Digital open-access: doi.org/10.7765/9781...

They really need a way of communicating to people who don’t read books: