As a former Hachioji resident (Tokyo 24th constituency), I've always been disturbed by the fact that Hagiuda had that much of support. And now seeing him, especially after the major corruption scandal he was involved in the recent past, being side-by-side with the CRA candidate makes it even worse 🤦🏻‍♂️

Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage #VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection

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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Very excited to see the campaigns rolling. I still believe that the relationship between Komeito and CDP will remain as disproportional as it was before with the LDP (the gyaku-kyouyo illustrated by @miraisyakai.bsky.social).

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Every day I’m more surprised by how childish and how much of a bully he can be (hey @asslatam.bsky.social, please keep Bluesky updated! 😅)

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After Bukele endorsed Trump's intervention in Venezuela, Senator Ruben Gallego asked if Bukele would be okay if the US invaded El Salvador to extradite him.

From my favorite U.S. cartoonist @mluckovich.bsky.social (already weeks ago).

Wow. I'm really looking forward to seeing the campaigns and outcomes of the next elections to the Japanese Lower House (hopefully soon, to not lose the timing), especially to see if the reversed-supply model was actually working or if the LDP was the only benefitted in the former coalition.

My two biggest political science surprises of the year is to find out the Cas Mudde is straight edge, and that his profile pic is the Straw Hat's Jolly Roger. Is he just backing the gen-z protests around the world or is he a fan waiting to see whether Yamato or Loki will join the crew first?

2025 is nearly over, thank you to our followers! We're running our traditional Craziest Moment (and politician) of the Year contest again. Share your candidates below, and let us know if we missed any! Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad Feliz Natal

No surprises, but Kast won the elections in Chile after getting much of the support from the center and moderate-right. And now the world will have for the first time a literal descendent of the Nazi regime in power. Kast's father was a Nazi official who fled from Germany to scape the trials.

Agora não tenho mais desculpa pra não apoiar a @radioescafandro.bsky.social e o @tomaschiaverini.bsky.social

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Bruno Abbud é jornalista e escritor autor do livro Nobres Traficantes. No nosso episódio 151, ele contou a história cinematográfica de um traficante que transportava grandes quantidades de cocaína do Brasil para a Austrália. Escute: open.spotify.com/episode/5oyD...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Que mané "I've called home my entire life" tu era golpista em Niterói rapá

"A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife’s sister’s husband." A parte do cara com mata virgem no quintal de casa preocupado com o cara com elevador pra iate, que por sua vez se preocupa com o genro chegando de helicóptero, foi bem isso aqui haha Episódio sensacional!

"In a month Chile will elect a new president. The race is between a communist, Jeannette Jara, and the son of a real Nazi official, José Antonio Kast. The Kast in Chile are the sole direct descendants of the Nazi involved with politics in the entire world (besides some smaller ones in Germany)"

Giving the Peace Nobel to María Corina Machado (MCM) is a terrible decision that signals the world that everything (yes, everything) is on sale. Maduro is a dictator, yes. But this award doesn't help the situation nor the people in Venezuela.

Vienna hosted the first ever Tram Driver World Championship on Saturday, with the city's skilled drivers emerging victorious out of 25 teams from across the world battling it out in a tense competition. u.afp.com/SPcP

I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵

Apenas desejo saúde, mas muita saúde ao Jair. Para que ele possa desfrutar bem de cada um dos quase 10.000 dias de prisão que ele tem pela frente (e que ficou barato, por sinal). E o mesmo vale para a corja inteira.

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Meet Christina Gahn and Michael Imre, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients Project Title: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades Christina Gahn, University of Vienna Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the…

Cinco jornalistas da Al Jazeera, principal veículo de mídia do Oriente Médio, foram assassinados num ataque de Israel a Gaza no último domingo (10). Israel segue matando jornalistas - enquanto utiliza de lobby internacional pra legitimar o terror promovido na Faixa de Gaza. 1/4🧶 📸 Reprodução

I had the pleasure to join for the second time the podcast O Mundo a Seus Pés, from the Portuguese news outlet @jornalexpresso.bsky.social . This time, we talked about the tariffs imposed by the US government on Brazilian products, +

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Last Sunday, Tokyo held elections for its Metropolitan Assembly and some of the results were quite interesting. I plotted the number of seats each party had in the past four elections as a comparison.

I was invited by the podcast O Mundo a Seus Pés, from the Portuguese news outlet Expresso, to talk about the (almost certain) upcoming far-right government in Austria after the previous coalition negotiation attempts failed.

Qual o problema que os veículos de mídia tem em não mencionar a patente dos militares golpistas (pleonasmo?) e referir a eles apenas pelo nome? Por que não dizer General Augusto Heleno, General Braga Netto, Tentente-coronel Mauro Cid, etc?