Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

On the other hand, it is a win for white nationalists when @nytimes.com cravenly launders white nationalist tropes and injects them into the broader discourse in easily digestible form

The fascist right will never drop its anti-Ukraine stance, because they want to see Russian aggression succeed. But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

Pravda a láska musí zvíťaziť nad lžou a nenávisťou. Týmto vítame portál Marker na našom zozname nedôveryhodných webov. #konspiratorisk #markersk #marker #protipropagande

Buying used books can be an adventure. You get a book, sure, but sometimes you can also glimpse the personality of the previous owner. For example, I just got a book, where based on the underlining and marginalia, I concluded that the previous owner was an idiot.

🗳 J͢e͢d͢n͢o͢u͢ ͢f͢r͢a͢š͢k͢a͢,͢ ͢p͢o͢d͢r͢u͢h͢é͢ ͢t͢r͢a͢g͢é͢d͢i͢e͢ kapital-noviny.sk/jednou-frask... @apolenarychlikova.bsky.social píše pár dní pred voľbami v Česku o tom, že kampaň je pokojnejšia než pred rokmi, no spoločnosť sa triešti. Polarizácia podľa nej siaha tak hlboko, že ani jasný výsledok volieb nemusí priniesť pokoj.

Odteraz ma oslovujte len "slowakische Politologe"! Môj minulotýždňový text pre Kapitál o zmene ústavy teraz vyšiel v nemeckom preklade na JÁDU magazíne. www.goethe.de/prj/jad/de/g...

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

SÍRENEN NEWS: DOSKÚŠALI SME Drahé poslucháčstvo, Sirény od septembra končia. Nerozhodli sme sa tak my, ale nové vedenie. Prečo? Netušíme, dôvod sme sa nedozvedeli. Ako sme sa dopočuli, nie sme jediní, o ktorých nové vedenie rozhodlo, že končia. 1/7

Som si ešte znovu zhrnul uhorkovú kauzu open.substack.com/pub/pavolhar...

A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that: a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for." Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

I couldn’t help myself, had to do the meme; Arrested Development was timeless… #arrestedforeignpolicy

Anti-trans policy means surveilling cis women in a culture of gender suspicion. Closed borders means surveilling natives in a culture of "Papers please" suspicion. Segregation means surveilling whites to prevent race-mixing and race treason. Fascism erodes the freedoms even of those not targeted.

If complementing someone for a paper you haven't read is wrong, I don't want to be right.

*reading a student thesis - huh, i guess asking the AI model - which clearly wrote much of this tripe - to order your references alphabetically would have been a prompt too far, wouldnt it...

The US government says reading Toni Morrison or Maya Angelou is political. In my terrorism class, I explain how “Great Replacement” is a false conspiracy theory that’s motivated multiple terrorist attacks. Now that America’s leaders push the theory too, teaching that is political. Should I stop?

putting a delicious Canadian twist on the old "go woke, go broke" mantra www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

tariff plan is going well I see

AI (like crypto) needs to be properly taxed to reflect the environmental and technological costs.

This is 💯% correct (and reading/sharing it on social media is a bit... ironic?)

No political science in post-communist Europe, except for Czechia and Russia? 🤔❓ Also, they painted Crimea blue. doi.org/10.1017/S104... The caption—"“yes” when one or more political science departments are located in a country"—does not quite correspond to the selection criteria.

‘DST—Democracy Saving Time?’ the article practically writes itself. Wouldn't pass peer review in political science journals, but hey, there's other journals, and with higher impact factors to boot. A reboot of an old joke with @pavolhardos.bsky.social and Miro Oroš.

You might say “But I was only into the Harry Potter lady’s crank bathroom jihad, I didn’t want the Nazi stuff” and that is just too bad, this was not in fact about what *you* wanted. You have been taken for a ride by calculating psychos.

Literally straight out of the book. We've gone way past "it could happen here" and are straight into "it is happening."

Dobrá správa na dnes: žaloba denníka Štandard na náš projekt Konspiratori*sk bola zamietnutá.

The only western democracy hell-bent on protecting itself is... Romania?

Gutting the VA and Medicaid to spend those tax dollars on chasing down debunked conspiracy theories. 👍👍

I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it. While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.

🧭 🇪🇺 Quadrant size by the combined vote share of all parties in the quadrant as per CHES @chesdata.bsky.social 2024 estimates. Political compass mobiles, with apologies to Alexander Calder.

Prečo sa vláda chce zastavovať pri poznatkoch zo ZŠ len pri biológii? Do ústavy poprosím aj, že skupenstvá poznáme len 3 a že nemožno robiť odmocniny zo záporných čísel… #ústavaprenezmaturovaných #dvepohlavia

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

In retrospect, the most unrealistic thing about the movie Idiocracy is that all the morons in power were basically nice.

Very interesting to look at the age distribution in the exit poll. The SPD which already did very poorly with young voters last time continues to loose further there - a party of pensioners. Interestingly, also huge losses for the Greens among young voters and massive gains for the Linke.

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

Attaching the "Left" and "Right" labels to GAL-TAN, or the status hierarchies dimension, after detaching them from the economic one, is by now a well-known move. Often, it comes with the shift from 🟦 vs 🟩 competition to 🟥 vs 🟨 one. Most post-communist EU member states have ... 1/

🔴 Verdacht auf illegale Parteispende bei der #AfD: Es geht um diese 2,3 Mio. Euro-Spende 👇 von einem österr. Ex-FPÖ-Funktionär. Tatsächlich soll das Geld aber von einem aus Deutschland stammenden Milliardär kommen, berichtet der SPIEGEL. 🧵

Slovakia's PM Mr Fico [Smer (ex-S&D, now NI)] to speak at CPAC 2025. It seems that Republika's Mr Uhrík has been outdone.

The fact that only 2% of professors identify as fascists shows just how insular and out of touch universities have become.

the tech industry mania for internal LLMs and job cuts was driven not by revenue fundamdentals or the end of ZIRP but management radicalism against their employees

Even in 1939, there were probably amoral scum in Central Europe who glorified the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, they just didn't have the social networks to publicly regale us with their depravity.

PUBLISHED! Forget talk of a coup or self-coup, Musk's siege of America's vast federal bureaucracy is a form of state capture. It fits seamlessly with Trump's authoritarianism. I suspect this will be the most important thing I ever say about American politics. theconversation.com/is-elon-musk...

"Old Man Trump and Mean Mr. Musk Conspire To Steal The Town Bank" Really, Roald. We're Doing That One Again? And They're The Meanest, Nastiest Men In The Valley? I Bet They Have A Gang Of Snot Nosed Greasy Teen Henchmen? Get The Fuck Out Of My Office And Come Back When You Have New Material, Dahl

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