Lots of great non-Starbucks options for your coffee! Pay them a visit until the greedy Starbucks owners decide to treat their workers with dignity.

Big kudos to this economist for calling out sexism in his discipline. Obviously, political science has its own well-known prominent sexists and institutional sexism. So much work still to be done — and, importantly, this work should be done (also) by men!

4/ Summers is welcome to publish papers via peer review like anyone else. He should not be a leader of the profession, given plums such as invited publications, lectures, made integral to programmatic policy statements, etc. Doing so implies that gross sexism is regarded as triviality.

3/The mistreatment of women in economics has long been an open secret. I have felt the obligation to discuss sexism in the profession with every female graduate student I have had starting as an Assistant Professor to this day.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

Well, quite.

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

A stylish, and beautifully lit, Edwardian townhouse on Lowther Terrace in the West End of Glasgow at dusk this evening. Built in 1904, it was designed in a Scots Renaissance style by Sydney Mitchell. #glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowtoday

great idea! It’s why I’d advise freshmen in groups. They end up advising each other. Similar issues arise for them. How to log on to X? or pay Y? etc. One on one seems* bespoke/better but it makes me repeat the same things all day & they miss the chance to share knowledge/make friends/ be of use.

This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.

In de VS werden vandaag 21 priesters en predikanten die hun christelijke roeping in de plaktijk brachten door vluchtelingen bij te willen staan, gearresteerd. www.huffpost.com/entry/nearly...

Vandaag was de mars voor het leven. Een protest tegen zelfbeschikking. Als Dolle Mina's konden we dit niet stil voorbij laten gaan. Met ruim 2000 mensen lieten we van ons horen met een belangrijk en stevig tegengeluid: My body, my choice. Vrouwen willen vooruit, niet terug!

De VVD heeft een groot probleem en dat heet Dilan Yesilgöz.

Kinderfeest. Mag je niet politiseren. Hou het nou gewoon gezellig. Heeft niks met racisme of zoiets te maken, toch?

Jack Schlossberg talks Kennedy legacy and the fact that Trump’s trying to dismantle it… damn🔥 “He’s so obsessed with the…Kennedy name…that he caged one and put… a rabid dog in his cabinet. put a collar on my cousin RFK Junior and has him there, barking, spreading lies and spreading misinformation.”

Same for CBS News and ABC News -- two richly resourced media companies that caved for their own, narrow purposes and made things immeasurably harder for smaller news organizations with thinner margins.

Delighted to be here today to hear @russellshorto.bsky.social and other scholars on Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, tolerance and, in Russel's words, it's fragility.

NYT: “.. Hispanic areas that shifted the most to the left in 2025 were virtually a mirror image of the places that had swung the farthest to the right .. “Trump’s surge .. may have been fleeting, or at least not transferable to other candidates ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Wijers had haar gewoon uit moeten schelden voor kutwijf. Of hij had gewoon niet door de veiligheidsscreening van de AIVD moeten komen. Of hij had een eigen Facebook-platform op moeten richten met lasterlijke AI-plaatjes. Dan had hij zijn werkzaamheden in Den Haag gewoon voort kunnen zetten.

The tower of Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the Southside of Glasgow. Built in the 1890s, the tower's design, with it's distinctive square cupola, is said to have been modelled on Glasgow's Old College campus on High Street. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architectudephotography #pollokshaws #tower

At some point we have to ask why British politics keeps producing leaders who struggle to do the job. That's partly about the pressures of the role itself, but it's also about the "pipeline": how likely are our procedures to generate leaders with the skill-set to manage those pressures? [THREAD] 🧵

Indeed. The BBC is in my view one of Britain‘s most important institutions. It is imperfect. Everything is. You destroy it at your peril. If ever there was a time to rally around something very British, it is now. Just an outsider‘s opinion.

Ik herhaal: Baas in eigen buik.

Het probleem is dat de fatsoensnormen in de politiek grotendeels ongeschreven zijn. Fatsoenlijke partijen houden zich eraan: als je iets onbehoorlijks zegt en daarmee geconfronteerd wordt, dan neem je verantwoordelijkheid en stap je op. Maar rechts doet dat niet. /1

Dit is onaardig, onbetamelijk en kinderachtig. @nrc.nl, ik hoop dat jullie Hugo Logtenberg tot de orde roepen over hoe hij zich hier gedraagt. Er is hier een serieuze, capabele politicus aan het woord en daar hoor je met respect naar te luisteren. Ik dacht dat #NRC een kwaliteitskrant was. Echt! 🤬

Six years ago the Sinterklaas parade in Gouda was maybe 80% full blackface. Now it’s 0%. The kids haven’t noticed and no-one cares.

Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some really good news from my home country. After 15 years of protests against the zwarte piet / black face character, the last protest is canceled because it's no longer needed. Cultural change is possible. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...

Sade releases her “Promise” LP 40 years ago today. Of “Sweetest Taboo,” she said: “.. It’s about a love that feels almost TOO good, the sort of feeling you don’t talk about because it makes you vulnerable. I like writing about that kind of emotion — the danger .. of loving someone that deeply.”

The first Thatcher govt had a majority of just 43. Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered. She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it. That's almost wholly missing today.

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

“‘He kept putting Robbie’s name on the list and Boris kept taking it off,’” Shipman reported one of his sources recalling, adding: “The plan to send Paul Dacre, the former editor of the Daily Mail, to run broadcasting watchdog Ofcom is from the same playbook.” @arusbridger.bsky.social on the BBC

Over 60K women have signed our letter standing with the trans community. We've had enough of anti-trans rhetoric claiming to speak for us. If you agree... 📰 Read their article here: tinyurl.com/NION-PN-60K ✍ Sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk 📣 Share widely #StrongerTogether #TransAwarenessWeek

If you read my stuff, you know I regularly go on about the Far Right being an interconnected, global threat that transcends borders.

Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.

We're stuck with it, but determining someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is actually pretty fucking weird, and it'd be better if we talked about it as an unfortunate practical necessity not a natural phenomenon

“We zien een subgroep bij depressie, met atypische klachten. Bij deze patiënten domineert een uitgesproken vermoeidheid. Ze kunnen het niet opbrengen om iets te gaan doen. Anders dan bij andere vormen van depressie is bij hen de eetlust juist toegenomen […]” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

“Zaterdag komt Sinterklaas aan in Zaandam. Al 24 jaar organiseert René de Reus het feest. Dacht hij vijf jaar geleden nog dat Zwarte Piet onmisbaar was, nu is hij tot inkeer gekomen. „Als ik een zwart geschminkte piet zie, denk ik: die is niet helemaal goed bij zijn hoofd.””

“De hele industrie? Nee, één kleine streamingdienst onderneemt actie. De Franse streamingdienst Deezer probeert een hek te bouwen waar AI-muziek niet overheen kan: een tool waarmee ze met AI gegenereerde muziek kunnen detecteren.“

Precies. Waarbij de schijnwerper nadrukkelijk gezet zou moeten worden op de enorme schade die wordt aangericht wanneer journalisten die achterkamertjesmacht niet controleren, maar juist faciliteren

Briefje aan NRC-ombudsman geschreven over de kwestie Wijers: Ik ben erg bezorgd over deze ontwikkeling in de journalistiek. De gemakzuchtige uitleg van Logtenberg op tv stelde niet gerust. De column van Sheila Sitalsing in de Volkskrant van vandaag zou eigenlijk in uw krant moeten staan.

En waarom wordt dat niet eens door de Nederlandse journalistiek op nationale tv uitgelegd op grond van dat artikel van Trouw, dat GL-PvdA niet zozeer naar links is opgeschoven (“uit het midden gerukt”) maar dat de VVD - uit angst voor de PVV - is geradicaliseerd.1/2

One thing I will say is that this immigration-bashing "strategy" is now indelibly Starmer's. It is Starmerism. Cooper was inertia personified but Mahmood is Starmer's key departmental promotion, brought in to do just this And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?

The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder. The horse will be flogged until it sprints.

De zelfgenoegzame, giftige politieke manosphere.

O ja, nog een vraag: 6. Heeft íemand een factcheck gedaan op de uitspraak dat Y een leugenaar is? (Simpel: vraag een taalkundige, of een psycholoog🙋🏻‍♀️ de definitie van leugenaar en leg die naast de feiten)

Given that no complaints were received at time of broadcast, Gibb is at least as responsible for the current mess, with the BBC threatened with legal action by a foreign head of government, as those who made the programme. How on earth can he stay in post?

“Epstein’s name is inextricably linked with sexual predation, as it should be. But it should just as readily be linked to global militarism and authoritarianism. Epstein trafficked not just in the bodies of the children he abused but also in social connections that could bring elites together.”

Scottish Cuisine: Steak and haggis pie on a buttered roll. Pic: fws1978/X