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How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

Maybe there isn't any room for a third economic-liberal, anti-immigration, culture war party in the German party landscape next to the CDU and AfD? How the FDP is sliding into irrelevance. It cannot come soon enough.

JKR is one of the vilest people currently alive.

Just wow! Tucker Carlson is a terrible person, but how Rafael Edward Cruz (I'm not referring to him by the name he chose for himself, since he denies that favour to other people) is fumbling this interview is a sight to behold.

39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy. “This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary. #StopTheCuts #UCU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I've got an opinion article out in @niemanreports.org sharing tips for improving media reporting on climate change-fueled disasters. Shout out to my colleague @antalwozniak.bsky.social who co-authored heat wave coverage research with me. #climatechange #journalism niemanreports.org/battling-cli...

Our tumble towards the apocalypse continues: www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...

'And this is perhaps Israel’s real horror: far from proving the “anachronism” that Deutscher described, it embodies the ethnonationalism of the future, beyond legal and moral restraints—a “portent,” as Mishra writes, “of a bankrupt and exhausted world.”' www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

“A criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is committing war crimes in Gaza and must be stopped,” says the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert added that Netanyahu is waging war “without goals, clear planning and with no chance of success.” 🇮🇱

I'm presenting a paper in the Sustainability and biodiversity session today at #PCST2025. "Anthropomorphising ecology: investigating social information bias with non-human characters". I'll be talking trees and graphs, if you like that kind of thing. 11:45 AM in Conference Suite 4.

The @nytimes.com being very amenable to accommodating and playing ball with the neo-fascists. No surprise there, sadly.

The average Republican in Congress is a millionaire, funded by billionaires. 25% of American households have a net worth less than $27k. Just in case you were surprised that their budget attacks the working class to give more handouts to rich people like them.

New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/

We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

There are many reasons we're here in fascism, but one of the biggest is that nearly all members of the media have spent the last ten years not asking Donald Trump a follow-up question.

💯% agree. "Populism" gets used too often as a placeholder term when people don't know how to (or don't want to) call out awful things clearly and decisively.

The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.

Very happy (and proud) to announce my PhD student's first peer-reviewed paper publication in Social Semiotics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Well done, Rachel! 🥳 🤘

Wow, lawmakers wanting to abjudicate lawmakers' powers to make laws (so that big business can do whatever the fuck it wants). More and more I think we need to perceive the U.S. (at least on the federal level) as a failing state.

Ah yes, the good old Democrat party strategy of undermining the racist party's platform by implementing their racist policies for them, forcing them to spend time coming up with new even more racist policies. A strategy famous for winning absolutely not one single election in the history of ever.

Under Starmer, Labour has become cruel and vile.

Some thoughts on Starmer's speech and Labour's normalisation of far-right politics in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/keir-starmer...

Labour has chosen nativism over growth. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

Absolutely. It won't win them a single voter from the Reform camp. Instead it will lose them votes on the left and - much more importantly - will continue to make life miserable for millions of innocent people. Stupid and vile. But that's Starmer's "Labour" for you.

Not surprised in the least but similarly depressed and disgusted by Keir Starmer's and "Labour"'s insistence on blowing into the far-right/nativist/racist dog whistle when it comes to immigration policy. They are despicable cowards and bigots.

Read this alarming Substack blog by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about the UK and US governments dirty deals with #Palantir open.substack.com/pub/broligar.... The Big Secret Sell out of Europe to the Techbros. Europe keeps sleepwalking.

Brilliant initiative and work from my dear colleague Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (as well as Mark Pogson, @harm365.bsky.social, and @rosalynd.bsky.social)!

'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' 3rd June 4-6pm (Online) Our @craighaslop.bsky.social will be on this exciting panel exploring the ‘manosphere’. It's free and online! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...

Fucking hell ...

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

Hi Labour, rather than learning all the wrong lessons from this election defeat - what about taking some people out of poverty and improving some lives?

That mooted 2% wealth tax affects a couple of hundred thousand households. It raises £20bn. PIP and fuel tax cuts saved £6.5bn and cost Labour 100% of their "Change" election credibility. It's not even galaxy brain stuff.

The beautiful, beautiful BFI, showing how it’s done, after three recent Supreme Court ruling.

If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

"The authors reviewed here... have converted intellectualism into pure money grubbing." @brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.

Also on Reddit today, someone thinking that I am apologetic for being a white dude. Nah, friends. I think we all know that being a white dude in the US is pretty great. My sin, if you will, is thinking everyone else should have the same latitude in life that I get just by being a white dude.

I'm a big fan of soljourno.bsky.social and so pleased that they have included @antalwozniak.bsky.social and my recent #EnvComm study of extreme heat press coverage as a resource on their site www.solutionsjournalism.org/resources/cl... #climatechange #climatesolutions #climatecrisis #openaccess

trans exclusionary feminism is fascist feminism

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

Ordinary people showing solidarity and fighting the good fight against the fascists. ✊🏻❤️

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

I do not want your app. I do not want to register. I do not want your newsletter. And, from the bottom of my heart, I do not want your notifications. Please just let me buy what I need without entering into a long-term relationship with you, you freaky fucks.

"The fascist project of national rebirth is, for Trump, one of fundamentally transforming the US’s political economy, away from globalized trade and toward (corrupt) domestic producerism that benefits an imagined ‘real America.’"

I know some of you might be getting sick of the dark clouds of morally degraded, culturally impoverished authoritarian decay descending on the entire country and its territories but at least everything is more expensive and shittier than it materially was previously