Really happy to see that our volume is finally out with @uclpress.bsky.social. The result of MSCA-ITN FATIGUE project under the umbrella of @uclssees.bsky.social, edited by Richard Mole and Jan Kubik, the book is available in open access 👉🏻 uclpress.co.uk/book/the-ana...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... With 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations, 1.9 million subscribers to her magazine, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink promoted reproductive duties as essential to national strength. It would be the equivalent of social media today.

"The EPP is making a shameful alliance with the far right for their witch-hunt on NGOs".

My first contribution to @techpolicypress.bsky.social is out! Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power. I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure: www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis... #GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics

✍️ Submit your manuscript to the Social Movement Studies journal for a Special Issue on Artificially Enabled Social Change! ⏰ Abstract deadline: 15 June 2025 Find out more: http://spr.ly/63325NtvBt

On our 8th Palestine in Focus gathering, we will show the documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019), directed by Abby Martin. the event will take place on 6 May, 16:00. There will be opportunity to talk about the film afterwards, with drinks. More info and signup: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/pa...

Russian occupation is not peace, but torture, murder, and oppression. « However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx. » www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

What draws young people to far-right movements? 🎙️ In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode, host @armanc.bsky.social speaks with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 📚 🎧 Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2

The vibe is feminist mobilisation shutting down the annual ultra-conservative 'pro-life' march in Prague 🫶 denikalarm.cz/2025/04/odpu...

Older but still relevant article by Joanna Rzepa for @theconversation.com : Czesław Miłosz - what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe. tinyurl.com/45h927yx

Many thanks to Baltic Worlds and Elisa Satjukow for inviting me into a conversation about the shifts we have been putting in motion with the @associationruta.bsky.social for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation 1/n

Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller

Hundreds of people in Türkiye, mainly students, are going on trial for protesting the detention of Istanbul’s mayor. The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.

Další zo série skvelých a dôležitých @voxpot.bsky.social podcastov od @jolanah.bsky.social 🫶

Great insight into the US pronatalist movement and its connections to the Trumpist administrative and the Big Tech. open.spotify.com/episode/0P3s...

Here we go again. The well-respected German daily "Süddeutsche Zeitung" has published yet another intellectually unsound and mean-spirited essay by Jürgen Habermas on Ukraine. I understand why some experts feel the impulse to write a point-by-point rebuttal—but I think it's a bad idea. Here's why:

💥Orbán's regime intensifies Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ rights, submitting a bill to ban Budapest Pride & allow authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify participants, fining them up to $546 under the pretense of "child protection." Why? Orbán seeks support from far-right voters.

When my parents caught me listening to RadioFreeEurope, they rushed to shut the windows, so no one will hear it & report us. Now Trump/Musk are shutting down RFE, a source of truthful info for Belarus, Russia, Iran etc. Who really are the "crazy people"? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Very heartening to see masses of youth engaged in pro-democracy protests, in Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Tbilisi, USA and so many other places. Authoritarianism works through trying to instill isolation and fear. Solidarity and critical resistance are powerful antidotes, and they are contagious.

The @ecpr.bsky.social Gender Study 2024 just came in. I am shocked by the numbers. Especially dramatic is the percentage of women authors published in ECPR-journals: 26% in 2024, compared to 35% in 2023. Please, don't try to fix the women, fix the @##$! system.

Přílepek zákona týkající se „poradenství“ na těhotenských testech se vrátil do hry. Na návrhu má podíl i protipotratové Hnutí pro život. O co mu jde❓ Rozebíráme s Jaroslavem Hrochem ze Seznam Zpráv a socioložkou Evou Svatoňovou👇

Must-listen so skvelou @sva-eva.bsky.social o Hnutí pro život a anti-genderových stratégiách v Čechách.

THIS.

Students block access to Serbian state TV station amid nationwide protests

The Trump administration’s most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from Polish & Hungarian illiberal groups on how to shape the future of the European Union. The proposals, obtained by VSquare, include dismantling key EU institutions and renaming the entire bloc.

Máme tady další doklad spolupráce ultrakonzervativních organizací z Maďarska a Polska s lidmi přímo napojenými na Trumpa. A nejde o ledajakou spolupráci. Hlavním tématem dnešního uzavřeného workshopu v sídle think tanku Heritage Foundation, je demontáž institucí EU denikalarm.cz/2025/03/amer...

The lack of expertise on East-Central Europe - or perhaps more precisely the lack of recognition that expertise is actually needed - across sectors, from the media to arts to academia, is often breathtaking… including the too often terrible pronunciation of people’s names once it gets to spoken word

Dnes máme v @zaminutusest.bsky.social po Volodymyru Zelenském druhého nejznámějšího Ukrajince, válečného reportéra Ilju Ponomarenka. Mluví mj. o tom, že by si Trump měl dát pozor, co si přeje. Mohlo by se mu to totiž splnit - a přijde Zalužnyj. Dejte si rozhovor! www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/audio...

This is soooo good!!

What a way to celebrate #8M! @aborcyjnydream.bsky.social is opening the first abortion centre in Poland! What an incredible work! 💚💜 Lovely graphics by @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social, sign their petition for safe and accessible abortion in EU if you haven't done so yet! ✊

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏽 Des dizaines de milliers de manifestants sont attendus partout en France ce samedi pour défendre les droits des femmes."L'urgence" est de "lutter contre la régression" de ces droits, clament les associations.

The updated USA Orwellian ”Newspeak” just dropped. Where are those brave ”free speech warriors” to defend science? Crickets (still allowed, not sure for how long)?!?

Contra los recortes o la supresión de derechos, y la represión y la violencia que suponen para mujeres de todo el mundo, los lemas de este año de las distintas partes del movimiento en España han puesto el foco en esa amenaza global y en la necesidad de darle respuesta

💥Scoop: As EU leaders rally around Zelensky in support, I have obtained this fresh letter from Viktor Orbán to António Costa, threatening to obstruct EU unity in support of Ukraine. As I previously wrote, Hungary is becoming a Trojan horse for Trump after already serving as one for China and Russia.

Predators support predators.

The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/5tozgdyn

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

Embassy of Ukraine in Prague tonight.

Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.

It was a badly executed setup. There was no deal - not on Hunter's notebook and neither today.

New fellowship opportunity from the IWM and the Institute of International Studies (IMS), Charles University in Prague for Ukrainian scholars! Deadline for applications: 15 March 2025 Learn more here: www.iwm.at/blog/iwm-ims...

Feminismus se v Česku potýká s předsudky. 🇨🇿 👉🏻 Feministická zahraniční politika ale znamená víc než genderovou rovnost. Jak pokračovat dál, zjišťovali ve fokusních skupinách s podporou @boell.de výzkumník Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň a výzkumnice Mila O'Sullivan.

Organizace In IUSTITIA včera zveřejnila monitorovací zprávu, která detailně analyzuje vývoj předsudečného násilí v Česku po ruské invazi na Ukrajinu v roce 2022. Zpráva přináší alarmující zjištění: protiukrajinské incidenty vzrostly šestinásobně oproti období před invazí. in-ius.cz/nova-zprava-...

This is an alarming politics on the Left. By depriving of means of self-defense an Eastern European society that is fighting back against russian imperial conquest, @die-linke.de effectively enable russian imperialism and fascism. Even more concerning, given Germany’s ongoing legacy in Europe’s East

"...the direction of travel is clear: there is a desire to downgrade, if not eliminate, independent, science-based evidence and expert advice; there is also a rank disregard for international agreements."

'Am I being naive, wondering every day why the crimes of Russians remain unpunished? Or is it easier for the world to forget all this and pretend that none of the following events happened? The massacre in Bucha. The siege of Mariupol. Mass graves in Izium...' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spain’s first trans senator Carla Antonelli electrifies parliament with must-see speech on trans rights: ‘Leave us alone!’ www.attitude.co.uk/news/carla-a...