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It is rare but sometimes international days accidentally acquire some meaning.

4 Learnings about the interconnection of fascism and liberalism: A thread 🧵 To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings: (1/6)

Friday night mood

In other news, exciting post day.

Passage from a text discussing Peron's personal involvement in the 'ratlines' that brought Nazis to Latin America. Apparently two routes were used: Franco's Spain and Italy. In the latter case, Catholic clergy were instrumental. (From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")

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Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

who gives a f***

I have rarely come across more transparently false and shallow arguments than Milton Friedman's excuses about his role in Pinochet's dictatorship - ridiculously often framed in justifications straight from Pinochet's own propaganda machine. (Eg: left, Friedman's 1998 account. Right, the reality)

In 1982, Hayek wrote a letter to Thatcher, suggesting that the UK should follow the example of Pinochet's Chile in implementing radical market reforms. Thatcher's response is quite telling.

Kiel, Germany, 1931

Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Recommended book for students of economic history/political economy of the US. Pierces through the narrative that there was a clean break between some mythical Keynesian era (postwar-70s) and a neoliberal era (80s-today) 1/2 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

'The Forest' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Όταν συζητάμε για την ψυχική ασθένεια, μιλάμε για τους ασθενείς, αλλά όχι για τους οικείους τους. Τι σημαίνει να καλείσαι να διαχειριστείς μια διάγνωση που αλλάζει και τη δική σου ζωή; Τρεις γυναίκες μας λένε τις ιστορίες τους. ✍️ @katoiko.bsky.social #insidestory_gr insidestory.gr/article/pos-...

The horrendous irony of using AI to do this seems itself befitting how damaged we are ☹️

Beautiful Lisbon

Amazing to see that our new HR policy on discrimination and harassment concedes that "alienation, isolation" do in fact constitute a "poisoned work environment." Unclear how any work can now be done without the abolition of capitalism.

Analysis: The president is stupid and has dementia, probably. They keep giving him exams to make sure he won't take a dump in the utility closet, and he thinks he's being awarded the first "Einstein Prize to Presidents for Being So Good at Very Hard Tests."

Why does autocorrect change words that are words? I typed "heating" and then it changes it to "hearing." No no no, I wrote and meant heating

“To make sure that fascists don’t win (i.e. in order for us to stay in power) we will adopt & implement fascist discourse & policies. In doing that, we will also normalize fascism for larger parts of the population because some idiots still describe us as ‘centre-left’”. Here, fixed it.

Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social

The news is not that X deleted the Commission's account but that the Commission still had an account. Similarly, the reason to abandon X was a refusal to monetise fascists & to tolerate the algorithmic interventions of the fascist/idiot owner, not because X/Musk are attacking the EU. Jeez people.

Two articles of mine being accepted by two cool journals *on the same day* is quite something, I guess! And it comes at a time when my job conditions are far less hopeful than they appear; when precariousness has become the norm. A small glimpse of hope in dystopian times.

So the national security document is a real rupture and a truly shocking … (*checks notes*) … repetition of what it already said in February and has since consistently maintained. I mean, who could have thought..?

13 reference letters submitted this morning in support of former students applying for PhDs. I need a nap!

I am happy to see that you include the EPU which is often neglected - and very important. The first step in international economic integration rather concerns the creation of a system of payments than a free trade area.

Have to say.. Blue sky is becoming intolerable.

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

That weird thing when reading the US strategic report makes you nonchalantly defend the use of nuclear weapons to kill … *checks notes*… upwards of 20 million people.

Coming 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/337...

#OtD 6 Dec 1938 members of the Australian Aborigines’ League led by William Cooper marched to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter condemning the "cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany". Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...

Always enjoy teaching the history of European integration in one go ☺️

Great reporting and a knockout final line: “Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”

Every day someone wakes up to the fact that the US is governed by a racist authoritarian/fascist clique and they insist that the rest of us act as surprised as they are. For a whole year now.

Groundbreaking research here. Congratulations to the whole team!!

We recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com). This is how it came to be 👇

Great piece by @proufos.bsky.social on the historical trajection of central bank independence! 🏦 👇Read below to understand why we should not defend it as the base of economic stability and democracy

🏦Are we all Lisa Cook? Recent attacks on central bank independence have provoked a fierce defence of it as the base of economic stability and democracy @proufos.bsky.social argues that it is a false belief that we must choose between technocratic insulation and authoritarian intervention read 👇

An intervention into current debates around authoritatian threats to central bank independence and whether we should be defending it. My gratitude to @solveigdegen.bsky.social for the invitation and to @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social for publishing it. www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/12/04/f...

Tomorrow! Doors open 12h30. Programme: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

Right now the big two-day Labour Environmentalism conference is kicking off at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin. I'll be taking live notes here on bsky.

Today’s goal is to connect the political economy of fiscal/monetary coordination with Carl Schmitt’s political theology. See you on the other side.

Sunday bookshelves re-arrangement day

So someone stole my bag yesterday. The only thing inside it was Eric Monnet’s “Balance of Power” - with tons of notes on the margins 😡