Erkenntnis des heutigen Tages ist also, dass die Teile der Kultur & Zivilgesellschaft, die staatliche Zuschüsse erhalten oder in geförderten Projekten arbeiten, überwacht werden. Nicht schon immer, sondern unter der aktuellen Regierung. Finde, die SPD könnte sich da irgendwie langsam mal zu äußern.

I’m not sure I’d like to end up in a bunker if the end of days actually came. I’d much rather just be in the very first line of fire and get it over with.

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

This is the time to remind the obvious: Targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime, whether desalination plants in Iran that address water scarcity or energy plants in Ukraine in sub-zero temperatures.

In all that back-and-forth about AI and academia, this blog post is actually very good and worth reflecting on davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

The easiest analytical assumption to make whenever Trump does something is that he hasn't thought it through at all. And yet everytime commentators contort themselves into believing there's some kind of strategy.

Russia should not have been allowed by the world to massacre Ukrainians for four years -- let alone twelve, which is how long this was has actually gone on for. 🌻 1/2

Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet? Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference.. www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...

Apropos fiese #Identitätspolitik: Ich könnte sehr gut auf so viele Elemente meiner Identität verzichten, bspw. #Hoyerswerda #RostockLichtenhagen #Mölln #Solingen #Halle & #Hanau... Kann ich aber nicht, denn #Rassismus ist kein therapeutisches Problem. #HanauIstUeberall #BlackHistoryMonth

Let's not let British voters off the hook. When May made some sense over social care, she got trashed. If Starmer had been honest about the need for income tax raises, he would have lost. The charlatans who brought you 10 years of decline - Johnson and Farage - did so with the backing of the public.

The latest iteration of the Britishness/Englishness debate just seems even more useless and egregious than before. But also - these ideas have always changed. I grew up thinking “English” felt too home counties and “British” vague enough to be inclusive. But then around the mid-2000s it flipped.

Warum dürfen wir eigentlich keinen Klassenkampf machen aber die CDU schon?

Fascinating how tone deaf US political elites have been towards European anger. From Newsom among Dems who failed to beat Trump berating Euro diplomacy, Schumer rattling out domestic guff to Graham and Bessent telling Euros to stop being hysterical. Just speeds up European rejection of America

What does it say about me that I’m only really proud of being British when I get to partake in the aftermath of Brooklyn Beckham going nuclear on his parents or Coleen Rooney revealing Rebekah Vardy’s treacherous ways?

Ce mardi (13 janvier), j’organise une petite journée d’études à l’Iméra avec le but de faire un petit état des lieux sur les débats publics autour de la race en France. Si jamais vous étiez à Marseille, venez nous voir ! www.imera.fr/agenda/race-...

I walked out of ASDA and walked slowly, minding my own business. I slipped on a nakd bar wrapping (organic, vegan, sustainable), managed to rebalance myself and was proud of not hitting the ground, but… broken foot.

THIS. Seeing how the UK debate about immigration gets into a dehumanising binary between “immigrants are dangerous” and “immigrants are economic fuel and will do the jobs you hate” is just depressing.

Some of my colleagues, very right on academics, supported this bigot. And they still wouldn’t back down, coz “anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism”.

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

7. Europe’s security depends on Europe – a wider Europe.

I think I’m going to show this video in class from now on as a prompt for a debate about what university is for. Because I think it’s something we need to address clearly if we are to ever deal with the AI avalanche clusterfuck and other attacks on the very institution that is university.

This is what I’ve been trying to say for X number of years.

Et celui-ci pour les très nombreux autrui qui s’intéressent à l'anarchisme transnational, à l'exil et à l'histoire des échanges franco-britanniques... mais aussi à l'histoire du droit d'asile et de la répression des mouvements radicaux et révolutionnaires.

It’s pretty difficult to look at and accept, but true nonetheless.

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Wow! This truly is HUGE! 😲 It is now solely up to the EU to keep Orbán in check, to prevent Russian or Turkish situations, as both Russia and U.S. will only intervene on Orbán’s behalf.

Depressing thought of the day: why is it so hard for seemingly intelligent people to just condemn a murderous antisemitic shooting in Sydney without adding either antisemitic dog whistle of their own or Islamophobic rants? This one was supposed to be a pretty easy case.

Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!

This is… not surprising and chimes in with random dinner table experiences I’ve had. For the last 7-8 years, upon hearing what I did, many a dinner party descended into a debate on how rubbish people’s university was in preparing them for their later jobs.

Love this thread. All of it.

This coming Thursday 4 December, I'm giving a public lecture in Paris at ULIP (in English) about my new book on peasants and protest on the Larzac. You're very welcome to come along in person or to follow along online. Details at the following link: www.london.ac.uk/institute-pa... 🗃 #skystorians

So let me get this straight, so you’re going to create chaos at universities that will not only make some collapse, but also not raise hardly enough money to balance anything, and then you’ll have to raise taxes on top of having wrecked what’s left of universities?

So many of the post 1960s waves of racism and segregation against South Asian or Afro-Caribbean migrants in UK cities map on to many of the same neighbourhoods that experienced waves of pre-1960s racism and segregation against Irish and Jewish migrants.

Après l'investiture de Chikirou et de Gaccio, le bal des militants insoumis qui sont mécontents de leurs positions poutiniste / antivax / antisémite / homophobe / pro-Chine / pro-Assad, mais qui vous expliquent qu'il faut quand même voter pour "la gauche de rupture"...

I think this thread just explained my life to me.

Vous passez à Marseille et avez envie de venir discuter la race et l’histoire de l’antiracisme demain ? Je serai à l’Iméra à 17h30. Venez nombreux ! Je ferai de mon mieux de ne pas être trop chiant

Der Herr ist Sprecher für Antisemitismusbekämpfung in seiner Fraktion. Die Vereinnahmung jüdischer Anliegen für rassistische Hetze gegen andere Opfer des Nationalsozialismus ist selbst einer nach rechts entgleisten CDU unwürdig.

Think the marriage of convenience between the historically antisemitic far-right and the Israeli right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

I want the world to stop. Now. (I mean, I call my great aunt/cousin, who is the daughter of my grandfather’s cousin, my aunt. In my case it’s not a “big family” but a family where everything is between kinda got murdered, but that’s not important. WHY IS THIS EVEN A TALKING POINT?!)

What is absolutely striking about the current political conversation is that what defines much of the lurch to the (far) right is the logic of embracing nastiness and abandoning goodwill for the sake of political positioning. A type of “après moi le déluge” that gives supporters utter freedom. 1/4

Si jamais vous étiez à Marseille le 13 novembre et aviez envie de venir parler d’antiracisme et le tournant de 2005, venez me voir à l’Iméra à 17h30 !

The sense of quick unraveling and complete loss of any backbone and coordinates is the oddest thing about waking up to how British political establishment is talking about cleansing and deportation as if it were just normal? And even if I see how we got here, it doesn’t make it any less depressing.

I’m glad senior Labour figures are feeling like this, but they need to translate their feelings into action. Real action, not just complaining to journalists on background. Get your damn house in order.

« Pourquoi il y a débat ? Parce que nous n’étions que huit journalistes à suivre le procès. Pas une seule télé », rappelle @fabricearfi.bsky.social. Remettre sans relâche la brutalité des faits au cœur de la conversation publique sur la condamnation et l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy 👇

if all my group chats were leaked tomorrow I don't know that I could say for certain that my career would necessarily retain the trajectory it's currently on, but I will say I'm pretty sure I've never mentioned Hitler in any of them, so at least that's something

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Seit Tagen geht es mir genauso wie Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Ich weiß ja, dass Merz mich wohl meint. Als aschkenasischer Jude habe ich gerade in Deutschland gelernt, was es bedeutet, als nicht ganz „weiß“ gelesen zu werden: Haare zu dunkel, Gesichtszüge zu „südländisch.“ Irgendetwas stimmte nie. 1/2

"Für Jüdinnen und Juden kann es aus der Geschichte nur eine Lehre geben: Die Einteilung in jene, die aus dem #Stadtbild entfernt gehören, und in jene, die in das Stadtbild passen und deshalb verschont bleiben, ist nicht hinnehmbar" ~ Sasha Marianna Salzmann @taz.de

This is a welcome post about expertise, but even more so about the dangers of total suspicion and the nihilism it encourages. Thinking of societies fueled by total suspicion always gets me back to experiences in Russia recently, but also to close post-Soviet contacts. One story always returns 1/4