Far-right thugs rampage in the Hague, attacking police and the HQ of centrist party D66. While parliament condemns the threat of “fascist” antifa. Shame on every politician -including VVD ones - who spent the last year ramping up tensions to win votes. You don’t get to do that and then condemn this.

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i mean there’s a guy from a Dutch far-right group sitting in custody right now on terror and weapons offences and another foiled neo-Nazi attack on Eurovision 2020 where the guy planned on using chemicals like cyanide and ricin but ok tweede kamer nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/d...

Me: Dear student, here's the answer to your question. By the way, Afonso without L is my last name. Alexandre is my first name. Student: Dear Alfonso

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Before this I thought 21st-century fascism would be sophisticated and insidious but it is really cheap, loud and explicit.

It is genuinely funny how some Dutch people seem to have no trouble pronouncing names like "Tjitske Nieuwenhuis", but pretend to struggle to pronounce vaguely foreign-sounding names like "Karima", and then ask if they pronounced correctly just for emphasis.

There is a town in Switzerland where there are more Portuguese nationals than Swiss nationals www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-od...

I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵

Media are just target fixated on a wall until they crash into it.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

oh well, onward and upward

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Prison sentences for coup plot: Bolsonaro: 27 years, 3 months Admiral Garnier: 24 years General Heleno: 21 years General Paulo Sérgio: 19 years General Braga Netto: 26 years g1.globo.com/politica/not...

There should be a word for the common practice of absolving someone of all the bad things that they did or said because they just died ("deathwashing"?).

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Teaching a class on Democracy tomorrow and used this dataset of electoral democracy in US states (2000-2023) by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social. Very interesting but grim, of course democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/state-democr...

This doubly telling because 1) being totally batshit on the internet as a British MP can now give you a 50% uplift on an MP's salary! bit of a worrying incentive! 2) being one of the most shared politicians on X only earns you £40k, meaning most of the blue ticks are debasing themselves for pennies

Teaching a class on Democracy tomorrow and used this dataset of electoral democracy in US states (2000-2023) by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social. Very interesting but grim, of course democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/state-democr...

Economically leftist policy proposals are under-provided relative to what public support for these proposals would have warranted. Yet, culturally conservative policies are also under-provided www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think I would take reactionary centrists more seriously if they could cite one (1) example of progressives pushing for social change the *right* way -- using just the right slogans, supporting just the right policies, protesting in just the right fashion.

Those that say that yes of course the Apartheid regime in South Africa was horrible and the boycott was justified, but not selling weapons to Israel goes too far.

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Incidence of measles over time in US states: look at the graph after 1980, when vaccine mandates entered into force. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Best use of this meme so far.

I still remember when political economists were arguing that multinational companies hold the real power in the global economy, and states were on the retreat.

There's an initial report from Portugal's accident investigation agency (GPIAAF) on what happened with the Funicular da Gloria, which caused several fatalities. Main chain of events (1/n):

As if the whole academic publishing business wasn't squeezing authors (and taxpayers) enough.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

There's an initial report from Portugal's accident investigation agency (GPIAAF) on what happened with the Funicular da Gloria, which caused several fatalities. Main chain of events (1/n):

Predictably, I am not in the database if you search my proper name but 16 times if you search for alexandre aLfonso.

This is a great thread by Sophie. As social scientists we often have an inferiority complex in relation to STEM subjects but in terms of stats & methods I don't think they are stronger; there's a lot of flawed science there, and maybe even more than in our field.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

As far as I understand this is already the case on the benefits side in the US. The problem is that most people believe that immigration policy is much more permissive than what it really is, and the more restrictive policies they want *are actually the status quo*.

Have to say it is striking to think that the UK deputy prime minister is resigning because she was wrongly advised by her tax advisor on the amount she had to pay in property tax, while the US president just ordered the illegal killing of 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean without any consequence.

India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

This is a consistent finding across countries: copying the far right is a losing strategy for the left. Yet they don't seem to listen. One hypothesis is that the immigration-obsessed media have become the audience of left leaders instead of their own voters.

At my alma mater, receiving a Nobel prize gets you a reserved bike parking spot.

Deprived places like Hull are deliberately pushed into further economic decline for what? So that Labour can point to a graph showing reduced net migration? And they expect that this will weaken Farage? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Tragedy in Lisbon. At least 15 killed in Gloria funicular disaster www.publico.pt/2025/09/03/l...

Awful accident in one of Lisbon's iconic funiculars: 15 dead, 18 injured

On September 17th we'll have a lecture by no less than @pkrugman.bsky.social at Leiden University in the Hague @fggaleiden.bsky.social. Info and registration here:

I have finally gotten round to writing my AI Use Statement for a grad. course I'm teaching in Gen AI... I would be grateful of your thoughts!

Oh look, Labour has spent months targeting the wrong voters.

I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.