Researchers got people to watch 3-minute civic lessons on Facebook and Instagram. They thought the video pointing out that democracy generally means "a better economy" would work best. Instead? It was the one about human rights. www.theredoubt.net/dont-give-up...

Don't give up on the median voter just yet! In my latest for @theredoubt.net, I report on new research that suggests those who have voted for authoritarian politicians can still be made to care about democracy. One key finding: They don't just care about money. www.theredoubt.net/dont-give-up...

In Turkey, Erdoğan voters who watched these videos about democracy and civil liberties were less likely to support the AKP afterwards — even 10 weeks later, despite the fact that neither he nor his party are ever mentioned. www.theredoubt.net/dont-give-up...

New research suggests voters don't just care about money. www.theredoubt.net/dont-give-up...

In February, "school walkouts and other student-led rallies increased by more than 20%, leading to the largest number of student-led demonstrations since pro-Palestine encampments swept university campuses in mid-2024." acleddata.com/update/unite...

Don't give up on the median voter just yet! In my latest for @theredoubt.net, I report on new research that suggests those who have voted for authoritarian politicians can still be made to care about democracy. One key finding: They don't just care about money. www.theredoubt.net/dont-give-up...

“Right-wing parties made an alliance with far-right groups that they had previously shunned to pass the measure, while parties of the left and center voted against.”

AfD leader Alice Weidel “told senior party lawmakers to reduce the number of high-profile trips party politicians are making to the U.S.,” fearing that “its growing alignment with the U.S. administration is increasingly turning into a liability” for the party. www.politico.eu/article/afd-...

“Protesters chanted through megaphones and held signs, including one that read, ‘War criminals should be locked up, not touring universities.’”

Blinken, after listing a series of "good" developments from Trump's war on Iran, said: “The challenge that we’ve had at this moment is the administration, at least in my judgement, never made the case to the American people for what it needed."

Liberals on this website have their own version of “pink-haired Starbucks barista I invented to get mad at” and it’s “pink-haired Starbucks barista with a Palestine pin.”

they weren't protesters. they were observers & rapid responders. this is an important distinction bc the key to understanding what's happened here is understanding that most of it is direct nonviolent action rather than mass mobilization seeking concessions via occupation of space

As I wrote earlier this year, the conventional wisdom — that “moderate” xenophobia will draw voters away from the far right — is not supported by any recent elections, from America to Europe. www.theredoubt.net/the-far-righ...

"Even adjusted for inflation, the wealth of the top 0.1% of [U.S.] households has grown more than 13-fold over the past 50 years." www.wsj.com/economy/weal...

Denmark's Social Democrats, who some see as a model for center-left anti-immigration politics, just recorded "the party's weakest showing in more than a century." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I don’t know if it’s age, the global news cycle, or a combination thereof, but I’m getting really into cleaning lately.

You really do gotta hand it to Carl Sagan on this one.

i am so utterly disappointed in you as a human being after being so supportive of your whistleblowing and vocally critical of the intercept

Mood: youtu.be/63TfMSeDE-k?...

Framing the Iran war as "for Israel" is intellectually lazy and ignores a lot of what we know about the Trump's decision-making. At best, it indulges in nativism. And, let's be honest, writing this without acknowledging how this narrative is being used by bigots and neo-Nazis is... a choice.

As children growing up without internet or cable TV, and needing to do chores for our $10 allowances, my little brother and I were embarrassingly excited the day our parents brought home a Miele vacuum. As an adult? I fully get it.

Birthright citizenship and the attack on democracy: 'If you know the history, you know what they're trying to do' www.theredoubt.net/birthright-c...

As for Iran: Ariel Sharon wanted regime change 24 years ago. But war only happened under Donald Trump, and he — like George W. Bush before him — is the one who should be held responsible for ordering American soldiers to drop American bombs. www.theredoubt.net/americas-war...

"Israel warned us against Iraq invasion, US official says" www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2...

Had a dream my mom sent me a hostile text about Gavin Newsom, asking me to “respond” to a Fox News article and calling him “Mr. Spendy Spend.”

Austrian glaciers disintegrating due to climate change, say scientists www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump was always a successor to Bush — bigger, badder, dumber — and the inconsistent “antiwar” rhetoric just a concession to political realities.

Trump on Muslim immigrants to Brian Kilmeade: “The genetics are not exactly… your genetic[s].” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

An Israeli strike killed a dozen medical workers at a health center in Lebanon. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Trump "told his team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait—and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Wake up, brew coffee, check the price of oil.

Trump says the war will end, “When I feel it—feel it in my bones.” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Can’t go to London anymore the Muslims are selling food.

It's noticeable that the only time some people engage with the last administration's record on Gaza is to dunk on some teenagers.

The Netherlands submitted an intervention to the ICJ in the case of South Africa against Israel, supportive of the arguments that Israel's conduct amounts to genocide. It's the third such intervention from an EU member, after Spain and Belgium.

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Little guy.

“Europe must stand on the side of international law, human rights and democracy,” she said. “Given the times we’re living in, none of us can afford to remain silent.”

Without commenting on whether anti-American Spanish leftists are annoying, I saw people on here trying to argue that America > Spain because the latter invented the slave trade and I just gotta say these sort of arguments are dumb as hell.

"An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings." Gift link, free article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Stop me if you've heard this before: 1) the fascists get into power, 2) reveal themselves to be incompetent, corrupt and just straight-up clowns, 3) voters punish them, 4) voters forget 5) god damn it. It's not just America — and I think there are lessons in that. www.theredoubt.net/fight-for-so...

Moving into an apartment this weekend and very glad I was able to sign a 12-month electricity contract, the rates for which were set March 1.

Here in Vienna, I began to feel nauseous as a political scientist explained the Austrian government's plan to fend off the far right. I'd heard it before, in America — where it didn't work. www.theredoubt.net/fight-for-so...

“Every senator who caucuses with Democrats except Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania signed onto the letter to Mr. Hegseth.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

Right-wing populism offers easy solutions to the real failures of liberalism and 21st-century capitalism. Right? Yeah? Maybe sometimes. But Austria? They have it good: health care (free), education (free), trains (on time). The appeal, I think, is something else. www.theredoubt.net/fight-for-so...