Chilling. “For MAGA America, ICE is an instrument for cleansing violence.” And “Failure to heed the MAGA campaign to redistribute respect is insolence punishable by death.”

NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

“The Golden Age of Transnational Repression” by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social in @jodemocracy.bsky.social (2025) #AutumnReading

📢 New article 👥 @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social 🔎 The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia. 📖 Open access In Electoral Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Finally out! Together with @liserakner.bsky.social we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yay! New article our with @haakongjerlw.bsky.social and @oivindstiansen.bsky.social

Listen to this great conversations between two amazing scholars if you a) want to understand what is going on in the US and b) what to DO about it! And as an extra bonus to us Europeans- yes- parliamentary systems will protect us against the tyranny of the minority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-n...

I recommend following Adam Przeworswki´s diary- when this is over and the history of the demise of America´s democracy is to be written- we will need daily accounts. This is scary. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/diary?subs...

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Starter pack for scholars in the Centre on Law & Social Transformation network (LawTransform www.lawtransform.no) and others researching the strategic use of rights, law & court for social change. #lawfare #legalmobilization. ♦️Want to be included? Let us know in comments ♦️ go.bsky.app/DBYcFVs

On a day when resistance to autocratization seems particularly urgent, Lise Rakner @liserakner.bsky.social and I are pleased that our article on "Legalized resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa" is out - and open access. @lawtransform.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to @jsoderstrom.bsky.social and @liserakner.bsky.social on having this very interesting article published!

Congratulations on securing the grant and bravo for doing such important work!

A dream come true and I mean it! Cannot wait! www.uib.no/en/svf/17450...

This is a note of hope- Norwegian students realize that EU membership makes sense for a liberal democracy with an open economy sharing a border with Russia... go figure- smart kids! www.khrono.no/studenter-me...

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? Check out of new article in CPS- the latest from the Bergen-Berkeley gang! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

GLD's Research Seminar Series introduces the research process and covers 3 stages of research: Refining a research question Selecting methodology Presenting findings. All 15 videos are free to use and available on our website with English & Arabic subtitles: gld.gu.se/en/education...

This paper is good! And it crystallizes an idea: the type of social change whose outcome you could measure through a randomized controlled trial is almost certainly system-preserving. So, if you only study the policies that RCTs can evaluate, you'll *never* study transformative social change.

@benjaminwittes.bsky.social talked to @rparloff.bsky.social and @annabower.bsky.social about Judge Cannon's cryptic order in the Mar-a-Lago case, the latest in the Section 3 litigation, and the release of proffer videos in Fulton County on Trump's Trials and Tribulations. Listen now:

Thank you CEDAR (Uni of Birmingham) for offering an opportunity to exchange on democracy in Africa. Nic, Lise and I had a great time discussing the implications of our book on democratic backsliding! @manoelgehrke.bsky.social

Working on political institutions and democracy in Africa? We're calling for participants for a mini-conference during the next APSA. Scholars from the continent and early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Submit your abstract by Dec. 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children