Not too shocking from an extremist like Fuentes. What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/

A Europe-led NATO would be very French.

Together, we are America. Well done, Bad Bunny.

Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/

Great discussions are happening here at @hhu.de with the annual Graduate Conference on Party Research. Always great to present some work and connect with peers who geek out over party politics. #PolSci #Parties

The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse". Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".

Yes, I am single-issue posting. Because, here in the U.S., the regime's ICE attack on the country is the main story. No one is safe here as long as heavily armed gangs of thugs are roaming the streets and the regime is covering their crimes with lies.

Absolute drivel from the BBCs live feed. Despite there being abundant evidence to contradict the repulsive Noem, her words are reported uncritically, in line with the apparent belief that presenting a lie alongside the truth and calling both “narratives” has anything to do with journalism.

Board of Peace - Season 1

🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in @epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Transphobia destroys your capacity to evaluate the world and politicians. This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.

Utterly extraordinary. Trump is clearly very serious about using every tool at his disposal to help his far-right allies abroad. This would ordinarily surely be grounds for revoking the culprits' diplomatic credentials.

Portuguese presidential election yields 2nd round between center left Seguro & far right Ventura. Honestly shocking that the main center right party (PSD) fails to endorse Seguro. They would benefit from reading @dziblatt.bsky.social’s historical work on the topic www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Bateu mal ou devolveu de propósito? Brahim Diaz foi de cavadinha e perdeu o pênalti

Woah - we're deep in injury time at the end of the Afcon final, Morocco are given a soft VAR penalty... and Senegal's manager has taken his players off the pitch in protest!

If you asked me what I believe is one of the biggest threats to European democracies today, I’d say it's the self-proclaimed political centre, which is either too dumb, too ignorant, or too hypocritical to admit that they themselves are constantly doing the far right’s work.

New blog post! Joshua Farrell-Molloy explains how Irish #far-right groups use #masculinity and republican symbols to frame themselves as defenders of #Ireland. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed. Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.

Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months." Conspiratorial nonsense. Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.

If we end up in a large European war, it will be somewhat funny to write the story of how we sleepwalked into it. How many people preferred to obsessively ramble about "trans women in bathrooms" as the supposedly most important issue at hand, while the Russian threat so obviously kept growing.

A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.

An article from December 1996 warns that Bulgaria has no chance of joining Europe and the euro would replace the lev only after the second coming of Christ. Brace yourselves, the euro replaces the lev tonight at midnight! 🤣(and, of course, Bulgaria did join the EU in 2007).

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

How white nationalists dream of Christmas. "Remigration" -- thin ethnonationalist code for "purifying" the nation by expelling ethnic and cultural "undesirables". Fash fantasies for the holidays.

🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset. 🔗 populistree.org 📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics: 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I propose the following next recipients of FIFA peace prize: MBS Whoever is running UAE these days Xi Ramzan Kadyrow Bibi Some African dude in military uniform, they all kind of blend together

We might actually be at war with the Russians before Trump's term is over. Trump is determined to abandon Europe, and Putin is delusional enough to think he could conquer Europe.

Also a great pic for 🇳🇱 polsci memes…

New #episode! 🇪🇺 Gabriel and I break down local elections in 🇪🇪 and 🇩🇰, plus the contentious parliamentary vote in 🇳🇱. We also look at political shifts in 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 and the 🇪🇺 level. 🎧 Brought to you by @europeelects.bsky.social 🚀

🪑🗓️ Founding fathers and others: Messrs Janša, Fico, Kaczynski & Orbán meet Messrs Wilders and Åkesson in this chart of long-serving leaders of political parties of consequence in the EU. There are other veteran party leaders, even in Slovakia. But their parties have been less consequential.

Amazing work!

🚨 New Publication! 🚨 In this piece, I examine both the extreme and the more “moderate” factions within the AfD 🇩🇪 and compare their positions on 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 with their stances on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸. Key insights and findings👇🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

I don't think we should be under any illusion that any of this will change when Trump is gone. Go browse leftist American political commentators, they are majority pro-Russian. It's best for us to accept the American hostility toward Europe as the new status quo.

You don’t understand how much I love this feature

Good overview of how incompetence can lead to destruction. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

We won the Cold War because we won the peace. We built the better societies and the better institutions. We were able to go through rough periods of confronting difficult social issues, as well as our social injustices. The Soviets couldn't. That's where our strengths are.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

I am more worried by mainstream parties pushing illiberal policies of the far right than by mainstream parties collaborating with the far right to push (neo)liberal policies. Clearly, a sentiment not shared by Renew and S&D. 🇪🇺

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The Mamdani speech was rhetorical dynamite! 💥 TURN THE VOLUME UP!

Prepping for 2026 elections.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

The hardest part of academic writing is remembering which synonym for important you haven’t used yet