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

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

Italy's Court of Auditors has now rejected Salvini's plans for the construction of the controversial bridge connecting Sicily to the mainland across the Strait of Messina.

was trying to work out why people were posting their passwords and then I realized it was potential Dutch electoral coalitions

Crazy exit poll in the Netherlands. D66 almost certainly the biggest party. PVV the big loser but other far right wins bit back (FvD & JA21). Terrible night for the Dutch left and particularly GL/PvdA and Frans Timmermans.

I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!

The future of the humanities / social sciences research is listening to economists lecture to us about our own ideas

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Netherlands, Opiniehuis poll: Voters of Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese, and Caribbean origin Demographic vote national parliament election DENK (*): 40% GL/PvdA (Greens/EFA|S&D): 22% PvdD (LEFT): 14% PVV (PfE): 4% VVD (RE): 4% D66 (RE): 4% SP (LEFT): 2% Volt (Greens/EFA): 2% NSC (EPP): 1% ...

One of the must follow threads in the upcoming days #TK2025

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

My new piece in @tldrnews.bsky.social 'TooLong' explores how academia defines the far right and how its ideas are entering the mainstream. The fourth wave is changing politics. What does this mean for liberal democracy? #FarRight #EuropeanPolitics #Democracy #PolSci

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

Warning! Vanity post ☺️

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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

The Peilingwijzer poll of polls for the Netherlands has been updated to include the latest poll of Ipsos I&O. 📊 📈 All graphs & figures: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/ Source Ipsos I&O: https://is.gd/35hl01

If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can. See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here: www.campaigntracker.nl/en/ #tk2025

I never expected to miss Sepp Blatter...

In love with the mainstream right's honesty.

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

JA21 - 95%

As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.

I don't know what social democratic parties stand for in the 21st century, and I think neither do they.

We are back! ❤️‍🔥 🇪🇺 In this #episode, we bring you the electoral updates from 🇨🇿🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇩🇳🇴🇬🇧. 🎧 Brought to you by the spectacular @europeelects.bsky.social! 🚀

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Although summer officially ends today, @ecprsgpp.bsky.social decided otherwise by giving us one more week of fun at @unidue.bsky.social, where we could discuss one of our biggest obsessions, political parties. #ECPR #SummerSchool #Parties #PolSci

So even someone like Jimmy Kimmel, who brings in millions, isn’t safe from far-right intimidation! And every high-profile surrender not just feeds the thirst for more among the far-right mob but also facilitates the next surrender.

He knows he's lying.

In Prague a cardinal and ex-archbishop will hold a mess for Kirk, for which members of the city council from the government coalition (Christian Democrats) are sharing invites. They will then put a straw wreath at the Old Town sq, where “anyone can pin a mourning ribbon with a message for Charlie”

I recently read a BA thesis on the prevalence of "anti-gender" ideology in #farright party manifestos. It was quite good overall, but when it came to choosing a graph style and colour palette, the student did the funniest thing👇

Brazil's former president Bolsonaro found guilty of coup plot. Three out of five Supreme Court justices found the 70-year-old guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Saying goodbye to summer with beautiful sunny days in #Napoli for the Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science. Good research, good food, good vibes. #SISP2025 #NapleSisp #PolSci #Polisky

The normalization and rationalization of the often authoritarian, erratic and nonsensical behavior and policies of the Trump administration by most of the business, media, and political elites shows how shallow the support for democracy, let alone liberal democracy, always was in this country.

✨ Great start to #ECPRGC25! Presented an early draft in a panel endorsed by @ecpr-ead.bsky.social, together with @larboe.bsky.social, @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social, followed by excellent discussion and feedback from @sldelange.bsky.social. 🙌 More exciting days ahead! ✨

Got six minutes to spare? Do yourself an acoustic favour and give this a listen. (Oh, and find someone who looks at you the way the backing singer with the pink hair looks at Richard).

Tomorrow 10:45: I'll be presenting a working paper with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social which shows that effective state action against the far right increases public support for democracy. This is part of the great panel by @larboe.bsky.social , @javidibad.bsky.social & @sldelange.bsky.social

Interested in mainstream responses to illiberalism and far right mobilization?Join us tomorrow at 10:45 for an interesting panel dealing with reactions to the far-right in various arenas @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social @javidibad.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social, discussed by @sldelange.bsky.social

I’m getting so tired of the marginalized anti-Trump Republicans telling the Democratic Party to become the pre-Trump Republican Party… and the (reactionary) centrists in media and politics celebrating them as the bastions of liberal democracy.

Join us on Tuesday, in case you're around.