Good morning or also quite literally how your “A reference number has been assigned to your manuscript (…)” email found me 🌄

Good morning or also quite literally how your “A reference number has been assigned to your manuscript (…)” email found me 🌄

Shots were fired at a mosque's entrance Sunday night in Lower Austria. Luckily, no one was injured. While we don’t have more details about the incident, it happened only a day or so after the governing ÖVP posted inflammatory anti-Muslim content for their “Zero Tolerance” campaign on social media.

Shots were fired at a mosque's entrance Sunday night in Lower Austria. Luckily, no one was injured. While we don’t have more details about the incident, it happened only a day or so after the governing ÖVP posted inflammatory anti-Muslim content for their “Zero Tolerance” campaign on social media.

The pictures don’t do it justice. It’s so pretty, I cried (📍Moab, UT)

Was will uns die Österreichische Volkspartei damit sagen, außer dass sie anscheinend "Null Toleranz" gegenüber anderen Religionsgruppen hat? (via @riem.bsky.social)

Arrived and one of the first things I saw was a young woman with a bagpack covered in TPUSA pins and a bunch of guys wearing „Jesus saves“, „I am Charlie“ and „Praise the Lord“ caps. I feel like I’m on a fieldtrip.

Was will uns die Österreichische Volkspartei damit sagen, außer dass sie anscheinend "Null Toleranz" gegenüber anderen Religionsgruppen hat? (via @riem.bsky.social)

Arrived and one of the first things I saw was a young woman with a bagpack covered in TPUSA pins and a bunch of guys wearing „Jesus saves“, „I am Charlie“ and „Praise the Lord“ caps. I feel like I’m on a fieldtrip.

My kind of performative reading at the airport

Übrigens nennt die Mehrheit der Befragten in Österreich die Teuerung und Verteilungsfragen als die derzeit wichtigsten politischen Anliegen – weit vor Migrationsfragen. Quelle: www.demokratiemonitor.at/wp-content/u...

Die Volkspartei treibt vor allem die Normalisierung rechtsradikaler FPÖ-Politik voran. Und das Beispiel Deutschland zeigt deutlich, dass man damit die AfD stärkt.

This is a great book on the intersection of gender and neoliberalism, and not unrelated to the far right.

(...) recent statements by government officials on the matter illustrate the contempt that Fidesz politicians have for children and juveniles of “certain” backgrounds with a “certain” history – true to the motto, “some are more equal than others”. Some thoughts on the latest scandal in Orbánland.

The manuscript I’ve been working on for 1.5 years, which my prof told me in April to "submit soon" and which I used for my methods comps, was finally close to ready for submission. But then I decided, why not make this more interesting and replicate it with a completely different dataset and DV?

I stopped reading here

Frau Schnabl an Herrn Köppel, warum die Weltwoche RussiaToday und Desinformation abdruckt. Köppel: "JA WEIL DAS JOURNALISMUS IST!" Na dann wäre das geklärt. #dasGespraech

Vielleicht kann jemand Frau Fürst fragen, wie genau Trump denn das Land "wieder auf Vordermann" bringt? Unterzeichnet von jemandem der hier lebt und sehe es leider nicht sieht 🙃 #dasGespraech

The organising principle of the “Epstein class” is patriarchy, which doesn’t necessarily depend on left-right political ideology to operate

Maybe Galloway could critically analyse the role of, e.g., neoliberalism and its impact on the way we live, rather than claiming, without any data to back this up, that "There’s likely a one in three chance that an attractive young woman without a college degree outside a major city is on OnlyFans".

The organising principle of the “Epstein class” is patriarchy, which doesn’t necessarily depend on left-right political ideology to operate

Writing my next piece for the Hungarian Observer this weekend and can’t even decide what to focus on. The NSS mentioning Hungary? Orbán’s lies about Trump pledging financial protection? The latest child abuse scandal? Orbán trying to shift power to the presidency and switch to the role of president?

Bei der SPÖ schreibt man die Kern-Rückkehr herbei, bei der ÖVP das Kurz Comeback, Österreichische Politik und Journalismus in a nutshell

All I want for Christmas is a decision on that manuscript I submitted over three months ago 📄🎄

"The American national security strategy echoes the language of far-right parties" ... well, maybe that's because ... it was written by ... a far-right administration...?

Today’s International Human Rights Day is the perfect day to plug this article by our former professor and head of department, which shows that restrictions on abortion rights are the canary in the coalmine, foreshadowing further erosion of physical integrity rights (a class of human rights).

I'm not surprised to see Hungary here, but Austria is... new. Then again, the key figure in the 🇦🇹 far-right FPÖ, MEP Harald Vilimsky, has spent years cultivating closer ties with MAGA Republicans, attending multiple CPACs and Trump's Madison Square Garden rally last October. Seems to have paid off.

In a previous life, towards the end of Trump I, I worked as a policy analyst trainee in the European Parliament’s Transatlantic Unit (focusing on EU relations with the US, Canada, and the UN, but really just the US at that point). I can only imagine what working there must be like these days. 🤯

Meine Lieblingspezies in der freien Wildbahn ist übrigens der privilegierte weiße Mann, der sich über den "engen Meinungskorridor" und "Denkverbote" beschwert und behauptet, dass man ja nichts mehr sagen darf, während er in einer großen Tageszeitung konsequenzlos sagen kann, was er sagen will.

Frau Sachslehner (ÖVP) redet von einer Mitte-links Regierung in Österreich, ich würde gerne wissen in welchem Österreich Frau Sachslehner lebt #dasgespraech

We are stuck in a time loop. (In “Backlash” by Susan Faludi, first published in 1991)

Standing in the cold eating overpriced food and drinking sugary Kinderpunsch, it’s almost like home 😂

Also, another step towards the normalisation of the far-right extremist Martin S., here merely described as "Austrian ideologue", and the proliferation of the term "hard-right", a label that virtually no researcher of the far right uses.

Find someone who looks at you the way Szijjártó looks at Lavrov 🇭🇺💕🇷🇺

I'd love to say disrespect and inappropriate behaviour from students toward female TAs/instructors/professors isn't a big issue in academia, but I've had students cross boundaries with disrespectful comments and inappropriate questions, and was greeted with "Hi Queen" the other day, so there's that

This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵

I worked in community management and content moderation in a former life, so that makes me ineligible for a future U.S. visa while living in the U.S. on a U.S. visa?

Galloway constantly yaps about an "aspirational vision of masculinity" on various podcasts yet this is all he can come up with. To me, his vision isn't necessarily more progressive, maybe just superficially less toxic (but still does nothing to break up gender hierarchies and men's dominant roles).

Panicked undergrads who send e-mails to inquire about how to study for the final exam scheduled in two days, not sure what to think of that 🤷🏻‍♀️

The 🇦🇹 government’s secret plan to build transit centres in East Africa for rejected asylum seekers who cannot be deported to their home country. I have a feeling this will be expensive, ineffective, and pose serious human rights concerns. But at least we’re doing the far right’s work, right.

If only someone had an article under review on how the far right instrumentalises the welfare state to entrench themselves in power and undermine (liberal) democracy, and using Orbán's Hungary as one of the case studies...

Sagt mir nicht, wir haben kein Problem mit Männergewalt.

If only someone had an article under review on how the far right instrumentalises the welfare state to entrench themselves in power and undermine (liberal) democracy, and using Orbán's Hungary as one of the case studies...

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob das Wort "Opfer" hier gerechtfertigt ist. Plagiat hin oder her, warum man als vermeintlich seriöses Medium Texte einer Anti-Trans/Anti-Woke-Grifterin als wertvoll für den Diskurs erachtet und ihr freiwillig eine Plattform bereitstellt, muss ich nicht verstehen.

Hivemind, please help me out: Is there any (recent) academic work that talks explicitly about the radicalisation of 'mainstream' parties in Western Europe?

3Sat will wissen: "Wer sind die jungen Menschen, die sich rechtsextrem organisieren? Was treibt sie an?" und interviewt dazu Expert:innen, Politikwissenschafter:innen... und eine Reihe Rechtsextremisten. Dem 🇦🇹 Rechtsextremisten Martin S. gefällt das, immerhin bewirbt er es auf Social Media.

A few weeks ago, we were thinking about going back to Europe pre-Christmas, but with the shutdown, FAA flight disruptions and me not wanting to spent another 3 days in a row stranded at ATL we scrapped those plans… and now we think taking a 67 hours cross-country roadtrip is a much smarter idea. 💡🚘

Some thoughts, in a hopefully more coherent form than my 300-character Bluesky posts hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/why-are-pe...

Some thoughts, in a hopefully more coherent form than my 300-character Bluesky posts hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/why-are-pe...

Want to know more about the manosphere? My article with Valerie Dickel: “Victims of feminism”: exploring networked misogyny and #MeToo in the manosphere doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2029925