"Ukrainians have been fighting & dying for their freedom, for their very lives, for 11 years now. They have suffered hundreds of thousands of dead & wounded... faced by an enemy that denies their very right to existence... a people getting brutalized for wanting what any state should be entitled to"

Hang on, I thought the real reason they were deserting the government was because Zack and Nigel have a better TikTok game.....

Why do @theresabernemann.bsky.social, @timo-sprang.net and I believe that #History is overrated (where the #farright is concerned)? #Videoabstract, full free article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📓 💻

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared. "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

When I visited PEN Ukraine in Kyiv in September 2023, I was photographed by Kostiatyn Huzenko, who documented the war. He enlisted in the Ukrainian armed forces this April and was killed on November 1 by a Russian missile. Courage, truth, memory united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

John McCain + The White Stripes... I had no idea this even existed

Marciano, de Nona Fernandez. Fantástica, el Chile de la dictadura, el Fpmr, una generación, el fracaso, los costes y la memoria; y una estructura magistral (comprado, como ya de costumbre, en la encantadora El retiro de las letras, www.elretirodelasletras.com)

"Escribir, en cambio, se ha vuelto un acto de autopreservación. Uno no escribe para decir algo, sino para exhibirse." La sociedad narcisista: todos escriben, nadie lee www.jotdown.es/2025/11/la-s...

Useful undergrad resource: A brief overview of 200 important concepts in political science link.springer.com/referencewor...

Mosques set on fire, shot at with air guns, and smashed with paving slabs. Just the latest examples of the real world consequences of the political mainstreaming of racism www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Daniel Ziblatt writes the way he studies democracy: with discipline, patience, and a refusal to look away from complexity. He writes with the conviction that democracy depends on the continuous work of understanding. 🧵 New on Etched in Marble: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I liked this story more than most people on my timeline. The reasons I liked it are mostly to do with how it shows that much of the UK state exercises a purely notional control over anything. Trading Standards? Pfft. Companies House? Don't make me laugh. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"It is this nativism that has seeped so deeply into the mainstream, rather than the populism." Excellent post-election interview with @sldelange.bsky.social 🇳🇱

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

❄️ December Issue Out Now! ❄️ Volume 2️⃣4️⃣ Issue 4️⃣ 📗Our final issue of the year is a bumper one! ✍️ 42 Contributors ✒️ Edited by Stella Ladi, Linda Basile & @ljramiro.bsky.social 👉https://buff.ly/Ur4MxPk

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Tuesday & @willbunch.bsky.social is on it:

Recent articles on the radical left in Southern Europe in @sespjournal.bsky.social. @raulgomez.bsky.social @ljramiro.bsky.social & @lamprinirori.bsky.social analyze whether changes in programmatic stances & voter base are associated w/major events. Open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've said this before: “Democrats win every national election or the republic falls” is more-or-less true short-term, but is totally unworkable long-term. No party will have a perfect strategy, and fate outside of politicians' control will intervene. Long-term, every party will lose sometimes.

Words have consequences www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Really important work by @adambonica.bsky.social. The parallels between the US and Europe are striking. On the one side, tons of evidence that centrism (or anti-immigration) is not a vote-winner for the left. On the other, a center-left establishment that just does not want to believe it. 1/

Recomiendo Mañana matarán a Daniel, (de @aroamd.bsky.social felicidades), compleja novela sobre el delicado asunto de las víctimas, los victimarios y víctimas que son victimarios

Italian Senator speaks the truth about European appeasement towards Putin after the annexation of Crimea. Not so common in the Italian TV. I hope more politician will follow.

This is how you should speak to propagandists: you speak the truth. Call a lie a lie. Italian senator Carlo Calenda confronts Jeffrey Sachs.

”//…//in short, a radicalisation spiral//…//”

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend updates. This was the week when the Trump administration once again blocked the two most effective sanctions it could bring against Russia (Graham-Blumenthal and aid for Ukraine's ranged campaign). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Important and correct analysis of our present situation. We have to keep seeing the big picture and not be distracted by the differences in the pretexts. The pretexts all lead to a common goal.

The ‘white faces’ disease among the British right continues to spread.

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Big year for photos of clergy enduring pain while protesting ICE. · Rev. David Black, Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10... · Rev. Jorge Bautista, SF Chron: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... · Rev. Hannah Kardon, Chicago Protest Photography: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

From the people that pretend to be Christian, they hit a clergyman directly while protesting. They’ve gone from attacking marginalized communities to attacking the community in general. Now they are openly attacking religious institutions.

Approval drop of 17 points amongst Latino Republicans since last year. I was told *all this* was what conservative Latinos wanted and that it was a realignment. I was told this a lot. apnews.com/article/hisp...

The most Republican guy is the guy who owns the used car dealership, a tanning salon, and a boat in a place that has been economically decimated by deindustrialization See, for instance:

Interested in immigration policy & in how conservative parties have evolved on this issue? Interested in the evolution of conservative parties and how they confront competition from the radical right? Look no further! This speech by a Madrid regional MP from Spain’s conservative PP is pure gold!

I wrote this about 2016 but it holds true now—high income but low education voters are the most reliably Trump bloc www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Two questions to every Con MP, frontbencher and source should be: 1. Why do you have a Idi Amin style immigration policy more extreme than the BNP? 2. Why do you keep lying about having a Idi Amin style immigration policy more extreme than the BNP?

"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview" - Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I suspect when the fever on all this breaks, Katy Lam and her media advisors will come to regret having her name and image constantly associated with phrases like “mass deportation” and “Idi Amin”

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Britain now has two major radical right parties. Thankfully they are competing for the same voters.

—It’s hard to get people riled up about abstract “Rule of Law” —What about rampant bribery? —Boring —Masked men demand your papers? —Routine —Dead fishermen? —Foreign —Ongoing shutdown? —Partisan bickering —Uh, I rent an excavator and use it to literally demolish the White House? —It’s complicated

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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Poland, Romania foil Russian exploding parcels plot, Warsaw says