Bari Weiss something something freedom of speech, something something cancel culture.

I've been watching more and more Arab movies and TV shows recently (for research purposes ofc), and the Arab Film & Media Institute has just posted the full list of their 100 Greatest Arab Films Of All Time. letterboxd.com/arabfilm/lis...

Trois livres marquants de 2025 partagent un spectre : la figure de Saint-Simon. Pour @picharbonnier.bsky.social, « le néo-saint-simonisme est une vague idéologique et politique qui n’a pas encore totalement déferlé sur monde — mais cela ne saurait tarder. » legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/1...

A historic moment in Parisian municipal politics. The Socialist Party and Green Party have a unified list led by Emmanuel Grégoire. He is very likely to be the next mayor of Paris.

I’ve been wanting to write a paper on this for so long.

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

The French former President’s heavily-memed, harrowing book about his nearly three weeks of incarceration reads “like a droning Christmas-card letter,” Lauren Collins writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/3tkZA1

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

For the first time in French history, a poll has the far-right RN candidate, here Jordan Bardella, winning the 2nd round of the election:

Le musée d’Art moderne de Paris consacre une exposition à Otobong Nkanga : ses œuvres, patchwork de matières, textures et formes, mêlent questionnements identitaires et critique de la destruction de notre planète.

New on Nebula: which cities have improved the most in the last 15 years? nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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. 🧵

In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

In this symposium on Syria contributors paint nuanced, grim, but clear-eyed pictures of multiple transitional challenges. Comparisons to other cases and situation in poli sci lit remind us Syria's not terribly unique. Amazingly, they all suggest ways through the obstacles. zenodo.org/records/1745...

As a new generation of train makes its inaugural journey in the French capital this week, enthusiasts on board see it as proof of the system’s superiority.

A record 154,000 public school students in New York City were homeless during the last school year, according to data released Monday. It's grim evidence that the city’s worsening housing crisis is wreaking havoc on its youngest and most vulnerable residents. nyti.ms/43rE1II

It's easy to mock the French for seeming to want unlimited government spending. I've done it myself. But I sympathise with their anger: France is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. Me @financialtimes.com on France's undertaxed billionaires - close to Macron on.ft.com/4qwaFDh

So CBS as an outlet just copies and retypes reports from the Free Press? Yikes.

The new surprise Prime Minister in France is… the outgoing resigned Prime Minister.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong on.ft.com/42wdJ82 | opinion

Les préfets ont reçu ordre de l'Intérieur de réserver les dates du 16 et 23 novembre pour des élections, selon mes infos (source préfectorale), qui confirment celles du Canard. Macron semble préférer prendre le risque de mettre le RN au pouvoir que d'appeler la gauche à Matignon. #Off

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

Sébastien Lecornu resigns 27 days into his job, and a day after nominating his government. Breaking the record for shortest PM tenure in France.

🇨🇵📊 sondage pour les élections municipales à Grenoble : 🟢EELV-PS 31% 🔵LR 21% 🔴FI 12% 🟠Renaissance 11% 🟣Place Publique 9% ⚫RN 8% 🔵Horizons 7% E. Piolle ne se représente pas et la majorité EELV-FI a éclaté, une alliance EELV-PS semble envisageable. www.ledauphine.com/elections/20...

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

The far-right RN in France get two Vice President seats in the Assemblé Nationale thanks to votes from Macron’s party MPs.

I personally benefited from this when I applied, and I highly recommend it with wonderful people!

Straighten them out one by one, reminds me a lot of "zenga, zenga" (alleyway by alleyway).

I’m thrilled that my job market paper, “Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in sub-Saharan Africa,” is hot off the press and open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. A quick thread featuring more than you ever wanted to know about land tenure.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LA TAULE. C'est la une de Libération ce vendredi.

Iconic scene.

Le Pen’s continued defense of Sarkozy—beyond their ideological affinity—contributes to the normalization of discursive attacks on judicial independence in France.

Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.

Confirmation que Macron souhaitait une majorité RN en faisant la dissolution (j'imagine pour apparaître comme un genre de "rempart républicain")

Another reason why the UN should change it's HQ. New York and the US, clearly doesn't deserve the world order to be based here. They're already moving a lot of their offices and work to Kenya due to costs, but they should consider moving their entire operations somewhere else.

Ce sujet doit être au cœur de la discussion budgétaire cette année et les suivantes. Il faut investir, massivement dans l'école publique: Elise Huillery, économiste : « Nous n’investissons pas assez dans l’éducation, et nous le faisons de manière injuste » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Le président qui se disait ni de gauche ni de droite nomme un septième Premier ministre de droite www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/10/l...

France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu — the third consecutive conservative PM Macron has named since last year's elections — publicly opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2012. He said he was "exasperated" by "gay communitarianism." vernonpolitique.info/2012/11/pas-...

He keeps appointing people more to the right each time.

Breaking news: The failed confidence vote marks only the third time since the 1958 start of France’s fifth republic that a prime minister has been toppled by parliament. on.ft.com/4nn6MOt

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Surprisingly, we may get a center-left government in France next week.

And Trump's favorability among Republicans is still ~90% lol.

Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social‬, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.