Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”

Harassing, humiliating, punching, and getting to shoot people (of color) is why people join ICE. It's a feature not a bug.

De facto the idea of Lebensraum, the core of German imperial and Nazi expansionism. It is shocking to hear. But it is the logical consequence of having an extreme-right president and administration. Instead of treating Trump as a "deal maker" or "populist" it is crucial to accept this reality.

EU citizens - especially those in Greenland - deserve a clear answer to the question of how EU leaders would react to attempts of the US to annex Greenland. Will there be a clear political and economic response? Or is it also going to be a "complex situation" to be "closely monitored"?

Schlicht erschütternd, wie Regierungen versuchen, Tatsachen zu vernebeln, sie nicht beim Namen zu nennen, Bürger:innen im Dunkeln zu lassen über die politische Realität. Das erodiert die Grundvoraussetzungen der Demokratie. Wer soll sich so motiviert fühlen, Demokratie aktiv zu gestalten?

We are back to a world of "spheres of influence" with authoritarian regimes pushing their hegemonic and imperial agendas through military and economic power. Left with a European Union too weak to play power politics and too morally bankrupt to still speak for a rules-based international order.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

“the principles of international law” rather prohibit bombing countries because their leaders “lack legitimacy”.

Coincidentally, also a depiction of a perfect NYE (Happy new year, everyone!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_...

My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.

Articles about Brigitte Bardot after her death on Sunday have referred to her far right sympathies, which supposedly emerged later in the film star's life. Here she is, though, in 1958 with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde, future founder of the extremist OAS terror group

Brigitte Bardot has been fined for racism multiple times, she called muslim immigrants "filthy", she openly supported the far right like few other celebrities in Europe. She was not "controversial," she was a hateful homophobe, racist and bigot.

7/ "Economic and cultural concerns are deeply intertwined among the supporters of far-right parties and across the broader electorate." # 4️⃣ of EG's top 2025 stories is @tabouchadi.bsky.social's essay discussing economic sources of threats to status. More: equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

Wie digitaler Hass und Ressentiment geschürt und geschützt werden, lässt sich hier exemplarisch sehen....wer noch nicht weiß, wohin zum Jahresende spenden: einfach an @hateaid.org www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...

The extreme right, authoritarian, white supremacist US government uses its power to push exactly this agenda. Or simply: fascists do fascist things. The refusal of large parts of European politics (esp. in security circles) to accept this truth remains a massive hurdle to deal with this new reality.

Durch die einseitige, oberlehrerhafte Debatte zur Wehrpflicht verliert man eine ganze Generation politischer engagierter junger Menschen, die wir im Kampf gegen radikal rechts dringend benötigen. Wenn wir sie nicht schon eh durch die Politik in Gaza verloren haben.

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Lesekreis Weihnachtsfeier. Wir besprechen Judith Butler „Who’s Afraid of Gender?” - Angriffe auf sogenannte „Gender-Ideologie“ sind zentraler Bestandteil der globalen radikalen Rechten geworden und werden zusätzlich bis tief in die Mitte der Gesellschaft legitimiert.

Ich freue mich sehr: Ich habe gestern einen Rechtsstreit mit Ahmad Mansour gewonnen. Ich hatte auf X in Zusammenhang mit einem Kommentar von ihm in der Welt mit der Überschrift „Menschen, die vor Unfreiheit flüchten, importieren Unfreiheit nach Europa“ (siehe Screenshot) geschrieben, dass 1/

Vote shares are often used to compare social democratic party success and to decide who to learn from. However, SD parties operate in very different socio-structural contexts. If we e.g. compare today's vote shares with those in the 90s, the Swiss SP stands out as having lost the least votes.

Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.

Must be that famous left-progressive bias of the media elite that let's the BBC pretend that "cultural erasure" (i.e. the extreme right racist idea at the heart of contemporary and historic fascism) is a serious starting point for discussion. Why not "Do Germans need more Lebensraum in the East?"

Heute sicher nochmal ein guter Tag diesen äußerst informativen Podcast mit @annewill.bsky.social und Christina Berndt zu hören. Der Umfang des Schadens und das Ausmaß der Fahrlässigkeit und Überheblichkeit. Und Fahrlässigkeit ist schon die großzügige Interpretation. open.spotify.com/episode/3gFx...

Now out in QMMR (Notes from the Field): I reflect on my PhD fieldwork in informal camps of migrant farmworkers in Italy, and on how the slow work of building trust in a challenging field environment radically reshaped my research questions and methods doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social has co-authored a new paper in @thejop.bsky.social on 'The electoral effects of state-sponsored anti LGBTQ measures': www.journals.uchicag...

This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.

📢 APPLY NOW! @politicsoxford.bsky.social are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of the Comparative Politics of Africa, in association with St Peter’s College. 🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (GMT) 21 Jan 2026: ow.ly/H31A50XHn83

Out now with @adamsharris.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social : We test “rooted” activist frames for LGBTQI tolerance—grounded in local history & national narratives—in Zimbabwe. Biggest thanks to the many people who helped get this off the ground. (1/3) Read here:

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Oxford, spotlighting the Centre for Democratic Resilience and its work to protect liberal democracy and academic freedom. #OxfordUniversity #DemocraticResilience #InternationalCollaboration #ResearchImpact Read more: ow.ly/5VeR50XFKQC

Nächste Woche diskutiere ich bei der Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa wie die radikale Rechte in Europa die Demokratie bedroht. Man kann sich noch weiterhin zur Veranstaltung anmelden.

A worldview that divides people into givers and takes will prevent people from supporting redistribution, inclusion, sustainability and other progressive values. It will prevent people from voting Labour in elections. Labour is shaping public opinion against progressive politics.

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

The electoral effects of state-sponsored anti-LGBTQ measures doi.org/10.1086/739782 Accepted paper in @thejop.bsky.social by Violeta I. Haas, Konstantin Bogatyrev, Nuffield Fellow @tabouchadi.bsky.social Heike Klüver and Lukas F. Stoetzer

Difficult to grasp how the crisis of UK universites - largely caused by bad policy and bad management - is not treated as a massive national problem that requires government involvement to help solve the issue. Product of a discourse in which parties don‘t want to be seen as appealing to graduates?

As people still need to hear this: the Danish social democrats are polling at below 20%. In this poll, the radical right in Denmark also nearly receives 20%. It remains striking how often Denmark is still referenced as a case were social democrats beat the radical right.

Europe’s housing crisis is worsening while progressives stay silent. DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social argues in @theguardian.com that we need bold policies that make homes affordable, fair and a social right again:

Very unprofessional of the APSR to publish a response to a published article without publishing the original authors' reaction. "They will be published in the same issue." So we see them together when we get our hardcopy in the mail and flip through it on a Sunday afternoon?

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

Oxford’s PPRNet unveils eight new briefs showing how soaring housing costs are reshaping European politics—hurting centre-left parties and boosting anti-establishment sentiment. Led by @tabouchadi.bsky.social, the project urges an evidence-based debate on housing: ow.ly/5ICT50XyAIH

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

Am Wochenende will sich in Gießen die neue Jugendorganisation der AfD gründen – begleitet von großen Gegendemonstrationen. Ideologisch wie auch personell zeigen sich Kontinuitäten zu der Jungen Alternativen, analysiert ANNA-SOPHIE HEINZE (@asheinze.bsky.social). verfassungsblog.de/afd-jugendor...

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

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!