Prediction: Guehi’s performance will now drop until he moves elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

A brave and powerful statement. More people need to speak up about what they are seeing, rather than keeping their heads down and hoping that the administration's ill-informed and spiteful destruction of American institutions will somehow stop when confronted only with silence.

Europe is selling its soul to Trump

The Draghi-report’s proposals about joint borrowing to fund EU-wide investments are more relevant than ever. An under-appreciated benefit is that joint debt would create a deeper euro currency market, potentially breaking the dollar’s dominance (a major source of US political power).

Also pushed by Heritage, to whom Robert Barro still lends his legitimacy.

Kasparov & Landsbergis with a similar assessment to what I testified to in EU Parliament: Collaborating mafia state actors are already engaging hybrid warfare against democratic & accountability institutions. “war is already here. …These threats are existential.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Could someone please teach this massively influential Nobel laureate some game theory and political economy? ”Of course, we’ve got to make sure it gets distributed fairly, but that’s more of a political question” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Agree.

Pleased to see organizational/institutional economists Hart, Henderson and Maskin join the political scientists (and the political economist, Rodrik) in this fight for academic freedom.

This is brave and correct. Like my colleague, I wrote to President Garber. The crux of my message:

Varför avgår du inte Romina? Var så snäll nu och hör på vår bön Det är dags att du lämnar, Romina Så du kan sluta att svika miljön (Melodi Är du kär i mig ännu Klas-Göran, Stickan Andersson; textidé Gun Zetterström)

Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw

www.theguardian.com/football/202... This is an interesting clash of cultures. Sporting is trying to cash in by defaulting on an informal promise to the player. Stupid. VG - being Nordic and committed to ideals of dutifulness - will retaliate out of moral rage rather than accepting being cheated.

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

This is a convincing argument. (Provided you think the authoritarian takeover can still be reversed.)

To an academic economist, this criticism of LLMs is strikingly similar to our profession’s criticism of macro-models without micro-foundations.

People spent years trying to rationalize Trump foreign policy in terms of “realpolitik, “great-power competition,” & “great-power concerts.” This is, as we say in social science, bullshit. He’s a kleptocratic authoritarian. His foreign policy is about accumulating personal wealth & status [1/2]

---> www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Now I've had a chance to read Andrea Sella's article in @chemistryworld.com on why he returned his Royal Society Faraday Medal. I recommend that you read it too. It's inspiring, though inevitably also disturbing, in these troubled times. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...

1/n Since I'm currently using it in my research, let me recommend once again this wonderful (prized) paper on the origins, reception and legacy of Jensen and Meckling's 1976 definition of the firm as a nexus of contracts by @dgindis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/oep/article/...

#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1

Who wrote the following, and when? "Provided that the elasticity of foreign demand is less than infinite there is always some rate of duty which it is advantageous to introduce in the absence of retaliation"

7. They are attempting to justify these changes with language around efficiency and cost-saving, but this is unmitigated bullshit. For many decades the NSF has been a wildly successful model of supporting a domestic science and technology ecosystem while producing breakthrough science at scale.

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Power corrupts. It’s time for Singapore to become a democracy.

Not large scale but it's a start: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This is a really great short memoir of Michelle White's time in economics. I had no idea (but should've) how ground breaking her presence was in the field econweb.ucsd.edu/~miwhite/sca...

They should call it olle (not olo).

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

Intriguing proposal, but tough to implement at large scale.

Here’s a Harvard student with more courage than the University President www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... via @annaekstrom.bsky.social

Please, Royal Society leadership, rethink. Or rather, start thinking.

I completely agree with the general strategy. ”You hurt us by breaking some rules, we hurt you by breaking some other rules.” Could we (Europeans) also stop enforcing the IP-protections that are so important to these individuals?

Did I finally coin a popular term?

Not now, Guillermo O'Donnell. (Teaching intro to comparative politics to undergrads in spring 2025 is a WILD experience.)

👇shows the importance of coordination, to generate safety in numbers. It would be good to know whether US university leaders are currently working on a coordination of their responses.

The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?

Ordered. Let’s get the Streisand effect going.

Memo to Uncle Sam You signed a deal in Budapest in 1994 If they gave up atomic bombs you guaranteed: no war So please just end the blackmailing and petulant rebukes If you must break your promises first give them back their nukes

Memo to Uncle Sam You signed a deal in Budapest in 1994 If they gave up atomic bombs you guaranteed: no war So please just end the blackmailing and petulant rebukes If you must break your promises first give them back their nukes

I long believed that the presence of liberal voices on X did more good than harm. No more. And I now find it outright distasteful to see the Swedish PM making his official statements there.

Over 900 (and counting) Political Scientists have signed on to express their alarm at Trump’s blatant disregard for existing laws, regulations, and democratic norms. Please share widely. Statement and full list of signers (so far) can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

When the bully pulls the gloves off, it’s time to use your head.

The US has a weakness: its groveling, highly internationalized oligarchy Why is it a weakness? Because it’s a tiny number of people, who rely, for their wealth, on accessing foreign markets—thus giving foreign countries sizable power on them It’s now time to use that power 6/x