@samuel-bagg.bsky.social is aiming to hire a postdoc to work on an anti-corruption project we've collaborated on. The position is through Yale but would involve relocating to South Carolina. It's for two years & includes no teaching. There's a soft deadline July 10th: apply.interfolio.com/188955

Not topical at all! July's blogpost explores the theme of vice, corruption, and decay. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2026/6/30/vice-corruption-and-decay @beccapalmer99.bsky.social

I am very excited to share that my article on oligarchic fatigue is now out in Perspectives on Politics.

Congratulations to @ptrommelen.bsky.social on his new publication introducing the idea of "oligarchic fatigue to describe the political exhaustion that arises when people’s attempts to engage in democratic practices are obstructed by oligarchic domination." Highly relevant and highly recommended!

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Tired of Politics? On #Political #Experience & #Oligarchic #Fatigue By @ptrommelen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Tired of Politics? On Political Experience and Oligarchic Fatigue - https://cup.org/4oR13lQ - @ptrommelen.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Nice (and rare!) tenure-track job at the University of Wisconsin--Madison for theorists specializing in American Political Thought. One of my favorite towns!

Reminder about our Annual Graduate Conference, happening this Thursday and Friday! We have an amazing selection of graduate papers on the theme of 'Vice, Corruption, and Decay'. See the programme and sign up via the link below. historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

🚨 Geertje Bol’s fantastic "Partisan Virtue" is now published online @academic.oup.com👇 academic.oup.com/book/62949 📚 Pre-order your print copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

The programme for our 2026 conference is now live! 21 excellent papers on 'Vice, Corruption, and Decay'. See it here, including our keynote address and roundtable of academics: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... You can register via the link at the bottom of the page.

This past Saturday, we celebrated our 2nd birthday! Thank you to our incredible collaborative team of friends, board members, advisors, partners and colleagues who work tirelessly to create a positive impact in the field of Deliberative Democracy.

We’re hiring! 3 TT positions Two Assistant Professors in Political Science (Dutch required, deadline 17 May) careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi... One Assistant Professor of Political Theory (Dutch not required, d/l June 1) careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... Share = 🙏❤️

Strong "I didn't want to go out with you anyway because you're ugly" vibes

Akron knows how to launch a Civic Assembly with style! Last Friday, residents, community leaders, and city officials attended the opening ceremony of Akron’s first ever Assembly, focused on housing. FIDE - North America is a proud technical advisor and lead evaluator.

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has made it official so here’s @osuaaup.bsky.social's statement on the selection of Provost Ravi Bellamkonda as the new permanent president of OSU without any search process that included faculty, staff, or students news.osu.edu/ravi-v-bella...

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Calling all innovators interested in Citizens' Assemblies and democratic reform! FIDE - North America is recruiting a part-time Innovation Fellow. This is a paid, part-time, hybrid position based in Washington, DC. Find more details and fill out our application here: forms.gle/9mMYUTQbSpFP...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Probably fine

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Our Deliberative State Governance (DSG) initiative’s inaugural workshop is right around the corner! Take a peak at the incredible leaders speaking next week on citizens’ assemblies and building partnerships between policy makers and the people. And stay tuned for more announcements very soon... 👀

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

“When we have great facilitation and education, when we have time to talk to each other - and not at each other - good things can happen.” Agreed! Check out this week's episode of Dayton City Radio's podcast, “Birthplace of Next,” to learn about our latest Citizens’ Assembly.

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

De Amerikaanse democratie glijdt in een hoger tempo af naar een autocratie dan Putins Rusland, Orbans Hongarije, Erdogans Turkije en Venezuela onder Chavez, aldus de Financial Times gisteren.

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

Het aantal nieuwe hypotheken van meer dan 1 miljoen euro is in vijf jaar tijd verdubbeld. Door de hypotheekrente betaalt iedere Nederlander daaraan mee, en als het aan het kabinet ligt blijft dat zo. Maar wie profiteert hier eigenlijk van? Vooral de rijkste 20 procent. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/st...

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Just to be clear: We’ve reached the arresting journalists stage of constitutional crisis.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Certain forms of mainstream news are sedative. Here's one. Yesterday in Minneapolis was a big day for this country's history and the current crisis and a heroic demonstration of will, solidarity, and bravery. NYT leads with shopping.

There is evil and then there is this

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The media’s apparent normalization of 3% annual inflation is wild. The framing is problematic considering the average household will spend almost $2500 more a year for the same goods and services at this rate of inflation. How can this being sold as normal? www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/e...