New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Very saddened by the death of Deborah Cameron this week—a brilliant linguist, feminist, and colleague, who shone bright light on language and gender in society. Here she is talking about why people are interested in linguistic differences between men and women: englishandmedia.co.uk/videos/colle...

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

Warum geht die Klimawende nicht schnell genug voran? Warum reichen Technologie und „politischer Wille“ nicht aus? Antworten dazu geben wir im neuen Klimawende-Ausblick 2025. Mein Vortrag zum Ansatz und Ergebnissen ist jetzt online: 🎥 youtu.be/Z0WUz79foTk #Klimawende #Transformation #Klimapolitik

As expected, all three votes today on the aspects of the 'safe third countries' list at EU level were carried by the EPP with the three far-right parties. Each of the votes looked like a variation of this (data via @howtheyvote.eu):

Can we take a moment to salute that visualisation?

After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE. Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide: www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...

now that's the power of a union

scholar: analyzes scholar with potential influence on my career: powerfully analyzes

Zur Winterpause erschienen, aber noch gar nicht beworben: das Buch „Eigentumskonflikte“, das im Rahmen des @sfb294.bsky.social entstanden ist. In dem Open Access-Buch wird unsere Typologie zu Eigentumskonflikten diskutiert und angewandt. shorturl.at/ojDwU Ein Thread🧵

Free Solo.

„Hoffentlich wird es nicht so schlimm wie es schon ist!" Guten Morgen mit Karl Valentin, 4. Juni 1882 - 9. Februar 1948 

Für Medienschaffende ist der Umgang mit der extremen Rechten zugegebenermaßen nicht immer einfach. Aber ein Lifestyle-Interview mit Chrupalla sprengt jeden journalistischen Rahmen. Hier wird nicht nur eine Plattform geboten, sondern extrem rechte Politik aktiv normalisiert. 🤯

I keep posting these images because they get at a really deep problem - the class divide in political participation. Those who want our democracy to truly represent all its citizens need to create and sustain real connections with people and communities who do not currently feel represented.

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Die Linke hat ihr Vermögensteuerkonzept wissenschaftlich untersuchen lassen. Das Ergebnis: Mindestens 100 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr könnte die Steuer einbringen.

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

To the Marxist imperative “always historicize” the neoliberal imperative can perhaps be understood as “always anthropologize,” always understand the differences that exist within society to be a difference between humans as humans, to be an expression of human nature.

I think my argument based on this is that what's unique in America is not the divide but the propaganda and the efficiency with which it's delivered.

good 🧵; among other things, it is important to recognize that polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment are more pronounced among elites and the most engaged segment of the mass public than the rest of the population -- we often generalize too much from the former to the latter.

The US is often seen as an extreme case where polarization erodes democracy bc partisanship now permeates all everyday sociability and affects. But this is now being contradicted by a whole number of studies. Besides the really interesting new work by @jonadejong.bsky.social, there is... (quick 🧵)

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

ich habe mit alyssa battistoni über ihr tolles buch "free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature" gesprochen und es hat sehr viel spaß gemacht (free link) www.zeit.de/kultur/2026-...

Yeah I will say I spent a a lot of my life thinking I was being a sophisticated Marxist by condemning vulgar tendencies which saw particular capitalists and members of the ruling class as evil and the problem. No no, I would say, it is the system! Well, ok, maybe: but also they are evil turns out.

„We then tested whether increases in hip-hop penetration were linked to changes in crime—and whether people exposed to more hip hop in their formative years experienced worse outcomes in education, employment, earnings, teen births and single parenthood.“ 📻 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake

2025 war ein Wahnsinnsjahr für die deutschen Milliardäre: Ihr Vermögen wuchs mit 30 % fast doppelt (!) so schnell, wie das Vermögen des Globalen Durchschnittsmilliardärs mit 16 %. Dieses Wachstum ist absurd gefährlich, weil es die Ungleichheitskrise weiter verschärft.

Spain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise. Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2

A war rages in the Democratic consulting class about whether Dems should go "moderate" or "progressive" in 26 and 28. @gelliottmorris.com argues that most voters are not ideologically moderate, they are disengaged. I found similar results from 2024, which he discusses in this post.

This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Are you interested in the role of elites in disseminating ideas and framing policies? Then you should consider contributing to this Special Issue edited by me and Milka. You can email us an abstract if you want to know whether your paper idea is a good fit with the theme.

36.6% arm oder armutsgefährdet. Ist eine politische Entscheidung.

"Centrism is not in and of itself illegitimate. But its defenders should ask themselves hard questions about what it can possibly mean in 2026. A reflexive position in the middle – for the middle must by definition be reasonable – makes little sense in a completely asymmetrical political landscape."

berger year

Warum dürfen wir eigentlich keinen Klassenkampf machen aber die CDU schon?

Zwischen „Blabla die hart Arbeitenden, die morgens früh aufstehen, sind was ganz anderes als diese Arbeitslosen“ und „was fällt den Busfahrern eigentlich ein, die schaden uns massiv“ liegt immer nur ein Warnstreik, merkt euch das.

Aus aktuellem Anlass nochmal: In Sachen Streikaktivität ist in Deutschland noch deutlich Luft nach oben.

...beim CDU-Wirtschaftsflügel arbeitet man währenddessen schon auf Hochtouren an den nächsten Vorschlägen.

Monet’s studio boats let him float between water and sky. He built them himself, turning rivers into moving studios—reflections becoming his horizon.

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October! Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

Manchester capitalism rebranded as a lifestyle choice. It's what happens when the left withdraws from shaping identities around work, life, and politics. Individualism, conservatism ("marry early"), puritanism. They all shape how he will act politically. "Care for the sick? No, it's their own fault"

Martenstein, Mario Barth und die Armee der Amazon-Rezensenten Nichts bringt das Bürgertum so in Wallung wie das befreite Wiehern über geschlechtergerechte Sprache. Hier habe ich darüber geschrieben. kulturundkontroverse859.substack.com/p/martenstei...

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Der Mechanismus ist bekannt: Gewalt & Militarisierung werden an den Grenzen eingeübt und normalisiert, die Bevölkerung an brutales Vorgehen & eine "harte Hand" gewöhnt, bis diese auch ins Innere der Gesellschaft und auf privilegierte Gruppen (weiße Protestant:innen, Staatsbürger:innen) ausgreifen.

Wer meint, sowas wie ICE "kann bei uns nicht passieren", ist a) geschichtsvergessen und hat b) die Situation an den Außengrenzen & entlang der Balkanroute nicht verfolgt. Nur 1 Beispiel: 2021 prügelten vermummte Beamte der kroatischen Polizei auf Geflüchtete ein... www.spiegel.de/ausland/kroa...

...beim CDU-Wirtschaftsflügel arbeitet man währenddessen schon auf Hochtouren an den nächsten Vorschlägen.

Der Fotograf Erwin Blumenfeld wurde am 26. Januar 1897 in Berlin geboren. Bis 1913 besuchte er das Askanische Gymnasium. Nach dem Tod des Vaters musste er die Schule aufgeben und machte stattdessen eine dreijährige Lehre beim Damenkonfektionär Moses & Schlochauer am Hausvogteiplatz. 🧵