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This should also make it clear that simplified spatial thinking is inadequate to understand current multi-party competition. See e.g. Labour worst and Greens strongest against Reform. Yet, spatial thinking (e.g. you have to moderate to win elections) still dominates political analysis and strategy.

This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.

Not sure if anything more precisely captures the whistling-past-the-graveyard complacency of the last decade than chatting with a fascist in a luxury resort about whether liberal democracy deserves to survive and then heading off for a bit of skiing.

Thanks to AI, white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: they’re disposable.

Gilt genauso für rechte policies auf dieser Seite des Teichs

in the same way that Dem policies poll a lot better when you don't prime voters to think about how we pay for them, R policies poll a lot better when voters aren't primed to think about how we enforce them, and Dems should do more to leverage that

Brutalist KFC in Mombasa r/brutalism

and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...

Thanks to @claudinegrisard.bsky.social for pointing me towards this great special issue of CPA on 'The financialization of daily life: the lived experience of financially responsible behaviour?' www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Es ist ein ungeschriebener Text, aber irgendwann muss es darum gehen, WIE genau eine Verdachtssprache, die von rechtstextremen Netzwerken, manipulativer Desinformation und "Angriffen auf die Demokratie" so einfach und UMSTANDSLOS auf bestimmte "Linke" umgebaut werden konnte. 1/

University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...

New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening? With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain. We find: ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S174...

„Being able to see their emails makes something very clear: The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by # MeToo.“ www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

Auch an die anwesenden Soziolog:innen nochmal die Bitte, sich stärker an der Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland zu beteiligen

🗞️ From working-class to expert city: How has Berlin's employment structure changed over the past 30 years? I discussed our study on polarized upgrading (with Daniel Oesch and @katymorris.bsky.social ) with @tagesspiegel.de 👉 Full article (in German): www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/von-d...

15 February 1944 | A Polish woman Natalia Hiszpańska (b. 1904) perished in the Auschwitz camp hospital. She was an architect, a scout leader and a second lieutenant. She was engaged in resistance activities during the war. In the camp from 25 August 1943. No. 55813.

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

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