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Philosopher at the University of Vienna. Working on migration, citizenship, democracy & equality. scholars.forum/danielsharp

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 1h
IceCube finding a neutrino
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Ice Cube Shocked in War of the Worlds
ALT: Ice Cube Shocked in War of the Worlds
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 5h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 11h
🚨New Paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social! Julia Leschke and I ask: What works against populist rhetoric? We find: Advocating for pluralist ideals can mitigate the negative effects of populist rhetoric. link.springer.com/article/10.1... More details below ⏬
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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Social media doesn't just feed you bad information. It trains you in how to treat information: who to trust, how much evidence is enough, what counts as a good explanation. And it trains you for a world that doesn't exist. New @PPR (yay!) and free here: philpapers.org/rec/FLOBMS
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Beyond Misinformation: Social Media and the Sculpting of Epistemic Agency
The dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21h
Listen to the full episode here: theintercept.com/2026/10/02/m...
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Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent”
Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country.
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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 12h
🔥 New Publication! Daniel Sharp, with co-author Katharina Anna Sodoma, has published the chapter "Empathic Engagement and Polarization in Multi-Party Democracies: The Case of the Populist Radical Right" in 'The European Face of Political Epistemology.' 🧐Read it here: buff.ly/aDgifvC #philsky
New Publication!


Key researcher Daniel Sharp, along wiht co-author Katharina Anna Sodoma, has recently published the chapter "Empathic Engagement and Polarization in Multi-Party Democracies: The Case of the Populist Radical Right" in 'The European Face of Political Epistemology.'
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Bradley Hillier-Smith @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was great to be featured on the @polphilpod.bsky.social with Toby Buckle to discuss what an ethical response to refugees would be, and how it may be possible www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/refugees
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What we owe refugees with Bradley Hiller-Smith
With the world becoming more repressive, what would an ethical policy even look like?
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 03/10/2026
This is an official from the Austrian People's Party talking to a young man of colour at the Oktoberfest in Munich. He tells the young man: "How about you just go home and wait there until we come there for vacation?" And then proceeds by saying: "You are not at home here".
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”
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Daniele Saracino @dansaracino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The new deportation ("return") regulation has been adopted today by the Council. Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social from @sieps.bsky.social has written an article on it on the Forced Migration Studies Blog @fluchtforschung.bsky.social. Must-read! fluchtforschung.net/deportation-...
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Deportation at all costs? The EU’s new regulation on returns – Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 30/09/2026
The Detention Mortality Map (detentionmortality.com) covers ICE custody deaths back to 2003. On The Project Censored Show, I explained why it leaves out cause of death and unverified criminal history claims. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio... @projectcensored.bsky.social
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New from Hainmueller and Laitin on the causal effects of becoming a citizen on wages. Short story: the observational ests overstate the premium relative to the experimental ests. Authors conclude "observational averages should not be used as causal forecasts for policy" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the Trump administration shifted to a “quieter” approach to immigration enforcement. But as the timeline shows, “less visible enforcement is no less aggressive on the ground today and continues to ramp up in multiple ways."
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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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International Rescue Committee - EU @eu.rescue.org · 30/09/2026
As Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands meet again in Brussels tomorrow, IRC warns return hubs could mark a historic setback for fundamental rights. It is not too late for EU governments to step back from the return hub initiative. Our call: www.rescue.org/eu/press-rel...
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IRC urges European governments to abandon "return hub" plans | The IRC in the EU
As last week's EU Munich migration summit concluded with a renewed commitment to externalising returns, ahead of a follow-up meeting planned tomorrow, 1 October, the International Rescue Committee (IR...
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Monstrous.
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., definitively does not know ball. 🏀
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'essential for achieving thought' seems just a *bit* too high a bar to set for showing that something is very important.
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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Opposition to asylum centres is often presented as local anger. But political parties can help organise and amplify these protests. Meanwhile, in many towns, the problems people feared never happened and centres became part of the community.
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How Vlaams Belang is Actively Orchestrating Local Protests Against Asylum Centres | Fonds Pascal Decroos
As soon as a new location is announced, the party’s MPs react in parliament and on social media. Within a few days, a protest follows, attended by party leaders, accompanied by leaflets, petitions and...
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is my favourite Borges story.
The Witness by Borges and translated by ANTHONY KERRIGAN

In a stable lying almost in the shadow of the new stone church, a man with
gray eyes and a gray beard, stretched on the ground amidst the animal
odors, meekly seeks death like someone seeking sleep. The day, faithful to
vast secret laws, continuously displaces and confounds the shadows in the
wretched stable. Outside stretch the tilled fields, a deep ditch filled up with
dead leaves, and the tracks of a wolf in the black mud where the woods
begin. The man sleeps and dreams, forgotten. The bells calling to prayer
awake him. In the kingdoms of England, the sound of the bells is already
one of the customs of the afternoon, but the man, while still a boy, had
seen the face of Woden, had seen holy dread and exultation, had seen the
rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments,
seen the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners. Before dawn he would be
dead and with him would die, never to return, the last firsthand images of
the pagan rites. The world would be poorer when this Saxon was no more.
We may well be astonished by space-filling acts which come to an end
when someone dies, and yet something, or an infinite number of things,
die in each death—unless there is a universal memory, as the theosophists
have conjectured. There was a day in time when the last eyes to see Christ
were closed forever. The battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with
the death of some one man. What will die with me when I die? What
pathetic or frail form will the world lose? Perhaps the voice of Macedonio
Fernandez, the image of a horse in the vacant space at Serrano and
Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
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AILA @aila.org · 28/09/2026
"Communication can’t happen unless family members and lawyers know where the person is being held." bit.ly/3Vlbun6
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tired of winning
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵
Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"1 person died in ICE detention every 10 days from January 2025 through August 2026. Source: NPR." Image of a barbed wire fence against the sky. ACLU logo.
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you a "migrant criminal" if you were born in the UK and, as well as being British from birth, you inherited a nationality from a parent as well, perhaps without even knowing it? Reminder: you do not need to possess a passport of a country to be a national of that country.
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s why this is bad: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two-tier British citizenship latest.
 Conservatives to strip migrant criminals of British citizenship

Dual nationals serving sentences over five years could lose passports under the proposals
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Horrifying www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It sent a message’: anti-migrant feeling pervades Hampshire town where hundreds protested
Far-right posters go up around Gosport, but some residents say there’s ‘another side’ to life in the town
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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#NationalMigrationWeek is a time when we all should reflect on ways we can support migrants and refugees. Explore CLINIC's Parish Toolkit for ways you and your community can get involved: bit.ly/CLINICParish...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Re-sharing this thread with a new entry (blog post).
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9. On citizenship renunciation globalcit.eu/introduction...
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GLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 2 of 6 - Globalcit
Introduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/09/2026
“These anti-migrant vigilante groups claim that their intention is to protect women and children. This is manifestly false”: why we need to act now against far-right disorder By @hopenothate.org.uk’s @nicklowles.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...
Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform. Stylised image of men in black clothing and balaclavas, with a Union Jack in the background and a rubber dinghy
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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nice use of the @globalcit.bsky.social database by IMI on dual citizenship rules around the world and their (lack of) enforcement www.imidaily.com/analysis/dua...
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Dual Citizenship Bans: Which Countries Enforce Them and Which Look The Other Way - IMI Daily
Thailand hasn't stripped a dual national of citizenship since 1965. Kuwait tolerated it for decades, then revoked 50,000 citizenships in a year.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mass deportations are getting increasingly personal for a lot of candidates and elected officials. Here, Paul LePage, former GOP governor of Maine and current congressional candidate, says his son's father-in-law is currently being targeted for deportation.
Paul LePage said Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deporting a relative.

The Republican former governor who is running for Maine’s open 2nd Congressional District seat made the revelation in response to a question from a Portland Press Herald reporter during an event in Augusta, where LePage accepted an endorsement from Maine’s Fraternal Order of Police.

LePage told the reporter that his son’s father-in-law, who has a valid work permit, faces deportation because “certain people in Washington” don’t like the country he’s from, according to the Press Herald.

LePage didn’t identify the relative or say which country he is from.

He went on to say that ICE should focus its deportation efforts on gangsters and criminals.

“Would I go after everybody that’s here, that have work permits and have been here for decades? Probably not,” the Press Herald quoted LePage as saying.

At the same event, LePage also criticized the new state law limiting police cooperation with ICE agents.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣 Call for Papers CITREST Restitutive Citizenship and the Right to Return: Historical Justice, Spatiality, and the Boundaries of Belonging 📆 Abstract Deadline: 30 September 2026 ✏️ 200 words and a short bio 📍 Workshop, 27th and 28th of January 2027, at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
IN NEW ISSUE: How do populist citizens understand democracy? Patricia Rehus & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social find they tend to support direct democracy & are less supportive of liberal principles. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/XhXgcjl @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci
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Populist leaders often describe democracy as being in conflict with liberal values and endorse more direct democratic measures for people to influence politics. But what about populist citizens? How do they define democracy and what aspects of democracy do they value most? Using a cross-national survey of 10 West European countries, we first explore how citizens understand democracy in general and then test the assumption that populist citizens share a different understanding of democracy to both populist elites and less-populist individuals. Our findings show that citizens’ conceptions of democracy do not exactly match scholarly models, but are still clearly structured. We also find that populist citizens tend to support direct democracy and are less supportive of liberal principles, primarily because they are less likely to support the protection of minorities. They remain, however, equally supportive of other institutions of electoral and liberal democracy. Similarly, our results show that populist individuals are not especially more or less supportive of egalitarian and authoritarian understandings of democracy. That said, they are more comfortable with the idea of having strong leaders than their less populist counterparts. These results have important implications for democratic resilience. Policy-makers aiming to strengthen liberal democracy must address citizens’ concerns about representation without compromising core democratic safeguards. Understanding these tensions can help guide more inclusive democratic reforms and better communication between political institutions and the public.
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE launches massive private system to transport detainees across Texas under armed guard
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New private system to transport ICE detainees across Texas under armed guard
A firm tied to the Florida detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz has a $382 million contract for "armed ground transportation" of ICE detainees in Texas.
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