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Katherine Kondor

@drkondor.bsky.social
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Researching the extreme right | cultural production and aesthetics | music, food, fashion, fighting | FR in Hungary | punk rock & equal rights | proud dog mom | AuDHD | Senior Researcher at the Norwegian HL-Senteret | Affiliated @crexuio.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇭🇺🇧🇻

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/04/2026
went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Exactly my first thought. Still optimistic, but not loving that the only parliamentary parties are right, far right, and extreme right.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
As the Hungarian elections show, the path forward for Democrats is clear: nominate a dude named Peter America
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Well holy shit. ❤️🤍💚
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
👀🗳️ When polls close in Hungary at 7pm, there won’t be proper exit polls. Instead, some reliable independent pollsters will release embargoed surveys conducted just days before the vote. Their results are in line with their previous, already published findings (no surprises).
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
‼️ A record 66% by 15:00, with four hours to go - meaning nearly five million people have voted so far. 🗳 It's looking like an 80%+ turnout is likely, suggesting very low chances of anyone other than Tisza or Fidesz reaching the 5% threshold. The question is, how parliament will be divided... 🇭🇺
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold. Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
💥Heroes’ Square in Budapest is hosting the “anti-regime grand concert,” with tens of thousands bracing for the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule on Sunday. Chants of “Russians go home” are heard, while performers mock Viktor Orbán and Péter Szijjártó as servants of Vladimir Putin. 📸 444.hu
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
💥Russian intelligence services are more deeply embedded in the Russian embassy in Hungary than in Belgium, where NATO’s headquarters and several EU institutions are based.
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Report: Nearly half of Russia’s embassy staff in Hungary may have ties to intelligence services — Meduza
Nearly half of the staff at Russia’s embassy in Hungary may have ties to intelligence services, the independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo found. Fifteen embassy employees have confirmed connections to the intelligence services, and six more are suspected of having such links, the outlet said, based on an analysis of leaked data spanning several years. Hungary’s Foreign Ministry lists 47 staff members at the Russian embassy.
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Orban's fake uni (Mathias Corvinus Collegium) "was significantly enlarged in 2020 when Hungary’s Fidesz-majority National Assembly transferred to it 10% stakes in two of Hungary’s largest companies – energy firm MOL and drugmaker Gedeon Richter" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
With this poll, Orbán is laying the ground to refuse to recognise anything but a win by him as legitimate, eg. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cur.... Such an outcome would drive a further wedge between Europe and the US government.
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Trump’s Pollster Puts Fidesz Ahead Nationally by 5 Points
In the final poll by the American polling firm McLaughlin & Associates ahead of the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is leading MEP Péter Magyar's Tisza Party by 5.3 points nationally, 42.6-37.3. McLaughlin only released one public national poll for the 2024 US presidential election, but that one poll proved to be remarkably accurate.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/01/2026
MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed. "One of ours, all of yours."
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣Call for panels & papers for the 2026 ECPR GC! Join the E&D‑endorsed section “Extremism in Extreme Times: Moving Beyond the Mainstream,” co‑chaired by C-REX scholar @drkondor.bsky.social and former C-REX guest researchers @gretajasser.bsky.social & Ryan Switzer. Submit now! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
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Extremism in Extreme Times: Moving Beyond the Mainstream
European Consortium for Political Research
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels & Papers 💥 Extremism in Extreme Times: Moving Beyond the Mainstream 🪑 @drkondor.bsky.social & Greta Sophie Jasser ✔️ @ecpr-ead.bsky.social endorsed ⌛ New deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/EQHVXHN #Polisky
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Extremism in Extreme Times: Moving Beyond the Mainstream
General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you're in Barcelona, come see this round table on Monday 13th October!
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Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We did it! Just submitted the manuscript for the edited volume 'Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right', forthcoming with Routledge, ETA 2026. Edited by Iris B. Segers, @audreygagnon.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social and myself.
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Would you like to know more about my research? Check out this great feature by @alejandrotauber.bsky.social, who managed to make me sound pretty interesting! magazine.euobserver.com
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EUobserver Magazine
EUobserver, but on paper.
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out our new blog on @crexuio.bsky.social 's 'RightNow!' looking at the strange combination of intellectualism and strength culture in Scandinavian far-right active clubs. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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“Civilize the Mind but Make Savage the Body” - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Nike Døving and Katherine Kondor shed light on the presence of intellectualism in the midst of far-right health and strength culture.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
☠️🇭🇺 International neo-Nazis gathered in Budapest yesterday to honor WWII Nazi and allied Hungarian soldiers—under Hungarian police protection. The annual "breakout hike" lets them march in Swastikas and SS uniforms. "Hungary has zero tolerance for antisemitism" – as Viktor Orbán said... Pics: HVG
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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📣 Call for applications 📣 Nicola Mathieson and I are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info and to apply: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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Call for applications: PhD summer School Studying Online Extremism - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Studying Online Extremism: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety (2nd edition)
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Exciting things ahead! 📢 Working on something connected to culture/cultural production of the far right? Consider submitting a panel or paper to our section 'Everyday Extremism: The Rise and Normalisation of the Far Right'!
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "'The Anti-Woke Academy'" Iris B. Segers presents a content analysis FvD's online presence to highlight the anti-gender nature of the Dutch far right party's rhetoric. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Research article "“The Anti-Woke Academy”: Dutch Far-Right Politics of Knowledge About Gender" by Iris B. Seger. 

Abstract begins: The Dutch parliamentary far right has been considered a relatively liberal outlier to the gender politics of the European far right, yet recent years have shown the increasing anti-gender mobilization of the party Forum voor Democratie(FvD). Based on a theoretical framework of anti-gender mobilization, the far right, and politics of knowledge, this article explores anti-gender politics as a form of alternative knowledge production through a qualitative content analysis of the FvD’s online presence. Through applying Verloo’s concept of the episteme, this article’s findings show that the FvD mobilizes against epistemic institutions by claiming they disseminate dangerous knowledge about gender, which they argue presents a fundamental threat to society, captured in conspiratorial terms like “transgender ideology” and “woke.”
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Apparently hunger and memories > Cheerios 🤷🏻‍♀️
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No. 10: Our postdoc @uzaahm.bsky.social was awarded the King's Gold Medal for his dissertation on meaning-making among radicalised and non-radicalised Muslim men in Norway www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...
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Exclusion and racism can contribute to radicalization - Department of Sociology and Human Geography
What makes some Muslim men living in Norway become radicalized and others not? There is no simple answer, according to Uzair Ahmed's Ph.D. dissertation, for which he is awarded the King's Gold Medal. ...
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New publication by @crexuio.bsky.social/STK postdoc Iris Segers: “The Anti-Woke Academy”: Dutch Far-Right Politics of Knowledge About Gender, published in Politics and Gender www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“The Anti-Woke Academy”: Dutch Far-Right Politics of Knowledge About Gender | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
“The Anti-Woke Academy”: Dutch Far-Right Politics of Knowledge About Gender
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’ve published a short blog post for @crexuio.bsky.social on extreme right-wing “Saints Culture” www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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Saints Culture - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Graham Macklin discusses the growing threat of saints culture in far-right online groups.
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
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