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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tonight! Hands around the Kennedy Center is Friday 6:30-8:00pm.

Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@europeanisa.bsky.social #PEC2026 Presenting to the Reactionary Global Politics section (1 of 10 panels)—tomorrow! In Lisbon

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Preparing my remarks for a roundtable on Laura Field’s impressive book on New Right intellectuals, FURIOUS MINDS, at the European International Studies Association conference, held next month in Lisbon, on September 1.

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

2/2 mark your calendar; The Mosse Lecture hosted by UC Berkeley German Dept. and @bampfa.bsky.social is always worthwhile. this year 10/16 with a weeklong film program to follow

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/07/2026

This move is technically illegal, as 31 U.S. Code § 5112 proclaims that no coin shall “bear the image of a living former or current President,” until at least two years after their death. trib.al/FTvz6Mn

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Happy with how this roundtable on Gerard Toal's most recent book came out, in Political Geography: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nMvT3Qu6u...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to be part of this special issue on Philosophy in a Planetary Age, w/ great contributions by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lynne Huffer, Mohamed Amer Meziane & others. My exchange with @mafritsch.bsky.social is on Climate Disobedience in the Capitalocene: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...

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Discussing Climate Disobedience in the Capitalocene - Volume 70, Issue 1, Winter 2026

This is the transcript of a written exchange that Robin Celikates and Matthias Fritsch carried out between November 2024 and March 2025. We focus the conversation on civil disobedience in response to ...

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Habermas, who died earlier this year, is the only then-living philosopher to be the subject of an episode, when Josh & Ken spoke to @matthewspecter.bsky.social from the @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social, author of "Habermas: An Intellectual Biography." More at philosophytalk.org/shows/haberm... #PhilSky

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UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

IES Senior Fellow Matthew Specter quoted in the New York Times on Realism in US National Security Strategy. Read the full article --> www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/m...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Talarico is willing to theologically go toe-to-toe with white Christian Nationalism. And, importantly, he treats it as fundamental to this moment that Trump and Trumpism are wrecking our common life at a very profound moral and spiritual level. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2109...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Breaking NYT: CBS News declined to renew its contract with '60 Minutes' correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi — six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by Bari Weiss. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

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‘60 Minutes’ Journalist Who Accused CBS of Political Meddling Loses Her Deal

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tbox @tboxrucker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

They sure hate trans kids and vegetables.

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Paul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca · 16/05/2026

The Cream Berets?

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Hilarious thread about this bracing Travolta look, to which I would add the description: Saturday Night Fever Dreams of a Comfortable Retirement

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If you're outraged by the Alabama House Speaker's call for overturning the Fourteenth Amendment and want to know more, give Kyle a follow.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 07/05/2026

Josh Marshall: "No Democrat should get elected to any federal office without a credible plan to reform the Supreme Court and rid it off its corruption, along with the willingness to enact such a plan."

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Are Democrats Warming to Reforming the Supreme Court?

Yesterday, Lauren Egan — who authors The Bulwark’s newsletter about Democrats —...

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If you can, do vote in this important election for @mybisa.bsky.social (and not only because I'm one of the seven fabulous candidates)! ⬇️🗳️🫶

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The New Deal in the news: Thomas blames Bismarck —Bismarck!—for the US administrative state, prefers Catholic natural law

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/04/2026

Hall of fame FT correction

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Make him pay out of his personal profits from his Presidency?

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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

UC-AFT lecturers continue the fight for a fair contract! Show your solidarity with U18 colleagues by observing Zoom or in-person bargaining sessions. #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The work of contextualizing and “listening“ to Habermas‘s will continue, as Martin Jay suggests in these elegant and measured reflections on a great listener in the dialectic tradition: www.theideasletter.org/essay/martin...

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Almost two years ago, @cepr.org published an eBook with essays by prominent scholars & policymakers about the importance of supporting #Ukraine. This book is more relevant than ever. Read it! #UkrainianView cepr.org/publications...

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 01/04/2026

"'If it weren't for Miller pushing, this would be dead by now,' the source told me. A new DHS secretary may not be the obstacle many wish it were." Read more to learn why now is the time to be making noise.

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DHS Pauses Warehouse Purchases as Internal Revolt, Legal Challenges, and Political Infighting Cloud the Program's Future

Career officials call it unworkable. Communities are suing to stop it. Congress is investigating. And Stephen Miller is still pushing.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Chapel Hill #NoKings march about to get started

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Aidan McLaughlin @aidanmcl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

SCOOP: Trump has spent his second term in office working to leave his mark on Washington and the country. Now, his Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of U.S. dollar bills. It will be the first time in history a sitting president's signature appears on dollar bills

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Breaking: Donald Trump Plans to Add His Signature to US Currency

As Vanity Fair can exclusively report, Trump’s Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of US dollar bills.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A property tax hike is not "taxing literally everyone" in a city where renters comprise more than 2/3rds of the population.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Conservatives before 2026: No, you cannot have information related to my gun ownership, vaccination status, health history, biometric identifiers, financial transactions, etc! Conservatives in 2026:

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Greenland was no joke. Believe what he says.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond | Home

Adrian Blau is Professor of Politics at King’s College London. His research interests include the history of political thought and other issues in political theory/philosophy, including corruption, democracy and rationality.

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NPR @npr.org · 15/03/2026

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse. n.pr/3Nptb1g

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Acclaimed 20th century philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

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Cem Özdemir @oezdemir.de · 15/03/2026

In Jürgen #Habermas verlieren wir eine der prägenden Stimmen unserer Demokratie. Er hat gezeigt, dass eine freie Gesellschaft vom Streit der Argumente lebt – respektvoll, offen und im gemeinsamen Ringen um das bessere Argument.

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Guess who will own the future?

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“ This lawless war has to stop.

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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

RIP Jürgen Habermas, great influence of my youth and great inspiration still.

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