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This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 33m

Have seen some new work demonstrating this. For instance, this paper links loneliness to AfD voting: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I've also seen work in progress that loneliness predicts lower political trust, stronger populist attitudes, and greater likelihood of Trump vote.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 1h

A quick look for sentences passed down (a while ago, yes) for others convicted of bombings in the UK suggests - and I know that the legislation is different - that 15 years is at the lower end of what he might have expected.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

There is a reassuring fantasy among those who have critiques of unfettered left-wing governance that right agrees with these critiques and will temper the left when in power. But the contemporary right isnt that, it's an apocalyptic doomsday cult that lives in an alternate reality.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 40m

If you just substitute the words 'working age' for 'fighting age', suddenly the arrival of youngish men and women doesn't sound threatening. Rather, it sounds like exactly what we need for an ageing population.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 2h

It is absolutely incredible what is going on in the media. The self-radicalisation of senior journalists is incredible to behold.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4h

Current polls suggest a PP (centre-right) and Vox (radical right) alliance is the most likely outcome. But Sanchez has come back during campaigns before.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

The Dems need to viciously attack every power and money center for the conservative movement. Eliminate car dealership monopolies, enact wealth taxes on billionaires, eliminate citizens United, crack down on crypto, and bring silicon Valley to heel.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4h

Had a brief conversation with a ‘Britain is full’ racist. Sigh. Just one little bit of logic. If you have an ageing population, and at the same time constant population numbers, can you see what that does to working-age numbers? It’s not difficult if you have the slightest grasp of mathematics.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1h

i'm again reminded of american abortion bans: "doctors are sacred to treat women because of progressive fearmongering" no they won't treat women because of the *explicit text of the law*

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 23h

From our FirstView: "Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction" by Jie Ma, @keithschnak.bsky.social, and @ianrturner.bsky.social. buff.ly/QgJ8hoR

APSR abstract for "Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction," by Jie Ma, Keith E. Schnakenberg, and Ian R. Turner, Modeling policies requiring citizen coproduction, the authors show low coproduction muddies voters' attribution of blame, and incumbents anticipate this by sometimes avoiding reforms when more likely to succeed. Full abstract is available in linked article.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3h

Agree with Stephen here, this act of self-indulgence by a radical fringe of activists will put a lower ceiling on Green support right at a time when a broader breakthrough became plausible. The sooner it is reversed the better for their electoral prospects.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 1h

The GPEW's 'Zionism is Racism' motion is rightly being condemned as antisemitic across the political spectrum. Separately, I wish that the transphobia in our political parties attracted a fraction of that condemnation, but alas it does not.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2h

A propos of nothing: my grandfather was a politician who spent the last stretch of his career during the Berlusconi ascendance years. he'd say you can lose and lose again, but the most important act for anyone involved in politics is to preserve the seeds of anti-fascism for the next generation.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 1h

This is a pretty good example of what my ERC project, PoPPiE, is about. Much political theory implicitly teaches us that we, as individuals, should have a single abstract procedural ideology that applies across contexts. But why should we? The world is complex and our response to it should be too.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 1h

New feature @irishpollingind.bsky.social: you can now explore election results and polling estimates from 1987 to 2026 interactively. Select one or more parties to check how their (combined) support has changed. The graph also lists cabinets and government composition. pollingindicator.com/#graphs

Party support in general elections and opinion polls, 1987 to 2026 – graph covers all parties included in the Irish Polling Indicator

Combined support for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, 1987–2026

Combined support for Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour, Green Party, and Solidarity-PBP, 1987–2026

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 4h

Agreed - and I say this as a committed YIMBY. Not all of those who oppose housing do so on spurious and unfounded premises (though many do). There are genuine trade offs and impacts that need to be offset through community & in-kind contributions. Schools, roads and infrastructure chief among them.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 7h

📢New working paper:🚨 “Integrated vs. Separated Schooling for Refugee Children: Long-Term Effects on Education and Assimilation” w/ @caterinapavese.bsky.social and @meulensimon.bsky.social 👉 Does direct integration into native schools or temporary placement in separate schools … 1/5

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, the Prime Minister* has called a snap election* * of Spain * in Spain

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4h

the November Spanish elections will be fought between immigration and housing, with a good spoon of climate disasters on top

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 4h

Amazing! Apparently, we can blame a lack of recruitment of overseas student on universities not spending enough money on consultants. Government immigration policy & hostile environment not mentioned (Covid & Brexit given a nod). Less of an article more of a plea to give parasitic consultants cash.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 4h

My professional opinion on global politics in the last 24 hours…

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 6h

I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

The first thing that his son will do is free his father and go on a revenge campaign against everyone involved in holding his father accountable. Somehow, Brazil saw what the US went through with Trump 2 and decided, what if we elected Trump Jr instead.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

There's something a little depressing in the fact that the British establishment stood up against Enoch Powell's racism in the 1960s than it seems to be willing to be now

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like dramatic results in #Brazil 🇧🇷. The far right is ahead in Presidency, Senate, and House. The right-wing turn in Latin America is beyond the breaking point. The only question now is: how far right will it go?

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12h

really kinda sucks that, across the globe, we don’t have majorities of voters who think far right authoritarianism is bad If I had to sum it up it seems like 40% of voters are anti authoritarian 40% of voters are pro authoritarian 20% of voters just want cheap burgers

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14h

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 10h

I beseech y'all not to apply American politics explanations to Brazilian and Latin American politics and make the U.S. the protagonist or antagonist in these countries' politics. They have domestic actors and factors, i.e., agency. Not to mention ties with other foreign powers like Russia and China.

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 16h

Folks should check out this (open access) article from Dr Solís providing great context for Latino Republican partisanship. Folks offer nuanced links between their panethnic attachments and partisanship, among other themes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 18h

The Green Party's motion today is anti-Jewish, anti-Palestinian, and anti-peace. It is morally wrong. It is politically wrong. It must be consequential. Regardless of what one thinks about Israel or Netanyahu, a one-state solution (whether Jewish or Palestinian) is racist, and it is impractical.

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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 21h

🗣️ New preprint! @jialin-lin-zhou.bsky.social Western samples tend to think of a "person" as a man. How persistent is this? Striking evidence from two novel groups begins to answer this question; see below for findings from the matrilineal Mosuo and from an age-diverse mainstream Chinese sample ⬇️

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 21h

Life has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. We all use the internet far more, and are far less likely to read books, host friends, attend parties, play cards, attend classes, join clubs, go to picnics, and stay late to work. www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 22h

What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway, with party conference season entering its final stages, here's the respective 'three word description' bubble charts for each of the five major party leaders, together in one place for the first time.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The 'Kemi Badenoch is a good leader, held back by the Conservative brand' is a take that immediately falls apart when you ask 'what was the Conservative party polling in September 2024, and what is it polling in September 2026?'

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yeah the 90s GenX "the worst thing that could happen to you is to sell out to Da Man and have a cushy office job" vibe has not aged well

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 03/10/2026

💯 The great strategic mistake was letting an oil soaked dictatorship reconstitute its war machine. Ukrainians, Georgians, and many others have suffered for NATO’s mistake.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is good

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As fascist politics intensify in the United States and globally, sociology faces renewed questions about how to theorize the fraught relationship between racism, capitalism, empire, and democracy. In this article, we argue that the Black Radical Tradition (BRT) offers sociology a powerful analytic for understanding fascism not as a historical aberration but as a recurring political expression of racial capitalism. Drawing primarily on a close reading of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, we examine the epistemological, political, and world-making dimensions of the BRT and trace how Black radical thinkers theorized fascism within the longer history of racial capitalism. We then consider what deeper engagement the BRT might offer the sociology of race and ethnicity, particularly through transnational and historical relational analyses, as well as expanded attention to consciousness, culture, and collective liberation in moments of societal crisis.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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