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Frank A. Stengel

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Political sociologist at Kiel U, private account Author, THE POLITICS OF MILITARY FORCE (http://bit.ly/2xNA05y) Co-editor, POPULISM AND WORLD POLITICS (2nd ed. 2025) 🏠 https://www.frankstengel.com https://linktr.ee/frankstengel

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · Jan 24

📣 Attention #Zeitenwende nerds: I'm happy to announce that my co-authored article (w/ Dirk Nabers) "Crisis and change in post-Zeitenwende German security policy" has been published *open access*.

Crisis and Change in Post-Zeitenwende German Security Policy - Politische Vierteljahresschrift

This article examines the nexus between crisis and change in the context of German security policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s announcement of a Zeitenwende (histor...

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 3h

Alles richtig gemacht:

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 3h

Bäm!

Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 4h

Das hätte ich nicht erwartet: Der Klimaentscheid in Hamburg hat tatsächlich sowohl die Mehrheit als auch das Quorum erreicht. www.wahlen-hamburg.de/Hamburger_Zu...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 3h

Can’t believe all these people are running a marathon through "war torn" Chicago today

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4h

Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing how nearly everyone in MAGA-world feels the need to transmute a narcissist’s petty obsessions into the essence of their political and media agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

FOX: Do you think President Trump should be nominated for the Nobel Prize next year?

ZELENSKYY: We will be very happy to nominate President Trump next year if he will pressure and stop Putin

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 3h

We're living in the stupidest timeline.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

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FROGS TOGETHER STRONG
Find a frog gathering near you www.NoKings.org | October 18

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 2d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 7h

Huh, Biden can travel in time. Pretty impressive.

Truth Social post by Trump in which he claims Biden embedded FBI agents in the crowd on January 6th

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 7h

Just like they did with Section III of the 14th Amendment and immunity.

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 7h

And, let's be honest, this thing would eventually end up before the Supreme Court, and they'd simply make something up to keep Trump in power.

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

If you replace "MAGA" in that sentence with "Chief Justice Roberts," it's still correct. Not even kidding. Read the immunity opinion, it's insane.

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

"Trump orchestrated a fraudulent campaign to change the outcome of an election. Instead of admitting that extraordinary actions can lead to extraordinary reactions, MAGA was furious that Trump was the first former president to face a federal indictment."

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

Glaube ich nicht.

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

Ist das noch Journalismus oder schon Volksverhetzung?

DennisKBerlin @denniskberlin.bsky.social · 11h

Drüben bei der Welt gab es wieder lecker Lack zum Mittag.

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Netanjahus Tragödie
Wenn jemand den Friedensnobelpreis verdient hätte, dann Benjamin Netanyahu.

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

And while we're bickering, 250 years of democracy is a very generous reading, given that technically the US only became a liberal democracy in the 1960s. Still, no one wants Donny "Fucktard" Trump as a monarch. (Yes, fucktard is the correct technical polisci term.)

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

"Fuck that" (De Niro)
Nothing to add.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 11h

If Trump is impeached and convicted, Vance becomes president.

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Jagoda Marinić @jagodamarinic.com · 1d

Kürzlich lese ich die Meldung dass Studierende für ein WG Zimmer inzwischen 620 Euro hinlegen müssen in manchen Städten. Mich wundert, dass solche Themen nicht wochenlang auf Platz 1 in den Nachrichten sind und alle Kulturkampf- Debatten dominieren. Meine Kolumne @stern

www.stern.de/gesellschaft...

Wie Reichtum unsere Gesellschaft spaltet

Während wenige Reichtum wie eine Wohnung in Berlin besitzen, müssen andere im Supermarkt jeden Cent umdrehen. Das führe zum Kulturkampf, meint Kolumnistin Marinic.

www.stern.de

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 16h

»Hamburg kann von einer frühen Klimaneutralität profitieren und trägt außerdem eine besondere Verantwortung: gegenüber ihren Bürger*innen, der regionalen Wirtschaft und der Rolle Deutschlands im globalen Klimaschutz.«

Hamburg - heute bitte abstimmen!

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Volksentscheid in Hamburg: Erhalten bald 2000 Hamburger ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen?

Härterer Klimaschutz und ein staatliches Grundeinkommen für alle: Per Volksentscheid stimmt Hamburg am Sonntag gleich über zwei Zukunftsfragen ab. Zuvor gab es scharfe Kritik. Was man wissen muss.

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 12h

Hamburg! Wählen gehen!

builderatthecreek @quercusrobur.bsky.social · 12h

Es wird wohl das Quorum nicht erreicht werden und damit ist es dann leider vorbei.
Ohne Vorziehen der Bundestagswahl, die heute terminiert war, hätte das anders ausgesehen.

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 12h

Die*der nächste Attorney General wird alle Hände voll zu tun haben, diesen Tsunami det Korruption und des Machtmissbrauchs aufzuklären.

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 1d

I see Drezner was quicker than me

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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