The Radical Right Research Robot is a fun side project whose life began exactly one year ago. The Robot exists to promote the very large body of knowledge on

Read the Carpe Diem comic strip from February 12, 2026, and check out other Carpe Diem comics by Niklas Eriksson.

The state intelligence agency for Lower Saxony has upgraded the state chapter of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to a "surveillance object of considerable import." This gives investigators more monitoring options.

The Labour Party was once very popular. New Labour enjoyed a persistent lead in the polls for over a decade. Having a clear ideology and a clear plan helped.

TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This, says Mimi Mihăilescu is turning deportation into bingeable content, burying resistance in the feed, and replacing physical walls with algorithmic control. Local populism dies and global spectacle rules

For years Putin has demanded a new global order. Now he has to live in one.

I have a constant theme of productivity running through my cartoons/comics. It’s not hard to s...

Going through a folder of potentially useful screenshots, I came across these two gems. Back in 2014, the AfD claimed the US treated Germany like its doormat. Since 2024, they have been best buddies with the MAGA crowd. Something to reflect on. Related posts: Six More Links I Liked Four far-right links I liked Three Bluesky links I liked

'Radical Right' published in 'IPSA Companion to Political Science'

Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.

Based on a 67-year arc of reporting by British magazine The Economist, Lucas Schramm analyses the European Council, a key institution of the European Union. He shows how that coverage explains why the European Council was created, how it evolved, what it does, and why its dominance is both useful and unsettling

Someone reposted Trey Harris’ famous story about the 500 mile email. The TL;DR is that Harris, working as a university system administrator, received a call from the Statistics Department claiming that they couldn’t send an email further than about 500 miles. If you know anything at all about how email works, your reaction would be the same as Harris’: Yeah right.

The bot had finally enough of the cesspit.

Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster, part professor, part friendBy Lauren Hilgers. Read by G Cheng

Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social

Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of the science infrastructure. The emergence of ‘Science Twitter’, the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as ‘...

The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS? RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a standard feed that you can subscribe to using an RSS reader (or aggregator). Don’t worry if this sounds extremely uninteresting to you; there aren’t many people that get excited about format specifications; the beauty of RSS is in its simplicity. Any content management system or blog platform supports RSS out of the box, and often enables it by default. As a result, a large portion of the content on the internet is available to you in feeds that you can tap into. But this time, you’re in full control of what you’re receiving, and the feeds are purely reverse chronological bliss. Coincidentally, you might already be using RSS without even knowing, because the whole podcasting world runs on RSS.

Nach Vorwürfen der Vetternwirtschaft geht der rechte Verleger Kubitschek hart mit der AfD ins Gericht. Er spricht von einem „Riss“ in der Glaubwürdigkeit. Die Partei diskutiert Konsequenzen.

You might think that most people have misperceptions about immigration. Yet many false beliefs are merely low-confidence guesses, rather than firmly held views. Drawing on new Swiss survey evidence, Philipp Lutz and Marco Bitschnau show that this distinction has important implications for understanding public opinion, and for the quality of democratic debate

Turmoil has engulfed the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Allegations of nepotism and weak leadership are circulating, and influential officials warn the party is jeopardizing its election prospects. The populist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) likes to present itself as anti-establishment and as the voice of ordinary people. Nepotism in political parties, they believe, never goes down well with voters. When former Economy Minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party allowed friends or family members of his personnel to be hired back in 2023, AfD officials quickly accused him of "nepotism" and of fostering "clan criminality." The deputy federal chairman of the AfD, Stephan Brandner, spoke of a "mafia-like network," even though Habeck's personnel policy ultimately did not violate any laws or regulations. Now, AfD lawmakers are under fire for employing family members. In the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, several of the party's state and federal parliamentarians are reported to have employed relatives in the offices of their party colleagues. Several media outlets, including German public broadcaster ZDF, report that some of the AfD politicians' relatives have been receiving handsome salaries — paid from state coffers. Nepotism allegation in Saxony-Anhalt The focus of criticism is on Ulrich Siegmund. He is the AfD's leading candidate for September's state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, where his party is currently polling at 40% and well ahead of its competitors. Siegmund is hoping to get enough voter support to form and then head the next government there. He would become the first right-wing extremist to head a state government in Germany in post-World War II history. Now it has emerged that Ulrich Siegmund's father has been hired for a role in a Bundestag member's office, earning an annual salary of almost €100,000 ($119,000) a year. Siegmund says the hiring is justified, ...