To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The CERIUM-FMSH summer school comes to an end. Thanks to this fantastic group of promising young scholars: @annasawallisch.bsky.social @anninahermes.bsky.social @francescayton.bsky.social @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social @galron3.bsky.social @ginaaniano.bsky.social Isolde Hegemann

Day 4 of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, with @simonchauchard.bsky.social on Misinformation, Rumors and Hate Speech. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

It was great talking about recent developments in campaign and (social) media influence at the CERIUM-FMSH summer school - and even better to learn about so many promising PhD projects on these topics. Thanks for having me in sunny Paris @rlachat.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social!

This type or research has already been done in Germany, but so cool to see it about the Netherlands. It shows that “elevated exposure to Nazi concentration camps leads to reduced support for modern-day, far-right politics in the Netherlands” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking forward to welcome the participants of the 2025 CERIUM-FMSH summer school, on Challenges to Electoral Democracy. With @rdassonneville.bsky.social , @fondationmsh.bsky.social, @cerium-udem.bsky.social

En estos tiempos de asco, odio e ignorancia, o la democracia acaba con la estupidez y el malismo, o la estupidez y el malismo acaban con la democracia.

Así que, acabemos con ambos, como dicen por ahí, 'by any means necessary.' Lo que haga falta y como sea necesario.

This won't be limited to just autism. They're building the panopticon to track anyone with any "undesirable" illness. This is eugenics, full stop.

Umberto Eco once wrote that Europeans are vaccinated by centuries of conflict on their continent.

One of the most important things in today’s Europe is to call out those who doubt the efficacy of this vaccine.

We have anti-democratic forces in our midst, now is the time to stand up against them.

“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Imagine that you're in an expensive foreign country and you have rent and other obligations. And all of a sudden you get a small fraction of your typical pay. The FFSP are understandably freaking out. Their posts are heartbreaking.

Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.

No need to parse dog whistles with the advocate for Germany’s neo-Nazi party, who laments the end of Apartheid in South Africa, does sig heils in public, denigrates minorities, and proclaims that white men are inherently superior.

Yes, he is. We don’t need to ask anymore, we need to deal with it.

Ucrania, Palestina, libertad, democracia, comunidad, bienestar, solidaridad.

El resto es la barbarie.

Sólo estamos en febrero, y ya es explícito y burdo que gobierna el mundo la alianza entre la milmillonaria oligarquía tecnológica y el nacional-evangelismo idólatra.

También, que son aliados del fascismo donde lo haya: Rusia, Patriots.

Y mientras, la izquierda, anacoreta.

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

Un 15% de los norteamericanos toma o ha tomado Ozempic

Dinamarca se plantea subirle los aranceles un 500%. Sólo para USA.

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

Amantes de las normas que se dejan aplastar por la normalidad, desde tiempos inmemoriales.

Stupidity and social media. There are multiple, more accurate explanations and accounts (anomie, pendulum, inflation...); but TBH, I think it all boils down to those two.

Twenty Lessons On Tyranny
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