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Patrick Dunleavy
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Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science. Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition. And in open social science, universities. .. more

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Patrick John Dunleavy, is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was also Co-Director of the Democratic Audit and the Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. In addition Dunleavy is an ANZSOG Institute for Governance Centenary Chair at the University of Canberra, Australia. .. more

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 3d
Many thanks from all our authors to the 12,000 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter this year so far. We are hugely grateful! It’s open access, always. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 10h
Trump’s $750 billion EU energy deal is built on an illusion blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Trump’s $750 billion EU energy deal is built on an illusion | USAPP
The deal is more symbolic than substantial .
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 10h
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Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones
History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 11h
IMF - “Excessively optimistic growth expectations about AI could be revised in light of incoming data from early adopters and could trigger a market correction…
A potential bust of the AI boom could rival the dot-com crash of 2000–01 in severity".
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UK forecast to be second-fastest growing economy in G7 - IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded the rate at which the UK economy will grow this year.
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Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social · 11h
'Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds.

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH'

From @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 11h
This is the way. So far, Washington Post, NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Reuters, NPR, Associated Press, HuffPost and more. This is the way.
US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information
Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12h
Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.
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Tim @timetogo.bsky.social · 12h
I wonder which firms with slightly altered names will get the contracts?
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 12h
“officials in the Office of Public Liaison—the group that works with the business community—have told business leaders they are tracking who is being critical, and are grading businesses on how supportive they are to the agenda”
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear
Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13h
It’s a mental illness
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 14h
Sad, but true

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Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money
Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 14h
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US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 15h
98% of homes insulated undr botched Tory scheme now need remedial work. They just could not do *anything* properly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tens of thousands of homes insulated under government schemes need repairs
Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15h
'The US and UK governments’ attack on the integrity of their own #nuclear safety regulators makes no sense. Perhaps because they are unwilling to face up to the conclusion that the problem with nuclear is the technology itself.'
www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/a-go...
A ‘Golden Age’ of nuclear? | New Civil Engineer
The reason is simple. Nuclear costs are huge and rising and significant delays are the norm. The result is that nuclear power faces the same fundamental
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18h
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 22h
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com

"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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