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Published: May 18, 2025 22:50

Pro & Con of first round of presidential election in #Poland 🇵🇱 Con: far-right candidates did better than expected. 😔 Pro: for the first time since 2010, far-right candidates did not win a majority of the votes. 😊

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Published: May 18, 2025 15:37

Pseudo-intellectual far-right grifters are jumping ship in droves. They are being sidelined by the MAGA crowd and don’t want to also lose their credibility, and thereby grift, with the gullible centrist and liberal mainstream. Few take responsibility or…

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Published: May 18, 2025 13:29

“iHostage” is a movie about the standoff between the police and a hostage taker in the Apple Store in downtown Amsterdam. Based on a true story, it is at times tense, but too often slow and a bit boring. A weird story that, in the end, doesn’t really have…

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Published: May 17, 2025 23:19

What a pathetic piece of self-congratulation and self-pity — completely devoid of any self-reflection let alone self-critique. Classic cake-eat story. https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/

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Published: May 17, 2025 15:23

Gladbach’s season ended the way it started, with a home loss. However, whereas the first game against Leverkusen was inspiring (and stolen), the last game against Wolfsburg was a fitting end to another very average season. Mid!

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Published: May 17, 2025 15:06

In “Mid90s” a young boy starts to hang out with a group of older skaters to escape his dysfunctional family and gets caught up in their life. Raw and powerful with great acting and cinematography. 🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Published: May 17, 2025 15:04

Spanglish is a romantic drama about a Mexican immigrants who tries to navigate life in the US and raising a daughter while struggling with the language. Over the top but quite original and touching at times. 🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Published: May 16, 2025 19:40

Does anyone actually have reliable data on "Birthright Citizens", and then particularly the ones that are targeted, i.e. children born in the U.S. from non-citizen parents (we're going to ignore the thinly-veiled racism for the moment)? Do we know…

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Published: May 16, 2025 18:39

This is why I’m skeptical of these European plans! At a big event, full of European pride and smugness, Von der Leyen announced a plan to spend €500 million over 2 years to attract US-based scientists. Yesterday, Harvard alone announced an extra (!)…

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Published: May 16, 2025 14:41

I'll spend JUNE in Europe, dong a few (semi-)public events, mostly in Vienna 🇦🇹. Here are dates: 3-4: workshop @hait-tud.bsky.social (Dresden 🇩🇪) 10: lecture @iwm.at 11: lecture @renner-institut.at 14-15: @globsec.bsky.social (Prague 🇨🇿) 24: event…

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Published: May 16, 2025 10:51

For the life of me, I cannot understand why center-left leaders in Western Europe continue to make the same mistakes, with disastrous consequences for themselves and their country. Even if they don’t care about the latter, they are supposed to care about…

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Published: May 15, 2025 15:37

Yesterday, I held my last "International Office Hours" for Spring 2025. Overall, I met with 41 people, predominantly male graduate students from institutions in the Global North. There were quite some late cancellations, 5 no-shows, and one person…

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Published: May 15, 2025 13:52

As I read up on Silvio Berlusconi for a soccer and politics article, I’m struck by the similarities with Trump. However, Berlusconi was much more impressive, innovative, and self-made than Trump — both in business and in politics.

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Published: May 15, 2025 13:31

“The most underexplored form of revolt against mainstream politics right now is the second kind, involving not angry young men lurching rightwards but anxious young women turning, if anything, more sharply left.” Kudos to @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social for…

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Published: May 14, 2025 21:25

This time next week, I'll be boarding my plane to Frankfurt to start my 6-week trip to Europe. Excited for my fellowship at @iwm.at and to have a few interviews scheduled with people at @bfcdublin.bsky.social ❤️🖤 and @wienersportclub.bsky.social 🤍🖤 .

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Published: May 14, 2025 17:30

I welcome all investments in academic research and teaching, even if the motivations are opportunistic, the justifications hypocritical, the targeting narrow, and the results probably underwhelming. Oh, and even when no one is looking for academics like…

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Published: May 14, 2025 12:25

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right…

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Published: May 14, 2025 11:21

Helemaal met Catherine eens. 👏 Al denk ik dat ook hier “Europa” slechts een symptoom van nationale problemen is. De politiek in de meeste Europese landen mist al decennia lang (moderne) liberaal-democratische ideologieen en visies. [contains quote post…

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Published: May 14, 2025 02:31

This is actually quite a good overview of the current attacks on the media in the US. Unfortunately, it is also a deeply flawed position on the role of the media. Independence doesn’t mean neutrality! And certainly not on the struggle between democracy…

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Published: May 13, 2025 20:50

In 2013, I argued that social democracy must be reinvented outside of the current “social democratic” parties and the past decade has only strengthened my beliefs. We need a Gramscian approach, which is neither opposed nor subservient to party politics!…

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Published: May 13, 2025 19:47

Accidentally ran into my Trump-supporting student — from my “Far-Right Politics” course last semester. He was surprised and disappointed by his vote, but didn’t seem too worried about the consequences. “Live and learn”, he said smilingly.

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Published: May 13, 2025 14:46

This is a long-shot, but do you know of any soccer-related conferences, (art) exhibitions, lectures or workshops in the following cities in the coming 6 weeks? Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Dublin 🇮🇪 Munich 🇩🇪 Vienna 🇦🇹 Also, tips on art exhibitions or political…

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Published: May 12, 2025 16:18

I just had a consultation with an immigration lawyer (Chuck Baxter) and, while I still need a few hours/days to embrace his optimism, I feel much better about traveling abroad. Note: I have a Green Card, not a student or tourist visa (in which case I…

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Published: May 12, 2025 13:39

Absolutely abhorrent, morally, and counter-productive, politically. Center-left parties will never profit from "control immigration" policy as long as they buy into, and strengthen, the far-right "immigration is a threat" narrative. Decades of academic…

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Published: May 11, 2025 15:18

I used this Orwell quote in my Orwell Lecture 2 years ago in Barcelona. Political struggle is also about which words we use and how we use them. The Left understood this in the 1960s and 1970s, but today this is the strength of the Far Right (helped by…

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Published: May 11, 2025 13:49

It is also being an absolute asshole, who disrespects their colleague’s work. 🤬 I guess the one little upside is that they are no longer exploiting their grad students to do the reviews. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 10, 2025 23:34

Trump sees ICE (and other armed agencies) as his personal militia, to be used for whatever political purpose he sees fit. Immigration is just a pretext. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice-arrest-house-democrats-new-jersey

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Published: May 10, 2025 17:34

15 years ago, I argued that that the populist radical right was a "pathological normalcy" (radicalization of the mainstream), rather than a "normal pathology" (unrelated to the mainstream). Today, in some areas/positions (but not all ❗❗), the far right is…

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Published: May 10, 2025 17:14

Peer-reviewed study finds "methodological flaws and unsubstantiated claims" in research that Cass Review is based upon. Labour should suspend legislation and rules based on report, which demeans and excludes trans community, and start comprehensive and…

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Published: May 9, 2025 17:38

Very important ruling that hopefully end the travesty against Rumeysa Ozturk and gives some breathing space to many of us worried about state repression. Truly amazing how Trump & Co keep losing court cases. They had 4 years of practice and 4 years to…

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Published: May 9, 2025 13:29

For @crexuio.bsky.social 10th anniversary, I was asked to reflect upon contemporary politics and the field of "far right studies" with some of the best scholars in the field: Kathleen Blee, Cynthia Miller-Idriss & Michael Minkenberg. The conversation has…

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Published: May 9, 2025 11:22

Interesting study, which is in line with the “pathological normalcy” thesis. I do wonder how the results would be if GRT would be measured by more than one question though, I.e. probing a bit deeper. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 23:39

Another brave and disturbing NYT op-Ed on the real attack on academic freedom and free speech in the U.S. I’ve only once been to West Point, for an annual student conference, which left me truly impressed by the intellectual curiosity, diversity, and…

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Published: May 8, 2025 22:24

Incredible! Delta Airlines has a new video with safety information, with different people representing the various decades of its centennial. For the 1950s, they casted a Black woman. Fun fact: Delta only hired its first Black stewardess in 1966.

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Published: May 8, 2025 20:44

“Black Girl” is a 1966 movie about a Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a rich family. Remarkable early portrayal of the exploitation, racism, and desperation that non-white immigrants face in Europe. Impressive movie for the time. 🇫🇷🇸🇳…

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Published: May 8, 2025 20:42

“Power” is a documentary about the history and expansion of U.S. policing, which mixes interviews with experts with original footage of policing and police brutality. Although at times insightful, it misses focus and structure. 🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Published: May 8, 2025 03:40

A rare NYT op-Ed on the reality of teaching in a GOP-dominated state — rather than the endless columns and op-Ed’s on the myth of woke universities. Please read it. It is very brave and, for me, very relatable (even if Georgia is nowhere as bad as…