The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.

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I guess this citation kills any chance of me entering the US

Puzzled English fans wondering why others root against England are overestimating the importance of questionable general English history/politics and really underestimating the importance of questionable **football-related** English history

Amazing how the English pretend to be all about stiff upper lip and fair play, and are out there flopping like they’re Neymar. Kane was embarrassing in Norway’s first goal, then the other guy falling like a sack of potatoes in the goal that was VAR’d. Pathetic.

What a world cup of awfully shot penalties

Sure he's talking about those 90% ball possession 1 shot on goal matches

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

TRUMP: SPAIN HAS BEEN VERY BAD

VAR this

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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! It’s Not #Polarization; It’s the #Radicalization of the #Political #Right By @pettertornberg.com doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Don't get me wrong, the FIFA decision was outrageous and it's great the US got their ass handed to them by this mediocre Belgian team, but European fans the last two days here be like...

Trump has not ruined international football. FIFA has. For decades. Yes, the bluntness of Trump is mindblowing but this is FIFA business as usual. Not only in autocracies. Look at the massive corruption in how Germany became host of the 2006 World Cup. An event we still refer to as Sommermärchen.

Unprecedented* * Except for the precedent from six month ago when FIFA did the same for CR7 and UEFA said nothing

Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last mo.

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Probably my most "oh-in-my-days" take is that if me and my friends survived navigating KaZaA and eMule to listen to music at the impressionable ages of 12-13, then teens today a) should survive YouTube content relatively unscathed and b) will most certainly find workarounds for any ban

All efficient countries are alike. Every dysfunctional bureaucracy (like these three) is dysfunctional in its own way

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How did they not come up with something better in the MONTHS they had to prepare the FCAS cancellation?! No plan B on the fighter; French press (and others) report it was Berlin which ended it; Spain (the third partner!!) nowhere to be seen. They didn’t even manage to end this mess correctly 🤯

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TIL heat is really killing a lot of people in Europe. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...

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65.2 🫐 The honest, the efficient, & the trustworthy 🕊️ 🏭️ 🚓 @adinaakbik.bsky.social & Christina L. Toenshoff examine the relationships between national stereotypes and #Policy preference within the EU, uncovering the influence of stereotypes in #PublicOpinion

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Felipe Fontana Vieira@felipefv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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New paper out in the EJPR! Coalition governments delegate international negotiations to single ministers, but their coalition partners are left on the sidelines. I look at when those outsiders use public dissent to constrain ministers.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Tying the hands of coalition partners in international negotiations: Public dissent and constraining powers - https://cup.org/4mLBmlK - @pitrieger.bsky.social #FirstView

Here I sit hoping it'll be just another instance of market manipulation and not actual genocide and/or nuclear war

Well here's a case of a foreigner receiving government handouts while the local population struggles

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

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