airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

open.substack.com/pub/mariosri... Tldr; I don't think the 1930s/2010-2020s are exceptional, I think it's 1945-1985 that's weird - that's the period where Authoritarian voters *aren't* voting for Authoritarian parties - which I'd describe as the Surprisingly Long Suppression of the Radical Right.

My Theory of the (Re)Growth of the Radical Right

The Radical Right - aka Extreme Right/Hard Right/Far Right - is a party family that has been studied pretty continuously since 1945[1].

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Myself and the other Transatlantic Fellow were interviewed by the Uni Bremen magazine; I talked about how much of a lifeline this post has been & shared some of my thoughts on the current state of American and German politics. Available here (auch auf Deutsch): up2date.uni-bremen.de/en/article/r...

Research Freedom Rediscovered

Why Two Postdocs from Elite U.S. Universities Are Continuing Their Careers in Bremen

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Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research in Law Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research vacancy in Law Building. Lecturer in Politics - Teaching & Research School of Law and Politics The School of Law a...

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Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

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Old enough to recognize this as a data center

The American mind couldn’t comprehend!!!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And now the #EPSS2026 afterparty at Lavery‘s

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

"A group of literally hundreds of people has sprung into action, coordinating, donating, providing lifts for families to get somewhere safe for the night, bringing food to those who don’t want to leave the house, offering shelter, car seats, toys..." www.opendemocracy.net/far-right-vi...

Far-right chaos won’t define Northern Ireland – solidarity will

While extremists grabbed headlines, hundreds of ordinary people mobilised to protect our neighbours

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if you asked a representative sample of n=1000 American adults to rate the color of the water in this photo on a 0-10 scale anchored by ‘green’ at 0 and ‘blue’ at 10, my guess is that responses would be substantially correlated with the 7-point American National Election Study party ID scale

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 2mo ago

Friend sent me this photo he took today of the Reflecting Pool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I cannot emphasize enough how this runs completely counter to the core principles of the historical profession

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2mo ago

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

@ces-europe.bsky.social, we have a Mini Symposium on parties' use of group appeals with these two great panels 👇 join us wednesday at 2pm and/or 4pm if you are in Dublin 📆

Big fan of this paper and glad to see it out!!

Daphne Halikiopoulou@dafnoukos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In our new paper for @ejprjournal.bsky.social Tim Vlandas and I offer a mathematical statement and simulations to assess the extent of the 'atomistic' fallacy on #VotingBehaviour, and illustrate the problem empirically by focusing on the example of #FarRight voting- available below Open Access

I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY WEDDING TO NATALIE PORTMAN, SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT, HAS BEEN POSTPONED. INVITATIONS TO FOLLOW SOON WHEN SHE AGREES/LEARNS OF MY PROPOSAL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

👇🎯💯 Total 🦗 every day. University presidents, with ~3-5 exceptions, have been totally absent from the public square. An almost unparalleled failure of institutional leadership in the face of an existential assault on the entire funding structure & model of 🇺🇸 higher ed. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Brian Taylor@bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's high time for university presidents to explain to the public and politicians that international students don't take seats from American students, they subsidize these students. At my university and many others.

Political Theory / American / Comparative / Methods

Very happy to see our book "Trigger Points" finally out in English, and fully open access! Hopefully a useful resource for anyone working on polarization, class, inequality, migration, diversity, and climate change.

The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science@mpips.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social

Context for Belfast riots

Next week: three papers presented across two conferences, all from separate projects. Topics spanning cleavages, civil society, group appeals, interwar elections, & the challenges of text analysis. It's been a helluva month getting all these drafts together, but I'm looking forward to #CES & #EPSS.

3) We are in the middle of an AI investment bubble, under which (even under recently increased prices) the costs to end users is still being highly subsidized by investment capital, and that bubble will, at some point, burst

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Sarah Osment@smosment.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hahahahahahahhahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thesis: America is a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the world. Antithesis: America is a white supremacist settler colonial state that cannot be redeemed, only dismantled. Synthesis: "America" is an empty signifier whose political meaning is being fought over each and every day.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The Left needs to rediscover its patriotism” is corporate centrist speak for abandon any critique of white supremacist, patriarchal, colonist capitalism and embrace liberal mythologies that run cover for authoritarian exploitation here and around the world. In other words, stop being leftists.

Mein Beitrag zur Aktionswoche #WissenschaftGegenFaschismus @wigefa.bsky.social Gestern habe ich meine Dissertation „Resisting Normalization: Civil Society Responses to Far-Right Contention" eingereicht. Die Ergebnisse machen tatsächlich ein wenig Mut.

If it becomes such a place, I have a burning personal vendetta against UPS DE I would like to express

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2mo ago

I wish Bluesky was the sort of place where if you had incredibly shitty service from a company — let’s call it “Verizon” just to have a name to use — you could complain and get them to fall all over themselves trying to fix it. Oh well!