We shouldn't be surprised that the French Rassemblement National is still led by antisemitism What should appall us is who is responsible for their mainstreaming through euphemisation in particular This is what I explore here at length academic.oup.com/pa/article/7...

Hegemonic defeatism: The mainstreaming of far-right politics in France

Abstract. Another European election, another ‘earthquake’ in France. For the third time in a row, the far-right Rassemblement National has won and for the

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Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

That moment when you finish a 17000 word chapter draft you been going hard on for three weeks and reread the editorial guidelines that say 20000 characters instead of 20000 words. #adhdlife

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

Remember the iron rule of reporting on the Middle East: Nothing justified Oct 7th. Oct 7th justified everything.

Watching the election results in Saksen-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is agonizing. Watching them while having an article for German Politics about the German Constitutonal Court and the AfD under peer review is next level agony.

Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak.

Me: teaching a course this academic year @weareceu.bsky.social called 'Songs of fight, struggle and resistance'. Yemeni's: hold my Qahwa.

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 3w ago

Over: White Boy Summer Commence: Yemeni Winter

De grap voor Belgen is natuurlijk dat de presentator gewoon Siegfried Bracke is.

Brussels Airlines heeft er blijkbaar voor gekozen om een soort Ryanair met streken te worden. Ineens ook geen carry on bagage meer inbegrepen in uw ticket. Je wordt wel gratis als een stuk vuil behandeld aan de gate als je uit de lucht komt vallen. Soit. Dat is dan ook de laatste keer geweest.

The last 24 hours, we flew from Cape Town back to Brussels with a layover in Qatar. So, as any serieus academic would, I spent my time deep in research. I watched 'The fast and the furious', '2Fast 2Furious' and 'Tokyo Drift'. balanced out with 'Rush'.

I assume there will be immediately be letters protesting this and signed by the academic great and good, and editorials strongly condemning it in CHE and Insidehighered.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · last mo.

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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[Exit Queen.]

New York Magazine says in response to criticism of its latest issue that “genocide” is “an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza [...] and that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming ­scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages”

in the face of a sweeping scholarly consensus, refusing to refer to a genocide as a genocide is in fact genocide denial.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last mo.

New York Magazine says in response to criticism of its latest issue that “genocide” is “an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza [...] and that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming ­scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages”

Unfortunately I don’t think geography gives Canada and Mexico much of a choice. But the insularity Stancil points out here is a structural, long running, endemic problem, part of the wages of American exceptionalism.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last mo.

The thing is, until America went insane, it made perfect sense for Canada to be close partners with us. But America has truly gone insane. And not just the GOP: also the Democrats and media and elites, many of whom are completely delusional about what’s actually happening.

La terrible photo du reporter palestinien Jehad Alshrafi censurée au festival d'images du sport à Deauville. Montrons la partout.

"People always come before borders, before definitions, and before institutions.” #PopeLeoXIV #RebuildMyChurch

“I miss the old BierKeller. I know it’s mostly Nazis now and you get beaten up if you speak out, but if my friends and I sit together & whisper & don’t draw attention the beer and bratwurst are really good” Liberals deciding to ‘re-engage’ with X despite all they know about how Musk has debased it.

Some other ‘realists’: ‘Climate realist’ = oil company lobbyist ‘Transport realist’ = car manufacturer lobbyist ‘Food realist’ = palm oil producer ‘Disability realist’ = genocidal maniac

Nassim Taleb's takedown of IQ remains a classic. A guy who can do math cutting through pundits like a Dutchman through the dodos. medium.com/incerto/iq-i...

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…

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Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

The Trump administration just made it official: it's demolishing the US's shell company registry, and destroying all of the data it already collected. A disaster for US anti-corruption efforts.

🚨 BREAKING: Shell officially LOSES its 5-year legal battle against South Africa's Wild Coast communities. The Constitutional Court has ruled that the oil company CANNOT conduct offshore seismic testing in the region. Today, justice has prevailed.⁣

The evil of this regime is unfathomable. The people of the world know this. Their cowardly politicians though, fail them - fail us - on a daily basis. Sounds populist? Populism is warranted when political elites support oppression and genocide.

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

Spending some time in South Africa for the first time in 2 decades. So far impressed with the social progress, but dissappointed by the car centric evolution of the infrastructure. Very close to being completely saturated in and around Cape Town.