There has been a converted attempt here (including by the current Home Sec) to promote the "Danish model" of anti-immigrant policy as being somehow consistent with social democratic/progressive values. So we should welcome this mask-off moment from the Danish PM.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h ago

Mette Frederiksen and Giorgia Meloni issued a statement on Instagram declaring a partnership aimed at “protecting Europe’s Christian cultural heritage” by expelling more migrants, building “return hubs in third countries,” and finding “innovative solutions outside Europe.” Full post below🧵 1/2

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

📣 New paper (cond. accepted at CPS)! ⚡ What happens politically when household energy becomes more expensive? In our new paper (with bluesky-less Sophia Wang) we show that even before the energy crisis (2016–2021), increases in household energy burden erode SWD, particularly among renters. 🧵 1/4

Big new paper from @soubhikbarari.bsky.social and the team at NORC on AI-assisted conversational interviewing in SRM. At risk of summarizing overly briefly: It works, but respondents don't really like it. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...

Have said it before, will say again: The mix of too-accessible-AI for both academic authors and editors (both categories currently overstretched) and the broken academic system of publishing will make for a huge amount of cherry picking of topics that get to be peer reviewed, let alone be published

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

also, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less

The dismantling of science/education is up there with the erosion of international trust as long-lasting disaster legacies of the Trump administration that will not be reversed any time soon.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 2d ago

Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?

Don makes an important point here about the dismantling of the administrative state. The institutional damage is to: 1.) destruction of *expertise,* honed by credentialing, research, experience, and *tenure* in job

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

The idea that deep institutional damage can be easily rolled back seems like a very odd take for a conservative. The damage to the civil service system is huge, and legislation is needed to reassure future hires they won’t be fired on a whim.

Pelosi gets an enormous amount of love for her political instincts — particularly among political scientists On Here — but one big miss was not firmly throwing her weight behind AOC as a successor figure. Case where ideological preferences overrode political winds; AOC is v good at her job.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterday

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

"We highlight two areas where [illiberal parties] have been active and impactful in at least some countries: in regulating reproduction and in reshaping knowledge production. We show how these two fields, and especially reproduction, are particularly relevant for gendered dedemocratization." 📄⬇️

The Gendered Politics of Illiberalism

In this article we review the multi-disciplinary literature on how gender is implicated in illiberal and authoritarian-leaning politics as well as how illiberal political regimes impact gender justice...

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🔥🔥🔥 noahdasanaike.github.io/sage.html

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

More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Wow. Just wow.

El-Sayed is very good at this.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d ago

On CNN, El-Sayed is asked about this Trump post. He says it represents "two different visions of America:" "Two people who don't like each other but are joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you. Or, two people who genuinely love each other, enjoying some panacakes together."

Dearie me. It’s only that they are now doing this openly, not by private email to applicants. Less prestigious universities have been losing numbers to RG etc for years, with offers made through clearing - started when the numbers caps came off. 1/

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gradually, step by painful step, the media will catch up. But it's far too late.

I hate this reasoning "Experts said Trump is trying to consolidate authoritarian power, but he hasn't (yet), so they are wrong" Trump is obsessed with removing states' power over their elections so he can nullify them We have concentration camps Any other congress would have removed him by now

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

This line from Ross Douthat’s final NYT column is something you see all the time from the soft-MAGA right. Sure, Trump’s *most* alarmist critics weren’t correct, but that’s basically true of every president. Trump’s *median* critic did in fact predict his presidency pretty accurately.

"Their argument would outlast the disease because it was so much more about continuing to have that argument than it was about anything else."

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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Agreed. The UK “educated-but-stagnating” crisis isn’t a school failure, it’s a much more profound economic failure. UK schools have problems mostly related to resources; seems unreasonable to task stretched teachers of thinking of which pupils will get employed where if govt has no path for success

Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 3d ago

The UK economy has problems. There's been barely any per capita GDP growth or real income growth in about 20 years. Policymakers would be better off finding solutions for this than getting primary schools to make lists of children at risk of unemployment. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/schools-ar...

As ever, I am left asking what the success criteria for the student visas policy looks like.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sunday Times research finds universites down £550+ million on international (aggregate across the 55 universities with lower international fee income of 128 surveyed)

It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d ago

A must-read by @daisychristo.bsky.social:

Publication alert! Newly published paper from @respol.bsky.social . In this new paper, we used a survey experiment to examine effect of Nagoya High Court same-sex marriage ruling effect on Japanese LGBTQ attitudes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the courtroom to the public: Judicial influence on People’s attitudes toward same-sex marriage in Japan - Robert Nordström, Sou Shinomoto, Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi, 2026

Can judicial action change public attitudes? While most empirical studies on the societal impact of court rulings have focused on the United States, particularl...

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The entire allegation about Fauci lying to the public is based on a private diary entry from *January 2020* politifact.com/article/2026...

When you don't listen for *years* to what loads of us who actually understand universities say, when you listen to a load of know-nothing frauds from think tanks and consultants and media loudmouths instead, this is the university disaster you make. Govts could have listened. They didn't.

New post out: "The myth of the 'Boriswave'" The online right claim that the immigrants who arrived between 21-24 will bankrupt the country. This isn't remotely true but they've created a mainstream panic that could lead us down a dangerous path. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

The myth of the "Boriswave"

Over summer 2024 anonymous right-wing accounts on twitter, who support Reform or more extreme ethnonationalist parties, started using the term “Boriswave” to describe the brief but sharp rise in net m...

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'Universities are accepting lower-achieving British undergraduates after a 10 per cent drop in international students, who pay up to seven times as much for a degree.' Not exactly "news" to anyone in the sector... 1/3

Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · 2d ago

The latest in "foreign students taking places from British ones" news www.thetimes.com/article/9ad6...

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

Threat perception and partisan animosity 👀 ⚠️ @raulgomez.bsky.social, @josejavierolivas.bsky.social & @ljramiro.bsky.social examine antagonism between opposing political camps in Argentina and Brazil using original survey data buff.ly/cwN6UFO

Threat perception and partisan animosity: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Threat perception and partisan animosity: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil

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Who trusts government? Chudy & Engelhardt find that perceptions of group status and marginalization help explain political trust across racial groups, beyond which party holds power. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Who Trusts? The Relevance of Race for Political Trust - Political Behavior

In the United States, political trust rests on myriad building blocks, including race. But existing work offers limited information about why race matters for trust and if its relevance varies across ...

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