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White smoke in Berlin: The new coalition seems to have agreed with the Greens on a massive debt brake change for defense, infrastructure and climate investments and the states. Structural space will more than triple from ~0,9 to 3+, exact number depending on how much defense spending will increase.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website. Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!

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I went to the tesla protest for a thing I'm working on and I talked to several onlookers - not protesters - and asked them what they knew about Elon and Doge and I'm telling you people don't know

submitted 82 days ago • 196 comments

Whining as feats of strength

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

🤡 La puñalada de Milei a Zelensky se escuchó hasta en Madagascar 🔪

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Just days after being elected, Germany's incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz promises to undermine the #ICC and welcome Netanyahu to the country: www.ft.com/content/99ab...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

The parallels to the Swiss social democrats in 2023 are evident: 1) Appeals to young (female) voters with a credible progressive agenda and heavy emphasis on housing 2) Strong results in urban centers 3) Rather young co-leadership 4) Targeted campaigning with clear appeals

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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

submitted 87 days ago • 197 comments

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 87 days ago • 429 comments

Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."

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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 104 days ago • 169 comments

Omg you have to listen w the sound on 🥺🥺

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Requiring passports and birth certificates to register to vote is a gendered administrative burden. As detailed in my article on gendered administrative burden, formal identification is often used to coercively control women and transgendered individuals academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

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Un podcast británico entrevistó a Helle Thorning-Schmidt (la ex PM de Dinamarca) y me parece tan raro escucharla tener tan claro que es la inspiración de Brigitte Nyborg en Borgen Como que ella lo SABE

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I remember Benghazi, the "emails", and the horror of Bill Clinton meeting Loretta Lynch on a tarmac. The media cared a lot about all of those things. Where are screaming headlines and non stop horror coverage over this?

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

La verdad si yo fuera Keir Starmer, haría el esfuerzo para que en el próximo presupuesto del Reino Unido duplicaran la plata que gastan en apoyo internacional. Gastaría lo mismo porcentualmente que Suecia y podría cubrir como la mitad de los compromisos de USAID. Sería tremendo golpe de soft poweer

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🔎 What Do Populist Voters Really Want? A new research note by @vinarceneaux.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social sheds light on the political preferences of populist voters in France, Germany, and Italy during the 2024 European elections. #Democracy #Populism Read the note👇 tinyurl.com/2s3e5v4n

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Ustedes creen que el gabinete ministerial fue agresivo porque no han visto legisladores turcos mechoneandose

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Quite the marmalade-dropper, this: 3 weeks before Germany's election, Angela Merkel has issued a statement criticising her own party for enabling ("with open eyes") a majority with the AfD. Effectively accuses Merz of breaking his pledge not to do so. www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de/erklaerungen...

submitted 112 days ago • 20 comments

Passes 348:344 with votes of CDU, AfD & FDP (BSW abstains). Only 1 CDU MP votes no and 8 abstain (? unclear- the official website appears to be down, but it’s a shockingly small number). Shameful day for the German “centre”-right. The beginning of the end of the last(?) cordon sanitaire in Europe.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

“Birth tourism: you’ve got to hand it to the fascists, they have a point” “Lebensraum: how could we cut a deal on this good fiscal policy?” “Pete Hegseth: he may be an alcoholic abusive Nazi, but his ties are on point” “Canada: sovereignty is for losers, eh?” What a couple of weeks for the NYT 🤦‍♂️

submitted 115 days ago • 12 comments

Siempre he estado muy orgulloso de mis curries pero desde que conseguí galangal siento que la calidad se ha disparado

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Last week, our research team launched The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies (DRWAP). Video introducing the data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J330... Public dashboard to play with the data: datanalytics.worldbank.org/dwrap/ The dataset itself is hosted at: shorturl.at/NGr7v

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 119 days ago • 143 comments

Por fin con la tesis de maestría aprobada y montada al repositorio 🤩🤩🤩🤩 que emoción

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BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 119 days ago • 209 comments

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

submitted 120 days ago • 60 comments

The BJP came to power in India in 2014. With every election it has become harder to beat the BJP. It has consolidated money, media & muscle. While its 2024 electoral performance was weaker than 2019, it won despite horrible anti incumbency (something that governments elsewhere have faced).

submitted 119 days ago • 10 comments

Easy, inexpensive way to support democracy and accountability. Support local news!

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

No matter "how often you think about the Roman Empire", identifying a #RomanSalute is even more awkward, considering there's no ancient source clearly describing it. There's one ambigous depiction of an outstretched arm on Trajan's column, there's one vague passage in Josephus. That's it. 🤷‍♂️

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Been thinking about this cartoon. For no reason. Really. It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.

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In case you were wondering how things are going in Germany & on X, after Elon Musk announced his support for the far-right "Alternative für Deutschland" (AfD) in the upcoming Federal election: The chart below shows sums of tweets x impressions by members of parliament over the past 7 days...🧵⤵️

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Según una investigación independiente, el gobierno ultraderechista húngaro 🇭🇺⚫️ de Orban llevó y lleva a cabo un desvío de fondos públicos estatales para manipular e influir en procesos electorales de Europa 🇪🇺 central 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇸🇰🇮🇹🇦🇹🇩🇪🇧🇪 vsquare.org/orban-centra...

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How left- or right-wing is each MP? New data by @chanret.bsky.social and @vlazarov.bsky.social in partnership with Survation and @ukandeu.bsky.social reveals the (economic) left-right positions of individual MPs. www.survation.com/how-left-or-...

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Estuvo chévere el Año Nuevo 🥳

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I people-watch on the way back home.

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A la izquierda el mapa de Siria a finales del mes pasado; a la derecha el mapa hoy. El Ejército Árabe Sirio de al-Asad ha tenido un colapso total y absoluto. Y esto no cuenta la probable caída de Homs (la tercera ciudad de Siria) hoy.

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As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

submitted 166 days ago • 96 comments

Bloqueé a alguien de aquí por insufrible y salió a decir que era porque yo soy de la CIA jsjsjsjsjsjsjsjsj Los loquitos de Twitter también migraron al parecer

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