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Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
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I can't decide whether I wish Hannah Arendt were still here.

I'll stop quoting Bertrand Russell in a second (might not) but his explanation of the psychology of the far-left is astonishingly on point. He wrote this over 100 years ago. Absolutely nothing has changed.

Moral. Context. Number one crime prevention lever. Before police. Before justice. You get moral context completely right, you don't much need the other two. You screw with it... well.

The reason I don't have kids is that I'm in sync with David Benatar when it comes to reproduction - and that I don't want to have kids. But if it makes you feel better, you may blame my cellphone.

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

This picture is an asinine editorial choice.

Been true for a while.

Try being a 22-year-old political science student - in France - writing an MA dissertation on US supremacist militias' online radicalization in 1998 and see how seriously they take you.

"He had lots of ideas to make the world a better place."

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

France's 14th July parade would like a word. Because this was just sad and bad.

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

Assassins dress like cops & the secret police wear masks and no ID

Germany's far-right AfD harbours growing number of extremists, spy agency reports www.reuters.com/world/german...

Two phrases that need to be retired: “We are better than this.” (We’re not.) The U.S. president is “the leader of the free world.” (He’s not.)

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

Political violence begets political violence.

La tension est entre le discours qui leur dit qu'être un homme est un avantage historique, un privilège hérité de père en fils, et celui qui leur dit qu'ils sont la première génération à l'avoir perdu avant même d'en profiter.

Go work with Emma.

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV. To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.

Ça me fera des vacances. J'en peux plus des podcasts politiques "informés" à ras les pâquerettes.

If it had been made now, The West Wing would have aired on SyFy.

New publication alert! Together with Michelle Rosmalen and Hester Mennes, I examined how internal and external political efficacy is develops over adolescence in the Netherlands, and what role socialization agents play in that process.🧵 doi.org/10.1007/s111...

No Pikachu?

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

The problem with public outsourcing of services is that you need a competitive market of suppliers to generate efficiencies. Otherwise you are simply trading a public monopoly for a private one. And for some services, those markets don't really exist because government missions really are different.

In case anyone is interested in reading my PhD dissertation, "Counterterrorist Financing and the Evolution and Adaptation of Terrorist Tactics", it's now publicly available at this link: carleton.scholaris.ca/items/bb97bb...

Les juges de la CPI sont parmi les derniers remparts face aux crimes les plus graves. Ils méritent notre soutien.

I deserve a geek-out. www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Terrific story about Choose to Change - a CBT-based program for high-risk youth that was recently evaluated using an RCT. My team is eager to fund replications of this program/study elsewhere, to see if it remains effective in other contexts. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/05/c...

I've got a couple of gladiators and the odd lion who say different.

Yglesias refuses to update his priors with data. It's lazy When the Garcia news broke, these people said that "raising the salience" of immigration would be bad for Dems. But addressing the issue decreased Trump's approval and support for deportations, in both experiments and observational data.

So what did we all have on our breakup bingo card.

⚠️ Le chiffre est glaçant, horrifiant, et c’est sans doute pour cela qu’il reste sous les radars: 82% des Juifs Israéliens sont favorables au plan de déportation des Palestiniens de Gaza. Source: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

On appelle ça le contexte moral : toutes les parties prenantes à un système social jouent un rôle dans son émergence et son maintien. C'est un mécanisme socio-comportemental qui affecte les actions de tous. Bien sûr, personne ne veut s'entendre dire qu'il influence les actions de parfaits inconnus.

Evil ComicCon.

A great many.

Boy, do they look small.

The French National Assembly has just unanimously promoted Alfred #Dreyfus to the rank of general 130 years after he was denied a well deserved promotion (after being abjectly accused of and wrongly sentenced for treason.). Feeling strangely emotional.

La qualification terroriste du meurtre raciste de Puget-sur-Argens marque un tournant. Ce n'était pas *qu'un* crime de haine.

Going to be a quiet day in Paris.

To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.