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Turns out having actual policies is appealing to voters too:"By focusing on very concrete and realistic demands such as the rent cap, the abolition of sales tax on basic foodstuffs, and a wealth tax, we succeeded in rebuilding our profile as a social opposition"

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For anyone interested in gender gaps in full-time university faculty, this analysis of Canada will be of interest. The bottom line is no surprise: they are still widely present universityaffairs.ca/features/wom...?

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Facts. And a great deal of it flows right back to the U.S. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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This semester, I am organizing weekly International Office Hours that are open to everyone. Wanna talk about your research? Have questions about European politics, about the far right, or about soccer and politics? Sign up now or a next time! 👇

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So, it also seems that some Republicans forgot that people in their districts rely on Medicaid. Did they also forget that it’s low-income Medicaid recipients who care for their kids and elders, clean their houses, and prepare their food? You want those people to have untreated contagious diseases?

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At first, program cuts at USAID seemed like they might be targeted: "DEI" type activities and women's rights. Pete Marocco has a weird hatred (sinister) for "democracy promotion" so he was cutting those. But further analysis shows contract cancellations widely across sectors and issues.

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This is an excellent explanation of what is to be done, in the here and now rosalux.nyc/how-die-link...

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Read from Die Linke's co-chairs, @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social and @vanaken.bsky.social, about the party’s remarkable comeback in the German elections this past Sunday. rosalux.nyc/how-die-link...

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There is no bottom. There will never be a bottom.

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Will the World Bank withstand Hegemonic Instability? Quoting our work www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/c...

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The neorealists, after years of arguing that Ukraine/NATO/the West are somehow to blame for the invasion and that Russia should be appeased, are suddenly horrified to see their ideas applied so literally foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/u...

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So the Washington Post is about to become like the Wall Street Journal, ie with great reporting in the news pages but an unreadably awful opinion section.

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#Indigenous safe housing in limbo. Investigation finds millions meant for women, children fleeing violence was never spent. Q+A w/ @marshamcleod.bsky.social www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrU... via @aptnnews.bsky.social #ViolenceAgainstWomen #MMIWG

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The UK international aid cuts are awful. But, at least there's a clear rationale for them and trade-offs. In the case of USA international aid cuts, there's no rationale - in fact there's just piles of lies and misdirection ("fraud" "DEI" "marxism"). I find the latter more depressing, tbh.

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From Anthony McDonnell: Tuberculosis treatment is incredibly effective at saving lives worldwide, and reduces the risk of multidrug resistant TB spreading in the US, which would be a multibillion dollar problem. The US foreign assistance pause threatens all this. www.cgdev.org/blog/tubercu...

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💰In January alone, billionaire wealth surged by $300 billion—around $10 billion per day! This is more than the combined wealth of the 2.8 billion people who make up the poorest third of humanity. It’s time to #TaxTheSuperRich and invest in people & planet #G20Finance

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Bezos goes the full Trump at Washington Post, finally burying a once-great newspaper...

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Capitalism is a death cult. A rational society would nationalise the big fossil energy companies so that they aren't beholden to shareholders and would rapidly phase them out of existence. But no. Into the abyss we go for a targeted percentage growth rate. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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The rightward move of American politics of the last 45 years or so is reaching intensified levels of toxicity.

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Democracy Dies in the Hands of Jeff Bezos

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Is this the USA’s Vichy moment? Or Quisling maybe? blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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Which country rules the world? Our flagship State of Power report reveals that the US still dominates key geopolitical indicators, such as military expenditure. But it also shows that China is rapidly catching up. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism

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"Democracy Dies in WaPo" If anyone still had doubts that Bezos has made WaPo into a lapdog of Trump 2.0, this should do the trick. Unsubscribe if you believe in independent media.

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“They sound more robust than ever... ⭐⭐⭐⭐” Despite frontman Jimi Goodwin’s ongoing health issues, Doves soar on sixth LP, Constellations For The Lonely. Out this week on EMI...

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Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents ‘unlikely’ this century - But climate scientists caution that even weakened currents would cause profound harm to humanity #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

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Our statement on BP’s expected shift back to fossil fuels - and the steps #TheBritishMuseum and #ScienceMuseum must now take to end their partnerships with this environmentally destructive company. 1/3 #dropbp #bp #climate #fossilfuels #climatechange

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New report: The Government has promised "an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty", due in Spring, but what will it take to achieve a meaningful reduction? www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... (1/n)

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Phil Manzanera And The Lucky 801 in BEAT INSTRUMENTAL December 1977 #interview #RoxyMusic #BrianEno www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_bi-d...

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This animation shows how extreme our current level is of CO2. And more important. Still rising every year. More sources can be found here. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5115

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Less meat (more beans) needed for net zero - great! Should be achieved by cutting industrial and ultra-processed meat products from diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This article does a better job at what I tried to get at in my earlier thread about liberal democracy and Gaza, although it doesn’t talk about Gaza. Basically the US has liberal and illiberal strains and the illiberal strain is winning right now. I think this shows up in foreign policy too. 1/19

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This is simply not true. There is absolutely nothing credible out there that says that at 2C farming becomes almost impossible - on all, a majority, or even a huge part of farmland. This does not help drive action. This does not help us identify and implement solutions.

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Das Comeback der Linken 🔥🚀✊ Die Parteivorsitzenden Jan van Aken (@vanaken.bsky.social) und Ines Schwerdter verraten uns das Erfolgsrezept der Linkspartei 🗳️🚪🥇. Zum Artikel 👇 www.rosalux.de/news/... #DieLinke #btw25

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Why fix something that's true?

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There is no shortage of good ideas for disentangling Canada from the U.S. and investing in more resilient alternatives. What all of these ideas have in common is a foundational belief in and commitment to the public interest. New from me: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

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Time to re-up this old tweet from @waub.bsky.social because it isn’t said nearly enough.

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It happened once for MAGA, How about evening the score for democracy and the rule of law.

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I think that Brian Cox speaks for most of Scotland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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