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The OPM five bullet points email is of a piece with so many other things in the Musk onslaught: a DDOS on the infrastructure that supports labor and contract law

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This last month has been like an entire year of college classes on modern authoritarianism, coups, purges, and crony capitalism. 😬 Fellow comparative political scientists -- now is the time to explain your research & expertise to a broader audience 😁.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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What the phone is reading to me on this afternoon’s dog walk. Finding more babies in the bathwater than I had expected based on my recollections, tbh.

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Das die Leoparden die Gesichter fressen gibt mir keine Schadenfreude. Vielleicht das Wort Schadentrauer auf Englisch übernehmen sollen?

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If you give a salute that you don’t intend as a Nazi salute but some will reasonably interpret it as such and you don’t find that prospect horrifying enough to refrain from the gesture—you’re giving a Nazi salute.

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The poster is a must-follow.

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Zahlt es sich für sozialdemokratische Parteien aus, aus „ökonomischer Verantwortlichkeit“ auf konservative Finanzpolitik zu setzen? Nein, argumentiert @bjoernbremer.bsky.social in Teil 4 der #PPRNet & zeigt, dass Austerität von links sozialdemokratischen Parteien schadet #Bundestagswahl2025 #polisky

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Eyes on the prize in the Project 2025 tracker www.project2025.observer

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A thought: the US Constitution’s ‘checks and balances’ worked great as defensive emplacements for the power of the monied, weakening & warping even those social democratic surges (New Deal, Obamacare &c.) that somehow broke through. But it turns out they’re worthless as a bulwark against tyranny!

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The Labour government is infuriating farmers to raise what I gather is around £115 million per year. But every quarter-point cut in bank rate saves HMT about £1.75 billion a year on interest on bank reserves. Central bank independence really, really warps politics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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A thought: the US Constitution’s ‘checks and balances’ worked great as defensive emplacements for the power of the monied, weakening & warping even those social democratic surges (New Deal, Obamacare &c.) that somehow broke through. But it turns out they’re worthless as a bulwark against tyranny!

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The Labour government is infuriating farmers to raise what I gather is around £115 million per year. But every quarter-point cut in bank rate saves HMT about £1.75 billion a year on interest on bank reserves. Central bank independence really, really warps politics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Experimenting recently with asking an LLM to explain things I know well, I found that some answers are excellent, and others completely hallucinated—and both were delivered with equivalent simulacra of confident expertise. How are non-experts supposed to tell the difference?

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Tonight at 630pm I’m chairing an LSE public event on Climate Capitalism with @brettchristophers.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social and Daniela Gabor. Nothing more important and couldn’t have a more impressive panel to talk about it! www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/....

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granting the premise of this, how would you know what questions to ask?

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A line destined to be immortal?

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That the Trump administration managed to inadvertently fire people without realising they were in charge of nuclear weapons safety is, um, bad? Perhaps we could expect a Harvard-president-citation-practices level weeks-long press freak-out demanding resignations from those responsible?

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I’ve been thinking of DOGE as conducting a doofus Gleichschaltung but it’s more of an Ausschaltung—disconnecting the power to the mechanisms that implement legislative decisions. Also a DDOS attack on the legal mechanisms that defend government employees.

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the capital class underrated the value of stable liberal governance to their own material interests

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Could someone with macroeconomic chops explain to me whether tightening fiscal policy in the face of absent economic growth is an evidence-based approach? [/snark] Depressing that the entire discussion seems to be about gaming the fiscal rules rather, than, you know, policy? on.ft.com/42WYZzP

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That the Trump administration managed to inadvertently fire people without realising they were in charge of nuclear weapons safety is, um, bad? Perhaps we could expect a Harvard-president-citation-practices level weeks-long press freak-out demanding resignations from those responsible?

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Show this to a federal worker and let them know how many people support and appreciate them.

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To honor the memory of Michael Burawoy, and his tremendous contributions to sociology and Marxist scholarship, Critical Sociology is making every article he published there free in perpetuity. You can find them here: journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...

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There should be no Democratic votes for anything as long as the executive branch is trampling the law. And certainly not for this!

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Today is the ninetieth birthday of Fritz W. Scharpf, Emeritus Director at the MPIfG. His work on federalism, multi-level governance in the EU and democratic theory is considered groundbreaking in political science. We wish him a very happy birthday! 💐

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I’m appalled by T&M’s contempt for law. But the rule of law is a patchwork, not an on/off switch. The US has simultaneously had perfectly good legal protection of, say, repo transactions and terrible legal protection against wage theft for decades. Law and lawlessness coexist all the time.

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Trump's overt, contemptuous disregard for unambiguous, black-letter law--pursued as far as I can tell without even a a pretence of legality--has me thinking about Rudolf von Jhering's 'The Struggle for Law' lately.

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I’m appalled by T&M’s contempt for law. But the rule of law is a patchwork, not an on/off switch. The US has simultaneously had perfectly good legal protection of, say, repo transactions and terrible legal protection against wage theft for decades. Law and lawlessness coexist all the time.

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Blue Labour gearing up to a war economy

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The people of Delaware chose Sarah McBride — a highly accomplished, impressive trans woman — to represent them in Congress. The casualty cruelty of House Republicans toward her — not to mention their disrespect toward Delaware — is nothing short of vile.

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Because of Woke, we’ll be moving away from funding a massive infrastructure of public team science and back to obscure theory-driven projects carried out on secondary data by lone researchers whose minimal funding comes entirely from handouts from independently wealthy business magnates.

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This signals to the public, the courts, etc that there is not an ongoing constitutional crisis. Which is not correct

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This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

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