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Associate Prof at EGB Copenhagen Business School & Anti-Corruption Data Collective. Duke PhD. Interested in $$ in politics, state capacity, taxation, stats. Exil-Herthaner
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How do Europeans react to Trump's shenanigans, you ask? In reaction to customer demands, Salling Group (one of Denmark's largest retail groups) is now labeling European products (link in Danish) www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...

Away with "United in Diversity" - The EU's new motto is now: "Formed to screw the United States"

Bitte teilt und zeichnet diese Petition. Diese parlamentarische Anfrage stellt einen Angriff auf unabhängigen Journalismus und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement dar. weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to the RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: shorturl.at/9jbQb, @the-peio.bsky.social, @iojournal.bsky.social, @apsrjournal.bsky.social

Godmorgen, Guten Morgen, good morning from Copenhagen. May it be a start to a better week.

Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...

Imo, as good as one could’ve hoped for given the polls, still hoping less than 20 for the afd. As long as fdp and bsw don’t make it, this will end in a cdu/csu - spd coalition

2-1 #heimsieg #hahohe

Michael Roth, Chairman of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said he was surprised at “hearing this propaganda from the White House.” … “The transatlantic relations are over,” Roth added www.politico.eu/article/tran...

🛑 Danish media outlet Danwatch is under legal attack! Russian insurance company Ingosstrakh and ELWI law firm are using legal threats to intimidate investigative journalists. This is a SLAPP case in the making - press freedom must be defended. www.ecpmf.eu/denmark-cond...

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

I don’t have a fully formulated model around this but I do think that the complete destruction of state capacity in a already very decentralised and geographically massive country will hurt any authoritarian goals (the more and more likely economic havoc won’t help either).

Homeexchange.com is a great alternative and, imo, much better. To me it is more what airbnb originally seemed about. (And if you are interested in joining, send me a DM for a referral code)

What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

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Jetzt bitte endlich mal bis zum Ende so weitermachen! #hahohe #gemeinsamhertha

“I am a staunch believer in the transatlantic alliance and I am a staunch ally and friend of America […] and this is why I cannot just ignore what we heard before, I cannot not comment…” youtu.be/S7Rl6XgkWUg?...

Embrace every dictator, shun every ally: Trump-Vance

Time to vote. Nicht vergessen. #noafd schöner Leben ohne Nazis

Can someone please wake me up from this incredibly stupid dream? (Yes, this real)

These are great roles -- postdoctoral positions with reasonable teaching load and an excellent research community (seminars every day, pretty much). In general, people in these positions tend to go on to secure good permanent roles afterward.

New PhD positions in political economy(+)! We have two new 3-year PhD scholarships at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School: (1) open call, (2) green transition. If you have questions, feel free to reach out. (1): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa... (2): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

Mein Halbzeit Kommentar #hahohe 😥

Priorities: destroy the research universities that are the envy of the whole world and instead invest in thousands more border patrol guards and ice raids across the nation.

For years, the US has led the pack on the investigation and enforcement of foreign bribery. Wednesday’s memo by AG Pam Bondi shifting DoJ focus away from cases that aren’t linked to drug cartels puts that in jeopardy. 📊 From @anticorruption.bsky.social's 2022 Exporting Corruption report.

In this time of heartlessness, the UK and European Union should take immediate steps to guarantee the remainder of PEPFAR contracts through the year and plan for long term support of the programme It's funding comprises roughly 6% of their combined aid budgets www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

I’m going to go out on a limb and say there is zero chance that Republicans eliminate the carried interest deduction

Grok will be your new air traffic controller

Seems like a good time to re-up a piece of mine from December where I argue that American oligarchs won't nearly be as constrained as their counterparts in 1990s Russia www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/13/a...

Ach ne! Das kann ja gar nich sein wenn man der Springer Presse glauben will.

It’s only unconstitutional if it comes from the Democratic region of the Americas otherwise it’s just not uncommon

Republicans have handed the Pentagon to an unqualified, blackmail-able hack with a drinking problem. They're handing national security over to a compromised crank, and the CDC and NIH to a conspiratorial nut. There is only one principal in this party now -- complete fealty to a sundowning narcicist.

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

In their wildest dreams America’s worst enemies could have not imagined what is happening

In some positive news, more than 160,000 people (organizers speak of 250,000) joined together in Berlin today to protest the far-right AFD and the CDU’s cooperation with the AFD.

In case you are wondering, there is nothing about Musk’s dealings on foxnews.com. this is the top story, instead

Maybe the Doncic-AD trade is the Adelson family’s play to distract the media & masses from the fact that Trump/Musk are robbing the federal government blank #nba

„Unintentionally“???

Vor 15 min wirklich underwhelming. Was ist es dann jetzt?

The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant. The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.

4-1 Auswärtssieg! Immer wieder optimistisch… #hahohe #hertha

It is flabbergasting and scary how fast Congress has basically ceased all oversight of the executive