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Politicians of radical right Sweden Democrats are representives of their electorate: over-representation of politicians with experience in object-processing jobs (drivers, mechanics, trade workers, industrial jobs)

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Democracy dies with Jeff Bezos. #washingtonpost

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Together with many stellar colleagues had the immense pleasure of joining @benansell.bsky.social at BBC’s Rethink to discuss the decline of liberalism www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Given that the current US administration clear obsession with the EU, Europeans are starting to wonder if they’ve been underrating the EU-thing this whole time.

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Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

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Given the dominant narrative out there, this story should be shared wide far and wide. The Spanish city of Coruña has given the status of "adopted sons" to two migrants who were the only people to intervene when a homophobic mob brutally attacked a gay man in 2021. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Fourth pillar is eroding

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Het probleem lijkt me eerder dat de rechtsstaat wordt gepolariseerd waardoor het beeld ontstaat dat het gezeur van links-progressieven is. Terwijl (zoals de auteur aangeeft) het beschermen van burgers tegen de overheid juist belangrijk is voor gemarginaliseerd groepen.

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"Verzet drijft op de overtuiging dat het anders moet, op de hoop dat het anders kan, op de wetenschap dat wie zich bij voorbaat neerlegt bij de macht van de bullebak, uiteindelijk zijn menselijkheid zal verliezen." Menselijke woorden in onmenselijke tijden van @sheilas.bsky.social.

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📢 New publication! Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Bruna Paroni, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & @maikovska.bsky.social ✨

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In our COST Network studying the Link between Populism and Euroscepticism we have a call for Short Term Scientific Missions to visit London Metropolitan University from 7-11 April. Funds up to 2000 euro p.p. Deadline: March 4 More info: eupoplink.eu/STSM-2025

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"Data doesn't lie"? It's amazing how much the same people who mocked pre-eminent scientists during COVID are now blindly following a ketamine-fueled hustler and the teenage DOGE dorks.

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The gender gap amongst young voters is very real

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AfD overwhelmingly won votes from non-voters and the centre-right. This is a standard pattern. It is a myth that the radical right are mainly winning disaffected centre-left voters.

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Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

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Very interesting to look at the age distribution in the exit poll. The SPD which already did very poorly with young voters last time continues to loose further there - a party of pensioners. Interestingly, also huge losses for the Greens among young voters and massive gains for the Linke.

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So many liberal Americans are desperate to normalize their country. Seeing Trumps everywhere. Thinking every other country will be like theirs. They seem incapable of accepting that the US has much higher support for far right and is in a far worse state than Europe (bar Hungary).

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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

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Faber leest zich in en corrigeert uitspraak: ’Schoof is niet democratisch verkozen’

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Dit dus.

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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En weer wordt radicaal rechts genormaliseerd in de kritische en pro-democratische Volkskrant.

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Zoiets?

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New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.

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Volgens mij wordt er nu in Nederland onbewust meegedaan aan “flooding the zone” van Bannon, via allerlei proefballonnetjes of extremere maatregelen gericht tegen minderheden. Dit vraagt om waakzaamheid.

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I must admit that I was thrown off by the Bourdieu reference, but this is a very interesting contribution to the "cleavage politics" literature that should be read together with the groundbreaking new Cambridge Elements by Bornschier et al.

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We kunnen wel (terecht) klagen over Trump, maar we moeten ons daar niet door af laten leiden. Hier gebeurt hetzelfde, alleen liggen we nog een paar stappen achter op de VS. En protesteren via gevatte social media-posts is te gemakzuchtig om het tij te keren.

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You can say a lot about Trump, but within one month in office he did managed to stop Vladimir Putin from being the biggest threat to world peace

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Al strooit Trump met fascistische plannen, voor Nederlandse media is het ‘business as usual’. Zijn ze te voorzichtig? Journalisten Hans Laroes (ex-NOS), Michael Persson (Volkskrant) en Zoë Papaikonomou vinden van wel. ‘Geef niet klakkeloos door wat de macht zegt.’

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NOS denkt: lekker massa-immigratie als volkomen neutrale term hanteren.

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"activist leaders (...) fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law." US democracy has much more to fear from paralyzed Dems and gradual erosion than from radical Dems and declaring martial law, which would be a trigger point for mass protests.

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American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

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Transatlantic Relationship waxes & wanes, but this week was a low point Since 2016 🇪🇺 had time to prepare, but perhaps because it didn’t want divorce to be final, did too little What do Europeans think? @eupinions.bsky.social found out In 2017 just 25 % wanted 🇪🇺 to go its own way; 2024 > 60 % 🧵

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Werkt dit kabinet wel? @jorisveerb.bsky.social en ik onderzochten de besluitenlijsten van de ministerraad, hoeveel wetten er in voorbereiding worden gezet en waarom de agenda van de Eerste Kamer zo leeg is. www.groene.nl/artikel/stil...

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🚨 The ANES is on the list, because the award description includes the study of 'racial conflict.' The loss of the ANES would be a huge loss for public opinion, and for science.

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Restricting civil liberties, like free press, is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.

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This is beyond frustrating. Corporations keep bending over backwards to appease authoritarian demands, sacrificing integrity (if there ever was any) without hesitation. It’s infuriating to see compliance with an authoritarian megalomaniac prioritized over principles and reason.

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Please forward this vacancy to all your talented master students interested in citizen corrections (eg community notes) and/or misinformation!

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