Registration now open for #UACES2026: another great programme for all those working in European Studies!

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

Writing (like reading) is thinking is a key tenet of humanities-based concern about AI, especially in education. Its shocking that instead of systematically testing whether (& if so, how and when) that's true, we're signing staff and students up for minimally-tested AI reading and writing tools. 2/2

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding.

She's a billionaire.

She doesn't care about "single mums".

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The Palantir manifesto is so over the top fascist it's ludicrous but even knowing that, I did not expect straight up 'Japan and Germany need to re-arm' as a key point.

Of course the fact that Germany is doing much more on defence these days and is pro Ukraine does not fit in their world view.

Of course conversations about diets and food consumption are always sensitive, but I bet most people aren’t aware that US per capita beef consumption peaked in the 1970s and is now 1/3 below what it was then. Chicken is the #1 consumed meat in the US diet since around 1990.

Absolute “Big Mac weight loss plan” levels of idiocy from the German government here.

The Return of Family Detention Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.

A toddler nearly died at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas. After more than a week in intensive care, she was sent back. Sarah Stillman reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Acyn « @Acyn X.com VANCE: What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game.

checkmate, fellow terrorists

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

An old time-y illustration of a Lettuce.

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Germinal in the year 234.
Germinal is the month of sprouting.
Today we celebrate lettuce. #JacobinDay

More information on lettuce

LAWFARE INSTITUTE •HABEAS NON-COMPLIANCE TRACKER Government Contempt & Non-Compliance 300 documented instances of government noncompliance with federal court orders in immigration habeas cases, with links to the specific filings and orders. 199 DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA 57 DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY 10 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 5 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS +15 more 300 TOTAL

“Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders”

An extraordinary database of non-compliance, from @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for @lawfaremedia.org.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

New post in the board games as pedagogical tools series at Active Learning in Political Science, with Jenny Morrison and @michaeltoomey.bsky.social

This time we’re playing Daybreak, a game about climate change and international cooperation.

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The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

🚨Job alert🚨

We are looking for two lecturers/assistant professors in environmental politics (permanent!)

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The UK unequivocally condemns the Taliban’s ban on girls' education in Afghanistan: UK statement at the UN Security Council Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan.

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government
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Lionel Jospin et la Ve République : l’architecte involontaire de l’hyperprésidentialisation - Le Club des Juristes Après la disparition de Lionel Jospin, survenue le 22 mars, Jean-Jacques Urvoas revient sur la trajectoire institutionnelle d’un homme d’État qui n’a pas seulement exercé la Ve République, mais en a p...

Texte remarquable de @jjurvoas.bsky.social sur le blog du Club des juristes

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Hardback copy of the book 'Make Cheese Not War'

My new book arrived in the post from @manchesterup.bsky.social! Pleased to see it for real!

Make cheese not war: Transnational resistance and the Larzac in Modern France

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175878/

🗃 #skystorians

This is a big deal. It won’t make the politics easier, but will empower the coalitions that have been gated from information about land so far. Information is power.

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

For all the technical detail, the politics of this statement is very interesting. It shows us just how keen the govt is to get the SPS deal done: a) by unfussily committing to align with the vast majority of EU regs and b) by clearly telling businesses to get ready to adapt.

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has spent the last 70 years unsuccessfully trying to dethrone King Cattle As last night’s mind-blowing documentary on RTÉ showed, the parallel planet of the cattle monarchy continues to exist

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has spent the last 70 years unsuccessfully trying to dethrone King Cattle

Judge finalises US$575 million judgement against Greenpeace in pipeline case Greenpeace in a statement said it would seek a new trial in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer.

BREAKING:
A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$345 million.

This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest.

Greenpeace stands for all of us.

Mercedes Sanchez Varela is appointed new chair of IEEP Supervisory Board  - IEEP AISBL As we enter the sixth decade of IEEP leadership, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Mercedes Sanchez Varela as its new Chairperson, effective January 2026. Mercedes will be supported by Marianne Kettunen and Thomas Nowak as Deputy Chairs.

🎉 As we enter the sixth decade of IEEP leadership, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Mercedes Sanchez Varela as IEEP's new Chairperson, supported by Marianne Kettunen and Thomas Nowak as Deputy Chairs.

Read more about Mercedes, Marianne, Thomas and their appointment 👇

Without family voting, British Asians would have instead voted for…the guy who thinks that they are not British? Or the woman who both reputable polls showed in third place? Seems legit!

This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.

When you consider the fuss that UK officialdom made for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (a fuss that could and should have been much louder), yes absolutely the FCO has to answer for its abject failure here in what is actually a very similar case.

This is an excellent analysis by Sophie of a great European conundrum. French leaders, from De Gaulle, through Chirac to Macron, have been prescient about the need for greater European independence from the US. They are getting grudging, belated credit from other Europeans. BUT…1/