In Germany, it is becoming increasingly difficult for left-wing and anti-fascist organisations to keep or open bank accounts. Here is another example from the VVN-BdA.

berlin.vvn-bda.de/2026/04/die-...

i fully understand why gefilte fish is such a divisive food (I adore it), but one of my favorite bits of concrete applied food history is the Gefilte Fish Line, which maps the sweet vs salt gefilte fish divide precisely via the historical sugar beet trade www.npr.org/sections/the...

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

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There is a very common, if false belief that pretty much anyone can get citizenship if they're in the country for long enough. Unfortunately, most people who are undocumented have NO path to permanent legal status.

And in her case, the old removal order (which was withheld) makes it even harder.

Who shapes the landscape of African politics scholarship, and who is missing?

Find the answer in the recently published paper in @pspolisci.bsky.social by Zack Zimbalist (@wuvienna.bsky.social & Southern Centre for Inequality Studies) and @elisaomodei.bsky.social (CEU)

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S104...

Job advertisement of the University of Bayreuth - Chair for Sociology in Africa Two Postdoctoral Positions (m/f/d)

2 #postdoc positions available at UBT: on South - South security arrangements and transnational security/aid professionals from the Global South and East. Happy to answer questions! www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-...
@postcolh.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century. The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the p...

The first Africanists:
Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century.

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-first-...

Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR

Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right

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Europe has 875 billionaires. But most of them live in just a few countries. 

According to the latest Forbes World's Billionaires List, Europe is home to hundreds of ultra-wealthy individuals, but they are far from evenly distributed.

multilingual Psalter, 12th-14th century, monastery of saint macarius, wadi al-Natrun, Egypt

Ethiopic/Ge’ez, followed by Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, and ending with Armenian.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/historical...

Söldner in der Ukraine: Wie ein Kenianer an Putins Front kam Tausende Männer aus Afrika landeten zuletzt in der Ukraine, als russische Söldner. Die Geschichte eines Kenianers, der an der Front landete und sagt: Er wusste von nichts.

Sehr wichtige und zugleich beklemmende Reportage. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Update: Today, opt-in online pollster YouGov revealed that bogus respondents biased their 2024 religion survey. Based on this survey, Bible Society's 2025 The Quiet Revival report claimed a massive surge of churchgoing in England and Wales. The report has now been retracted.

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

Futures of Difference | Substack Futures of Difference explores how social categories — race, gender, migration — are transforming. Essays & conversations with 30+ leading scholars. A scholarly platform from the Max Planck Institute,...

I've always shied away from social media – but current times have changed this. The categories shaping our lives are being challenged rapidly & profoundly. That's why I've launched FoD: to explore where these trends are leading.The future of difference isn't predetermined - join the conversation

„Global Powers, Local Realities – Africa’s Future Amid Global Power Plays and the Fight for Self-Rule“ 5 months online, 12 days in Berlin and Brussels: The taz Panter Foundation offers a networking and training workshop for journalists from 16 countries in Africa

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺 compete for influence in #Africa – how can the continent shape a self-determined future? The taz-Panter Foundation is offering a hybrid workshop for 16 African journalists from Apr–Sept '26. Applications are open til tomorrow, March 25 – please share 👇

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I think part of the reason for this lack of understanding is that in a lot of jobs and fields many people are already accustomed to not actually doing their own work, & having other people do it. And they have such a low opinion of people that they believe machine output can and should replace them.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I don't think we have to just smell it. It's quite literally outsourcing when the folks who train LLMs for U.S. use are exploited people in Kenya. www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

A shake-up at Africa’s spikiest media group Rostam Aziz, a Tanzanian industrialist, has bought a controlling stake in Kenya's Nation Media Group, one of Africa's largest media empires facing financial losses.

Rostam Aziz describes himself as a “great believer in print media”. Yet critics worry his other business interests could dampen the independence of east African media

Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524–6 Abstract. This article uses the lens of ‘turbulence’ to give a new perspective on the German Peasants’ War of 1524–6. It suggests that the term Aufruhr (co

This is a companion piece to Lyndal's longer article 'Turbulence and the Peasants' War of 1524-26' which is available Open Access in HWJ 100.

The Quiet Work of Categorization: A Border in Transit Heike Drotbohm on How Difference Takes Shape Through Perception, Affect, and Institutional Routine

A short think-piece. How do borders operate when no one speaks a word? In collaboration w @stevenvertovec within his project on #FuturesOfDifference futuresofdifference.substack.com/p/quiet-work...

My sister, who lives in UK and has kids with double citizenship and a lot of friends in the same situation, now regularly tells me stories like this. All white EU citizens. The cruelty meted out on the (black & brown) Other“ always ends up creating new „Others“, race is a floating signifier.

Die Postkarte aus unseren Beständen zeigt zum heutigen #Fotofreitag die Stadt Neusalza, die ab 1920 mit Spremberg zu Neusalza-Spremberg zusammengelegt wurde. Neusalza wurde 1670 von Exulanten gegründet. Die Postkarte ist 1913 postalisch gelaufen.

Notes from a rabbithole I fell into: AI-generated rabbis are trending on Instagram, antisemitic conspiracy theories and disinformation included. I found 35 such accounts with a total of 2.3 million followers.

English version here:
ohje-internet.de/en/2026/03/1...

Rassismus in Deutschland: Studie zeigt "verfestigtes" rassistisches Denken in Deutschland Laut einer Studie glauben viele Menschen an angeblich naturgegebene Unterschiede zwischen Ethnien. Zwei Drittel der Befragten halten bestimmte Kulturen für besser.

"Laut der Studie berichteten 25 Prozent der Schwarzen und 17 Prozent der muslimischen Menschen, mindestens einmal pro Monat beleidigt, belästigt, bedroht oder angegriffen zu werden."
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

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"Citiztenship by Investment" (CBI)

wird ein

"Private-City by Investment" (PCBI).

Milliardäre kaufen nicht nur ihre Staatsbürgerschaft, sondern sie erkaufen sich gleich ihre eigene Stadt mit eigenen Gesetzen.

Dem gedruckten Beitrag vorangestellter Abstract (Englisch): »Die Arbeiter haben kein Vaterland« Zum Verhältnis von Klassenpolitik, Nationalismus und der Frage der Migration Maximilian Pichl The question of migration has been a subject of controversy within social democratic and socialist parties for well over a century. The large increase in labor migration around 1900 caused conflicts within the Second International over how to position itself on the issue. Pro-migrant and restrictionist approaches clashed with each other. These debates exemplify the fundamental relationship between class politics, nationalism, and the issue of migration. In particular, this article shows that restrictionist positions on migration are adopted by social democrats and socialist actors precisely when the nation as a political framework leads to an exclusive understanding of class.

@maxpichl (@maxpichl.bsky.social‬) blickt zurück auf Debatten über #Arbeitsmigration in sozialdemokratischen und sozialistischen Parteien um 1900 im Spannungsfeld von #Klasse & #Nation:

➡️ werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-93-maximilian-pichl

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Chart of US strikes in Somalia by year and president.

AFRICOM has announced its 45th strike in Somalia of 2026.

www.newamerica.org/insights/ame...