🚨🚨It is not often #EUlaw make the headlines but today's significant seminal ruling by the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social where the Court ruled that #hungarian laws breached the fundamental values of the EU in Art 2 TEU is a major political victory for #LGBTI+ rights. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
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!
Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY: OH, DEAR - - I BETTER GET STARTED ON MY HOMEWORK P2- NANCY IS LISTENING TO THE RADIO AS SHE BEGINS OF DO HER HOMEWORK RADIO ANNOUNCER: ... SCIENTISTS ARE NOW WORKING ON A NEW SUPER-ATOM BOMB 2000 TIMES MORE DESTRUCTIVE - - P3- NANCY IMAGINES AN ATOM BOMB HURDLING TOWARDS THE EARTH P4- NANCY CRINGES AS SHE IMAGINES THE EARTH EXPLODING P5-NANCY : SOMEHOW THAT HOMEWORK DOESN'T SEEM VERY IMPORTANT NANCY THROWS HER HOMEWORK ON THE FLOOR…
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 15,1946
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J. Dennison and H. Kriesi. “Explaining Europe's Transformed Electoral Landscape: Structure, Salience, and Agendas”. In: European Political Science Review (2023), p. online first. dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755773923000085.
Hannah Waddingham as Septa the Shame Nun in GoT and in a rainbow dress presenting Eurovision.
X this evening vs Bsky this evening
Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.
Donald Trump Does Not Have a Plan
He has dictatorial desires. But not everything is a brilliant distraction or part of a cunning masterplan. Let’s not turn incompetent agents of malice into omnipotent supervillains.
My new piece:
With this poll, Orbán is laying the ground to refuse to recognise anything but a win by him as legitimate, eg. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cur.... Such an outcome would drive a further wedge between Europe and the US government.
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
In my article for @talkingpointsmemo.com, I tried to explain the prospects for de-Orbánisation after Sunday's election in Hungary to a U.S. audience, in fewer than 1000 words [by invitation] 🗳️🇭🇺⬇️
The á is interesting here.
Suggests to me that this has been copied and pasted.
There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...
A screenshot of a post on X by Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) quoting an earlier post of his. The main post reads: "UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See." The quoted post reads: "NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address." The bottom of the post shows it was last edited at 3:22 PM on Apr 8, 2026, and has 1.5M views.
The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.
I've taught European history for thirty years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we Americans have front-row seats.
![[Scene is a TV news DEBATE FORMAT like Newsnight or Laura K.
In the studio, NIGEL FARAGE is a guest on one side, and the GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND is the other guest.]
1
FARAGE:
It's simply outrageous!
2
FARAGE:
Replacing Sir Winston Churchill on the £5 note with a badger is woke madness.
3
BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR:
Mr Farage, I can assure you that I and my colleagues at the Bank of England have listened to your concerns,
4
GOVERNOR:
And we have gone to great length to ensure
that the badger is, in fact...
5
GOVERNOR:
...Anti-woke.
[The £5 note appears on the screen behind him. It shows a badger, with a black military cap on its head - looking suspiciously like a Nazi SS officer's cap.]
6
[Beat of Nigel Farage reacting silently to the image on screen]
7
FARAGE:
The badger is anti-woke.
8
GOVERNOR:
Indeed!
[Pointing at the design on the screen]
If you look down the bottom we've included a quote from him...
9
[Close up of the quote at the bottom of the new £5 note, which reads]:
"It's not racist to be concerned about immigration, Carol"
- The Anti-Woke Badger
10
FARAGE:
The badger... said that?
GOVERNOR:
It's a comment he posted on Facebook.
11
FARAGE:
Well he's quite right! It's not -
12
[Farage pauses again, distracted by the image on the screen]
13
FARAGE:
What's with the hat?
GOVERNOR:
He's into history.
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[Scene is a TV news DEBATE FORMAT like Newsnight or Laura K. In the studio, NIGEL FARAGE is a guest on one side, and the GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND is the other guest.] 1 FARAGE: It's simply outrageous! 2 FARAGE: Replacing Sir Winston Churchill on the £5 note with a badger is woke madness. 3 BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR: Mr Farage, I can assure you that I and my colleagues at the Bank of England have listened to your concerns, 4 GOVERNOR: And we have gone to great length to ensure that the badger is, in fact... 5 GOVERNOR: ...Anti-woke. [The £5 note appears on the screen behind him. It shows a badger, with a black military cap on its head - looking suspiciously like a Nazi SS officer's cap.] 6 [Beat of Nigel Farage reacting silently to the image on screen] 7 FARAGE: The badger is anti-woke. 8 GOVERNOR: Indeed! [Pointing at the design on the screen] If you look down the bottom we've included a quote from him... 9 [Close up of the quote at the bottom of the new £5 note, which reads]: "It's not racist to be concerned about immigration, Carol" - The Anti-Woke Badger 10 FARAGE: The badger... said that? GOVERNOR: It's a comment he posted on Facebook. 11 FARAGE: Well he's quite right! It's not - 12 [Farage pauses again, distracted by the image on the screen] 13 FARAGE: What's with the hat? GOVERNOR: He's into history. [ends]
It was fun discussing this great paper by @gillespittoors.bsky.social and @alvarooleart.bsky.social
🔜 Next in #ECPRSeminars of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
🧠 Examine how Volt Europe is trying to build the first truly pan-European party & why it may not transform EU politics
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💻 10 Feb, 14:00–15:00 GMT
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Now it's really done: the liberals of Renew Europe joins the EPP and the Socialists to delay the ratification of the EU-US trade deal. The three centrist parties have a majority in the chamber to make it happen.
The European Parliament is NOT voting this deal.
Mocht een links politicus nog maar een fractie van de bullshit hebben verkocht als Francken in zijn loopbaan al heeft gedaan niks of niemand had hem of haar nog ernstig genomen. Maar rechtse politici als Francken hebben een medialicentie om zonder consequenties eindeloos bullshit te verkopen.
🛎️ Next in #ECPRSeminars of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
🎙️@alvarooleart.bsky.social @gillespittoors.bsky.social @lucykinski.bsky.social discuss how Volt Europe is trying to build the first truly pan-European party - & why it may not transform EU politics
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The immigration doom loop in full swing.
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
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Looking at Belgium as I always do … interesting that regional attachment is lower in Flanders than in Wallonie (national attachment also lower). Antwerp province is <5 for all three presumably because everyone is attached to ‘t Stad or to Mechelen…
VS used: gewoon een eenmalige zak geld.
It's not very effective.
Denemarken used: sociale zekerheid en schoolsysteem.
It's super effective.
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
💥 Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space
🪑 @lucykinski.bsky.social & @gillespittoors.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/2f4vWD3
#Polisky #democracy #europeanpolitics #partysystems #europeanunion #eu
“Woman dies”. The chief of police used the phrase, “She lost her life”.
She was shot twice. She was killed. She was murdered.
A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.
