The Voters Progressive Parties Are Ignoring | Cas Mudde at GLOBSEC Forum 2025 YouTube video by GLOBSEC

Any Social Democratic party worth its name should stop chasing the far-right old white male voter and listen to the young female voter…

Vi bor i en kommune hvor huse koster fra ca. 20 millioner og opefter, så huslejesikret pensionskasselejlighed har sine klare fordele :)

Jeg har MitID på tre devices, og ingen væsentlige kort på mobilen, men i fysisk udgave inkl. pas i min taske.
@elnif.com er da på Bluesky om ikke andet i ånden :)

Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis European Commission also recommends heat pumps and public transport subsidies

No detail yet but a very positive sign that @ec.europa.eu is pushing hard on speeding up electrification and reducing fossil use as the way to handle the Hormuz crisis. Absolutely the right way to go. www.ft.com/content/bbc9...

We can’t stop individuals wanting to develop new technologies, but we don’t have to spend government money helping to speed their development, or hand political power and influence to those who intend to use them for evil purposes. (I’m talking on this topic at a workshop in Armenia next week.)

A woman works at a desk with a laptop, while a fluffy cat sits on the windowsill nearby.

FT exclusive: The European Commission will encourage remote working and public transport subsidies to cut fossil fuel use, as countries grapple with the energy price shock from the war in the Middle East ft.trib.al/HxZYri1

Clearly, this disqualifies Palentir as a business partner for any other country than the U.S., not just in defense and security related sector but ANY sector — as information is power.

European countries should not just start new collaboration with Palentir, they should divest it ASAP!

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📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...

the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies

www.trumpactiontracker.info

Gavelink 🎁 www.information.dk/udland/2026/...

Mostly expensive coffee ☕️

»Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.«

Albert Einstein,
gestorben am 18. April 1955
in Princeton, New Jersey

The new socks in my drawer are in white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate colours. Seems like safe colours at the ice cream shop :)

Persistent pattern that the general population wants more/faster climate policy 👇🏻

Also persistent pattern that people are surprised that other people are so pro climate

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

The coming global food crisis - www.ft.com/content/3634... via @FT

I’m would too.

Man kan ikke kun fjerne folk der stod op. Alle uden stol skulle have været bortvist hvis det handlede om sikkerhed.

Så alle der ikke sad på en stol 🪑?

Efter hvilke kriterier smed de nogle af jer ud?

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 🧵

by no means the main take to be had here (indeed takes 1 to 25 should be along the lines of "fucking hell Keir"), but worth noting just how quickly moral rot can spread - all of this obviously happened because Trump won and the government needed someone morally rotten to step in to help them

Democratic hypocrisy in practice: a panel study of revealed preferences for liberal democracy in Poland Democratic hypocrisy – the tendency for citizens to express support for democratic norms in the abstract while tolerating violations of those norms when doing so serves their partisan interests – h...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New @ncn.gov.pl-funded article on democratic hypocrisy in Poland (open access)

"If your local bakery loses one of its ovens, the whole neighborhood ends up having to get by with less bread."

That's the whole game. Markets can calm fast; physical production can't.

We’re hiring! 3 TT positions

Two Assistant Professors in Political Science (Dutch required, deadline 17 May)

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One Assistant Professor of Political Theory (Dutch not required, d/l June 1)

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"you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from" is the story of our age

Det er nemmest at sove på siden i så fald, sov godt!

As someone said the other day:

The Pope is a pastor, not a pundit.

Det ville være at foretrække ikke at lide lidt af penge-PTSD 😉

Jep, jeg er heller ikke opvokset i en verden, hvor jeg bare har kunne bruge penge. Det er noget der kommer til at præge hele ens tilgang til tilværelsen som sådan, lidt mindre fri også når man faktisk ikke skal vende hver en krone.
Du siger til, når jeg må invitere på en virkelig god kop kaffe.

Jeg har bestilt en skjorte det koster mere i dag. Det er jo det glade vanvid at man ikke passer bedre på jer der gør jer umage med at bidrage til samfundet.