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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
Number 5 in the most-read PQ journal articles of 2025 was:
'The Populist Playbook: Why Identity Trumps Policy and How Democrats Can Adapt' which discusses plausible alternatives to populists’ divisive appeals.
By @dbrieba.bsky.social and Andrés Velasco
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
✍️ Chile’s presidential runoff pits a Communist former labor minister against a hard-right former congressman, signaling both a sharp rightward turn and the eclipse of the old political elites, @dbrieba.bsky.social writes in his op-ed. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/mtntusct
"Essentially what you have here is the two main conspirators in this Jeffrey Epstein case basically saying to one another, sure is weird that Donald Trump hasn't been pulled into this whole thing yet."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social talk the new Epstein smoking-gun emails:
Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences
Bar chart showing big reductions in growth rates in advanced economies between 1950 and 2025.
This explains a lot (Source: www.ft.com/content/20d6... )
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I missed the “for” in the first sentence and thought the article might be worth reading for a second
Comparto mi columna de ayer en La Segunda
Hola, les comparto mi columna de hoy en La Segunda
✍️ As Chile’s left prepares to choose its presidential candidate in a low-profile primary, the stakes are higher than they seem. @dbrieba.bsky.social explores whether the left can reinvent itself before the elections. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4zxaam4a
I wonder what ;)
Latest issue out now!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x...
With John Connolly David Judge Matt Flinders; @sekip.bsky.social; @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social; Andrés Velasco @dbrieba.bsky.social; Coree Brown Swan @paulanderson88.bsky.social Judith Sijstermans; Stewart Lansley; Tom Wraight Kai Green
Modern xkcd.com/3089
Andrés Velasco and I had a great conversation with Alan Renwick on UCL’s Uncovering Politics podcast—talking about populism, identity, and liberalism, based on our article in The Political Quarterly (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…).
You can check it out here: https://shorturl.at/zGiXP
New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin -
At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner."
Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done"
wapo.st/4iAatO1
The Trump Effect: Australia Edition
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Those jokes a while ago about Trump appointing a horse as his advisor. Shame he didn’t as it turns out.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Well, as America implodes from within, it’d be a *great* time for the EU to finally do official Eurobonds. It’d likely be very attractive as a safe haven given the destruction of US hegemony & spillover to US T-bills. Bonus: Eurobonds can finance a desperately needed European security build up! 🇪🇺💶 ‼️
Russia is perfectly clear what side Trump is on
Phony friendliness and behind-the-scenes treachery from Trump and Vance would have been much more dangerous to the cause of freedom in Ukraine than the self-exposure by both men.
Sotomayor’s dissent in Trump v. United States: “Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”
This was just 233 days ago:
One of the things we learnt during Trump term one is that corruption committed openly and without shame gets less coverage because there's no opportunity for EXPOSES, SCOOPS, and EXCLUSIVES.
It's just there, gets reported, and on we go.
