basically looking at prison slavery & saying "but what if there were sex slaves too." every single person with any iota of power in this country is addicted to rape

Good chance, thanks to Trump’s off the cuff ethnic cleansing proposal, that we see a crime of untold proportions unfold, in which a modern military re-unleashes hell on 1.7 million civilians to persuade them to leave. As Ben-Ephraim says: “The renewal of the conflict may now

A new investigation by +972 reveals that Israel had so little idea where Hamas fighters were in Gaza it permitted collateral damage in 'triple digits' – ie Israel killed 100s of Palestinian civilians – in the hope of targeting a single Hamas commander. The US knew and approved of

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #Text-As-Data / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3)

The most moral army in the world 💀💀💀

How should we study party polarization in Europe? Happy to share that our paper on *multidimensional* polarization is now out British Jnl Poli Sci! (more 👇)

📢NEW PUBLICATION As a Korean who grew up in a low-income area in the 90s, I've long wondered why the gap between welfare laws and practice is rarely discussed. doi.org/10.1177/146801…

a good bye lenin satire set in stuttgart where a young man has to maintain the illusion of a balanced german budget to protect his elderly Kleinsparer mother who has recently suffered a heart attack

Afraid I cannot get behind this even as a friend of China. I know it's old fashioned, but missionary still hits right sometimes and I don't think couples should be banned from playing the classics.

🧵 My 3rd book is now out! It is on the fascinating history of math. How did people throughout history think about math?What problems did they care about? How did they express them? How were they solved? This book includes a lot of historical math. a.co/d/gsoNKxP

Larry Davids ass pope

🚨 My book "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" is finally out today with Columbia University Press! 🚨 It tackles one of the biggest challenges today: How can we make freer human mobility between countries more politically sustainable? 🧵

Like clockwork

Kritik am Vorgehen der indischen Regierung ist strukturell anti-hinduistisch

I just finished interviewing a 63-year-old Palestinian man—an elderly civilian—used as a human shield for three unrelenting, brutal months. I was stunned. I tried to process it—I thought hours passed, days maybe—but not three months Sixty-three years old. For three months. A

"unskilled labour doesn't exist" explain this then

Leute rechtfertigen/relativieren die Tötung von Anas Al-Sharif mit der Behauptung, er sei kein Journalist, sondern Hamas. Euch ist schon klar, dass dieser Logik folgend die überwiegende Mehrheit der Journalist:innen Israels mit Armeedienst ein legitimes Ziel darstellen würden?

🧵Haaretz published a Hebrew-only article today, nominally about Israeli soldiers facing PTSD from their time in Gaza, with numerous admissions to killing children.

Kijk naar VVD-congressen en rechts-conservatieven domineren steeds meer De VVD zet zich veel harder af tegen links dan PVV. Incl ‘kroonprinsen’ Heinen, Karremans VVD-achtige partijen in Europa schuiven meer naar rechts met ieder verlies Waarom zou de VVD naar het midden gaan?