If the internal coup is confirmed, this is a counter-revolutionary reactionary coup. It won’t change anything.

#BREAKING: PAETONGTARN SHINAWATRA (Ing Shin) TO BECOME THAILAND’S 31st PRIME MINISTER. She has passed the majority of the votes in parliament, as voting is still under way. #นายกรัฐมนตรีคนที่31

Our latest publication about the ongoing political storm in #Thailand

🚨New paper alert!!🚨 Killian Clarke Jack Paine & I are excited to share our new project “Violent Origins and Authoritarian Order: Divergent Trajectories after Successful Rebellions.” How do the origins of authoritarian regimes affect their subsequent regime trajectories? /1

Quite an incredible move in French politics today that might reveal that we're in fact witnessing nothing less than a coup by Macron. Let me explain 🧵

YUGE crowd at the #SPPGA/UBC Political Science debate watch tonight 👀🍿 #Debate2024 #Debatenight #UBC

Concerning development for students from #Myanmar in #Thailand. Forcing them to return to Myanmar or risk staying in Thailand illegally. The junta is getting desperate and this is yet more collateral damage ⁦Radio Free Asia⁩ rfa.org/english/news/m…

The fact that Trump could perform this well with no ground game and by basically just doing podcasts should force some reflection from the consulting class…but it won’t

A Democrat disaster far worse than 2016, when Trump was unknown quantity & lost popular vote. Now: massive swings to Trump as known quantity; Dem vote collapsed from 2020 when Biden won pop vote by 7m; Senate flips; House may too. Why? Quick thoughts... 1/

CNN analyst says Democrats should have listened to Bernie Sanders when he said the focus should be “on bread and butter issues.” “A lot of people attacked him for that, saying, well, are you saying cultural politics don’t matter? He wasn’t saying that.”

This needs to trend among grassroots Democrats

1/2 #Myanmar army rolls out private security service law aiming to complement security of country Law allows foreign companies, foreigners to function in Myanmar Powers include ability to carry arms, make arrests, right to self-defence

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: right-wing has narrative dominance. My org (Media Matters) did this study and been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

Clear view of the grim situation in Myanmar. Armed struggle has its side effects: More poverty, more drugs & criminal enterprising, factionalism, and the wholesale militarization of communities. A regime change will not magically reverse these trends. aspistrategist.org.au/myanmars-despe…

The junta's response to Cyclone Mocha and Typhoon Yagi demonstrate its willingness to weaponize aid in the midst of natural disasters. The world must work with the National Unity Govt., ethnic organizations and civil society groups to reach those in desperate need.

Think this is right. It's also a way of resolving the apparently contradictory claims that Harris was both too centrist and too radical. In truth, American centrism frequently adopts outre positions on identity issues, in part to compensate for its lack of a robust economic