The Tories now have a far right leader. A rhetorically skilled one that is very effective in shaping discourse. Nothing in the political and media environment here seems ready for this. Strong naivety about the potency of far right appeals. A belief that these positions can't win

the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale

Iowa abortion ban může zřejmě pohnout s místním výsledkem prezidentských voleb (zajimal by mě i vliv samotného zveřejnění Selzer průzkumu)

European Gothic

Your Morning Election Demographics Post: Women are a larger share of the population in 5 of 7 swing sates plus IOWA. Nevada is the only swing state with (slightly) more men. Boomer+ ladies (born <1964) are the largest group in the electorate. (Source: Census 2023 estimates)

Happy Premature Analysis Based on Early Exit Polls Day to all who celebrate.

The European dread of going to sleep tonight

We are staring at the real possibility of a republican president, a republican senate, a republican house, a republican Supreme Court, and (if they have their way) a much more republican bureaucracy.

Pokud mate tendenci o výsledku voleb mluvit jako o “budíčku pro Evropu”, můžete úplně v klidu taky neříkat k volbám v USA nic. Děkuji za pochopení.

Powerful

Awaiting the second round of Trump papers in political science journals

35 years ago. What is left of that spirit and solidarity?

Violence against women active in political life is a growing problem across the OSCE region and beyond. How can we address violence against women in politics? Learn more from our toolkit, теперь доступны также на русском языке: buff.ly/4eVuQ71

Answering emails to distract myself from the teaching prep I was doing to distract myself from writing

Congratulations to Poland 🇵🇱on its Independence Day and its remarkable 🤩🤩🤩economic performance since 1990, which has helped it to become almost as rich as Spain or Japan👇(GDP pc PPP). Absolutely no one predicted this back in 1989.

Jak moc efektivní je dvouhlavé vedení úřadu pro efektivitu vlády?

🇪🇺🧵The Brussels standoff: a thread. What is happening with Commission von der Leyen 2.0? Is it all drama, or is it really falling off a cliff?

I am still not convinced that a mass exodus of academics from Twitter is a good thing but I am just stunned with how fast the other place is growing! My York colleague Ned Potter wrote a guide to the platform specifically for researchers blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024/1…

Trump jmenuje do vlády jednoho proruského konspirátora za druhým, autoritáři všech zemí a politických barev se spojují a posilují, ale v Česku se debatuje o tom, jestli jediná vysílací média, která dlouhodobě posilují demokratickou odolnost, "deformují trh" výrobou podcastů.🤷‍♂️

v noci se mi zdálo, ze jsem neustále špatně vyplňovala pracovní výkazy a musela je vyplňovat znova a znova. Čelila jsem několikanásobné přesile pracovnic ekonomického a projektového oddělení a vzbudila se s pocitem životního selhání. Parts of the story may or may not be true.