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Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

Moody’s strips US of top-notch triple-A credit rating Agency warns of strains caused by rising government debt and a widening budget deficit

Moody’s le quita la triple A a Estados Unidos. Cositas que pasan. www.ft.com/content/e456...

Against culture? Class analysis, strategic essentialism and methodological nationalism after Beverley Skeggs’ Formations of Class and Gender - Simone Varriale, 2025 Beverley Skeggs’ first book (Formations of Class and Gender [FoC&G]) has been central to the study of class and culture, pushing it towards a more sustained con...

I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status.

Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Me ha gustado mucho la charla que ha dado @javiercarbonell.bsky.social sobre hombres jóvenes, declive económico y antifeminismo para @masmadrid.org.

Varias cosas que me han llamado la atención:

Os dejo antes el hilo que hizo en su día:

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

In a second paper with @turnbulldugarte.com, we ask: Does working-class descriptive representation enhance perceptions of system legitimacy?

Using two survey experiments, we argue that (1) it does, quite a lot (2) this is for candidates and institutions (3) it is conditioned by class identity.

Review: Hayek's Bastards. The Neo-Liberal of the Populist Right, by Quinn Slobodan Branko Milanovic reviews Quinn Slobodan's most recent book.

"The reader is unsure if this is really a world of madmen or the world of smart people who pretend to be madmen to extract money"

@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.

Wait! The (alleged) “feminization” of society is a bad thing? 😳

80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.

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A chart with a series of horizontal bars showing that majorities of U.S. adults say taxes should be raised for large businesses and household income over $400K

63% of U.S. adults say tax rates on large businesses and corporations should be raised. A majority (58%) also support raising taxes on household income over $400,000. www.pewresearch.org/...

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.

Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better

“Simply put: I don’t know where this endless march of shortening the act of living leads us to. AI promises to free up time. But if what it spares us from is learning from our friends, writing, painting and exploring the world, then what, actually, are we meant to do with that time?”

Great to see @uoft.bsky.social Political Science amongst the top 15 departments worldwide for citations & impact of our scholarship - including in the top 5 for impact of recent publications! 💪🥳

Todas las fotos de los incidentes frente al Congreso: barras y militantes se enfrentan con la Policía durante la marcha por los jubilados Más de 100 detenidos

Retirees have been marching every Wednesday in Argentina to protest pension cuts; today they were joined by unions and soccer clubs (the clubs have neighborhood and social roles); one woman told me it was the most repression she has seen since 2001 www.clarin.com/fotogalerias...

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Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers.

Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback.

🔗 Read it here:

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La idea de que una expansión de gasto público en defensa requiere recortes sociales es falsa. Muchos estados europeos como Francia o el Reino Unido gastaban un 5%-8% de su PIB en defensa durante las décadas más duras de la Guerra Fría, a la vez que literalmente *creaban* el Estado de bienestar.

this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen

The top 20% of political science departments produced 75% of all tenure track research university faculty & the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5%
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The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

Merz conspicuously quotes Draghi’s 2012 “whatever it takes” (the moment in eurozone crisis when then ECB chief steadied market nerves by pledging to hold up the euro). A recognition of what is most at stake in present moment: Europe’s credibility.

🚨 Super excited to have @tzyang.bsky.social presenting his research this Thursday!

He and M. Tavits introduce Binary Gender ID strength (BGIS) as an explanation for anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice with cool experiments. 🏳️‍🌈

Don't miss it!

Una consecuencia casi inevitable de esto es que una defensa de la autonomía Europea, en tensión contra Rusia *y* Estados Unidos, debería ser una postura aceptable para la izquierda histórica. ¡Aunque sea como triangulación táctica!

Es alinearse con la mayoría de la Asamblea General de la ONU.

Now officially confirmed that the signing ceremony between Trump and Zelesnkyy has been cancelled following the explosive live televised argument in the Oval Office.

An extraordinary historical moment. Europeans needs to be clear-eyed about what they just witnessed.

BJPolS abstract discussing the political behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals, focusing on community strength and political attitudes. The paper uses data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey among other sources.

#OpenAccess -

The Group-Basis of Political Behaviour among Minoritized Communities: The Case of LGBTQ+ Linked Fate and Sexual and Gender Minorities - cup.org/437Euk4

- Nathan K. Chan & @gabrielemagni.bsky.social

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Die SPD verliert unter Arbeiter:innen noch deutlicher als in der Gesamtbevölkerung. Die AfD ist zum ersten Mal stärkste Kraft, stärker selbst als letztes Jahr bei der Europawahl.

Campaign picture for Die Linke - Queer. The statement is "Jeder Töle eine Höhle: Mietendeckel jetzt!" You can see a group of three people in front of spray painted shutter curtains. All are dressed in black leather, two people are crouching and wearing puppy masks. The third is standing and has the others leashed. He has a beard, wearing a leather cap and carrying a small dog on his arm.

One of their other campaigns: "a shelter for every puppy - rent control now"

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

Una vertiente más del esquema individualista-neoliberal: todo depende de ti, de tu fuerza, resistencia o ganas. Pura meritocracia

No importa dónde hayas nacido, tu entorno, si cooperas o compites, quiénes te oprimen o manipulan

Si fracasas y te deprimes es simplemente tu culpa. Haz F*king burpees

I just think of Adorno these days. Sadly.