Joel Cantó Roche

How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Thawed the Chill Between My Father and Me

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/s...

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Far-right authoritarian tactics to socially marginalize, intimidate, and disenfranchise a group. The oppression of one group signals to others you could be next. This goes far beyond bigotry. The authoritarian playbook enabled and empowered by anti-trans and anti-woke actors.

Easily one of the top charts of all time

today I learned that the left and the right are equally responsible for "carceral sanism" which is definitely what creates the conditions of bare life in which people are experiencing mental health crisis in a subway car

Absolutely deranged folks.

From our November Issue: Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members by MARCEL F. ROMAN and JACK THOMPSON www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

L’economia russa entra a la “zona de la mort” Quan la guerra de Rússia contra Ucraïna entra en el cinquè any, l’economia que la sosté s’ha transformat de tal manera que serà difícil, potser impossible, revertir-la sense una altra crisi. Els occid...

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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

El PP arremete contra el feminismo que defiende el burka después de que Guardiola se alinee con Vox La presidenta de la Junta de Extremadura y candidata del PP se deshace en elogios con el partido de Abascal para evitar el bloqueo

The Spanish Conservative Party in Extremadura just aligned itself with the gender theses of the radical right, while presenting Catalan independentists across the political spectrum as far-right and an "humiliation" for the rest of Spaniards. Political enemy doctrine and backlash against progress.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told. Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.

“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”

Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms Journalists are regularly accused of being strongly left leaning, which critics claim leads to biased reporting. Previous research suggests this assumption may be over-simplistic, but direct empiri...

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB)
@cpoliticaub.bsky.social

🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️

👏🏻 Well deserved!

Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social

Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?

We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out

doi.org/10.1086/740816

Screenshot of a news headline from CBC: Sask. man fights off starving moose with fists, shovel and bullets to save his mother

CAN-A-DA CAN-A-DA

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My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press).

Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

(summary of core arguments in thread below)
@lseir.bsky.social

New definition of sovereignty dropped

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL | Elecciones presidenciales - 2ª vuelta (81,4 % de freguesías escrutadas)

🟥 Seguro (PS) 64,3 %
⬛️ Ventura (Chega) 35,7 %

El socialista António José Seguro será el próximo presidente de la República de Portugal.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Firms deliberately operate from small cities & towns, where rents & labor costs are lower & a growing pool of 1st-gen grads are seeking jobs. Improvements in internet connectivity made it possible to plug these locations directly into global AI supply chains, w/o relocating workers to cities."

To the Marxist imperative “always historicize” the neoliberal imperative can perhaps be understood as “always anthropologize,” always understand the differences that exist within society to be a difference between humans as humans, to be an expression of human nature.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches X office, Musk summoned Prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April related to a widening investigation into the X social media platform.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches X office, Musk summoned - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social !

It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment

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The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran.

The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging

The federal Conservatives are overhauling their policy playbook. Here's what's changing | CBC News Delegates at the Conservative Party's national convention in Calgary voted overwhelmingly Saturday to enact a "stand your ground"-style law to allow someone to protect themselves with lethal force aga...

“A majority of delegates from Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and the territories” opposed the social conservative motion to repeal the ban on conversion therapy, causing it to be defeated.

At some point, the fact that *over* 1/3 of gaming workers were laid off last year, and the fact that over half a million tech workers have been laid off over the last 3 years, will have to be reckoned with as a society, instead of being swept under the rug anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.