Gabor Scheiring

The Medical Consequences of Starvation The effects can persist long after people regain access to food, experts say.

In this TIME magazine piece about the potential consequences of famine in #Gaza, SHP's Ruth Gibson notes effects of starvation can persist long after people regain access to food.

“What we can’t see is the generational and intergenerational impacts."

So here's what @gscheiring.bsky.social told me. "Most of Orban's tactical weapons to take over the media resemble the moves that led to Colbert's cancellation," he said:

The Paramount-Skydance saga "reeks of Orbanism."

That's the assessment of @gscheiring.bsky.social, who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament. 🧵

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It was an honor and a pleasure to discuss #authoritarian threats to #democracy with Steve Levitsky at the @kettering.org Democracy Conference this Monday in D.C. I'm grateful to the Kettering Foundation for making this global conversation possible. International #solidarity is the only way to go.

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Glad to share my latest piece on the autocratic threat and why a lasting solution requires rethinking what democracy is. Democracy thrives when it includes. Out now on the Kettering Foundation blog, Resilience & Resistance.

#Democracy #populism #illiberalism #polisky

kettering.org/why-democrac...

Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-....

Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇

When the #ultra-rich and #corporations have huge sway in government decisions and are able to operate without accountability, #democracy deteriorates. In this power punch essay, @kettering.org Democracy Fellow Koketso Moeti explores the implications for South Africa.
👉 kettering.org/the-age-of-t...

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Questions aside, for now, Mamdani has won not just against Cuomo, but against the pervasive sense of hopelessness that has gripped progressives. There is a model. There is potential. Even when all the odds are stacked against you. 7/7

Lots of questions remain open. Will the establishment media ramp up its campaign against Mamdani, like with Corbyn? Or will they give him a chance? Will he get lost in fringe issues and in-fighting, like Podemos, or manage to stay focused? Can progressives scale this model to the national level? 6/7

He had an electoral strategy: a multi-racial middle- & working-class coalition with support across the city, including Manhattan's Financial District and Sheepshead Bay, one of NYC’s most conservative areas, home to many descendants of Soviet immigrants. Is this finally the end of postsocialism? 5/7

You can make affordability a central issue without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants. Mamdani had an organizational model: social embeddedness instead of an alienated corporate spin factory. 4/7

But he had a vision. A vision that resonated with the majority of New Yorkers: affordability and inclusion instead of symbolic identity politics paired with a rightward turn on migration. He had values: moral clarity over corruption and surrender to the right. 3/7

In beating Cuomo, Mamdani also beat the corporate center. He was an underdog in every way. The center closed in on him, from The New York Times to Bill Clinton. He was outspent by a landslide, portrayed as a dangerous Muslim, and attacked for not climbing the gatekept career ladder. 2/7

The democratic socialist @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has beaten Cuomo and is now the Democrats’ nominee for Mayor of NYC, de facto Mayor-Elect. Democrats and liberals serious about defeating illiberalism better pay attention. There is a model for organizing the majority and saving democracy. 1/7

The EU's pathetic response to Trump's Iran attack Europe jettisoned its principles to suck up to a president that doesn't even know they exist

"Europe’s leaders have internalized their own subordination. They betray international law not for tangible gains, but out of reflexive obedience, a habit that weakens Europe’s global standing while emboldening Washington’s and Jerusalem’s worst impulses." responsiblestatecraft.org/us-strikes-i...

Defending civil servants and their ability to work for the American people - Protect Democracy Fighting to Defend the Law that Protects the Rights of Federal Workers and Their Ability to Provide Critical Goods and Services to the American People

BREAKING: 100+ orgs have signed onto a coalition comment that we drafted alongside @democracyforward.org‬ against the Schedule P/C reclassification that would strip protections for at least 50k federal workers. Read the coalition comment here: protdem.org/3FOlsWz Learn more here: protdem.org/3HH84Ee

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

Polish conservative opposition candidate wins presidential vote, electoral commission says Karol Nawrocki campaigned on a promise to ensure policies favour Poles over other nationalities.

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llliberalism is back in Poland, retaining control over the presidency. This means trouble for the re-democratization of Poland & the global fight for democracy. We must fundamentally rethink what democracy means to beat illiberalism. We need a transformative, people-centered vision. Link in comment.

I was happy to contribute to this deep dive into how Orban's attack on higher education has inspired Trump's politics toward universities. Brought to you by @joshuacoe.bsky.social @theworld.org, a public radio program and podcast based in Boston.

👉 Read and listen: theworld.org/stories/2025...

Trump’s tariffs are failing, but the old model won’t save us either Trade wars won’t save workers. A new economic order can.

In my new article I argue that Trump’s economic policies are unlikely to work but returning to economic liberalism won't resolve socioeconomic grievances either. Past efforts to maintain this flawed system at any cost backfired. We need a new global economic order.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I’ve been writing about the politics and impact of Donald Trump on the US and world, with special attention to Europe and the University of Michigan, and most of it is free to read. This thread, in order, brings it all together. I hope it’s useful as a resource on the different issues.

My op-ed on the politics of trade war
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social:

The challenge is clear: not only to critique Trump’s #illiberal policies but to present a bold, coherent vision of industrial renewal, ecological #sustainability, and #GlobalJustice.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

This is a must read @nytimes.com: In Romania, like elsewhere, behind the far right’s rise is economic insecurity. Yet far-right populists don't offer a truly different economic model, as they share an allegiance to the business class, just different parts of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

A good analysis of the state of US economic hegemony in @nytimes.com. The US is repeating the hegemonic decline seen earlier in The Netherlands and England, becoming a society of rentier investors on the lookout for an easy privileged life instead of producing things. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/m...

I spoke with @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social about the legacy of the end of WWII, the crisis of #democracy and the rise of the radical #right in Europe, on the occasion of Victory Day, commemorated on May 8th or 9th depending on where you are.

Watch the short report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kTK...