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Linus Westheuser

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Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science・Class, morality, cleavage politics・🔗 linuswestheuser.com

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I’m sorry l, but I had been assured that The Modern State Is But A Committee For Managing The Affairs Of The Entire Bourgeoisie and I am seeing little evidence of this. Is there someone I could speak to?

06.03.2026 14:26 — 👍 135    🔁 23    💬 9    📌 1

Not the main point, but also: what an image...

06.03.2026 12:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

«Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology ‹shortens the kill chain› – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch.»

06.03.2026 10:34 — 👍 29    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 9
Abbildung der Titelseite des nd Mikroskop mit der Überschrift »Nachhaltiges Hyperwachstum«

Abbildung der Titelseite des nd Mikroskop mit der Überschrift »Nachhaltiges Hyperwachstum«

In der aktuellen PROKLA 222 untersucht Franziska Cooiman, »wie Wagniskapital den technologischen Möglichkeitsraum strukturiert«. Im das nd gibt es den Artikel als gekürzten Abdruck. Für PROKLA-Abonnent*innen geht es hier zur Langfassung:
prokla.de/index.php/...

06.03.2026 11:15 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
05.03.2026 05:37 — 👍 39    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social

observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad...

04.03.2026 14:49 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 1

feels like what happens if the manosphere seized control of the Pentagon

04.03.2026 13:54 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1
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Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis: Weimer schließt Buchhandlungen nach Prüfung durch Verfassungsschutz aus Der Kulturstaatsminister kann Künstler, die sich um eine Förderung bewerben, vom Verfassungsschutz überprüfen lassen. Ein Erlass des Innenministeriums macht es möglich.

unfriendly reminder: Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz wurde jahrelang von einem Aktivisten der extremen Rechte geführt. Nun nutzen Wolfgang Weimer und anderen Kulturkämpfer:innen den "Verfassungsschutz", um Buchhandlungen zu diskreditieren und anzugreifen. 1/2
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...

04.03.2026 09:03 — 👍 221    🔁 67    💬 8    📌 3

If after reading @gelliottmorris.com's excellent piece on how most voters are non-ideologues you want to know how these non-ideologues still reason about politics in a halfway predictable way - we have a paper on that:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

03.03.2026 19:40 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Diese Plattform ist chronisch untergrindet

20.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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From our November Issue: What Is the Wrong of Capitalism? by Chiara Cordelli. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

03.03.2026 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
03.03.2026 18:57 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao)

The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution

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03.03.2026 16:57 — 👍 310    🔁 69    💬 8    📌 1
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New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"

—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

03.03.2026 17:29 — 👍 122    🔁 49    💬 4    📌 9

"Switzerland highly resilient to populism and polarization"

*cries bitterly in Swiss*

03.03.2026 14:38 — 👍 31    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

03.03.2026 13:00 — 👍 1040    🔁 301    💬 72    📌 141
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The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚

I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

03.03.2026 10:56 — 👍 62    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 2
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YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

03.03.2026 06:58 — 👍 377    🔁 93    💬 21    📌 99

Stop arguing, start describing

02.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Earlier today I read the phrase (about Proust in fact) ‘It came to an end but it wasn’t finished.’

02.03.2026 19:03 — 👍 42    🔁 13    💬 6    📌 0
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Markwayne Mullin: "It's up to the Iraqi people -- I'm sorry, the Iranian people -- to choose their next leader"

02.03.2026 14:56 — 👍 1965    🔁 421    💬 363    📌 192
Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".

Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Reference groups and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/46neAJZ

- Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck

#FirstView

02.03.2026 18:20 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

15.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 4183    🔁 1852    💬 129    📌 320
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The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.

Did these investments shift public opinion?

We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.

Thread 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

26.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 83    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 4

satisfy the needs of every living creature:

02.03.2026 15:45 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

02.03.2026 13:45 — 👍 4581    🔁 873    💬 63    📌 136
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Listen up liberal,

02.03.2026 08:30 — 👍 824    🔁 54    💬 19    📌 3
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Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future

1/2 - 30 March| 6:30pm|LSE
50 years after labour movements launched radical plans to democratise the economy & gain control of big business: what’s their legacy & the prospects for economic democracy today? On the anniversary of the “Meidner Plan” join us to discuss👇🏾
www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

14.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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#Berlin’s TV Tower during construction in 1968.

02.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 49    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0