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PhD Political Science | Postdoc CES U.Coimbra | populism, comparative politics, far-right

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Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO | The United Nations Office at Geneva

"The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law."

03.03.2026 12:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

03.03.2026 01:54 — 👍 12750    🔁 6354    💬 1298    📌 4135
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Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO | The United Nations Office at Geneva

"The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law."

03.03.2026 12:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

gotta say, really kind of embarrassing to see one of the "pre-eminent fascism experts" on the TL manufacturing consent for the Iran strikes ex post facto 😭😭😭 truly a Rube Goldberg machine of justifying logic 🫠🫠🫠

01.03.2026 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school.

It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by...

01.03.2026 06:15 — 👍 187    🔁 138    💬 5    📌 20
🚨 18 people, mostly children, have been killed in Lamerd, in Iran’s southern Fars province, after US-Israeli missiles struck a sports hall and other residential sites, Fatemeh Amini, Lamerd’s top health official, told Iran’s state news agency IRNA. Roughly 100 people were wounded.

The governor of Lamerd said the “United States and the Zionist regime fired missiles at the sports hall while female students were playing inside.”

The Associated Press reported the strikes hit four locations, including the sports hall, two residential areas and a hall near a school, with officials warning the toll could rise.

🚨 18 people, mostly children, have been killed in Lamerd, in Iran’s southern Fars province, after US-Israeli missiles struck a sports hall and other residential sites, Fatemeh Amini, Lamerd’s top health official, told Iran’s state news agency IRNA. Roughly 100 people were wounded. The governor of Lamerd said the “United States and the Zionist regime fired missiles at the sports hall while female students were playing inside.” The Associated Press reported the strikes hit four locations, including the sports hall, two residential areas and a hall near a school, with officials warning the toll could rise.

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🚨 18 people, mostly children, have been killed in Lamerd, in Iran’s southern Fars province, after US-Israeli missiles struck a sports hall & other residential sites, Fatemeh Amini, Lamerd’s top health official, told Iran’s state news agency IRNA. Roughly 100 people were wounded.

The governor of...

01.03.2026 06:24 — 👍 97    🔁 46    💬 2    📌 6
Stephen Miller claims Trump will "end and prevent war in the Middle East".

Stephen Miller claims Trump will "end and prevent war in the Middle East".

Woops ...

28.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Romanians Helped Conservative Brothers in Poland Win Elections - VSquare.org We go behind the scenes of the “MEGA” movement and reveal European Trumpists between Bucharest and Warsaw.

🤖📈 Romania’s pro-Russian far-right leader George Simion may have lost the presidency at home, but his slick online campaign machine boosted Karol Nawrocki in Poland — and is now fueling Law and Justice’s populist comeback bid.

28.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

They allowed this to happen

28.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Candace Owens is the only person in America still talking about Charlie Kirk, nobody else really cares including Erika Kirk

28.02.2026 05:33 — 👍 528    🔁 47    💬 15    📌 1

It's like taking a trip down memory lane

27.02.2026 04:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Top Dems Reportedly Working to Sabotage Bill to Stop Trump War With Iran | Common Dreams Rep. Ro Khanna said the Democrats trying to kill the bill were beholden to "powerful interests that are itching to have regime change in Iran."

Democratic leadership sabotaging the war powers resolution

27.02.2026 03:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Greece’s Varoufakis to stand trial after admitting drug use 36 years ago The former Greek finance minister said on a podcast he didn’t want to “do a Bill Clinton” and deny inhaling — but ended up being indicted.

If this is the real story, it is absolutely insane!

26.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 2
Ana Kasparian tweet: "Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it."

Ana Kasparian tweet: "Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it."

First off, yes this is real. And jokes about TYT aside, the case of Ana Kasparian illustrates perfectly how effective transphobia is at pipelining people into the broader far-right ecosystem. It might be the ultimate reactionary gateway drug.

26.02.2026 20:58 — 👍 98    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 2

On Kasparian and the overall shift on parts of the left going full antisemite:

I think what is missing here is that this is all part of a larger move by the far right to just build their numbers. People are only seeing it through the antisemitism lens, but it's also a shift to the far right.

26.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
Chris Rufo tweet. Context: Rufo is annoyed that Candace Owens is using conspiracy theories to attack Erika Kirk.

Chris Rufo tweet. Context: Rufo is annoyed that Candace Owens is using conspiracy theories to attack Erika Kirk.

What would anti-CRT campaigner Chris Rufo, friend of the NatCon-Orbán crowd and destroyer of "wokeness" at New College of Florida, be without slop, conspiracy, and algorithm-chasing?

Answer: completely irrelevant

26.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SCOTUS Live: US Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs The Supreme Court has issued its much-anticipated ruling on the legality of U.S. President Trump's tariffs.

Good news everyone! Dow soon to be above 50,000 again!

20.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imagine the discovery... The one reason they are not prosecuting people in the states is because of this and the prospect they will all turn on each other.

19.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ex-UK Prince Andrew arrested amid Epstein scandal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his title last year over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Oh wow, they actually arrested the bastard. Was not on my bingo card.

19.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Nature study: "The political effects of X’s feed algorithm"

Abstract: "Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

Nature study: "The political effects of X’s feed algorithm" Abstract: "Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

New experimental study publshed in Nature confirms what we all largely expected, that "X" was algorithmically redesigned to promote a right-wing ideological pipeline.

Full study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 39    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 2

Samizdat for morons

19.02.2026 11:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it possible for a single post on right-wing Twitter to not start with some form of "BREAKING!!!111!!!!"?

19.02.2026 01:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Nature study: "The political effects of X’s feed algorithm"

Abstract: "Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

Nature study: "The political effects of X’s feed algorithm" Abstract: "Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

New experimental study publshed in Nature confirms what we all largely expected, that "X" was algorithmically redesigned to promote a right-wing ideological pipeline.

Full study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 39    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 2
“The hot spots of resistance featured in our report are not spontaneous protests. They are coordinated assaults on our elected federal representatives’ authority to set immigration policy,” said Dale L. Wilcox, FAIR’s executive director and general counsel. “The Insurrection Act is a proven tool that empowers the President to deploy federal forces when states refuse to uphold the law. Hesitation only invites more chaos, loss of life, and emboldens anti-borders radicals to defy federal authority. President Trump must demonstrate resolve and use the Act to protect our sovereignty and restore the rule of law.”

“The hot spots of resistance featured in our report are not spontaneous protests. They are coordinated assaults on our elected federal representatives’ authority to set immigration policy,” said Dale L. Wilcox, FAIR’s executive director and general counsel. “The Insurrection Act is a proven tool that empowers the President to deploy federal forces when states refuse to uphold the law. Hesitation only invites more chaos, loss of life, and emboldens anti-borders radicals to defy federal authority. President Trump must demonstrate resolve and use the Act to protect our sovereignty and restore the rule of law.”

The Federation for American Immigration Reform, the oldest and most influential anti-immigrant group in DC, is calling for the Trump administration to use the Insurrection Act to go after protesters.

16.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 29    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 4

Another one to file in really-existing-liberalism is not a bulwark against the far right, it's an enabler

That Clinton post says it all really, but in case, I've spelt it out here too
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

16.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 34    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
Reform and Greens undermining UK commitment to Nato, Cooper says

Reform and Greens undermining UK commitment to Nato, Cooper says

Horseshoe theorising is not only cynical, it is also incredibly dangerous as all it does is legitimise the far right, while demonising any alternative left of centre

Sadly, it's the only trick the failed hegemony has in its bag and if that leads to the far right in power, it doesn't matter to them

15.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 131    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 1
Quentin D. dans les rangs du défilé néonazi du Comité du 9-Mai, le 10 mai 2025, à Paris.

Quentin D. dans les rangs du défilé néonazi du Comité du 9-Mai, le 10 mai 2025, à Paris.

Quentin D. dans les rangs du défilé néonazi du Comité du 9-Mai, le 10 mai 2025, à Paris.

Quentin D. dans les rangs du défilé néonazi du Comité du 9-Mai, le 10 mai 2025, à Paris.

Quentin D., le militant tué à Lyon, était présent au défilé néonazi du Comité du 9-Mai, le 10 mai 2025, à Paris, au côté du groupuscule de Bourgoin-Jallieu Allobroges. Le voici ici photographié, en pantalon beige (photos @pixel-archiv.bsky.social). www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

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Council of Europe urges conversion therapy ban as EU citizens exposed The EU loses up to €89 million in GDP every year due to discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to an OECD report. #EuropeInMotion

"Greek respondents claim to have been the most exposed to it in the EU, at 38%, while French, Italian, and Dutch respondents said they had the least exposure, all at 18%."

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