Michael Kranert

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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.

European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!

Me in @theguardian.com

These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.

Looking forward to this workshop! Join me, @kranertmichael.bsky.social , Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!

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#Goebbels über das Straßenbild in #Berlin 1941.
#Merz #Stadtbild

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

Linke wollen bei Bundesverfassungsgericht-Richter wählen & damit 2/3-Mehrheit sichern, obwohl die CDU nicht mit der Linken geredet hat.

Die Linke war es auch, die die Geschäftsordnung damals mit geändert hatte, damit Kanzlerwahl noch am gleichen Tag wiederholt werden konnte.

CDU, so unreif.

This is why we shouldn't laugh at Trump's announcement. Made up categories can have a violent effect, that is how political discourse works. They know what they are doing, these are the mechanisms totalitarian regimes are built on.

This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new
free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world

Ein Mann ist in Berlin in eine Menschenmenge mit Kindern gefahren, vier Verletzte. Vorgestern schon. Habt ihr nicht mitbekommen? Natürlich nicht, war ja auch ein Deutscher. Sonst hätten wir zwei Wochen lang panisch diskutiert und hätten Soldaten an die Grenze geschickt oder wasweißich.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.

The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.

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Warum die faschistische AfD niemals an die Macht kommen darf, erklärt in 5 Sekunden:

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Good summary of what awaits Britain under Reform.

The papers I vowed to read over the summer.

UN-Hitzebeauftragte: "Wir müssen die Autos in der Stadt loswerden" Eleni Myrivili kennt Hitzewellen aus ihrer Heimatstadt Athen nur zu gut. Angesichts zehntausender Hitzetoter allein in Europa fordert sie ein radikales Umdenken in Städten

ich hoffe, dass die Betonfetischisten in der Stadt Wien dieses Interview lesen. Das Auto hat in der Stadt nur wenig verloren, die Öffis sind bekanntlich gut und es gäbe genug Platz für Alternativen. Die Hitze schadet allen, egal, welcher Partei man angehört.

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Es ist mir ein Rätsel, warum es nicht mindestens e i n Gesprächsformat mit dem Fokus #internationale Politik gibt. Diese rein nationalen Diskurse sind völlig an unserer Wirklichkeit vorbei. Lasst doch wenigstens Sonntags #Miosga die Gegenwart in internationaler Perspektive verhandeln #ÖRR #getreal

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives?
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course

Friedrich Merz und seine Frau Charlotte im Cockpit seines privaten Fliegers.

„Wir leben seit Jahren über unsere Verhältnisse."

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

“The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy”

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Piece in an unknown publication written by Oliver Kornetzke on August 18th, 2025 that reads behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman the coward of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of Klansman the sexism of a back alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk,and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul. All spray-pained orange and paraded like a prize hog at the county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been— arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation knees before money, power and spite it doesn’t just lose its soul. It shits out this bloated, obscenity and calls it a leader

Absolutely perfect description. If only this had been his obituary.

London Sept 20th, a carnival will be held that you are all free to join which will celebrate the life of David Graeber.

It will be held in Camden at the Alexandra Estate.

To know what to expect here is a video from the carnival held a few years ago!

Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.

It's an *extremely* interesting piece. And devastating. And it's one that only someone saturated in the politics of the left could have written.

Vielleicht sollte uns gar nicht so sehr die AfD Sorgen machen, die radikalisiert nämlich vornehmlich den rechten Rand. Die bestimmenden Kräfte der CDU versuchen aber die breite Mitte zu radikalisieren, indem sie entsprechendes Personal in Schlüsselpositionen bringen. Das ist weitaus gefährlicher.

Meinungsfreiheit ist sehr wichtig, aber Seriosität im Journalismus ist es auch. Die taz unterwirft sich dem Pressekodex des @presseratde.bsky.social , der zum Beispiel Wahrhaftigkeit verlangt. Nius tut das nicht. Ob jemand Julia Klöckner den Unterschied erklären kann? bsky.app/profile/lars...