Antal Wozniak

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How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.

RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

Maybe there isn't any room for a third economic-liberal, anti-immigration, culture war party in the German party landscape next to the CDU and AfD? How the FDP is sliding into irrelevance. It cannot come soon enough.

JKR is one of the vilest people currently alive.

Just wow! Tucker Carlson is a terrible person, but how Rafael Edward Cruz (I'm not referring to him by the name he chose for himself, since he denies that favour to other people) is fumbling this interview is a sight to behold.

Liverpool Hope University cuts 'devastating' for its reputation - BBC News Liverpool Hope University says it is planning cuts "to ensure financial and academic stability".

39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.

“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.

#StopTheCuts #UCU

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😂😂😂

Battling a Climate Change Backlash - Nieman Reports Jill Hopke's recommendations on how to improve reporting on extreme weather in an age of denialism and cutbacks

I've got an opinion article out in @niemanreports.org sharing tips for improving media reporting on climate change-fueled disasters. Shout out to my colleague @antalwozniak.bsky.social who co-authored heat wave coverage research with me. #climatechange #journalism

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Our tumble towards the apocalypse continues:

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The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.

'And this is perhaps Israel’s real horror: far from proving the “anachronism” that Deutscher described, it embodies the ethnonationalism of the future, beyond legal and moral restraints—a “portent,” as Mishra writes, “of a bankrupt and exhausted world.”'
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'Criminal gang headed by Netanyahu committing war crimes in Gaza': Israel former PM Ehud Olmert Ehud Olmert said Netanyahu was waging war "without goals, clear planning and with no chances of success”

“A criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is committing war crimes in Gaza and must be stopped,” says the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

Olmert added that Netanyahu is waging war “without goals, clear planning and with no chance of success.” 🇮🇱

I'm presenting a paper in the Sustainability and biodiversity session today at #PCST2025. "Anthropomorphising ecology: investigating social information bias with non-human characters". I'll be talking trees and graphs, if you like that kind of thing. 11:45 AM in Conference Suite 4.

The @nytimes.com being very amenable to accommodating and playing ball with the neo-fascists. No surprise there, sadly.

My critical academic response to this is: "Fuck!"

The ugly truth about Trump's "big, beautiful bill" On the campaign trail in 2024, Trump pledged to improve the economic conditions of the working class.

The average Republican in Congress is a millionaire, funded by billionaires.

25% of American households have a net worth less than $27k.

Just in case you were surprised that their budget attacks the working class to give more handouts to rich people like them.

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New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social:

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠

Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/

We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want.

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There are many reasons we're here in fascism, but one of the biggest is that nearly all members of the media have spent the last ten years not asking Donald Trump a follow-up question.

💯% agree. "Populism" gets used too often as a placeholder term when people don't know how to (or don't want to) call out awful things clearly and decisively.

Wow, fucking hell! 😦

The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.

Muddying the waters on climate change: conflicting positions articulated in Instagram posts about Greta Thunberg’s 2023 arrest Climate change is an existential threat. Despite facts that suggest otherwise, climate scepticism remains salient especially on social media. Online information and entertainment increasingly shape...

Very happy (and proud) to announce my PhD student's first peer-reviewed paper publication in Social Semiotics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well done, Rachel! 🥳 🤘

Wow, lawmakers wanting to abjudicate lawmakers' powers to make laws (so that big business can do whatever the fuck it wants). More and more I think we need to perceive the U.S. (at least on the federal level) as a failing state.

UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements

Ah yes, the good old Democrat party strategy of undermining the racist party's platform by implementing their racist policies for them, forcing them to spend time coming up with new even more racist policies. A strategy famous for winning absolutely not one single election in the history of ever.

Under Starmer, Labour has become cruel and vile.

Keir Starmer’s immigration plans: research shows you don’t beat the far right by becoming them In a speech to launch his tough new immigration plans, the prime minister parroted the right’s rhetoric.

Some thoughts on Starmer's speech and Labour's normalisation of far-right politics in @theconversation.com

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Labour has chosen nativism over growth.

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