Michael Manangu

But what does "be held accountable" mean, exactly? We'll know once the actual post-arrest polling comes in.

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The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project

Sunday reading: The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism

I wrote about how to situate the radicalism that defines today’s Right in the history of Modern Conservatism - and why Trumpism came to dominate rightwing politics and identity so easily.

This week’s piece:

The death of Mother Teresa

sent texts saying korea is under martial law and then a second one saying ok it ended

me in the family group chat

We’ve had fake names used in contexts of fraud and embezzlement in Philippine politics before: Jane Ryan, Jose Velarde, Jose Pidal. But oh boy, did they screw up with ‘Mary Grace Piattos’ because that is absolutely cartoon villain territory.

“Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people. Only a democracy that works for the people is sustainable.”

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état Police accuse 37 people of crimes including conspiracy and trying to tear down one of world’s largest democracies

Meanwhile, in a country not the U.S…

Thaksin Attacks the People’s Party One of the biggest open questions in Thai politics is 1) what the “grand compromise” between the Thaksinites and the conservatives entailed, and 2) whether or not there is a possibility…

A bit of a belated analysis, but here's some thoughts on Thaksin Shinawatra's attacks on the People's Party. #Thailand kenlmathis.com/2024/11/20/t...

The lack of private lists on this app is severely limiting its usefulness to me rn 🤔

Who has precedence over children’s education? Parents or the state?

And what should they be taught?

That question matters to authoritarians, conservatives & liberals.

It has shaped the history of primary education.

My podcast with @aspaglayan.bsky.social 🚌✏️

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After 14 years, Mary Jane Veloso is heading home.

Ok I just needed a moment to marvel at the sheer absurdity of CDO trying to sell me Christmas ham on *Linkedin* 💀

A dark day for democracy in Hong Kong today

I fear that nothing can ever quite replace the old bird app at its peak, but we've gotta start somewhere, don't we?

Still looking for Southeast Asia watchers to add to my SEA Starter Pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Another reason to deactivate X, especially if you care about having your words and ideas plagiarized

The latest infuriating thing about this to come to mind: How well did this excuse work for Aaron Swartz and Sci-Hub when they did it for free? How well has it been working for the Internet Archive so far? Why are we only supposed to consider it acceptable when someone’s profiting?

New (and Open Access!) article in Perspectives on Politics: “A Case for Description”

from Michelle Jurkovitch, Mary Anne Mendoza-Davé, @mkguliford.bsky.social and me!

With a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our workshops, as well!

Shopping around for dogs to adopt and sa sobrang lala ng class-coding around dog breeders, you wonder what you're really paying for

The less jeje the page, the more expensive the dogs

I'm trying out a bunch of text-to-speech apps for academic papers to help my goldfish brain out and the high price points are particularly frustrating as a grad student in the Global South 💸💸💸

Its sort of crazy that a member of Congress who is neither Jewish nor a citizen of Israel, and has never served in the Israeli army has been going around pretending to be an Israeli soldier.
He spent a month volunteering with the IDF packing medical supplies. Thats it.

😂

Musk clearly doesn't understand how the EU - as a regulator much less a political entity - works

It's for him to demonstrate compliance with the DSA. Not the other way around

Day 41: Every new estrangement provides even more motivation to make this period of temporary and intentional unemployment as rehabilitative as possible.

Putting together a new cardio routine to replace my bike commute probably should have come sooner, but we're finally getting to it.

New Halloween costume this year.

Eight years and three administrations (Aquino/Luistro, R Duterte/Briones, Marcos Jr/S Duterte) later, I finally decided to commence my transition towards the career I've always wanted - that of a full-time scholar (and hopefully teacher) of political science.

I'm so excited to see where this goes!

As part of DepEd's Policy Research and Development Division, I helped formulate policies and procedures to promote evidence-based decision making and foster a culture of research across the entire basic education system.

And we did this all from scratch - something I'm quite proud of.

...the feedback loops between public policy and patterns of political participation, comparative education and social welfare, and Southeast Asia . As of Sept 2023, I am currently studying full-time. But before that, I worked in the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) for 8 years.

A little introduction since this is going to be the first piece of content I'm putting on here:

Hi, I'm Michael Manangu (he/him/siya/dia), and I'm currently a political science MA student at the University of the Philippines Diliman. My concentration is in comparative politics, focusing on...