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Sweden faces critical election on Sunday

Sweden is set to hold an election on Sunday that will be pivotal in shaping the cou…
#Sweden #Sverige #SE #Europe #Europa #EU #ECR #farright #generalelection #GustavGellerbrant #interference #JimmieÅkesson #LEADERSHIP #MagdalenaAndersson #ModerateParty #NATO #NicholasAylott #nyheter #populism #Right-wingextremism #Russia #SocialDemocrats #sweden #swedendemocrats #Ukraine #ulfkristersson #white-supremacism #ZethIsaksson
https://www.europesays.com/3246221/

Sweden faces critical election on Sunday https://www.byteseu.com/2357839/ #ECR #FarRight #GeneralElection #GustavGellerbrant #interference #JimmieÅkesson #leadership #MagdalenaAndersson #ModerateParty #NATO #NicholasAylott #populism #RightWingExtremism #Russia #SocialDemocrats #Sweden #SwedenDemocrats #Ukraine #UlfKristersson #WhiteSupremacism #ZethIsaksson

»CDC vs. Pennsylvania: Why conflicting public health messages jeopardize public safety« https://theconversation.com/cdc-vs-pennsylvania-why-conflicting-public-health-messages-jeopardize-public-safety-291239?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»CDC vs. Pennsylvania: Why conflicting public health messages jeopardize public safety« https://theconversation.com/cdc-vs-pennsylvania-why-conflicting-public-health-messages-jeopardize-public-safety-291239?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»CDC vs. Pennsylvania: Why conflicting public health messages jeopardize public safety« https://theconversation.com/cdc-vs-pennsylvania-why-conflicting-public-health-messages-jeopardize-public-safety-291239?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Populists claim to speak for ‘the people’ – but who are they actually talking about?« https://theconversation.com/populists-claim-to-speak-for-the-people-but-who-are-they-actually-talking-about-290641?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Populists claim to speak for ‘the people’ – but who are they actually talking about?« https://theconversation.com/populists-claim-to-speak-for-the-people-but-who-are-they-actually-talking-about-290641?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Populists claim to speak for ‘the people’ – but who are they actually talking about?« https://theconversation.com/populists-claim-to-speak-for-the-people-but-who-are-they-actually-talking-about-290641?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

https://www.europesays.com/ee/273291/ ERAKONDADE VOX POPULI Jaak Madison: AfD venemeelsus on probleem, aga see probleem ei alanud AfDst – arvamus.postimees.ee #afd #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Estonia #Estonian #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #kliimapoliitika #LatestNews #LatestNews #Maailm #News #paremäärmuslus #PopulaarseimadLood #populism #Saksamaa #SaksiAnhaltiLiidumaa #sisseränne #TopStories #TopStories #ÜldisedUudised #Uudised #ViimasedUudised #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/ee/273269/ Rändevastane partei võib parembloki võidu korral pääseda Rootsi valitsusse | Välismaa #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Estonia #Estonian #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #LatestNews #LatestNews #Maailm #News #parempoolsed #PopulaarseimadLood #populism #Rootsi #TopStories #TopStories #ÜldisedUudised #Uudised #vasakpoolsed #ViimasedUudised #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

»Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive« https://theconversation.com/americans-agree-their-democracy-is-in-crisis-yet-the-solution-is-as-simple-as-it-is-elusive-286541?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive« https://theconversation.com/americans-agree-their-democracy-is-in-crisis-yet-the-solution-is-as-simple-as-it-is-elusive-286541?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive« https://theconversation.com/americans-agree-their-democracy-is-in-crisis-yet-the-solution-is-as-simple-as-it-is-elusive-286541?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

Kaikille tiededenialismia episteemisen populismin muotona miettiville iloinen uutinen, että Christobal Bellolion tuore SERRC-artikkeli tarjoaa Alexandre Billonin SE-artikkelia ruotiessaan ravitsevaa ajankulua useammaksikin toviksi,

https://social-epistemology.com/2026/08/18/assessing-scientific-denialism-as-epistemic-populism-cristobal-bellolio/

Kirjoittaja johtaa Chilessä tutkimusprojektia ilmastokriisin poliittisista haasteista.

#serrc #tiede #science #denialism #populism #society #epistemology #criticalThinking #standpoint #tieto #knowledge #conspiracy #valistus #enlightenment #understanding #wisdom #climate #research #tutkimus

Cut Social Security? No—Tax the Rich: Ruhle Segment Exposes the Real Debt Problem

Stephanie Ruhle’s economic discussion reveals the choice Washington hides: cut Social Security and Medicare—or demand more from those who benefited most from tax cuts.

Cut Social Security? No—Tax the Rich: Ruhle Segment Exposes the Real Debt Problem

Stephanie Ruhle’s economic discussion reveals the choice Washington hides: cut Social Security and Medicare—or demand more from those who benefited most from tax cuts.

Cut Social Security? No—Tax the Rich: Ruhle Segment Exposes the Real Debt Problem

Stephanie Ruhle’s economic discussion reveals the choice Washington hides: cut Social Security and Medicare—or demand more from those who benefited most from tax cuts.

Cut Social Security? No—Tax the Rich: Ruhle Segment Exposes the Real Debt Problem

Stephanie Ruhle’s economic discussion reveals the choice Washington hides: cut Social Security and Medicare—or demand more from those who benefited most from tax cuts.

Eddie Glaude and John Kasich Expose Why DSA’s Working-Class Message Is Winning

John Kasich explains why DSA candidates are winning: affordability, energetic volunteers and bold ideas. Eddie Glaude shows why tired socialist scare tactics increasingly fail.

Eddie Glaude and John Kasich Expose Why DSA’s Working-Class Message Is Winning

John Kasich explains why DSA candidates are winning: affordability, energetic volunteers and bold ideas. Eddie Glaude shows why tired socialist scare tactics increasingly fail.

Eddie Glaude and John Kasich Expose Why DSA’s Working-Class Message Is Winning

John Kasich explains why DSA candidates are winning: affordability, energetic volunteers and bold ideas. Eddie Glaude shows why tired socialist scare tactics increasingly fail.

Eddie Glaude and John Kasich Expose Why DSA’s Working-Class Message Is Winning

John Kasich explains why DSA candidates are winning: affordability, energetic volunteers and bold ideas. Eddie Glaude shows why tired socialist scare tactics increasingly fail.

»Nearly a #quarter of voters in #Europe now back #farrightparties.« https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/nearly-quarter-votes-europe-now-cast-far-right-parties?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

1. The sociotechnical transformation of AI. It’s not simply that the technology is improving, it’s that the space for reflexivity is diminishing because the burden of articulation in chatbots is going down, inline automation tools are being built into everything and wearable AI blurs the boundary between human and technology.
2. The political economy of the bubble. Either the investment bubble will burst, ranging from a ‘correction’ through to a systemic crisis, or the big AI labs will go to IPO. In either case there will be a new attention on business fundamentals and likely many firms getting destroyed in the process. It means that current offers aren’t stable (particularly from smaller startups) and that current pricing models will without a doubt change significantly.
3. The political economy of higher education. In the UK context there’s a financial crisis in the sector which is going to get progressively worse. If we’re moving towards a post-pandemic economy defined by ecological and economic volatility globally then higher education will be under structural attack. It will be very difficult to reopen funding settlements while degree-based models contingent on the expectation of economic advantage will rapidly struggle if degrees no longer offer any advantage

What do I think follows from these for what universities do under present conditions?

• We can’t lock in reliably until the post-crash/IPO pricing models are much clearer than they are now. Otherwise we’re embedding products for we can reasonably expect the prices to be ratcheted up a few years down the line.
• The prospect for securing the existing assessment system is extremely limited in the medium term and the long term. It’s not going to be possible to separate out technological practice from non-technological practice in the manner which assessment security presupposes. This means that we urgently need to begin working towards assessment reform.
• The manner in which we respond to the first two challenges will be shaped by the financial and political pressures the sector is under. A dash for productivity through automation risks locking in unreliable system and incurring much greater costs later, as well as further undermining assessment integrity in a way which accelerates the declining (perceived) value of our degrees. A failure to address assessment integrity (and to be seen to do so) furthermore hands ammunition to critics of the sector for whom ‘ChatGPT degrees’ will figure alongside ‘woke degrees’ as economc criticism fuses with culture war criticism.

Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.

* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction

"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."

World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation

* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one.

"Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."

"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

The government must be the trustee for the little man because no one else will be. The powerful can usually help themselves — and frequently do.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1955-10-29), “The Crisis in Agriculture,” Democratic Rally, Duluth, Minnesota

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #commonman #commonpeople #generalwelfare #government #hoipolloi #littleguy #littlepeople #power #powerful #publicpolicy #selfaggrandizement #trustee #populism

»How did #ZohranMamdani use #digitalmedia to win the #NYC #elections?« https://www.diggitmagazine.com/how-did-zohran-mamdani-use-digital-media-win-nyc-elections?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

🤦🏻‍♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections/

#politics #europe #denmark #populism #centrism

»Will #Europe’s #populists dump #Trump? Blind support is a #voteloser.« https://unherd.com/2026/03/will-european-populists-dump-trump/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»The man who wants to kick off the fight against #rightwingpopulism: Slovenia’s Prime Minister #RobertGolob tells Politico that his #rightwing election rival #JanezJanša wants to break up the #EuropeanUnion.« https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-fightback-right-wing-populism-slovenia-hungary-election/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

Sunday, January 18, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/sunday-january-18-2026/

@Jorsh

#Jingoism #MAGA #christiannationalism #Fascism #Populism #cultism

Hypocrisy, a lack of seriousness, and, most of all, corruption seems to be kryptonite for libertarian populism. Any would-be revolutionaries in the US (myself included), take note!

#news #politics #Argentina #libertarianism #libertarian #populism #electoralpolitics #thoughts

https://reason.com/2025/10/18/javier-mileis-libertarian-experiment-is-in-jeopardy-argentinas-midterm-elections-will-determine-its-fate/

I recently read a couple of Elmore Leonard crime novels -- "Riding the Rap" and "Out of Sight".

I don't read that much contemporary fiction, nor do I have a deep background in crime fiction as a genre, so you'll have to make do with the remarks of a relatively ill informed reader.

I can see why Leonard is a both popular and respected writer. He knows how to structure a gripping narrative, and his dialogue rings true.

On a more critical note, I can imagine these two novels providing future students of US culture with material for a study of the anxieties and aspirations of middle class white men in an America seemingly riven with disorder.

In "Riding the Rap", Leonard's background as a writer of westerns comes across; the US marshal protagonist brings order to a lawless frontier by acting on his own initiative rather than a mere agent of a federal bureaucracy. Here though, the frontier is no longer in the west, but in Florida, and the threatening nonwhite others are no longer American Indians but a Puerto Rican hitman and a Black Bahamian immigrant who, as part of his assimilation to Black America, adopted an Islamic name.

Leonard's depiction of racial attitudes intersects with his representation of socioeconomic class distinctions. The two nonwhite criminals act for a while as henchmen to a drink and drug addled wealthy white playboy, whose kidnapping plan drives the plot forward. His exploitation of his senile mother's wealth and the revelation of her ugly racist attitudes point to the class and status tensions that exist between a decadent white upper class and the Appalachian coalmining heritage of the US marshal protagonist.

These racial and white populist themes recur in "Out of Sight", where middle aged, middle class, white bank robbers are contrasted with African American home invaders, the latter being characterized by their cruelty, treachery, idleness, lust, and greed.

In both novels the middle aged male protagonist beds a much younger female character; some readers might find these glimpses of the fantasy life of ageing men unintentionally ludicrous.

I think I'll reserve final judgment on Leonard until I've read another of his books. "Swag" is supposed to be good, but neither my local second bookstore nor my libraries have it available at the moment, and I don't want to pay full price for it.

#Books #ElmoreLeonard #USLiterature #CrimeFiction #RidingTheRap #OutOfSight #Race #Racism #Populism #USCulture

"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg

#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power

"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg

#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power

"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg

#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power

"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg

#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power

"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg

#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power

The surge of ai and its ignorance of taste, making things better by adding more, and so on, is correlating with the average lack of consideration for #creation, #art and #artists and global #antiintellectualism ; highlighting global reluctance to partake into any activity requiring to think by oneself. #literacy #criticalthinking #CriticalLiteracy #literacyMatters #ai #artificialintelligence #medialiteracy #populism #facism

The surge of ai and its ignorance of taste, making things better by adding more, and so on, is correlating with the average lack of consideration for #creation, #art and #artists and global #antiintellectualism ; highlighting global reluctance to partake into any activity requiring to think by oneself. #literacy #criticalthinking #CriticalLiteracy #literacyMatters #ai #artificialintelligence #medialiteracy #populism #facism

The surge of ai and its ignorance of taste, making things better by adding more, and so on, is correlating with the average lack of consideration for #creation, #art and #artists and global #antiintellectualism ; highlighting global reluctance to partake into any activity requiring to think by oneself. #literacy #criticalthinking #CriticalLiteracy #literacyMatters #ai #artificialintelligence #medialiteracy #populism #facism

The surge of ai and its ignorance of taste, making things better by adding more, and so on, is correlating with the average lack of consideration for #creation, #art and #artists and global #antiintellectualism ; highlighting global reluctance to partake into any activity requiring to think by oneself. #literacy #criticalthinking #CriticalLiteracy #literacyMatters #ai #artificialintelligence #medialiteracy #populism #facism

The surge of ai and its ignorance of taste, making things better by adding more, and so on, is correlating with the average lack of consideration for #creation, #art and #artists and global #antiintellectualism ; highlighting global reluctance to partake into any activity requiring to think by oneself. #literacy #criticalthinking #CriticalLiteracy #literacyMatters #ai #artificialintelligence #medialiteracy #populism #facism

Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society

How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:

"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."

"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."

"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
>>
Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/the-challenge-of-loss/
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability

It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/super-rich-pollution-earth-climate-crisis

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDeaths #Populism

I don't get how #Finland can ignore that key positions in the cabinet are held by explicit racists and sexists - and how little backlash is palpable from #Europe or the international community. Extreme right #populism is being normalized in a big way as we speak... #Purra #junnila #hallaaho #Rydman

2/2 So the rest of the bunch from #TheFinns party, how are they?

Well, most of them talk in public about #TheGreatReplacement #ConspiracyTheory as it'd be a fact.

Vilhelm #Junnila, the new Minister of Economic Affairs, has been in the events of the #FarRight as a keynote speaker, and praised election candidates with election number 88 and so on.

Sakari #Puisto is the only one who actually can argumentation, and can speak without #populism.

#HallaAho #persut #politiikka #politics #FinPol

#overseas_aid #sunak #johnson #tories #economics #realpolitik #populism #pandering #poverty #uk #global

Toot Redux (first published 26th November 2020)

Why now again? Do the homework!

#overseas_aid #sunak #johnson #tories #economics #realpolitik #populism #pandering #poverty #uk #global

Toot Redux (first published 26th November 2020)

Why now? Do the homework!