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Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends. No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened. An entire society now a graveyard.

This is the very definition of indiscriminate warfare. The Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, utterly destroyed. A clear violation of humanitarian law.

President Zelensky’s team confirms to me that Elon Musk was on the call with Trump and the Ukrainian president and participated in the discussion.

Bill Maher: "The only reason we're sitting here so peacefully now is because the one party that still believes in conceding elections lost. If the other guy had one, it would be a shitshow now."

Apocalyptic scenes in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa this morning after a massive Russian drone attack. High-rise buildings, private houses, administrative buildings, warehouses and cars were damaged, the city council reports.

The people of Odesa waking today to devastation after Russians sent drones equipped with thermobaric warheads onto apartment buildings all over the city. Russia no longer seems to have interest in military targets, pure attempts to terrorize the civilian population.

This is what should be the final sign of an utterly failed policy. The Russians are attacking civilians throughout Ukraine with weapons armed with thermobaric warheads, whose only purpose is to kill and terrorise. And yet Ukraine can’t strike military targets in Russia.

So, JD Vance is saying US support for NATO and the US' commitment to European security depends on the EU's regulatory posture towards Elon Musk.. ? US/EU relations about to enter a very new world independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

.LarryDiamond considers how Trump’s decisive victory could challenge American democracy—and, by extension, threaten democracies across the world: foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Please read this, process it, think about it before you write your hot takes about how the Democrats lost this election...

Once China’s ‘Worst Nightmare,’ Labor Activist Refuses to Back Down nytimes.com/2024/11/10/wor…

"Still, it wasn’t the Democratic party that nominated Trump three times. It wasn’t Democrats who shied away from the fight against Trump. It’s the Republican party that has deeply, catastrophically, perhaps decisively failed America this past decade." thebulwark.com/p/stop-handwri…

I underestimated the straightforward material reading of the election. Labor mkt/real wage change suggests it's about organization, media, campaigns (vibes). But Stephen Semler, Adam Tooze convinced me. Insecurity/dissatisfaction surged at expiration of COVID benefits.

Here's my latest piece for Haaretz.com on the 'Jewish vote' in the U.S. presidential election, which is remarkably consistent: haaretz.com/us-news/2024-1…

📢The Chair of Comparative Political Science (Prof. Dr. Nicole Bolleyer) Universität München is currently seeking a postdoctoral researcher. The post should be filled no later than April 1, 2025. The position is part of the ERC-funded project CIVILSPACE (cps-lmu.org/civilspace.html).

"Decomposing nostalgic deprivation into different dimensions, we find that while social, economic and power deprivation have different antecedents, each predicts populist attitudes and voting behaviour."

#TBT #BookReview 💬'Featuring a plethora of seminal authors in comparative political economy...’ 📖Simonas Algirdas Spurga reviews ‘Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies' Ed. by Anke Hassel & Bruno Palier (Oxford Academic, 2021) 👉 bit.ly/4dDJYow

📢📢Nice to see this article by Marianne Kneuer and I published in the Journal of Political Ideologies! (50 free online copies in the link below) In the paper, we renew our effort to distinguish sovereignism from populism and nationalism. ⬇️ tandfonline.com/eprint/ASY4WM7…

Zelensky: We agreed with the previous US administration to transfer 20,000 missiles to Ukraine to fight Shaheds. It was an inexpensive and special technology. We were counting on them. But the US now decided to transfer these missiles to the Middle East.

'We urgently need positive signals from the United States regarding air defence systems — we are still waiting for a response to our request to purchase systems that can help.'