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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻
@mathijsvdsande.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy. Research on protest, radical democracy and communalism. Member of @doorbraak.eu. Has a trombone and is not afraid to use it. Opinions my own (I am not my employer).
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In print!

Gaard Kets and Mathijs van de Sande (eds.), "Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire: From the Paris Commune to the Present."

(Hopefully a more democratically priced paperback will be available soon.)

more info: www.routledge.com/Communalism-...
My new article just dropped in European Journal for Social Theory. Engaging with Henri Lefebvre and contemporary queer/feminist theory, it seeks to theorize the revolutionary moment as a transgression between the exceptional and the quotidian.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Extra/Ordinary moments: Utopia, everyday life and the method of transduction - Mathijs van de Sande, 2026
From the Paris Commune of 1871 to the ‘assembly movements’ of the past decade: what these movements and uprisings had in common is their investment in changing ...
journals.sagepub.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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DigiD is van ons! Teken de petitie, want dan kunnen we de overname stoppen. De druk vanuit de samenleving werkt zeggen techexperts. We moeten dus druk blijven zetten. Help strijder Karin. Samen maken we van haar petitie een nog groter succes. Teken hier: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st... #trump
January 30, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Onze politieke realiteit meandert ergens tussen "het had waar kúnnen zijn" en "het had wel gekúnd".
January 30, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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NEW! My analysis about developments in #Kurdistan and #Syria - and #Turkey, for that matter.
Kurds in Syria Refuse to Relinquish Their Right to Self-Defence
fgeerdink.substack.com/p/kurds-in-s...
Kurds in Syria Refuse to Relinquish Their Right to Self-Defence
SDF General Commander Mazlum Abdi and Syrian Interim-President Ahmed Al-Sharaa.
fgeerdink.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Wisten jullie, hèh.... wisten jullie dus dat ene "Dick Schoof" technisch gezien nog steeds premier is van dit land?
January 28, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Vanavond in Nijmegen: Protest Lab #5 - met een filmvertoning van 'The Encampments' en nagesprek met o.a. journalist @fgeerdink.bsky.social. Er zijn nog kaartjes, dus kom mee kijken/discusussiëren!

www.lux-nijmegen.nl/programma/pr...
Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
This screening of The Encampments is part of Protest Lab and organized in collaboration with InScience Film Festival. After the documentary, there will be ...
www.lux-nijmegen.nl
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Vielleicht sollte ich das klarer formulieren: Das #biopsychosoziale Modell ist kein wissenschaftliches Modell. Es versäumt es nicht nur, die Konzepte richtig zu definieren, sondern unterscheidet auch nicht zwischen kausalen, korrelativen und falschen Korrelationsbeziehungen. 1/4
Ich stelle die fehlerhafte philosophische Logik dieser Psychologisierung, ihre unethischen Folgen dar und plädiere für eine postinfektiöse Ethik. 3/3
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Ich freue mich sehr, zwei aufgezeichnete Vorträge - nämlich von @buechnerronja.bsky.social und mir - über die Schäden der Psychologisierung von #LongCovid, #MECFS, #MCAS und #PAIS zu veröffentlichen. 1/3

t.co/oUB8P8zovZ
https://www.viviennematthiesboon.com/biopsychosocial-model-deutsch
t.co
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Wat Mieke zegt. Essentiële kost voor zowel journalisten als degenen die het nieuws volgen - voor vrijwel iedereen dus. libris.nl/a/frederike-...
January 26, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Trump’s government has unequivocally crossed a threshold now where even well -documented truth is irrelevant and the murder of US citizens by the state is formally sanctioned.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 AM
De vakantie wordt weer gepland dus ik doe hier opnieuw verwoede pogingen om die 3-uur durende rondleiding in Het Museum voor Nostalgie en Techniek in Langeboom ("interessant voor mannen én vrouwen van alle generaties") op het programma te krijgen...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOZc...
Museum voor Nostalgie en Techniek in Langenboom
YouTube video by Museum voor Nostalgie en Techniek
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Dinsdag 27 jan. in Filmhuis LUX (Nijmegen): vertoning van de documentaire 'The Encampments', over protesten tegen de genocide in Gaza op Amerikaanse universiteiten. Gevolgd door een debat over journalistiek en protest in Nederland, met o.a. @fgeerdink.bsky.social
www.lux-nijmegen.nl/programma/pr...
Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
This screening of The Encampments is part of Protest Lab and organized in collaboration with InScience Film Festival. After the documentary, there will be ...
www.lux-nijmegen.nl
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
"We’re not powerful people. We’re not rich. We don’t have access to people in power, but what we do have is our labor power."
January 23, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This is the dumbest shit I've read in a quite a while.

(But, in his defense: there is no particular reason to assume that the guy who published this actually wrote it himself.)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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21.01.1942: Im französischen Domme endet das Leben des Syndikalisten Christiaan Cornelissen. Die anarchistische Bewegung sah er selbst als zu destruktiv an, er übersetzte lieber "Das kommunistische Manifest" ins Niederländische.
30.08.1865: In Den Bosch wird Christiaan Cornelissen geboren. Er wird zu einem wichtigen Vertreter des niederländischen Syndikalismus - was ihn aber nicht daran hindert, eng mit dem eher individualistischen Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis zusammenzuarbeiten. 1916 unterschreibt er das "Manifest der 16".
January 21, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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In de herhaling.
De veiligheid van mijn dierbaren kan ik niet toevertrouwen aan het politieke ‘gevoel’ van Rob Jetten.
veel tumult rondom D66 afgelopen dagen. willen ze regeren met JA21? en wil D66 het basispakket nou bevriezen of niet; hebben ze de kiezer voorgelogen met een besparing van 7 miljard?

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January 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Makes sense. I mean, what if a tyrannical regime would emerge at some point?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Justice Department may weaken gun rules to placate Second Amendment activists: report
The proposals would also reportedly force transgender firearm buyers to out themselves by listing their birth sex on purchase paperwork
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 AM