Joni Lovenduski
@jonilo.bsky.social
Feminist, retired professor of political science, Chair The Political Quarterly board, politics obsessed,cat lover, Bridge player, Italy, food.
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Joni Lovenduski
@jonilo.bsky.social
· Jul 6
Important observation by Theda SKOCPOL on US police state.
So Trump wants to bring down the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
So Trump wants to bring down the BBC.
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@jonilo.bsky.social @politicalquarterly.bsky.social what would it take for a women to become President of the United States? A series of unlikely events. doi.org/10.1111/1467...
What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?
In this article we consider what it will take for a woman to be elected President of the United States. We examine the available data from the 2024 election, in comparison to previous elections; we i....
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
@jonilo.bsky.social @politicalquarterly.bsky.social what would it take for a women to become President of the United States? A series of unlikely events. doi.org/10.1111/1467...
From our porch as the valley fog lifted this morning
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
From our porch as the valley fog lifted this morning
My neighbour in Umbria
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
My neighbour in Umbria
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I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
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Congratulations to the Netherlands for showing authoritarianism the door!
It can be done - Wilders' far-right party just lost 12 seats in their 150 seat House of Representatives, leaving them only 25.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
It can be done - Wilders' far-right party just lost 12 seats in their 150 seat House of Representatives, leaving them only 25.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Congratulations to the Netherlands for showing authoritarianism the door!
It can be done - Wilders' far-right party just lost 12 seats in their 150 seat House of Representatives, leaving them only 25.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
It can be done - Wilders' far-right party just lost 12 seats in their 150 seat House of Representatives, leaving them only 25.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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I would pay more attention to this Teams meeting, but a heron has just landed on top of this tree out my window.
@everyheron.bsky.social
@everyheron.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I would pay more attention to this Teams meeting, but a heron has just landed on top of this tree out my window.
@everyheron.bsky.social
@everyheron.bsky.social
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It’s here! Gendering Party Politics published with Oxford University Press & available in all good bookshops in hardcover & paperback.
Edited by @merylkenny.bsky.social and @elinbja.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/61464
Edited by @merylkenny.bsky.social and @elinbja.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/61464
Gendering Party Politics: Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives
Abstract. Gendering Party Politics explores the relationship between gender and political parties through a feminist institutionalist lens. Across 17 chapt
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October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It’s here! Gendering Party Politics published with Oxford University Press & available in all good bookshops in hardcover & paperback.
Edited by @merylkenny.bsky.social and @elinbja.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/61464
Edited by @merylkenny.bsky.social and @elinbja.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/61464
Might we think of January 6 2020 invasion of the capitol as
Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch?
Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch?
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Might we think of January 6 2020 invasion of the capitol as
Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch?
Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch?
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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I know how the media works. The whole China kerfuffle is being bigged up to avoid the bigger picture about Russia.
China is not a friend. On the other hand, it hasn't launched the biggest land war in Europe for 80 years with well over a million casualties so far
China is not a friend. On the other hand, it hasn't launched the biggest land war in Europe for 80 years with well over a million casualties so far
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I know how the media works. The whole China kerfuffle is being bigged up to avoid the bigger picture about Russia.
China is not a friend. On the other hand, it hasn't launched the biggest land war in Europe for 80 years with well over a million casualties so far
China is not a friend. On the other hand, it hasn't launched the biggest land war in Europe for 80 years with well over a million casualties so far
this has pretty evidently been the plan from the outset, where is the plan to stop it?
ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.
You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT.
Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT.
Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
this has pretty evidently been the plan from the outset, where is the plan to stop it?
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New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
On the edge
My week in the NHS
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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I’m beginning to think the passage of time has washed away that raw understanding of 1914-45 that protected us from lurching back to madness
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I’m beginning to think the passage of time has washed away that raw understanding of 1914-45 that protected us from lurching back to madness
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“Mood music changing” captures this perfectly. And people might not realise quite how concerning this is for people living here with such immigration status. Suddenly it feels like things are up for discussion that weren’t, and mainstream politics is just going along with it
I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
October 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“Mood music changing” captures this perfectly. And people might not realise quite how concerning this is for people living here with such immigration status. Suddenly it feels like things are up for discussion that weren’t, and mainstream politics is just going along with it
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I did predict he would turn the experience into a substack. A lot of lessons to learn ( for Sam and the NHS!)
New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
On the edge
My week in the NHS
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I did predict he would turn the experience into a substack. A lot of lessons to learn ( for Sam and the NHS!)
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
