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Patrick
@ps-on.bsky.social
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PhD, Lecturer, Political Science, NOVA FCSH - populism, comparative politics, far-right
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Counter-argument: No, he shouldn't.
Foreign Policy article on LinkedIn: "Trump should oust Maduro: Text: "If Trump can remove Maduro from power and install an enduring pro-US democracy in Latin America, then this will be a tremendous foreign-policy success for the United States, argued Matthew Koenig."
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I admit, I don't understand the strategy here...
Labour Party tweet: "Whilst Nigel Farage moans from the sidelines, Labour is getting on with the job of delivering for Britain" (image of Nigel Farage): "Shouting from the sidelines". (Image of Keir Starmer): Removed over 35,000 people from the UK with no right to be here"
August 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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YouTube is absolutely bombarding my phone with these ads. Clicking on the "visit advertiser" link sends you an Israeli site with a 404 error.
Ad showing all the "operating restaurants in Gaza city in July 2025" Text "There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie".
August 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I prefer this version.
Image of a burning, sinking Bismarck
August 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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You see, what people don't understand about Trump isn't that he hasn't updated his understanding of geography from the 1980s, but that he's just a big fan of Sergey Shnurov.
Reporting from The Hill: “The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught,” he continued. “Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION. They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country.”
August 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Someone needs to coin a term for a government "run by television hosts." Existing vocabulary just doesn't have the explanatory power.
Blurb from the BBC on Jeanine Pirro (ex-Fox News): "Laws will be changed to catch 'young punks', says DC attorney general. Trump introduces US attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, who he praises as having the "number one show" on TV before she joined his team. "We all want a safe city," Pirro says. But at the moment she says she sees "too much violent crime being committed by young punks" who think they can "beat the hell out of you or anyone else". They know they can get away with it because the laws against underage criminals are "too weak", she says. "We see you, we're watching you, and we're going to change the law to catch you," she says."
August 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Half of Democratic senators are *still* voting to send arms to Israel.

Angry reacts only 🤬
Source: Times of Israel "The Democrats who joined Sanders in the vote against the sale of assault rifles were senators Angela Alsobrooks, Tammy Baldwin, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin, Martin Heinrich, Mazie Hirono, Angus King, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Kaine, Andy Kim, Ben Ray Luján, Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, Chris Murphy, Patty Murray, Jon Ossoff, Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Tina Smith, Chris Van Hollen, Raphael Warnock, Elizabeth Warren, Peter Welch, Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz. The Democrats who voted to allow the rifle sale were senators Michael Bennet, Richard Blumenthal, Cory Booker, Maria Cantwell, Chris Coons, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maggie Hassan, John Hickenlooper, Alex Padilla, Gary Peters, Jacky Rosen, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner and Ron Wyden." Reed, Whitehouse and Ossoff switched sides for the other vote on the guided bombs. Ossoff, Warnock and Shaheen — who is the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — voted against blocking weapons sales to Israel the last time Sanders brought such a measure to a vote in April.
July 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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*Astronaut Meme*: "...Always has been"
Cory Booker's voting record for Project 2025 nominees. Includes Scott Bessent, Brooke Rollins, John Ratcliffe, and Marco Rubio, plus three abstentions.
July 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I'm resharing this portion of the report in the hopes that my colleagues in the US anti-racism field will pull their heads out of the sand and finally do their jobs and report on extremism when it involves Israelis.
Section from the report titled "Exploitation of the opportunity by a far-right government" Section from the report titled "Exploitation of the opportunity by a far-right government"
July 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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New report from the Israeli human rights and anti-apartheid NGO B'tselem refers to what is happening in Gaza as "our Genocide".
"How did you reach the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza? Statements by senior Israeli officials and actions on the ground prove beyond any doubt that, in Israel’s eyes, the entire population of the Gaza Strip is the target. Israel has been leading a systematic policy for almost two years, with clear and visible outcomes: entire cities erased, the healthcare system shattered, educational, religious and cultural institutions destroyed, more than 2 million people forcibly displaced, and masses killed and starved. All this and more, put together, constitutes a coordinated attack on all aspects of Palestinians’ life. It is a clear and explicit attempt to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza and create catastrophic living conditions that prevent the continued existence of this society in Gaza. That is precisely the definition of genocide. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide emphasizes the importance of intent to destroy the group as a group. International courts that have deliberated on the matter determined that "intent" can be inferred from documents and statements by policymakers, as well as from the pattern of conduct of the perpetrating forces. In the case of our genocide, the actions and statements of Israeli politicians and military officials, and especially policymakers, as well as the pattern of Israel's conduct in Gaza, clearly demonstrate that intent."
July 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Preparing for the Marie Curie fellowship
Coffee and water next to texts by Jan Rovny and Sarah de Lange
July 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Full survey results:
Results of the Reuters-Ipsos poll - shows that voters overwhelmingly disapprove of his handling of the Epstein files, believe they are hiding information about his death, and about the client list.
July 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Remember your Homeland's Heritage
Oregon Trail game scene with the text "You have dysentery".
July 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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You see, this is just amateur authoritarism. Everyone knows that in an authoritarian system, you want more opposition parties to potentially split the vote, not less. If he took a leaf from Putin and created 3 more Tisza-like parties and didn't try to repress them,they'd be winning in the polls now.
Miklós Szánthó (@MiklosSzantho): "A flood of liberal tears" News: "Opposition Party Bows Out of 2026 Race amid Shifting Political Landscape"
June 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Support for Netanyahu isn't much better ...
"Majorities in most surveyed countries lack confidence in Netanyahu"
June 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Pew RC polling June 2025 shows that Netanyahu and the far-right governing coalition have tanked their levels of international support. Only in the US, Kenya, and Nigeria does support remain above 40%.
Pew Research Center polling from June, "Most in surveyed nations have negative views of Israel".
June 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The only thing missing from this speech was one of Musk's Sieg Heils
Eva Vlaardingerbroek at CPAC Hungary 2025
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Extra disgusting to tout your history as a "good," "hardworking," legal immigrant," for what is possible under a Trump presidency, while the administration is literally deporting anyone and anything that moves, legal or "illegal."
Diego Morales (Secretary of State of Indiana) speaking at CPAC Hungary (Orbanist conference)
May 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This meeting will be about bullshit "White Genocide" won't it... If Ramaphosa had any sense, he'd get the hell out of there before they organize another Zelensky-style "gotcha" in front of the press.
AP Journalist Chris Megerian: "Elon Musk will be in the room when President Trump sits down with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, according to a White House official. It could be a combustible combination."
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...and... I'll just be changing that
Changing BSKY username to: "Dr. Patrick"
May 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The new Portuguese parliament. The Socialist Party took a big beating, and far-right Chega is tied for the position of the second largest party. The broader left is now marginal, while the right holds almost two-thirds of the legislature in total.
Visualization of elected officials in the new PT parliament: Livre - 6 Socialist Party - 58 Democratic Alliance - 89 Liberal Initiative - 9 Chega - 58 The Communist Party, Left Bloc, and PAN are also in there, but their seat distribution is not shown.
May 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Turnout's also slightly up in Portugal as well. 😬😬😬
PT turnout at 25.56% at 1pm local time.
May 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Already a record high turnout in the 2nd round of the Romanian election, driven by higher turnout among the diaspora.
Second round turnout at 13:00 EEST. 2025: 31.93% Time-series: diaspora turnout per time bracket per election year/round
May 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I can see the poli sci titles now:

-"Towards a Theory of "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

-"'Trump Derangement' Defining an Elusive Concept"

-"Introducing the 'TDS' Scale"

-APSA panel on 'Trump Derangement', organized by Hillsdale College.

Academic grifters are going to have a field day.
"Rep. Warren Davidson Introduces the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025" "WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025. This bill would direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the psychological and social roots of what is known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, a phenomenon marked by extreme negative reactions to President Donald J. Trump. He was joined by original cosponsor Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL)."
May 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM