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Aurelien Mondon
@aurelmondon.com
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"Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics

Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · Sep 24
Core to reactionary politics is a cowardly project that aims to protect and restore privilege and hierarchies of oppression

Some thoughts on terminology and the term reactionary @reacpolrn.bsky.social

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Article: On reactionary politics (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon explores the meaning of reactionary politics and its use in our current context
reacpol.net

Reposted by Mike Rowe, Aurélien Mondon, Valentina Bold

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 12h
Day 11 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, over deteriorating conditions for staff and a resulting deterioration of educational conditions for students. All of this, while senior management awards itself with ever bigger pay increases. This is a scandal.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Anders Nilsson, Aurélien Mondon

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h
Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 1d
Excellent comme d'habitude, merci!

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 1d
The media constantly bangs on about the need to listen to the "left behind" or "the people" when referring to the far-right minority wanting to undo any democratic progress

When it's young people or communities demanding change on the other hand, that's unacceptable

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon, Albin Wagener

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 1d
On en est vraiment à un point où l'on se demande pourquoi un parti politique cherche à collecter les revendications des citoyen·ne·s et à leur donner une forme politique ?

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon

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Le HuffPost @huffingtonpost.fr · 1d
Pourquoi La France insoumise cherche tant à profiter de l’agitation lycéenne
Pourquoi La France insoumise cherche tant à profiter de l’agitation lycéenne
www.huffingtonpost.fr

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d
Two elderly gentlemen were arrested at the top of my high street this morning for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine action”. It took over a dozen police to carry one of them away.

When is Burnham going to stop this madness?
carolinejmolloy.bsky.social CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · Jun 21
All I really want to know about Burnham is where does he stand on turning civil disobedience into terrorism, and will he reverse the current approach in which inciting damaging military hardware is punished far more severely than inciting far right riots? www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
www.thekeymagazine.com

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon

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Vincent Tiberj @vtiberj.bsky.social · 2d
7/12: Par exemple, dans le baromètre CNCDH, les apartisans s’avèrent bcp plus favorables à l’immigration et à la diversité qu’on le pense. S’ils se mobilisaient ils n’iraient pas vers le RN.
Ici il s’agit d’indice longitudinaux par proximité partisane

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon, Xavier Molénat, Julien Théry

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Vincent Tiberj @vtiberj.bsky.social · 2d
1/12 : autopromo ! Où en est la droitisation ? J’ai mis à jour certains des résultats de mon bouquin de 2024

C’est là et l’accès est libre.

esprit.presse.fr/article/vinc...

Merci à la rédaction d’Esprit.
Où en est la droitisation française ?
En ces débuts de précampagne présidentielle, un sentiment de droitisation du débat public et politique s’installe. Le Rassemblement National serait le grand favori de 2027 et les valeurs conservatrice...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d
Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.
Crack 'em while you can, though, because Suella's star might just be on the skids. Despite plugging her book on Question Time, on Tim Shipman's Spectator podcast, in serialised excerpts in the Daily Mail, and in a fawning interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, in its opening weekend, Patriot sold precisely 106 copies. — from Ian Winwood’s New World piece.

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d
Think of it less as bias, and more: it’s snobbery and hierarchy. Badenoch is a ludicrous, disastrously online clown but she is leader of the Tory Party, and that makes her a real person who matters, supported by real people who matter. Polanski is not: he is beneath them, and so are his supporters.
aurelmondon.com Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 2d
"The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage of Badenoch ... and the utterly dismissive coverage of Polanski, who has significantly improved his party’s standing over the past year, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK"

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/why-the-ho...
Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 2d
Can't we think of the poor AI expat entrepreneurs?!?!

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 2d
"The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage of Badenoch ... and the utterly dismissive coverage of Polanski, who has significantly improved his party’s standing over the past year, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK"

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/why-the-ho...
Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2d
Of course he’s a migrant himself and AI adjacent. Of course!

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 2d
The "left behind" we always hear about? 🤔

"Watson divides his time between the UK and US and founded the recruitment firm Futura Energy Group, which describes itself as “a specialist recruitment and build-with talent partner for companies operating across AI”"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
www.theguardian.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 2d
If you want to support a cool independent video game project, look no further!

Creatures like us is a 'radical queer video game about squatting, mutual aid and system change' 🐈‍⬛

The demo is available now and it's brilliant!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cir...
Creatures Like Us - Be Gay, Do Anarchy!
A radical queer video game about squatting, mutual aid, and system change. Balance individual & community needs to smash capitalism!
www.kickstarter.com

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Aurélien Mondon

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 2d
Stories is such a good way of putting this.

Can a novel be full of pain and suffering? Clearly yes. Does a fictional character suffer in the real world?

They're fictional don't be a dumbass.
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d
2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can.

The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 2d
Timely as I'm putting together a lecture on AI for our first year students...

"Researchers recently found that spending just 10 minutes relying on an AI tool significantly impairs the user's ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks"

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d
Another dimension of this: the Gaza genocide can only be properly and fully understood as a joint venture between the far right Netanyahu government and its centrist enablers in Washington, primarily, but also in London, Berlin and elsewhere.
us.theguardian.com Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 3d
"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like 'us,'" writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. "But modern genocide is the product of the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."
How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
www.theguardian.com

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 2d
Près de Toulouse, une jeune lycéenne dénonce des violences lors de son interpellation

Un article à retrouver sur le site 👉 https://l.mediapart.fr/MzP

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Aurélien Mondon

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d
This is drivel, and dangerous drivel when there are actual fascists among us.
Hannah Arendt and why friendship matters more than truth
In a polarised age, the political theorist’s notion of civic fellowship is essential
www.ft.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 2d
It's still astonishing that the President of the United States has absolutely no idea at all what health insurance is or how it works or really pretty much anything actually.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "We will pass a truly great healthcare plan that will stop all payment to big insurance companies"