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Paul Houle

🤼 To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

(great insight into political psychology!)

economist.com/by-invitation/20

🆓 archive.ph/fW8sW

The Economist · To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie StantchevaBy The Economist
#politics#uspol#psychology
beSpacific

Recommended book: The Disunited States - Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work. Ryan D. Griffiths. Examines the growing interest in a national divorce between #RedState America and #BlueState #America. Discusses how current #polarization in America is a problem, but it is one that needs to be worked out through dialogue rather than a bloody #civilwar. Brings expert analysis on the topic of #secession, & how it works #globally #democracy global.oup.com/academic/produc

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Nonilex

There was a political #assassination in #Minnesota & #arrests across the country of govt officials protesting #Trump’s #immigration agenda, along w/political #polarization so acute that it is affecting people’s views on a broad array of topics.

Whether you are feeling upbeat about the #stock #market may depend, in part, on your political alignment. Gallup reported in April that 58% of #Republicans expected the stock market to rise, compared with only 21% of independents & 12% of #Democrats.

DiscourseNet

DiscourseNet Winter School #9 - Transformative #DiscourseStudies. Social and political struggle in a polarised world

We are organising the Winter School #9 that will take place at the Universitat de #València in January 2026. It is aimed at international masters and doctoral students interested in discourse studies from diverse perspectives.

If you want to participate you can find all necessary information here: discourseanalysis.net/en/disco

The deadline for abstract submission is August 31st, 2025.

#DiscourseAnalysis#Polarization
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xs4me2

These shameless far right extremists should face the consequences for what they are initiating, the hate and the polarization…

How much further can this go, when is enough, enough? When will people rise to put an end to this?

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · How the right spread ‘brutal and cruel’ misinformation after Minnesota lawmaker killingsBy Rachel Leingang
#uspol#dictatorship#trump
Daniel Fischer

Next at the #SolarEclipse Conference Nick James talked about new (and finally amateur-affordable) polarization-sensitive cameras in which each pixel comes with a polarizer: since it's a while til the next solar eclipse he demonstrated it with the #Moon where the #polarization of the maria is higher than of the highlands, matching expectations. 2/n

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