🛡️ How to turn hate into a shield against criticism 🛡️

Hanna Zdanowska publishes vile hate comments, then builds "besieged fortress" narrative. The mechanism:

• Abusive trolls = entry to the container
• Bots/Russia/Konfederacja = container expansion
• "Attack on the City" = shield vs questions

Where's the CERT/NASK paper trail? We're asking.

https://dadalo.pl/en/posts/zdanowska-poisoning-the-well-deconstruction/

#Łódź #Zdanowska #Poland #UrbanPolitics #Astroturfing #Disinformation #PoliticalPR #HateSpeech #MediaAnalysis #PRLessons

#Oakland #Police already $14.6 million over #budget halfway through fiscal year
despite only 509 sworn officers on active duty – at least 200 below the minimum #staffing threshold of 700 set by #crime infested #California city's long beleaguered & betrayed #voters.

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2111026&post_id=190510287

#CopWatch #UrbanPolitics

OnlineFirst - "Post-entrepreneurial cities? Runaway housing costs and the humanitarian turn in urban governance" by Marc Doussard:

#housing #incomeinequality #rentiercapitalism #urbanpolitics #Covid19

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X251349103

Rice University political scientist Robert M. “Bob” Stein died Friday, July 18, at the age of 75.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/obituary/2025/07/21/526856/rice-university-political-scientist-robert-m-bob-stein-dies-at-75/

#Education #EducationNews #Elections #News #Obituary #Politics #Voting #BakerInstituteForPublicPolicy #LeadershipEducation #RiceUniversity #UrbanPolitics

Those of us teaching and studying #UrbanPolitics in Canada have a troubling tendency to think that local politics is a distraction because towns and cities are creatures of the provinces, but of course in reality there's a lot of important complexity and agency at play. #WesternUniversity political scientists Martin Horak and Zack Taylor have created the Canadian Municipal Attributes Portal, which they report on here with Charlotte Kurs.

https://bit.ly/43NG2hu
https://bit.ly/3U7sTwH

Deutschland. Ein Drama in drei Akten.

#Autokorrektur #urbanpolitics #FuckCars

That many Republicans want to end the nomination contest after only two small, nearly all white states, with no major American cities, have voted — tells us all we need to know about the Republican party.

Republicans literally don’t give a f**k what people of color or what people who live in urbanized America think or what their needs or policy priorities are — and urban areas are where most Americans live.
#UrbanPolitics #politics #USpol #USpolitics #elections

OnlineFirst - "Viral cash: Basic income trials, policy mutation, and post-austerity politics in U.S. cities" by Marc Doussard:

#urbanpolitics #policymobilities #basicincome #cashtransfers #COVID19

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231203083