So, Intel has the state as a shareholder now. State-business scholar in me, goes

Arkadaşlar, gerçek dünyada siyasi manevralar Marvel filmi gibi büyük prodüksiyonlarla yapılmıyor.

I served 4 years as an officer in a combat unit in the IDF and 8 more years as an officer in the reserves. I can assure you that the IDF is not, by any stretch of imagination, the most moral army in world.

“Just following orders”

I do bot read the crazies on Twitter but from experience, hello! Turkish political scientist here, they will.

(I assume this was largely authored by Danny Finkelstein, who has still not retracted his claim that those who describe Israel's actions as genocidal are simply antisemitic trolls, and that there is no evidence that would convince him that Israel is deliberately killing children.)

Difficult to convey the moral bankruptcy of this Times editorial. Israel is a functioning parliamentary democracy that is currently engaged in genocide, but the Times blames Hamas ("they made us do it") and a few extremists (who "dismay" Israeli "moderates"). archive.ph/ZMKp7

And in shocking news, all the transphobes who are all about "protecting women sports" are not supporting them.

This strips antisemitism of any meaning, weaponizes Jewish safety for fascism, and actually makes Jews less safe.

The answer is always: “yes, it is for political reasons.”, “yes, it is censorship.”, “yes, it is the groundwork for media capture”. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Also, the fact that not only the general public but the liberal opposition’s silence about trans rights is frustrating. We know the saying “they came for the…” Whatever an autocrat wannabe is doing to the most vulnerable and least protected is just an exercise; soon it will be “you”.

I am constantly triggered by the path (re)taken by Trump & Co. dismantling the institutions. In theory, there is not a problem with this story. However, I, now, know it is nothing but a smoke screen into autocracy. It is maddening. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

I am seeing my American liberal friends writing about the Epstein files and trying to tell MAGA voters about the hypocrisy of all. From someone who has been living through it for 23 years, I can tell you: The voters will look the other way if you are lucky. In reality, they will just be okay.

There's a lot going on in Turkey's politics right now. The repression rate is ratcheting up. I aim to provide insights with a new dataset on populist audiovisual strategies. Please join me at IPC this Thursday at 11am. Honored to be hosted by @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social forms.gle/6BRkXR3439LKV7…

Yetenekli Bay Fahrettin… Ah yetenekli Bay Fahrettin.

If you approach a brown, Arab, Palestinian, and/or Muslim person and demand they confirm they aren't antisemitic and won't harm Jews - you are a racist.

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You don’t show your support for palestine by Harming innocent people. This is not activism. It’s not resistance. It’s not bravery. It’s cruelty, and it only leads to more pain, more fear, and a deeper divide.

Taipei taksileri ile Fatih taksileri nasıl aynı kokuyor arkadaşlar.

I will die on this hill and be a broken record, but I cannot deal with seeing all the mistakes the opposition made in Turkey again in the States now. You can criticize your party’s leader, and you should.

Yes!!! All the way to the yes!!

I find it difficult to talk about Biden and his stupidity when these things are happening now. Also, I find talking about “democrats pushed trans rights” a lot naive, if not harmful, when these people are signaling very loudly who they are and what they would do. Cassandra was right!!

The only disturbing fact is that they do it now when they know Trump does not back Musk. This is a so-so kind of speaking truth to power. Yes, better than nothing.

false equivalence style reasoning helped destroy scientific and cultural literacy here. i’m so sick of it.

This. SO MUCH THIS. Also, while Trump’s people were lauding all his crazy, autocratic, and democracy-eroding stuff, we, the liberals, are criticizing whether progressive policies were too much. I really am triggered. This is my trauma. I cannot deal with democratic backsliding.

If you have ever been to Taipei, please send me your recommendations!

The reasons why I left New York physically and never mentally. Reasons I Haven’t Left New York Yet www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Well, once again, I am reminded of Turkey’s descent into authoritarianism. Media, self-righteously, attacking everyone but the autocrat.

Erkek arkadaşta Ekrem Başkan çıtası

Standing up for what you believe is right and being courageous about it is dignified. The same cannot be said about the institution that granted me a doctorate.

For some foreseeable future this is the last entry for Adam’s incredibly educating and important diary. thahnk you asl always, @adamprz.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamprze...

Mansur Yavaş yedek hesabını Ekrem İmamoğlu’na tahsis etmiş. Bilmeyen biri rahatlıkla bu süreç boyunca canını dişine takıp mücadele ettiğini sanabilir. Ambulans arkasına takılıp kendine yol yapan araba gibi ilerliyor hedefine.

Every week I read this, and every week I am fascinated by the clarity of Adam’s thought process. Thank you @adamprz.bsky.social for still continuing to teach me open.substack.com/pub/adamprze...

Sigh. OK, muting replies on that thread because it has gone the way of all bluesky threads about grading and evaluation. Will reiterate my core point: students are better, more motivated, more honest, and more interested than that New Yorker article describes them as being.

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

Sana da barış borcumuz var artık Sırrı Abi. Yerinde dinlen.

Also, very true. Her grudge is palpable when she writes about “due process” in #MeToo and Title IX cases.

From Jill Lepore’s the New Yorker piece “They refused to denounce the illiberalism of speech codes, the lack of due process in the #MeToo movement and Title IX cases, mandatory D.E.I. affirmations as a condition of employment, and the remorseless political intolerance of much of the left.”

This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.

As a political scientist who is not only studying but also a nerd on the topic; I was enraged when they were clueless of political science and money in politics. Econ people should start knowing better. hhttps://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/capitalisnt/id1326698855?i=1000682400884e

Happening in Turkey: Saturday morning wave of police operations against politicians and officials, tens of people have been detained in Istanbul, Ankara and Tekirdağ in Western Turkey tr.euronews.com/2025/04/26/i...

Today, CHP took to the streets as part of 35+ day protests against Imamoglu’s arrest. The police barricaded the streets from the founding parliament to Ataturk’s mausoleum. Mahmut Tanal, an incredibly colorful and resilient opposition figure, cut the barricade bracelet using pliers.

Yıkım olmadan bütün şehir kilitlendi.

these fuckers are now WELL to the right of theresa may in 2017

Well, it could be. However, if this were the case, China would also not try to build a coalition to help itself.

Amerika’nın Mustafa Varank’ı olarak Pete Hegseth.

This is an incredible fact-better-than-fiction moment.

This seems like a very expensive reproduction of Turkey under Erdogan.