“We write for Palestine with our blood” — Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and resistance leader assassinated in Beirut by Israeli agents 54 years ago today

Remember the political prisoners languishing in jails and millions of ppl crushed under economic crisis as you watch NATO leaders receiving a grand Ottoman greeting at Erdogan’s 1000-room palace

Semiotic analysis of the NATO summit in Turkey, live on CNNTurk 🤦🏻‍♀️

I somehow managed to miss Belgium's nod to Magritte during the game

My latest @foreignpolicy.com Where are the members of Congress, the Canadian prime minister, and the European big wigs who say they are champions of human rights and democracy? Nowhere.... foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/02/t...

Everyone knows about the Renaissance book wheel, but I only today learned about the Holloway Reading Stand & Dictionary Holder, patented in the late 19th century by an Ohio company We used to be a proper country archive.org/details/holl...

"Stop thinking about what the gadget does, and pay attention to who the gadget does it *to* and who the gadget does it *for.*" [email protected], "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI"

100 years ago.

#BBCNews - Stand-up comic held for jokes about Erdoğan and Islam in Turkey crackdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ugh World Cup extractivism (ht @devrimyavuz.bsky.social)

"Roy asks us to stop thinking about populism as something that either subverts or advances democracy and instead examine it as a form of 'curative democracy.'" My review of Srirupa Roy's book, The Political Outsider, must-read for anyone interested in populism academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...

Digital surveillance is breaking activist mental health Living under constant surveillance is to exist in a permanent state of hypervigilance globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Media studies folks—new visualization for classes!

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere. "Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."

Day 12 Tirana Albania: the streets as packed with protesters, it’s a multi-generational event that transcends all the Albanian society as a whole. Hands off Albania! 🇦🇱

Student Success | @cuny.edu Launches LGBTQ+ Institute As some colleges and universities scale back Pride displays, a new institute strengthens support for LGBTQ+ students, preserves queer history and funds systemwide programming. https://bit.ly/4v2RYsz #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Please Use AI

One of the most true sentences ever written: "A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline." Brilliant as always from @QuincyInst NRF Asli Bali www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...

We are pleased to announce that TALKING BACK TO THE WEST: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order by @bilgeyesil.bsky.social has won the Best Book Award from the Global Communication & Social Change Division of the @icahdq.bsky.social! ica-gcsc.org/2026/01/22/i...

So this happened ☺️

I've been interested in how victimhood can turn into monstrous things, and equally intriguing is how "guilt" can turn into monstrous things too

the conference scene and the meaning of the "international" #academicsky

#ICA26 conference theme is “Communucation and inequalities in context.” Yes, indeed 👇

This, by @smgrimes.bsky.social, is brilliant & so needed: a refutal of Jonathan Haidt's & Jean Twenge's moral panic by academics with evidence. It is brief, clear, accessible, and devastating. I, too, quoted those scholars in The Web We Weave. kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/u...

We stand with Albania! 🇦🇱 #SheShed

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

🚨🚨🚨Listen to this convo (btwn 3 of my favorite ppl) on how authoritarianism unfolds over time in everyday life

As the internet is reopened in Iran, more images are coming out of what actually happened during the war. The internet blockage also meant that most Iranians did not see how supporters of Reza Pahlavi were dancing and cheering the war from the safety of Western capitals...

I was interviewed for this piece in Burokrat about Turkey’s global comm initiatives www.burokrat.fr/la-turquie-e...

Leader of the main opposition party, Ozgur Ozel, walking in the rain to the parliament after he was forced to leave the party HQs by Erdogan’s goons

Remember Erdogan shut down a university a few days ago? He opened it yesterday. Just like that. Students were protesting non-stop and IMHO there’s nothing that scares him more than protests.

Erdogan not only deposed the leader of main opposition party via legal shenanigans, he also shut down a 30-yr old private uni w/20K students. Just like that. Anyone who’s protesting these decisions are being tear gassed or detained. I hate all of this so much 😡 (ht @heissenstat.bsky.social)

What’s going on in Turkey right now is batshit crazy 👇

Congratulations, @bilgeyesil.bsky.social! Get your copy here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

My daughter graduated last week and I am happy+proud but also very very worried

My book Talking Back to West has won the Best Book Award 2026 from ICA Global Communication and Social Change Division. This is my second award, after NCA, and I’m incredibly grateful to the selection committee for this honor. Thank you!

The question we're sitting with on this episode of It All Happened Before: when the newsroom becomes a channel, what do we gain in reach—and what quietly gets lost? @baykurt.bsky.social ans I talk to Turkish journalist Gulsin Harman - Listen: substack.com/@baykurt/not...

My new essay on how the seeds of US fascism were planted in immigration law and enforcement practices under the guise of counter-terrorism. www.publicbooks.org/fascisms-bui...

From the TikTok dancer reporting on breaking news to the YouTube news channel that doubles as a content production studio, we talk about what independent journalism looks like in Turkey & increasingly everywhere w/ Gülsin Harman @ekoshy.bsky.social itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/p/episode-10...

A one-of-a-kind fellowship program, the “New Generation of Social Scientists in the Arab Region” (NewGen) is now accepting applications for its 7th cycle. theacss.org/call-for-app...

“Muhafazakar, milliyetçi ve özünde kendi tebaasına karşı baskıcı pratikler uygulayan rejimlerin, “dekolonizasyon” gibi özgürleştirici, sol ve radikal literatüre ait kavramları vahşice yağmalamasına karşı son derece uyanık olmak zorundayız.” halkadergi.org/2026/05/18/b...

New interview with Global (Dis)Order Research Center at City St Georges 👇 Sasikumar Sundaram, @begumzorlu.bsky.social and I talked about how Turkey, Russia, China, India, Brazil "contest Western hegemony and stake a claim to leadership in an emerging multipolar order" youtu.be/HmMxlQ6sRG8?...

Excited to share that first podcast interview with New Books Network is now live. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I spoke with host Ailin Zhou about my new book Film Diplomacy ( @columbiaup.bsky.social) Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/film-diplomacy #FilmDiplomacy #newbook #history