Celebrating Mamdani’s victory in Izmir, Turkey

Get ready for another round of mutual hypocrisy as Turkey pretends to be unaware of any other genocides and Israel pretends to care about Armenians while driving them out of Jerusalem and arming Aliyev to the teeth.

Turkish Twitter is abuzz with Mamdani’s tweet from 2013 Gezi protests 🤣

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Mamdani won. NJ is still a blue state. Even my local BOE went to Dems after so many years. What a night!

My second cousin in Turkey messaged me today saying Mamdani gives her hope. Then she asked, he will win, right?

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Auntie in Turkey: any woman who’s older than you.

"The real message out of this, because it's a massive" landslide victory is a combination of voters said "look, we have our own agency. Stop pushing us around." @fionamullency.social on how Turkish Cypriots rejected foreign influence in recent TRNC elections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESjt...

"Israeli universities regularly collaborate with the military, which has destroyed all academic life in Gaza. That's done nothing to slow U.S.-Israeli partnerships." www.972mag.com/us-israeli-a...

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

Virtually every digital technology of this century has been designed to feed and flatter the worst parts of yourself

Timely, as they say

I feel certain that these guys were paid fifty bucks a piece to do this. And I'm pretty sure that the one dude with a keffiyeh has never worn one before in his life.

Why is ICA silent on the genocide? Listen to @chenjerai.bsky.social and @desfreedman.bsky.social youtu.be/onHDDuA8I0c?...

🚨 PhD position w/ @azadehakbari.bsky.social at Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at Goethe-University azadeh-akbari.com/come-work-wi...

Criminalization of Solidarity:A Response to the So-Called Migration Crisis, Oct 27, 6-8pm, CUNY GC Speakers: Seán Binder-one of the defendants in the criminal case of solidarity in Europe Heba Gowayed-associate prof of sociology at Hunter College Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do coordinated attacks on journalists actually work? Find out tomorrow at @us.theguardian.com columnist Arwa Mahdawi's colloquium at @asc.upenn.edu. Register here: bit.ly/kjsr6

Yikes! From the article: "many peer institutions paused Ph.D. admissions altogether, suggesting the FAS may have considered a complete halt in line with its peers." The government's attack on American universities seems to be hitting PhD admissions, fellowships, early career opportunities hardest.

🚨 job alert: Assistant Prof of Media Law and Policy, Lehigh U. apply.interfolio.com/173289

another great event at CUNY GC

Don’t miss this event if you are in NYC

Geliyor!

I will be part of a virtual panel discussion this Thursday (October 16) at 7pm EDT: “What does the Western media get wrong about the Middle East?” This event is organized by @cfetmu.bsky.social. For more info (and Zoom link): cfe.torontomu.ca/events/what-...

Another article that does not interview a single Palestinian. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades by @ajbauer.bsky.social time.com/7318570/cbs-...

In an intellectually honest world, all the people and pundits lauding Kirk would apologize for being wrong. They would say, “I’m sorry for falling for bad faith arguments. I believed them without listening to others. I was a rube.” But we don’t live in an intellectually honest world.

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II. A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media. Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

📆 In two weeks 📆 We investigate the new politics of censorship with @us.theguardian.com columnist Arwa Mahdawi. Secure your spot here: bit.ly/kjsr6 @asc.upenn.edu

“Stripped for Parts”: Secretive Hedge Fund Accused of Plundering U.S. Newspapers

Job Alert 👇 School: University of Colorado Boulder @CUBoulderCMDI Position: Professor of Advertising – Open Rank community.aejmc.org/job-portal/u... #JobAd #AejmcJobs

Ezra Klein, what do you say?

Istanbul always on my mind

This book 👇https://open.spotify.com/episode/4REYIABlBCL11yxaDnCDjw?si=X4lCi2l4QTKvPQyCRzCWxQ

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Bristol now, calling for an end to the siege and genocide in Gaza and in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla

free e-book from @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one. This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

Looking fwd to reading this new book on Turkey, Iran and the US. As always, thank you @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social for keeping us all updated!

🚨 #UrbanStudies Vol. 62, Issue 13 (October 2025) out now! ✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?" Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments. 📖 buff.ly/veREgdw

We tried to tell you. In media & comm studies, when we wrote about crackdowns on journalism and media capture in Turkey and elsewhere, it was seen as something happening "over there"—in distant, exotic, marginal places. I’m so tired of this.

@hernandesraph.bsky.social , @porcelinad.bsky.social and I spent the better part of a year watching and analysing how far right ideology is shared in open Facebook groups: here is what we found: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... with immense help from Pablo Gutiérrez, Garry Blight, Lydia McMullan

Bu sorularin yanlislikla Faruk Bildirici’ye gonderilmesinde 2 olasilik var: ya bir aptalin isi ya da Fahrettin Altun intikam aliyor 😅

Trump to Erdogan: "He knows about rigged elections better than anybody. But when I was in exile, we were still friends."

Saka bir yana, haber kanallarimizin dis politika haberleri, yorumlari kahvehane sohbetinden farksiz 😞

Trump, Erdogan gorusmesinde kirmizi kravat takti diye sevindirik olan CNN Turk 🤦🏻‍♀️ Evet evet, buyuk gucuz, dunya lideriyiz

A dying empire