David H. Kaplan

Past-President of the AAG 2019-20. Editor of the Geographical Review. Professor of Geography at Kent State University. Happily married with two children.

[David H. Kaplan @dhkaplanoh]

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Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen https://t.co/BEg91povB9

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New article in the GR by Lena Grip explores media use and its influences on homemaking in #Sweden. Read the article here: https://t.co/l5XuY6tXkA

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The GR is now on Bluesky! We'll be posting new articles, insights from authors, and special announcements on both X and Bluesky in the future. Follow us at @geographicalreview.bsky.social (link in bio).

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New GR article "develops a three-dimensional framework, which includes coercive pressures, normative pressures, and technology acquisition to analyze the influence of global and local drivers on China’s greening of industry." Read here: https://t.co/EobRmnJnsl

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A new article by Dr. Terence Young explores how efforts to diffuse Western conservation practices to post-colonial African states in the 1960s paid little attention to local places and cultures, or emerging ecological sciences. Read it here: https://t.co/NnbmesccyD

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The complete double special issue "The Future Geographies of Food," edited by @kasmosong
and Antoinette WinklerPrins, is now available online: https://t.co/cNWSBfNVOj

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[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Calling on all who are "pro-Palestine" to speak out against Hamas's torture of Palestinians: Newly released footage from Hamas’s captured archives reveals the extent to which the terror group’s regularly documented violence against political opponents is a central component of its rule over the Gaza Strip. This is just a tiny example of how Hamas tortured and terrorized Palestinians in the coastal enclave who wanted a better future before October 7. The destruction of political life, economic prospects, social cohesion, hope, and justice were always justified with “resistance” slogans against Israel.

The supposed “resistance” organization that is so widely supported and celebrated by diverse segments in the “pro-Palestine” movement tortured and murdered Palestinians, made them aid-dependent, squandered their resources, destroyed their national project, got them dragged into needless wars that got tens of thousands killed, pushed the Israeli society and electorate further to the right, undermined Palestinian sovereignty and unity, and aligned the Palestinians with the worst combination of terror groups and regimes such as Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

I challenge Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim advocacy groups and organizations in the diaspora, particularly in the United States and Europe, to make statements that condemn and decry the torture and killing of the Palestinian people in Gaza by Hamas. Palestinian lives matter, and not just when Israel harms them. There is an avalanche of evidence, photos, videos, and details from during and before the Gaza war showing the extent to which Hamas tortures and kills Palestinians. If those who proclaim to support Gaza refuse to speak out against Islamist terrorism, you are not a friend of the Palestinian people. Worse, you prove the claim of “no Jews, no news” and that you likely are motivated by implicit antisemitism.

Speaking out against Hamas does not take away from the horror that one feels witnessing the disaster in the Gaza Strip and the horrendous conduct of Israel’s current government and armed forces throughout the territory. These things are not in opposition to each other – after all, it was Prime Minister Netanyahu who benefited greatly from Hamas’s rule, which he supported through the Qataris and used to keep the Palestinians divided and expand his far-right designs to deny the Palestinians dignity and statehood.

Hamas and its proponents are the enemy of the Palestinian people – it’s time for those in the Western world who are still in doubt to finally reject this fascist organization that has harmed the Palestinians in Gaza and beyond for decades. There is more to advocating for Palestinians & their rights than simply being anti-Israel.

@CAIRNational @USCPR_ @NationalSJP @adc @uspcn @AdalahJustice @AMPalestine @intifada @theIMEU @EyeonPalestine @jvplive @Mondoweiss @Remroum @SaraReyi @mikopeled @OnlinePalEng @Kuffiyateam @AlShabaka @AdalahEnglish @alhaq_org @Addameer @jadaliyya @NihadAwad @pal_legal @PACBI @ipsc48

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Striking graph pointing out a striking fact: Every one of the major ten countries that held elections this year saw a swing against the incumbent party, the first time this has happened in over a century.
https://t.co/yNtzrN0mto

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

This story has been haunting me a few days. And I think there's something here about our own discourse that is worth talking about.

It has to do with how people say very dumb things about levels of freedom in countries. 1/

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. Yes we use our bodies like weapons to fight back a regime that kills women for showing their hair.

This happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University She has since been arrested by the authorities.
Be her voice.
#WomanLifeFreedom

[David H. Kaplan @dhkaplanoh]

@atlas_intel you need to do what you can to counteract the Selzer poll!!!

[David H. Kaplan @dhkaplanoh]

@ettingermentum good they're voting, but the zoomer interval contains seven years and the other intervals just contain five years.

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

Rust Belt voters aren’t all white, but election coverage of the region often ignores the concerns of people of color there. Very proud to see my geography colleague Christabel Devadoss @MTSU @theAAG and alum @KentState contributing to @ConversationUS https://t.co/brsK92vWB0

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Daniel Aguilar @daanielaaguilar]

#New Presidential Poll:

🔴 Trump 85%
🔵 Harris 15%

Head to head. Support among fathers who are only allowed to see their kids on the weekends but don't.

J. Kushner Institute Polling (B+) 420 LV 10/25
(Live caller & online porn site popup surveys)

[Dennis @dkardonsky_]

Tried to make the scariest pumpkin I could think of for halloween

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

You’ve heard Trump say these things before. But not like this.

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There is nothing a father won’t do to protect his daughter. This November, all you have to do is vote for Kamala Harris.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“A vote for him is a vote against us” — Michelle Obama appeal to men on women’s health, the importance of reproductive rights, and the horrors of Trump’s abortion bans is worth your time

[David H. Kaplan @dhkaplanoh]

@blockedfreq @FandMPoll She is doing slightly better than in their two previous polls: August 46-43, September 49-46. The difference is that they just reported registered voters in the last two surveys whereas here they decide to flip the script with a weird likely voter screen.