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Assistant Professor @ucdpolitics. Previously: Postdoc @QueensuPOLS; @CivilRethinking @uniyorkpolitics. PhD @UofT_PolSci.

[Gönül Tol @gonultol]

In a powerful essay for @Newsweek , Turkey’s main opposition leader Özgür Özel argues that Turkey’s democratic crisis can no longer be dismissed as an internal political matter. The systematic dismantling of democratic institutions has become a broader security challenge, with consequences extending far beyond Turkey’s borders.https://t.co/9ZJ1TyBHkB

[Thomas R Davies @DaviesThomasR]

New article with Alejandro Peña in @IntOrgJournal
rethinking world order beyond the West from the bottom-up https://t.co/Z360o2bYma

[Villa Telesio @VillaTelesio]

How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements // @SofianNaceur

https://t.co/gCrNql8K94

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

- Reduce barriers to strong students from LMICs getting into leading PhD programs (e.g. waive the often prohibitive application fees)

- Teach grad students in all applied fields (labor, public, environmental, macro, etc.) about research across the global income distribution

6/n

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

- Stop requiring higher standards of external validity depending on country income.

E.g. papers on Indonesia (pop >280 million) often get more external validity questions than papers on LA or Massachusetts.

5/n

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

We are disproportionately understudying low- and middle-income countries.

Rather than debating endlessly how many of those studies should be micro vs macro, let's work on growing the overall number of good papers in all areas of economics that study issues outside the OECD.

3/n

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇹🇷 Turkey, which had experienced almost no school shootings in its history until this week, experienced 2 school shootings in just two days.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Are world leaders planning to intervene? https://t.co/upDhXehTok

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.”

This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.

[Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine]

Some time ago, I wrote this essay about the south of Lebanon through the lens of my mother's village and my father's village. Dweir is being heavily bombed; we do not know much about what Israel has been doing to Chaqra, including to our house there.
https://t.co/fIQVwIH8kM

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

A woman in Tehran stands in the ruins of her home, pensively surveying the destruction.

Video from Arash Khamooshi on Instagram.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

This 100-year-old woman in Lebanon is refusing to be forcibly displaced and leave her home amid intensified Israeli attacks.

[esikplatformu @esikplatformu]

🟣 Diyanet’in Cuma hutbesinde, edep ve haya kavramlarını bedene indirgemesini eleştiren Berrin Sönmez (@SnmezBerrin), başörtüsü dayatması ihtimaline karşı kişisel bir direniş kararı açıkladı.
""Başörtüsü zorunluluğu getirilmesi ihtimaline karşı şimdiden başımı açıyorum. (...) Diyanetin ve iktidarın gittiği yolu, zulmün yolunu reddediyorum. Siz zalimlerdenseniz ben sizden değilim" https://t.co/5Vit2hmokd… @medyascope

[YetkinReport @YetkinReport]

Hareketsizlikten eylemliliğe: apati ve hedefini bulan öfke
- #İmamoğlu vakasında muhalif kitledeki siyasi zorbalık, keyfi ve politize yargı algısı apati kaynaklı hareketsizliği eylemliliğe dönüştürdü
Siyaset bilimci @sedademiralp @YetkinReport için yazdı
https://t.co/s1vEJ83riv

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“It’s like they’re working from the same playbook.” An expert on modern Turkey talks to @IChotiner about the similarities and differences between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian style and that of Donald Trump. https://t.co/fITaGgpdyQ

[S&D Group @TheProgressives]

Thousands protest Erdoğan’s assault on democracy. The unlawful arrest of the Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and dozens of others, is yet another attack on fundamental rights. S&Ds demand the immediate release of all unjustly detained. Türkiye’s slide into authoritarianism must not go unchallenged!

[Ece Temelkuran @ETemelkuran]

I keep seeing pieces in American media drawing similarities between Turkey, Hungary and Trump’s America. However, drawing such similarities doesn’t serve much unless one analyses the reason for the similarities to show that the problem is systemic and global. And that’s precisely why I wrote #HowToLoseACountry #TheSevenStepsFromDemocracyToFascism. I believe that our shared problem -the rise of global fascism- should initiate global solidarity against Trump-like leaders. These leaders collaborate, and we, the people, can do the same. Ironically, the book is published in all English-speaking countries except the US. https://t.co/kUD9uKuBSB

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"They thought we were slaves to a miserable future"
Seen in İzmir, Turkiye, during the ongoing anti-government protests

[AlertesInfos @AlertesInfos]

🇫🇷⚡️🇹🇷 INSOLITE - Pikachu a été aperçu à Paris lors d’un rassemblement en soutien aux mobilisations en Turquie contre Erdogan. (via @enzorabouyy)

[Ece Temelkuran @ETemelkuran]

The protests in Turkey might be writing the protocol of “getting back democracy from fascism.” The youthful energy of street protest is breathing life back into failing progressive parties – and it’s a model that could be applied everywhere https://t.co/9pxNWVa1al