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Afsoun Afsahi

@afsounafsahi.bsky.social

Assistant Prof in Political Theory @UBCPoliSci working on Democratic Theory, Historical Injustice, Gender, Race, and Disability. Formerly @UniAmsterdam. Uninvited settler. Dog lover and gardening enthusiast. She/her

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Michael Crider@michaelcrider.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo ago

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The White House posted an AI-altered picture of an ICE protester under arrest, made to look like she was sobbing remorsefully. The episode reveals something deeply disturbing about the unrestrained sadism of MAGA and this moment in American politics.

Sadism Saturates Trump’s America

The White House posted an AI-altered picture of an ICE protester under arrest, made to look like she was sobbing remorsefully. The episode reveals something deeply disturbing about the unrestrained sadism of MAGA and this moment in American politics.

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Afsoun Afsahi@afsounafsahi.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to share that my project, “Unequal Voices, Unequal Rules: Reimagining Democracy’s Boundaries,” has been funded by SSHRC! Grateful for the support and excited to work with students on investigating democracy’s hidden boundaries. Send me a message if you’d like to know more ☺️

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last yr.

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · last yr.

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last yr.

What an unserious person. I will never be able to unsee the people suffocating in their own bodies because the virus melted their lungs. Whole families showing up together at the brink of death. Myself & my colleagues putting on garbage bags & months-old N95 to resuscitate them in hospital driveways

A refrigerator truck filled with body bagsA refrigerator truck being loaded with multiple, stacked carts of body bags
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Afsoun Afsahi@afsounafsahi.bsky.social · last yr.

Let me correct it for you: Exit poll shows liberal mayor and *PiS stooge who lied about being an independent* are front-runners in Poland presidential election

Exit poll shows liberal mayor and historian are front-runners in Poland presidential election

Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and a conservative historian, Karol Nawrocki, are the front-runners in a presidential election in Poland on Sunday, an exit poll shows. They will face off in a s...

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