America’s Bilal. Corrupt, has too much power due to dynastic links, and dumb AF.
Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 3d agoActual holy *t
Ebru Erdem 🧿
@eerdem.bsky.social
Political science, education research, Turkish politics and cats.
Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 3d ago
Proud to work at the @inquirer.com, where today our entire five-page Opinion section is about the many ways Trump’s White House has become a house of corruption. The Inquirer is keeping Freedom of the Press alive in the city where it was founded. But that’s not all! 🧵
This took me down a rabbit hole that ended up me being grateful I am very far from being mistaken for the “most beautiful woman in the country [Turkey].” Too many nut-jobs have money and power.
Diken Gazetesi@diken.com.tr · last mo.Uganda'da Türkiye protesto edildi www.diken.com.tr/ugandada-tur...
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
My feminist take is: I don’t feel sympathy for women who have knowingly and willingly internalized patriarchy to a level that they have become patriarchy’s mouthpieces. Feminist sympathy better be directed at women who were oppressed into internalizing patriarchy. Sisterhood has its limits.
Today I found out that my Ek$i Sözlük nick was cited in a book. They translated and block-quoted one of my entries. Made me chuckle.
It is a Black nation, these racists probably levied high tariff rates to Wakandan goods too.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3mo ago
“Honestly if I were in her shoes I don’t know what I’d do… at some point we need a different kind of politics.” Ta-Nehisi Coates to @timmiller.bsky.social on Dems who won’t break with 🇮🇱 (like all Republicans) asking for the votes of folks who lost family in 🇵🇸 Full: youtu.be/z11IP4ze7bM?is
My teenager is finally in her Hamilton era. I’ve been waiting for this since the days with endless wheels on the bus repeats.
I’m going with a Turkish meme in response to the Senator’s death: Allahım sen meseleyi biliyorsun, amin!
Comedian Deniz Göktaş is pretty much daring the Turkish establishment to arrest him with his new show. Turkey lost so many things under Erdogan; political humor is one I miss from my childhood/youth. I hope Deniz does not get targeted for revisiting it so courageously. youtu.be/ksaVzHyClto
Deniz Göktaş - Ölü Deniz (2026)
YouTube video by Deniz Göktaş
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one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Twitter was a strong tool for pro-democracy protests, X has become a tool for organizing pogroms/race riots targeting minorities. This weird manosphere-white supremacist-Musk fanboi nexus isn’t going anywhere. Hopefully remaining sane people in power see the danger in that.
This person would be so surprised in Istanbul where community cats and dogs are everywhere. Why would Muslims hate dogs?
HadesDogWalker@hadesdogwalker.bsky.social · 5mo agoBigotry is so brain melting that some Tennessee rescue won't let a friend of friend adopt a dog because she lives within 20 miles of Dearborn.
![Loraine Munker
Jun 1
to me
[Redacted], it pains me so much to have to tell you this but I just cannot let one of these puppies go live 20 miles away from Dearborn. I'm so sorry. I just feel like Islam is a huge threat to our country and I also know they hate dogs and this dog has 10 years at least in front of her. I just can't do it.
I'm so sorry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5wyfbbn2jcorccabkbrk6yah/bafkreibz257l6qva3zdzo4g5htpkfmffejzfot7jqdanqfx6j2alibypnu)
My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...
This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.
This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)
elizabethginexi.substack.com
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo agoThe White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
Scholars at Risk is offering two new tracks of fellowships for early-career researchers on academic freedom! We have one track for scholars working on the US and one for scholars on global/comparative/other countries: www.scholarsatrisk.org/the-network-...
Call for Applications: 2026-27 Scholars at Risk (SAR) Academic Freedom Fellowships | Scholars at Risk
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is pleased to invite early-career researchers to apply for remote research fellowships focusing on academic freedom and related higher education values.
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This is an interesting development to watch. Once authoritarians get in power, elections are either fragile or meaningless. Orban and Russia at it. Thinking about midterms in the US and wrongfully imprisoned political party leaders in Turkey.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 7mo agoLooks like Orban’s Russia-backed false flag operation could be underway to lead to the cancelling of the Hungarian elections. Predicted recently. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has informed Orban of “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries. 1/2
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Person of Interest is such a great show. I won’t count the reasons why except noting that it is consistently good through the end. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It is even more relevant now in the age of AI and federal government scaring school kids at school bus stops.
a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says i wanna hold out hope but hope is painful .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says i wanna hold out hope but hope is painful .
media.tenor.com
Local elections matter. It’s not all about who the president is.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 8mo agoHundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
She was an Istanbul street cat in a previous life #2. (No, she did not get any.)
Ebru Erdem 🧿@eerdem.bsky.social · 11mo agoBir önceki hayatında İstanbul sokak kedisiymiş. #caturday
This is a great list. I taught a course on identity politics with a film component once; my list has some overlaps with this. My favorite genre sci-fi has many movies/series that tackle authoritarianism in imagined worlds/futures, that’d be a separate list.
Ed Schatz@edwardschatz.bsky.social · 10mo agoExcited to teach a new course on Authoritarianism through Film, in which we explore what narrative films say about how authoritarianism is lived/experienced. Up first: Brazil (1985), which reminds us that an innocent-seeming typo can prove deadly in authoritarian bureaucracies.