Onur Özgöde
@ummodern.bsky.social
Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Has anyone written about infrastructural translation as a coherent, self-contained concept? I found some STS papers that use it in passing but wondering if I’m missing anything.
Has anyone written about infrastructural translation as a coherent, self-contained concept? I found some STS papers that use it in passing but wondering if I’m missing anything.
This is a pogrom
Joe Robertson@joro.bsky.social · 6mo agoMore than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 6mo agoA Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 6mo agoThe Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
This is what the US did in the war on terror —— scores of people imprisoned on the flimsiest pretext
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo agoJessica: The WSJ is reporting that there are incentives for ICE Agents because they need to meet that insane 3,000 people per day quota—they are getting rewarded even if they bring in people who then get released…
"Jews control… the colleges, the nonprofits, the movies, Hollywood, all of it." - Charlie Kirk, 2023 “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." - Charlie Kirk, 2023
The Independent@the-independent.com · 7mo agoIsrael will honor Charlie Kirk with award for fighting antisemitism
If this is what a broad based Dem party looks like, no but no thanks.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8mo ago7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
My university used to incessantly tell students that they weren't engaging sufficiently with "difficult" ideas (90% of those "difficult" ideas? That some of those students weren't human.). This year it got rid of student commencement speakers, lest those students raise a particular difficult idea.
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 8mo agoThere is a lot to contend with in this from @thrasherxy.bsky.social. I’m increasingly coming to this conclusion that schools aren’t capitulating, they are collaborating.
Very excited to have this commentary article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social – Open Access! . . . a short 🧵: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy
This commentary essay makes the case for a different way of conceptualizing the role of ideas in political economy by arguing for the need to endogenize the limits of ideas—recognizing the key role...
tandfonline.com
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
Vox@vox.com · 8mo agoAmerica, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
forbes.com
A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation
Arife Kose@arifekose.bsky.social · 8mo agoChildren of Men was set in 2027. Maybe it wasn't a 'dystopian action thriller' but the anticipation of today. Yes, I'm talking about immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees.. whoever we are. @ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
Why am I not surprised? It was obvious this was bound to happen when they built that ugly flagship building—there was some controversy but can’t remember what exactly.
My department is looking for someone who studies the politics of public policy, broadly defined. We are an interdisciplinary department with international and Turkish faculty with diverse backgrounds. Feel free to reach out. stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...
Faculty Position in Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Public Policy) | Applications for Faculty Positions
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Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!
Ariel Ron@arielron.bsky.social · 12mo agoSofia and I have a new article out about Civil War era monetary policy and architecture, as understood by Stephen Colwell. Colwell is an interesting figure I wrote about in my AHR article as well. In some ways very conservative, in others radical... read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.
Honestly if you are senior faculty complaining about service work because it is “free”, it looks very bad. I am all for people getting paid better, but this doesn’t change the fact that academia depends on gift as much as money exchange. You got where you got bc of the gift of free labor of others.
Another reason @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to be ashamed of itself.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12mo agoStanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
A new article by my colleague Guadalupe Moreno just got published. She shows how monetary distrust has evolved in Argentina and discusses implications for central banks' governability. Must read for central bank scholars and folks interested in the sociology of money academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Remembering crises: the making of monetary distrust in Argentina
Abstract. Money, the paramount contract of market societies, relies on our collective belief in its enduring value. Yet we still know little about the soci
academic.oup.com
This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report. bsquarebulletin.com/bloomington-...
Bloomington goes a year without telling residents it can’t fluoridate drinking water
The city where fluoride toothpaste was invented has been unable to reliably add fluoride to its drinking water for years—and Bloomington officials never notified the public, even after they decided to...
bsquarebulletin.com
First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.
