@mgivel.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, with an emphasis on comparative politics, Himalayan & happiness studies (including Bhutan), and global far right and democracy. When I am not teaching and researching, I am a fused glass artist.
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See also regarding this post-racial caste policy in the USA: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I am pleased to announce that my peer-reviewed article "Pluralist public policy process theories without hierarchical racial caste and post-racial caste: Is this America?" has been published by the journal Ethnicities. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
31.07.2025 17:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"This is a resounding victory for academic freedom and high-quality classroom learning for OU students. It sends a direct message that censorship of topics like systemic racism, patriarchy, and the legal and power bases of race and gender discrimination are no longer restricted in OU classrooms."
24.07.2025 15:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"This attempt to censor classroom discussion ran contrary to the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, as well as the 1970 Interpretive Comments of the American Association of University Professors, which OU Board of Regents officially adopted in the OU Faculty Handbook."
24.07.2025 15:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Norman โ From the very outset, Oklahoma House Bill 1775 (HB 1775), due to its vagueness, was a deliberate attempt to censor scientifically based coverage of race and gender topics taught in OU and public college and university classrooms throughout Oklahoma."
24.07.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0www.aclu.org/press-releas... โAlmost four years since the initial filing, students and professors at Oklahomaโs universities and colleges have a clear answer: HB 1775 does not apply in Oklahomaโs higher education classrooms,โ said Adam Hines, legal fellow at the ACLU of Oklahoma. "
18.06.2025 21:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Excellent thread by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social re Trumpโs 6/7/25 EO federalizing the National Guard and authorizing domestic use of regular armed forces over Governorโs objection.
10.06.2025 12:44 โ ๐ 613 ๐ 247 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 6<thread> Hegseth expands Guard's orders dramatically today
Declaration by California Military Department (CMD) Deputy GC:
"CMD was informed ... Guard units would be providing support for counter-immigration operations across Los Angeles, in communities during immigration enforcement operations..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... This pro-natalist version is based on eugenics or scientific racism, ending reproductive rights, opposing immigration, and increasing the number of native-born (white) children. The alt-right so-called "Great Replacement Theory" is a version of this.
22.04.2025 14:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
19.03.2025 23:31 โ ๐ 4673 ๐ 2478 ๐ฌ 210 ๐ 371What direction next is a photo of deep uncertainty in the inky dark.
What direction next in the inky dark?
27.12.2024 16:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A recent abstract fused glass art creation of mine. This art creation is a 21st century continuation of the art symbolism of the Blue Rose art group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Rose_(art_group)
A recent abstract fused glass art creation of mine. This art creation is a 21st century continuation of the art symbolism of the Blue Rose art group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ro...
27.12.2024 15:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
P.S. Regarding #5 above. Demonstrations can provide good community education and boost morale. We need to ask ourselves though if they will by themselves change laws and policy. I think some have and most have not. What do you think?
www.politico.com/news/magazin... Yes, the incoming far-right U.S. regime is unnerving. What's next? 1. Donโt Panic โ Autocracy Takes Time. 2. Donโt Disengage. 3. Donโt Fear the Infighting. 4. Charismatic Leadership Is a Non-Negotiable. 5. Skip the Protests and Identity Politics. 6. Have Hope"
02.12.2024 16:06 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0'Inside a Deep Space Nebula' (In fused glass)
'Inside a Deep Space Nebula'
(In fused glass)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8B...
International Space Station Commander, Chris Hadfield, playing a rousing version of David Bowies 'Space Oddity.'
Landing on Titan. A moon of Saturn and methane world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiL...
29.11.2024 14:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Winds of Mars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT50...
29.11.2024 14:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Demonizing and attacking anyone due to religion, race, and national origin, Superman once said, is un-American. And, now?
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Demonizing and attacking others due to religion, race, and national origin, Superman once said, is un-American. It continues to be.
Once upon a time in America, Superman defeated the insidious white supremacist and terrorist KKK. And now?
www.ign.com/articles/rem...
Dr. Seuss warned America of the ideological and political links between 'America First' and Nazism. Fast forward to today and not much has changed too much with the anti-NATO 'America Firsters" in the incoming and far-right U.S. governmental regime.
pbs.twimg.com/media/EwIE-K... Dr. Seuss warned us about the fascistic origins of 'America First.' Some things have not changed too much related to the incoming in January 2025 far-right US government regime.
25.11.2024 20:55 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... Starting in 1915 and into the 1920s during the second revival of the violent white terrorist KKK, they promoted xenophobic and nativist 'America First.' The broader context of this story is a modern-day and morphed version of 'American First.'
25.11.2024 20:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1... Did you know? On Aug. 19, 1958, 17 months before famous Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter action, Okla. City history teacher Clara Luper & 13 students integrated Okla. City lunch counter at Katz Drug Store. This brave action launched a new phase in US civil rights movement.
24.11.2024 19:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In Tulsa, Oklahoma is the Woody Guthrie Center: woodyguthriecenter.org Oklahoma's Woody Guthrie is an important American folk singer whose political sympathies were farmer-labor, populist, & anti-fascist. I'm quite sure he wouldn't have liked what is happening in Washington, D.C. Not one little bit.
24.11.2024 18:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This attempted action by Univ. of Oklahoma has national importance related to preserving First American languages disappearing due to forced colonialism & assimilation. Sign petition to stop removal of First American language classes at the University of Oklahoma here: www.change.org/p/oppose-the...
23.11.2024 14:57 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1www.oudaily.com/news/ou-coll... "According to the Administration for Native Americans, there are 245 distinct Indigenous languages in the United States, but 65 are already extinct and 75 are nearing that point." www.change.org/p/oppose-the...
23.11.2024 14:53 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The first anniversary image from NASAโs James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
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