Onur Özgöde

The Ottomans didn’t control Iran?

This is a pogrom

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.

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.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

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

And many got denaturalized.

This is what the US did in the war on terror —— scores of people imprisoned on the flimsiest pretext

"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

Looks like an invasion.

If this is what a broad based Dem party looks like, no but no thanks.

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.

Did Turkey bribe them? 😅

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...

Very excited to have this commentary article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social – Open Access!
. . . a short 🧵:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Michel Callon (1945–2025): A life with passion for economies Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AREJA...

Homeland security twitter screenshot - “all America wants for Christmas is remigration”

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.

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

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.

A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation

What an interesting coincidence.

Really astounding (racist) sh*t

Also I never understood the appeal of Ben Lee. Why are some academics making +300k? Like what’s the marginal value retaining them provides to the institution?

Of course they did! I also recall maybe it was way more expensive than it was supposed to? Didn’t the president fuck up the initial plans?

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.

Twitter Department of State @StateDept Follow We heard Bluesky is a great place to research visa revocations 👀 Give us a follow: bsky.app/profile/state-. The White House & @WhiteHouse • 6h We realized everyone over at Bluesky probably wasn't seeing our content. So we decided to fix that.

they really think they’re so badass

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...

Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!

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.

If you refuse to reciprocate the gift when you transition from the position of receiving to gift-giving, you are the one violating the norm.

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.