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One of Erdoğan's most successful innovations has been repeatedly firing state statisticians who report bad news - Turkey's economic figures have gained a lot.

President Trump is learning from a master.

10 Books for Urban Thinkers This Summer | Metropolis The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...

Our book SOLIDARITY CITIES made the long list for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award.

It's exciting to be selected alongside these other cool books!

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I love this video! Right to the point. #SolidarityCities

From Fort Bragg to L.A., Trump enlists the military in a slow-motion coup | Will Bunch Trump’s abuse of the military to control civilians, as tanks roll into D.C., is where this was always heading.

Will Bunch calling out the authoritarian game plan and the gross politicization of the US military. @willbunch.bsky.social

The plans to cut healthcare for millions of Americans to further enrich billionaires is still despicable even as Trump hopes to distract us with his escalation in LA.

"If Trump’s high-handedness on tariffs and the lop-sidedness of BBB are beginning to generate dissent and disagreement, what might the Republicans unify around? One obvious answer is racist xenophobia. And who better to deliver that message than Stephen Miller?"

Chartbook 388: Trump v. Musk - Alien v. Predator or "death march" into a political vacuum? (Oh, and Mr Merz goes to Washington, too.)

Great insight in Adam Tooze's latest Chartbook. Where might the infighting between Trump, Musk, small businesses, and conservative lawyers be heading? Racist xenophobia. Anti-immigration is what holds the Republican coalition together. @adamtooze.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Much of the ‘racial reckoning’ efforts after Floyd’s murder never emerged Hours into his second term, President Donald Trump started a campaign to dismantle DEI efforts, including those launched in response to George Floyd’s death.

Tomorrow marks 5 years since George Floyd’s murder. I was skeptical then that protest and performative solidarity would lead to lasting change.

I share some thoughts in this @washingtonpost.com piece, alongside others reflecting on the moment: wapo.st/43DsEgq

The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

I know too many college students and we grads who are having difficulty finding work this summer. Maybe it’s the trump shock. But maybe it’s the AI Revolution. AI does the work that young grads do.

What is the Solidarity Economy? https://youtube.com/shorts/6TQZhHNBe74?si=3mzLVa7e-wM6XGlE From @theconciouscitizens and @raytrospectively, also on Instagram

New primer video from The Conscious Citizens for explaining the solidarity economy- and amazing usage of the USSEN map we (me + @craigborowiak.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social & @stephenhealy72.bsky.social) helped develop! (at around the 1 minute mark)

Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity

The republican panel investigating antisemitism has its own outrageous antisemitism problem. This political theater has to end.

What an awesome set of posts! So grateful for the connection and your support!!

Thanks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for hosting a conversation about our book. All four authors participated! The podcast with Elena Sorbino was posted on April 29, 2025 newbooksnetwork.com/solidarity-c.... #SolidarityCities. @uminnpress.bsky.social.

I am looking forward to this. Feels about right! #solidaritycities

This was fun! New book podcast on #solidaritycities with my coauthors. Thanks to Elena Sobrino for great interview!! elenasobrino.site

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Spreadsheet showing the increase in wealth accumulation for the top 1% from 4Q 1989 to 4Q 2024

In case you want numbers on this

“(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.”

“Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security…shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.”

'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.

In dead of night without public scrutiny, Indiana legislators passed legislation giving the governor sole appointing power over Indiana University's board of trustees, subjecting tenured faculty to "productivity" quotas that could lead to termination, and dissolving governance power of faculty.

Yes. Many thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for hosting this webinar on our book. So many good vibrations and solidarities coming out of next system project @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social !

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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”

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“It’s almost like we’re speeding towards a brick wall but the driver of the car doesn’t see it yet.”

~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.

45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train.

55 to New York by sea

Top Links 719 The coming trade crisis. Ten Americas (life expectancy). Turkey as a European manufacturing hub. China's lag in cloud computing. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

The coming trade crisis. The lag times in shipping means: 1) the full slow-down effects of Trump’s trade war with China haven’t yet arrived; 2) Even if the trade war ends today, it will take many weeks to recover. The pain we have yet to feel is baked in. Molson Hart via @adamtooze.bsky.social.

I picked it up after watching Annie present her book at the Western Political Science Association, together with a line up of brilliant commentators, including Lisa Beard, Jasmine Syedullah, Shatema Threadcraft, Monica McLemore @mclemoremr.bsky.social, and George Shulman @george1951.bsky.social

Annie Menzel has written a real gem of a book. Herself a former doula, Annie explains how the US health care policy has obscured and enabled systemic infanticide within Black communities by blaming mothers rather than addressing the socio-economic conditions leading to premature birth and death.

White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

On the same day that he launched an initiative supporting HBCUs! Schools founded to address the very racial legacies Trump’s other executive order denies.