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kim yi dionne (she/her)

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Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics. Editor, Good Authority bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.soci… Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky…

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.
A platform displaying the data on US protests from the Crowd Counting Consortium. It includes a map of the US with counts of protest events in circular form overlaying the protests' locations. It also includes weekly tallies of protest events and participations, top protest issues, and various filters allowing users to explore events by location, issue, date, political valence, etc. The top of the image shows a total of 61,782 protests with 14,684,201 participants across 55 US states and territories from January 20, 2025 to May 31, 2026.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Newly updated:
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And I know this thread is already long, so I’m going to wrap it up with a link to Sara Ahmed’s beautiful essay about how it’s actually okay for perpetrators to face the consequences of their actions—including exclusion from the social spaces where they abused their power.
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The Complainer as Carceral Feminist
I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Since then, there has been a good deal of research on racial disparities in Title IX enforcement. No one found anything. (Myself included.) In fact, sexual assault is one of the only school disciplinary proceedings without a racial disparity.
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U.S. GAO - K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities
What GAO Found Black students, boys, and students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined (e.g., suspensions and expulsions) in K-12...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Fighting has erupted in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray between regional forces and the national army. Tigray residents, who have been trying to recover from a brutal two-year war that ended in 2022, fear a return to full-scale conflict." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ethiopia fighting: Are Tigray's TPLF forces and the army heading back to war?
Exploring the issues behind the escalation of tensions between the TPLF and the national army.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Treated lawyers outperformed controls by 0.32 SD (p = 0.04), but this advantage was concentrated entirely among senior lawyers (0.45 SD, p = 0.02)... Foundational expertise may be a prerequisite for extracting durable skill from AI-assisted practice." (Looking forward to reading the paper now.)
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great thread on the ridiculous claims coming out of the USA #StateDepartment this week about #SouthAfrica. tl/dr: None of what Sec. Rubio claimed were issues of concern is actually happening.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
Keep in mind, Prince has been gone for a _decade_ now. He really could see the future.
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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"White genocide" isn't happening: goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...
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Trump wants to bring even more white Afrikaners to the U.S.
This White House program bumps out thousands of refugees who have provisional approval to emigrate.
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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Land seizures aren't happening: goodauthority.org/news/misinfo...
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The misinformation on South Africa’s new land act
The Trump administration's executive order against South Africa makes unfounded claims about the new land act.
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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rubio plans to "revoke or reject visas from [those] found to be responsible for...uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination and the incitement of violence against minority racial/ethnic groups in South Africa." Easy enough. Since they aren't happening. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-sout...
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U.S. slaps South Africa with new sanctions due to alleged discrimination against White people
The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against White people and other minority groups in South Africa.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
fascinating.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/9fR2r8Qlyyk?...
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Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City
YouTube video by Little Steven
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I never knew how helpful it was when potential reviewers promptly declined invitations to review. Once @cwolbrecht.bsky.social posted about that and it nudged me to try to be better, so let me also present you with that as a nudge for you to -- accept review requests, or decline promptly! 🤝🏼
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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For a comparativist specializing in African politics: please apply, and/or share! #polisky @dadakim.bsky.social @texasinafrica.bsky.social careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/18366
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Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies
Bowdoin College’s Department of Government and Legal Studies invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level in the comparative politics of Afric...
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Growing all the things... @tarynj19.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social explains the importance of the moment we are in and the potential ramifications...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why we need the social sciences to understand AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...
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Opinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It
Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.
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Prof. Carl LeVan @democracyprofdc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I missed APSA last year because of my admin burdens. But I was just telling someone last night how we have been filling the room for 25 years -- APCG has been though generations of leadership and changes and it still brings the love
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This APSA has been a wild ride for me. I want to shout out the political scientists studying Africa as a generous group of people who show up for each other as constructively critical scholars and caring humans. Long live APCG and all of her people.
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📄 (Paper) Plainly Speaking: How Scientific Communication Can Increase Trust in Science  📍 (Panel) Solutions for a Polarized World - Sun, September 6, 8:00 to 9:30am EDT ✍️ (Author) @dadakim.bsky.social #APSA2026 #EGAPAPSA #APSA
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 29/08/2026
Are you a current student interested in writing and researching for Lawfare? Apply today to join our Student Contributor Program for the 2026-2027 academic year! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stud...
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Student Contributor Program Applications Are Now Open
Are you a current student interested in writing and researching for Lawfare? Join our Student Contributor Program for the 2026-2027 academic year!
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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Okay, guys. I'm going to stop beating around the bush. Who's going to invite me to Uppsala?
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"On the other is a dismal conglomeration of oddly unconvincing economists, shabby intellectuals, smelly left-activists and other such human detritus, purporting to “steer” technology and send us all stumbling down the road to serfdom." <- the side I'm on. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-acemog...
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The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI
Regarding that Economist article ...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)
Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Over the last three days, I’ve read a lot of Dolly Parton stories and appreciations to fully understand her power and allure. If you can only read one, read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"...Dolly Parton is the one good thing in our empire’s twilight."
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
About 1/3rd of American students take college classes entirely online. About 1/3rd take some classes online. Around 1/3rd take only in-person classes. -latest from Phil Hill
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Great read in @goodauth.bsky.social by new fellow @kelcib.bsky.social: on the Faye-Sonko split and how it's more than just a personal dispute: goodauthority.org/news/senegal... #Senegal
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Senegal’s populists confront the challenge of governing
A power struggle reveals a core challenge for populist movements: How to govern within the very institutions they vowed to dismantle? Discover the internal battles shaping Senegal's future.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The people who attack you are always having a blast. It’s psychosexual. They are livid when you exercise any autonomy — quote tweet to ending your life is one continuum of the same violation to them. How dare you not be an object.
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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My first piece as a Good Authority Fellow is out: "Good to Know: Why people support political violence." Thanks to @goodauth.bsky.social; and to @claryc.bsky.social and Vanessa Lide for substantive feedback and sharp editing. goodauthority.org/news/good-to-know-why-people-support-political-violence/
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Good to Know: Why people support political violence
Political violence isn't a simple issue. Discover the surprising conditions under which people justify political violence, and why surveys often miss the mark.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
ICYMI earlier this week, check out this very cool reporting from the road connecting Lagos and Abidjan by @npr.org. You might think it's about a road, but it's really about democracy and development: apps.npr.org/west-africa-...
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In West Africa, one road could change a continent — and the world
A 600-mile journey along the shores of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast reveals one of the world's most consequential transformations.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🍂Our October issue is in the works!🎃🍂 We want to hear from you! Comment below which topics you want to see in our next issue!
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Journal of Democracy
The <em>Journal of Democracy</em> has been a leading voice in the conversation about government by consent and its place in the world.
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Anne Meng @annemeng.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🚨Job alert 🚨 UVA is hiring an assistant professor in CP! Apply here 👉🏻 apply.interfolio.com/190673
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"In 2010, Nigeria awarded a four-hundred-and-seventy-million-dollar contract to a Chinese company to install CCTV cameras around Abuja; there is still not a single working camera, and the money is unaccounted for." Kidnappings in Nigeria by Alexis Okeowo photos by Etinosa Yvonne and Yagazie Emezi
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The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice
Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I didn’t read this when it came out and a friend just sent it to me. It’s a perfect Sunday read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.
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US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease
S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Also, she was a political scientist.
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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Excellent FT piece on UAE's expanding investments across Africa: "The UAE is creating a complex system of commercial, industrial and military entanglements that sometimes reinforce but also undermine the sovereignty of fragile states — most notably in war-torn Sudan."
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The UAE’s imperial push into Africa
The Gulf state is investing heavily in land, ports and influence across the continent. But its entangled goals come at a price
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I am not complaining about reporting for jury duty. I am complaining that somehow someone somewhere thought crochet hooks are a dangerous item that cannot be allowed into the courthouse.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
**Taps sign**
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/08/2026
In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)
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In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
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Matthias Rompel @matthiasrompel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
From my own experience working with governments, regional organisations, and health institutions across Africa, I have seen that the strongest responses are led locally. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...
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To stop Ebola, fund the response at its source | Matthias Rompel
The most effective Ebola response starts long before an outbreak makes global headlines. A thought-provoking article by Dr. Jean Kaseya, Reem Alabali Radovan, Hadja Lahbib and Éléonore Caroit in Deve...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Jesse Acevedo @profejacevedo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My paper "Exodus and vote: Mass emigration and voter turnout in Honduras" is out in Electoral Studies doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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