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kim yi dionne (she/her)

@dadakim.bsky.social
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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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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not sure if these came up in the replies, so sharing just in case: www.amazon.com/dp/052557511... and www.amazon.com/Wont-Always-... (both graphic memoirs and enjoyed by kids + adults!)
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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfill...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bryan (2026a): abcnews.com/US/love-coun...
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'I love this country': Zach Bryan addresses backlash from song with ICE lyrics
The Department of Homeland Security replied Wednesday after country singer Zach Bryan posted online about the controversy surrounding his forthcoming song.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fragile truce between Ethiopia and Eritrea is breaking.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great job in a great department with great colleagues!
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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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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
TFW you’re less popular than Nixon.
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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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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
and his occupation makes it more likely for him rather than, say, the long list of people I wouldn't cry about this happening to. 🦹🏼‍♀️
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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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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In our house, we have family reading time (7:30-8pm) every weeknight. There’s a dictionary on the table in case anyone has to look anything up (the conversations we have about the words we look up is the second best thing about reading time!).
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There’s nothing that can substitute impeccable taste and judgment.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hear me out (I currently have COVID and have been home a week). Some things don’t get rescheduled! Some things get figured out without you. It’s not perfect but it’s still pretty great and resting has meant I’m bouncing back faster (i don’t know the counterfactual, I know).
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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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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My life mantra since my had money to be taken.
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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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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
sharing is caring, but I need to _invite_ you to share my cheese.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
you have taken this art form to a new level. you should be proud. I enjoy those threads very much.
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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
"But figuring out better mixes and avoiding worse ones is _really fucking hard_." 🫳🏼🎤
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"It is neither brilliant nor original to say that any such groups, structures and mechanisms will involve some mix of markets, bureaucracy, democracy, and perhaps other social technologies of discovery, coordination and self-correction too, rather than the sole predominance of the one or the other."
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
it's not just witty, @himself.bsky.social's post can teach us things--like what a critical juncture is: "the short period when one path is chosen rather than another, leading to one set of self-reinforcing increasing returns phenomena being chosen, and another being left to wither amidst the tares."
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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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