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Dr. G @freeintellectual.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

In this deep-dive conversation, Professor Humberto Garcia explores the idea of so-called “Protestant Muslims” and how Islam shaped debates during the English Enlightenment. Hope you enjoy the conversation: youtu.be/EFNzNg2L2As

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Islam and the English Enlightenment: A Conversation with Prof. Humberto Garcia | Deep Dive Talk #1

YouTube video by Islam and the Idea of America

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Reminder: @kenlburns.bsky.social excellent documentary on the American Revolution starts streaming tonight! Don’t miss it!

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Dr. G @freeintellectual.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

When we first meet Don Quixote, Cervantes does something curious. He insists that he is not the real author of the book at all. Instead, he tells us he merely translated an Arabic manuscript. And here is the fascinating story of a stand-up comedian 👇 open.substack.com/pub/islamandth…

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Dr. G @freeintellectual.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My students at American University know how I love to unpack the symbolism behind the Temperance Movement & the women’s campaigns.But recently, I stumbled across a far earlier—and far stranger—example of women’s mobilization to save their men from…coffee! open.substack.com/pub/islamandth…

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Dr. G @freeintellectual.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

1652 Londra. Kralın kellesi gitmiş, cumhuriyetçiler gelmiş. Kuran’ın ilk İngilizce çevirisi dolaşıyor & ilk kahve evi açılıyor. “Kahve geldi, Kur’an da hemen arkasından!” diyor “Muhammedan Berry” dedikleri bu içecekle Cumhuriyet devrimini ilişkilendirenler youtu.be/ACkf6ren4Yk?...

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Doğu-Batı Masalı 2: Kahve veya Diğer İsmiyle "Muhammedan Berry" (Londra, 1652)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/06/2025

Who is Leonard Leo? He's a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office. But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority. By @andykroll.bsky.social‬ (Published Oct. 2023)

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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/03/2025

As the death toll from Myanmar's worst earthquake in more than a century rose past 2,000, many people have taken to social media to plead with foreign governments to redirect aid into Sagaing, a rebel stronghold where residents say that over 80% of the town has been destroyed. nyti.ms/4iJ43wR

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Ihsan Yilmaz @ihsanylmz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Can you please circulate? PhD Scholarship: The Effectiveness of Authoritarian Sharp Power Online in Influencing Diaspora Groups www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

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HDR Scholarship - Sharp power effectiveness

PhD Scholarship to research The Effectiveness of Authoritarian Sharp Power Online in Influencing Diaspora Groups

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

So good! Deeply moving and cathartic to be in community. Go watch the #Encampment at the Angelika!

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Diego Cupolo @diegocupolo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"The question is, what can happen? The judiciary isn’t working anymore. People come out on the street, but we know that they can be put down. It’s very dangerous. Turkey will end up being a lesson in some way," @whitejenny.bsky.social told @ichotiner.bsky.social.

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Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America?

After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces protests on a scale not seen in a decade.

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Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In arresting his political enemies, Erdoğan counted on the support of Turks who hated the PKK and Fetullah Gulen more than they cared about the rule of law. Trump too is counting on the support of Americans who hate Hamas more than they respect the Constitution. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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We Study Repression in Turkey. Now We See It Here.

The detention of a Tufts graduate student echoes the violation of rights in her home country.

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning. He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

BREAKING: Newly obtained footage of the abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk which includes audio of her kidnappers.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/03/2025

Over a thousand protesters gathered in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Wednesday to demand the freedom of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts PhD student and Fulbright scholar abducted by ICE agents. Ozturk is believed to have been targeted for co-authoring an opinion piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

So Rumeysa Ozturk is arrested in MA on Tuesday. Her lawyers rush to federal court on Tuesday night and obtain an order—ON TUESDAY NIGHT—not to move her out of MA. All day yesterday, ICE won’t say where she is. And now, on Thursday, they say she’s in Louisiana.

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RUMEYSA OZTURK
Country of Birth : Turkey
Status : In ICE Custody
State: LA
Current Detention Facility: SOUTH LOUISIANA ICE
PROCESSING CENTER
* Click on the Detention Facility name to obtain facility contact information

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/03/2025

The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves through the academic community as thousands turned out on Wednesday, demanding her release.

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Masked agents whisk away Tufts student from sidewalk, video shows

The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves through the academic community.

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Dr. G @freeintellectual.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A Sufi dervish confronts tyranny— Turkish society has indeed tremendous tolerance for autocratic regimes. But if you manage to make them go rebellious, that’s when you should know you’ve crossed the line too far. Credit: Hüseyin Aldemir for AP, Istanbul, March 23, 2025

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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/03/2025

A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges in a move that inflamed the country's biggest protests in more than a decade reut.rs/41TqKHA

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Turkey jails Istanbul mayor before trial, stoking opposition anger

As the courtroom developments unfolded, there were signs that the mayor's troubles were galvanizing opposition against Erdogan's government, which has run Turkey for 22 years.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/03/2025

Turkish authorities have detained nine journalists who covered overnight protests in several cities against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Journalists Union of Turkey said reut.rs/41U8rlC

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Turkey detains nine journalists over protests against Istanbul mayor's arrest, union says

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 23/03/2025

Author Pankaj Mishra argues Israel operates within a “culture of impunity,” emboldened by global far-right movements that admire Israel’s “brazen cruelty.”

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Israel’s “Culture of Cruelty” Inspires the Far Right Worldwide, Says Pankaj Mishra

“The World After Gaza” author Pankaj Mishra on what Israel’s war on Palestine reveals about power and violence.

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end. Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas. Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası. Resisting with style!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

JFC. One anti-government and anti-Erdogan protestor started doing push-ups in front of riot police whilst being pummelled with rubber bullets. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Visegrad24)

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

TIME has a person on the ground in El Salvador to document the deportation planes' arrival. "They entered their cold cells, 80 men per cell, with steel planks for bunks, no mats, no sheets, no pillow. No television. No books. No talking. No phone calls and no visitors." time.com/7269604/el-s...

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Dr. G @freeintellectual.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“The Domino’s pizzas arrived at the homes of federal judges without explanation. The message was clear: We know where you live.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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Opinion | Who Will Defend the Defenders of the Constitution?

The president and his allies are encouraging a campaign of menace.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

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Ahmet T. Kuru @ahmetkuru.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Malaysia's Islamic Affairs Council MKI #JAKIM recommended banning my 2 books! -Doesn't this prove my argument that the ulema-state alliance is anti-intellectual & stifles critical thinking? -Their accusations are false. My books don't contradict Sunni Islam. Details: www.facebook.com/dr.ahmettkur...

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In Nations in Transit 2020, my then-colleague @zecsaky.bsky.social wrote about how leaders were dropping the democratic facade. This is what’s happened in Turkey now—the final dispensing with even nominal efforts to comply with democratic norms. freedomhouse.org/report/natio...

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Dropping the Democratic Facade

Dropping the democratic facade in Europe and Eurasia

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is also happening—one of the most senior journalists in Turkey, who has broken huge story after huge story for years even as the whole media collapsed around him, in prison on some nonsense

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The White House invokes the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to arrest & deport any foreign alien over the age of 14 considered to be hostile, regardless of their migration status. This Act was used during the Second World War to detain Japanese, Germans & Italians www.connectas.org/us-bound-mig...

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US-Bound Migrants, From the American Dream to Trump’s Nightmare

Trump implemented anti-immigration measures that have all sorts of implications

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Putin's puppet.

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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A historic shift may be on the horizon, as Turkey and Kurdish militant leader Ocalan engage in unexpected peace talks. After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. Watch our short explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rc...

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Is this the end of the PKK insurgency? | With Gönül Tol

YouTube video by Middle East Institute

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carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I will be discussing, among other topics, #Syria's new administration's approach for governance at the American University's panel event on Feb 11. I will be joined by General Joseph Votel, Professor Yerevan Saeed, and Sirwan Kajjo, and you can register here:

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Post-Assad Syria: A Window of Hope or a New Crisis?

SIS Founders Room

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