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Nate Schenkkan

@nateschenkkan.bsky.social
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Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 2h
My favorite
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MM 💛🤍💜 @matthewmiranda.bsky.social · 2h
jonquel mothafucking jones
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 3h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a Yankees catcher [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Yogi Berra! [SMITH]: That is Yogi Bear sir
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 2h
Feel like it kind of flew under the radar that the US Commission on Civil Rights released a report on responding to antisemitism in US universities and said they had not received any documents from the executive branch pursuant to their requests for information www.usccr.gov/files/2026-0...
"To investigate the scope and effectiveness of this federal response, the Commission sent
interrogatories and document requests to the civil rights offices at DOJ, ED, and HHS, requesting
data on Title VI claims, investigations, resolution agreements, settlement agreements, and any
other relevant investigatory and enforcement proceedings.33 As of July 2026, the Commission has
not received any of the requested information or documents from ED, DOJ, or HHS, nor responses
to follow-up attempts.
34 Interrogatories and document requests were also sent to nine public and
private universities35 requesting data on antisemitic incidents, Title VI claims and investigations,
and policies, procedures, and codes of conduct. The data were analyzed by the Commission’s
Office for Civil Rights Evaluation staff and are discussed herein."
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 6h
Just awful, criminal behavior by our highest court
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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 6h
26 pages??
Alexis de tocqueville
which I am sure most americans have read
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 6h
Oh, cool
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 6h
Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Profiles in "I won't be a senator soon"
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah I think back to reviewing projects about 2 years ago as a guest speaker for a class and being genuinely impressed with the level of sophistication... and realizing later that was probably just the product of prompting rather than understanding
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The thing about Choosin' Texas is that at a certain age, it's not just that you have not heard of the most popular song in the country, it's that you have not heard of any new songs
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On hybrid war discourse and how "Europe must respond": Europeans (and Americans) have been responding for years, evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of dead Russians in the fields of Ukraine.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good lord
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Trumpian tale in 4 acts: 1) Trump admin illegally closes down programs responsible for higher ed foreign language & int'l education; 2) Congress puts (some of the) $$ back in; 3) New grant competition is announced, schools apply; 4) Trump illegally cancels funds. Crazy xenophobic vandals
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John McCain called
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Discourse incoming
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ferry prices should go up and Citibike prices should go down
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He talks about it like he's been assigned to a warzone overseas
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It seems that, with the recent crackdown on opposition twitter accounts in Turkey, there's some migration to @bsky.app Here's a starter pack that I made when I first came to Bluesky. I think it is still mostly useful, though certainly incomplete go.bsky.app/NoVB1zM
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reading a 2020 report about attacks on academic freedom in Brazil
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"That's on me" spotted in the wild
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András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update: Kynev was reportedly tortured in custody and is in the prison hospital. He was arrested three days ago, in all likelihood for his analytical work on Russia's regions. t.me/ejdailyru/42...
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Политолога Александра Кынева (в реестре иноагентов в РФ) избили при задержании, он в тюремной больнице с переломами. Как сообщил источник «Слова защите» в медико-санитарной части № 77 ФСИН, после заде...
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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 28/09/2026
bazı kaynaklarda tahliyenin yanısıra 7 ay ve 11 ay olmak üzere iki hapis cezasına hükmedildiğini de okudum. doğru mu?
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Important Turkish lesson: tahliye not beraat
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Charles McPhedran @charliekreuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‼️ The historic National Academy of Sciences building in central Kyiv is burning, according to @christopherjm.ft.com
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DW Türkçe @turkce.dw.com · 28/09/2026
#SONDAKİKA “Ölü Deniz” adlı stand-up gösterisindeki ifadeleri nedeniyle 3 Temmuz’dan bu yana tutuklu olan komedyen Deniz Göktaş hakkında tahliye kararı verildi
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#SONDAKİKA “Ölü Deniz” adlı stand-up gösterisindeki ifadeleri nedeniyle 3 Temmuz’dan bu yana tutuklu olan komedyen Deniz Göktaş hakkında tahliye kararı verildi
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medyascope @medyascope.tv · 28/09/2026
Berlin'de seçimleri kazanan Elif Eralp'ten, kendisini “antisemit” olarak nitelendiren Federal İçişleri Bakanı Alexander Dobrindt hakkında suç duyurusu
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Elif Eralp’ten Almanya İçişleri Bakanı Dobrindt hakkında suç duyurusu - Medyascope
Berlin seçimlerini kazanan Sol Parti’nin başbakan adayı Elif Eralp, Federal İçişleri Bakanı Alexander Dobrindt hakkında suç duyurusunda bulundu.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thinking fondly of all the arguments we had about whether there was authoritarianism involved
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Robert Post uses this logic to ground his argument for academic freedom, because "democratic competence" is required for democracy to function
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yet somehow underwhelming in more games than I expect (not in this one)
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2026
In my house, we call this “Ender’s Syndrome”
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am glad the Liberty got their 'ship, but also, it feels like this is the end of the road for the Big Three and only one title between them would be a disappointment
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
some of them are like "you should call to follow up on your application! go hand it to them in person!" and then some of them are like "if you attempt to speak to me in any way for any reason I will light your resume on fire" and they ALL think their opinion is the obvious, valid one
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy #WNBA Playoffs Day to all who celebrate.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I thought Godzilla Minus One was... OK but not as good as the hype (I'll still watch the *** out of this)
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Choosin' Texas discourse: is it a distant reference to All My Ex's Live in Texas? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJr...
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All My Ex's Live In Texas
YouTube video by George Strait - Topic
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weirdly not seeing gender ideology on here
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
1) It's bad 2) I hope the AI agents had the experience of a human using a UN website, which is it made them want to drink bleach www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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OpenAI Agents Used Aggressive Techniques to Access U.N. Website
Autonomous bots hit the public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh and I think deporting someone to a third country is certainly a violation of article 9– against sending someone to exile.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
africanarguments.org/2026/09/ethi...
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Ethiopia's Foretold War Arrives | African Arguments
No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no less horrifying. In just a handful of days, and after months of spiralling tensions and sporadic...
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
but why
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did they show Trump during the UT-Tennessee game?
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But Article 14. Lest we forget one of the reasons the UN was created. “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” www.un.org/en/about-us/...
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated...
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the arch manning experience
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Vomit Bleh
ALT: Vomit Bleh
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What strikes me about these is that if future humanity is anything like us this *guarantees* they will dig up the nuclear waste buried there
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