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Nate Schenkkan
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Be the Greek cafe guy you want to see in the world
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Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social |
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Senior Director of Research at Freedom House. Transnational Repression, Authoritarianism, Turkey, Eurasia, and more
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Nate Schenkkan
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Be the Greek cafe guy you want to see in the world
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Nate Schenkkan
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This is good counsel
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Howard Eissenstat
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Not that many people outside of Turkey are much concerned with its "authoritarian creep" anymore, but rest assured...
It's still creeping
www.voanews.com/a/turkey-rev...
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Kieran Healy
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+210 seats gained on a +2% increase in vote share. FPTP Democracy truly a miracle of representation.
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Jens Siegert
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Orban in Moscow. Question: Did Zelensky know that Orban would meet Putin only a few daYs after his visit in Kyiv? Or has he tricked him as well?
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Judah Grunstein
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Which of these people is a working-class voter? Which is an identity politics voter? The conventional wisdom's answers to those two questions is the root of much confusion about electoral politics in the US and Europe these days.
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Nate Schenkkan
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The newspaper of record writing over a thousand words about a few dozen people moving to other parts of the country because they like it better there, definitely a big trend, gotta tell everyone about it
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Nate Schenkkan
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This would hilarious if the people in it weren’t dedicated to destroying democracy
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Nate Schenkkan
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Wild
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lokman tsui
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ever since i left hong kong, i have been trying to make sense of what happened, and what is happening, to us.
this is a first attempt to write something about it in public.
hongkonger.world/2024/07/02/b...
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Paul Nadeau
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<waves from Japan>
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Nate Schenkkan
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They got Brexit done, and then Brexit did them
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Nate Schenkkan
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I agree and don’t say to ignore Project 2025. But spend more time focusing on not getting to it, and then on stopping it if we do get to where they have a chance to do it, and less time on scenarios about the executive branch rounding up all political opponents.
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Nate Schenkkan
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It has, and we’re at an inflection point. But it’s a long way to the bottom yet, and a lot of opportunities for off-ramps before we hit it.
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Nate Schenkkan
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It’s demoralizing & demobilizing to speculate about extreme scenarios, even if they are plausible in a long enough timeline. Focus instead on what you can do to prevent them: building coalitions (including with those who you disagree with on other issues) & acting in solidarity
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Nate Schenkkan
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(This is also why I’ve never liked the “authoritarian playbook” discourse but that’s another issue)
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Nate Schenkkan
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Stuff takes time. Pick your example—Hungary, Turkey, Russia, wherever—they are all quite distinct and didn’t get that way in a vacuum or overnight. Focus on the next thing rather than the hypothetical drawn from a different context.
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Nate Schenkkan
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I think it is wise and productive for people to take seriously the idea we are in a constitutional crisis in America. I don’t think it is wise or productive to assume what happens next is like what happens in semi consolidated or consolidated authoritarian systems.
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Howard Eissenstat
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Anti-immigrant sentiment is powerful in Turkey. Violence is not uncommon and, with economic duress hitting virtually every household, it is only going to get worse.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/w...
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Nate Schenkkan
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This is also what the comparativists will tell you
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Nate Schenkkan
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A nationalist gesture also being made by mobs attacking Syrians in Turkey right now
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Nate Schenkkan
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Good thread, especially for those who ask “why would anyone in Kyrgyzstan care”
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Yan Matusevich
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I’m not saying human rights practitioners here are naive, but many wanted to believe that at the end of the day the US system of checks and balances would stabilize the ship, correct the abuses and lead to progress
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Nate Schenkkan
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The golden years, really
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Nate Schenkkan
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The constitution was clear the president could only serve two terms. Erdoğa was elected to his first one in 2014 and his second in 2018. This would be his third. The opposition didn’t even challenge it legally when he ran anyway.
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Nate Schenkkan
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This kind of constitutional exception-making happens in competitive authoritarianism all the time. It happened in Turkey’s last presidential election cycle.
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Sense Hofstede
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Report that the China Coast Guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing ship near Kinmen and took it to a Chinese port, blocking the Taiwan Coast Guard seeking to come to the rescue:
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POLITICO Europe
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🚨 BREAKING: The chances of an outright victory for the far right in the French election fell today, as at least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and the centrist coalition pulled out of the contest.
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Robinson Meyer
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New from me: The Supreme Court — in addition to granting Trump broad immunity — is slowly breaking the EPA, eroding its ability to write new climate rules, respond to public comments, and punish companies that pollute the air and drinking water.
heatmap.news/climate/supr...
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David Kaye
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is torture an official act? are war crimes? both are criminal under U.S. law. what happens to presidential command responsibility? also, if POTUS is immune from prosecution, there is no complementarity. the court has made it easier for the ICC to pursue cases ag american presidents.
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Tom Pepinsky
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As the author of something that once made people lose their minds, I am telling you that I was talking about exactly this. I was correct then and I am correct now and I am terribly sorry about that
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Nate Schenkkan
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İstanbul Pride was held, despite every effort by the police to shut it down again
bianet.org/haber/istanb...
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Eric Rauchway
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I wrote a quick note about the time Roosevelt prepared a speech in which he proposed to fight a Supreme Court ruling. 🗃️
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Judah Grunstein
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It may or may not affect the outcomes a week from now, but the front républicain, in the form of tactical withdrawals from the second round, seems to be holding. More withdrawals by the left, too, which means Macron might end up with something to bargain with after Sunday.
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Nate Schenkkan
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That’s a lot of teeth
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Nicholas Wallace
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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Nate Schenkkan
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«За вашу и нашу свободу» и т.д.
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Nate Schenkkan
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Bring it back
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Judah Grunstein
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The two alarming aspects of yesterday's vote for me: 1. The RN's 2nd-round ceiling has become a 1st-round floor. 2. The French right considers the far left more of a danger than the far right. There are various historical parallels here, though the two extremes represent different threats today.
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Nate Schenkkan
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A surprise makes it even better. Glad for you
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Nate Schenkkan
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This seems very fancy, tebrikler!
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Nate Schenkkan
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Rejecting immigration is a policy of national suicide and should be treated as such
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Nate Schenkkan
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Kenji Lopez-Alt: I don’t know what Biden should do, but I tested 342 color schemes for yard signs
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Christy Quirk
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Ipsos says midday turnout in the French election is on track to reach the highest turnout in a first-round legislative election since 1981.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر
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WSJ: In official Israeli discussions of Gaza "day after," idea of civilian "islands" or "bubbles" – camps in which Israel would concentrate Gazan noncombatants (🖼️ 1) – reportedly gaining currency: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
It's called "population control" (🖼️ 2, 3, 4): tcf.org/content/comm...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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the season of Peaky Blinders we all deserve
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.
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Nate Schenkkan
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It’s going to be really funny when the NYT editorial board endorses Biden in October
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Nate Schenkkan
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Great book!
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