Baris Cayli Messina
@bariscaylimessina.com
Assoc Professor / Editor-in-Chief, International Social Science Journal (Wiley) / Editor Temple Studies in Criminalization, History & Society Book Series
(Temple Univ Press)
A gay man 🏳️🌈
www.bariscaylimessina.com
#Sociology #History #Criminology
(Temple Univ Press)
A gay man 🏳️🌈
www.bariscaylimessina.com
#Sociology #History #Criminology
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#OnThisDay in 1919, the Spartacist uprising in Berlin was crushed by Freikorps forces. Today, tens of thousands will march through Berlin in commemoration of that grim anniversary, resolving to fight for a socialist future.
January 11, 2026 at 10:11 AM
#OnThisDay in 1919, the Spartacist uprising in Berlin was crushed by Freikorps forces. Today, tens of thousands will march through Berlin in commemoration of that grim anniversary, resolving to fight for a socialist future.
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Sounds like a good place to hold a mass trial for treason when all this is over.
Trump on the ballroom: "It will take care of the inauguration with bulletproof glass, drone-proof ceilings, and everything else unfortunately that today you need."
January 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Sounds like a good place to hold a mass trial for treason when all this is over.
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32 people died in ICE custody last year and barely anything was done about it. With the murder they committed today, ICE has further proven that they are out of control and absolutely not working to keep people safe. This is domestic terrorism. Congress must act. #mepolitics
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
32 people died in ICE custody last year and barely anything was done about it. With the murder they committed today, ICE has further proven that they are out of control and absolutely not working to keep people safe. This is domestic terrorism. Congress must act. #mepolitics
#ICE functions as organised brutality against #immigrants. The Minneapolis killing shows what research confirms. This agency operates through terror, criminalises survival, deploy #racialisedviolence and kills with impunity. Institutions built on dehumanisation must be abolished.
#AcademicaSky
#AcademicaSky
Live updates: Around 200 people marched more than two miles from the scene of the shooting to Minneapolis City Hall, shouting “ICE out now!” after police hurried away from the scene Wednesday afternoon.
The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.
The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.
Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis
Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 8:21 AM
#ICE functions as organised brutality against #immigrants. The Minneapolis killing shows what research confirms. This agency operates through terror, criminalises survival, deploy #racialisedviolence and kills with impunity. Institutions built on dehumanisation must be abolished.
#AcademicaSky
#AcademicaSky
The UN headquarters is in New York. To host an institution you are destroying is absurd. This is autocratic nihilism.
American exceptionalism is now American isolation, and autocrats worldwide are now probably celebrating this.
Trump just handed Putin, Xi and every other autocrat another gift.
American exceptionalism is now American isolation, and autocrats worldwide are now probably celebrating this.
Trump just handed Putin, Xi and every other autocrat another gift.
If you're in Europe and just waking up, here are the 60+ bodies - around half of them under the UN umbrella - from which the US has withdrawn
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 8:03 AM
The UN headquarters is in New York. To host an institution you are destroying is absurd. This is autocratic nihilism.
American exceptionalism is now American isolation, and autocrats worldwide are now probably celebrating this.
Trump just handed Putin, Xi and every other autocrat another gift.
American exceptionalism is now American isolation, and autocrats worldwide are now probably celebrating this.
Trump just handed Putin, Xi and every other autocrat another gift.
A Prime Minister who studied law and knows exactly what the UN Charter is and why it exists, now speaking as if it were optional. This is nformed consent to illegality that chooses alignment over law, power over principle, and calling it the national interest. A sad statement for all British people.
Keir Starmer: "I constantly remind myself that 24/7 our defence, our security & our intelligent relationship with the US matters probably more than any other relationship we've got in the world and it would not be in our national interest to weaken that in any way"
January 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM
A Prime Minister who studied law and knows exactly what the UN Charter is and why it exists, now speaking as if it were optional. This is nformed consent to illegality that chooses alignment over law, power over principle, and calling it the national interest. A sad statement for all British people.
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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David Cornwell, aka John le Carré, from April 2001: “The new American realism, which is nothing other than gross corporate power cloaked in demagogy, means one thing only: that America will put America first in everything. . . I think the sooner Britain and Europe wake up to that fact, the better.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
David Cornwell, aka John le Carré, from April 2001: “The new American realism, which is nothing other than gross corporate power cloaked in demagogy, means one thing only: that America will put America first in everything. . . I think the sooner Britain and Europe wake up to that fact, the better.”
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Global justice is under threat at an unprecedented pace.
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
December 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Global justice is under threat at an unprecedented pace.
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
Global justice is under threat at an unprecedented pace.
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
December 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Global justice is under threat at an unprecedented pace.
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
Poverty entrenches, wars expand, human dignity becomes more fragile, and democracy frays.
May 2026 advance collective repair and summon the shared courage to build a better and more just world.
#AcademicSky
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CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026 Call for applications
The Sociological Review Foundation invites proposals for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring “Who and what is sociology for?”
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
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After more than a decade in archives, streets, kitchens, funerals.
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
December 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
After more than a decade in archives, streets, kitchens, funerals.
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
I disagree! Applying the same standard to everyone doesn't create #equality. It only preserves privilege.
Fair judgment asks what people achieved given the resources and constraints they faced.
That’s why targeted positive discrimination, especially for women, is sometimes necessary.
#AcademicSky
Fair judgment asks what people achieved given the resources and constraints they faced.
That’s why targeted positive discrimination, especially for women, is sometimes necessary.
#AcademicSky
Theda Skocpol: "Universities ... went overboard with trying to boost some groups ... I'm a big believer in equality. I fought for equality ... But I believe in actual equality, applying the same standards to everyone, not using special quotas or excuses for particular groups."
Discuss.
Discuss.
December 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I disagree! Applying the same standard to everyone doesn't create #equality. It only preserves privilege.
Fair judgment asks what people achieved given the resources and constraints they faced.
That’s why targeted positive discrimination, especially for women, is sometimes necessary.
#AcademicSky
Fair judgment asks what people achieved given the resources and constraints they faced.
That’s why targeted positive discrimination, especially for women, is sometimes necessary.
#AcademicSky
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Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted
Late one summer’s night in 2018, I was walking with a friend through central Thessaloniki when a man approached us to ask for directions. We stopped and, without warning, he attacked us. My friend got...
www.amnesty.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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The small town of Castel di Lucio (pop. 1,200), in the Nebrodi Mountains in Sicily, has decided not to fund Christmas illuminations this year, instead donating the money (€4k) to the Italian charity "Emergency" for humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Niente luminarie, i soldi vanno a Gaza: il gesto di solidarietà del piccolo paese dei Nebrodi. «Per quest'anno rinunciamo volentieri»
Succede a Castel di Lucio, un paese in provincia di Messina, di appena 1200 abitanti. In piazza solo l'albero di Natale e una grotta
www.lasicilia.it
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The small town of Castel di Lucio (pop. 1,200), in the Nebrodi Mountains in Sicily, has decided not to fund Christmas illuminations this year, instead donating the money (€4k) to the Italian charity "Emergency" for humanitarian aid in Gaza.
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Learned from New School friends this evening that the university is planning its own version of a “school for civic thought.” A university founded by Columbia faculty who rejected the call for “unqualified loyalty” to the US govt during WWI, is now embracing patriotism, + Isaacsonian hagiography?
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Learned from New School friends this evening that the university is planning its own version of a “school for civic thought.” A university founded by Columbia faculty who rejected the call for “unqualified loyalty” to the US govt during WWI, is now embracing patriotism, + Isaacsonian hagiography?
After more than a decade in archives, streets, kitchens, funerals.
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
December 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
After more than a decade in archives, streets, kitchens, funerals.
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
Years of listening, waiting, rewriting history from below.
A Slow Revolution is now under contract with Cornell University Press.
A book about #Sicily, the #mafia, betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of #justice.
#AcademicSky
The same rich, connected circle that sells the public “values” keeps turning up in the same rooms, same jets, same networks. But justice for survivors can’t come with VIP exemptions.
Democrats release more images from Jeffrey Epstein estate as pressure mounts on Trump’s justice department to release files – live
Democrats release more images from Jeffrey Epstein estate as pressure mounts on Trump’s justice department to release files – live
Latest images include photos of words written across a woman’s body
Democratic lawmakers will release more photographs from evidence gathered from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein if the Department of Justice fails to meet the Friday deadline to disclose investigative documents, Congressman Robert Garcia told CNN yesterday.
Speaking to Erin Burnett, Garcia said a petition to the federal court by Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein’s convicted accomplice - to have her conviction on sex trafficking charges thrown out and to obtain a pardon do not trigger an exemption to the law Congress passed mandating a release of documents by the DoJ. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The same rich, connected circle that sells the public “values” keeps turning up in the same rooms, same jets, same networks. But justice for survivors can’t come with VIP exemptions.
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Reposting my op-ed "Arming Our Campuses Is Not the Answer,"
that appeared in the October 11, 2015 issue of INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/1... #guns #gunviolence #gunsoncampus
that appeared in the October 11, 2015 issue of INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/1... #guns #gunviolence #gunsoncampus
Colleges need to install security systems to prevent mass shootings (essay)
If we can't rid campuses of guns, we must create security checks throughout them, argues Jeffrey Ian Ross.
www.insidehighered.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposting my op-ed "Arming Our Campuses Is Not the Answer,"
that appeared in the October 11, 2015 issue of INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/1... #guns #gunviolence #gunsoncampus
that appeared in the October 11, 2015 issue of INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/1... #guns #gunviolence #gunsoncampus
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#Iran: PEN International condemns the violent and arbitrary arrest of Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi on 12 December. We are gravely concerned for her health and safety and call for her immediate and unconditional release.
Read our statement ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/iran-au...
Read our statement ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/iran-au...
Iran: authorities must release writer and Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi immediately and ensure her safety — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwid...
“We are deeply shocked by the news of the brutal assault and subsequent detention of prominent Iranian writer and Nobel laureate, Narges Mohammadi last week. Mohammadi has always faced persecution due...
www.pen-international.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#Iran: PEN International condemns the violent and arbitrary arrest of Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi on 12 December. We are gravely concerned for her health and safety and call for her immediate and unconditional release.
Read our statement ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/iran-au...
Read our statement ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/iran-au...
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Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)