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World cities of the global south: the West African city as an international actor
Cities form international connections through sister-city and twin-town exchanges, they brand themselves to attract businesses and talent, and they even join international cooperative avenues. Inte...
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Wrote for African Identities about how city diplomacy works in the Global South, using examples from Lagos and Freetown! Despite unique challenges, African cities use creative strategies to attract global capital.
Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...
Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...
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Funny Numbers
xkcd.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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happy to allow Republican converts who have seen the light and realized Trump is a monster to come groveling to us and apologize for all the years of calling us hysterical
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
happy to allow Republican converts who have seen the light and realized Trump is a monster to come groveling to us and apologize for all the years of calling us hysterical
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
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These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
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just took line 6 this evening, two weeks since opening. a smooth 8 min to jane, and then an 8 min ride back (faster than scheduled).
-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
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-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
1/2
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
just took line 6 this evening, two weeks since opening. a smooth 8 min to jane, and then an 8 min ride back (faster than scheduled).
-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
1/2
-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
1/2
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Queer people and their allies have spent a year figuring out who our friends are—and we’ve learned that there are fewer of them than we’d hoped, writes @judedoyle.bsky.social.
The year ‘post-woke’ broke | Xtra Magazine
In 2025, bigotry was trendy, and we found out who our friends really are
xtramagazine.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Queer people and their allies have spent a year figuring out who our friends are—and we’ve learned that there are fewer of them than we’d hoped, writes @judedoyle.bsky.social.
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The thing that always gets me about the whole “mass migration means immigrants recreate the conditions of their country of origin!” thing is that it is so transparently fucking nuts that there is not a single example of it ever being true in all of human history
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The thing that always gets me about the whole “mass migration means immigrants recreate the conditions of their country of origin!” thing is that it is so transparently fucking nuts that there is not a single example of it ever being true in all of human history
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I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
The DOJ Just Made It Almost Impossible to Prove Racism Exists
By rolling back “disparate impact" claims, the Trump administration is reducing courts to mere rubber stamps for the white supremacy written into the laws.
www.contrabandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
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I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
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"I understand how hard voter education is, but we can't deny that residents want ranked-choice voting and they are smart enough to understand how it works," counters @chenderson.bsky.social, the D.C. Council's staunchest support of RCV.
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"I understand how hard voter education is, but we can't deny that residents want ranked-choice voting and they are smart enough to understand how it works," counters @chenderson.bsky.social, the D.C. Council's staunchest support of RCV.
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My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
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I don't view it as stupidity anymore, but as a profound moral failing, to be this willfully credulous, which millions of people are even a decade into this.
December 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't view it as stupidity anymore, but as a profound moral failing, to be this willfully credulous, which millions of people are even a decade into this.
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1) We don't know what the rabbi thought about anything
2) From witness accounts, the killers shot indiscriminately
3) There is zero evidence the killers knew exactly who would attend the event
4) It is not okay to kill people for having views you disagree with
5) You know all this
2) From witness accounts, the killers shot indiscriminately
3) There is zero evidence the killers knew exactly who would attend the event
4) It is not okay to kill people for having views you disagree with
5) You know all this
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
1) We don't know what the rabbi thought about anything
2) From witness accounts, the killers shot indiscriminately
3) There is zero evidence the killers knew exactly who would attend the event
4) It is not okay to kill people for having views you disagree with
5) You know all this
2) From witness accounts, the killers shot indiscriminately
3) There is zero evidence the killers knew exactly who would attend the event
4) It is not okay to kill people for having views you disagree with
5) You know all this
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Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
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Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
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I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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Last night, 8-month-old Rahaf died of exposure after her family’s tent in Gaza was flooded.
No parent should have to bury their child, yet this horror is the reality for countless Palestinians displaced by Israel’s genocide.
Canada’s complicity must end. Sanction Israel now.
shorturl.at/5I3i8
No parent should have to bury their child, yet this horror is the reality for countless Palestinians displaced by Israel’s genocide.
Canada’s complicity must end. Sanction Israel now.
shorturl.at/5I3i8
Baby dies of exposure after storm Byron floods Gaza tents, medics say | CBC News
Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, flooding hundreds of tents sheltering families displaced by two years of war and leading to the death of a baby girl due to exposure, local hea...
shorturl.at
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Last night, 8-month-old Rahaf died of exposure after her family’s tent in Gaza was flooded.
No parent should have to bury their child, yet this horror is the reality for countless Palestinians displaced by Israel’s genocide.
Canada’s complicity must end. Sanction Israel now.
shorturl.at/5I3i8
No parent should have to bury their child, yet this horror is the reality for countless Palestinians displaced by Israel’s genocide.
Canada’s complicity must end. Sanction Israel now.
shorturl.at/5I3i8
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Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac.
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac.
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
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the commentariat is disproportionately white and white people are disproportionately racist. is probably the simplest explanation for why there's so much reluctance to just say that trump is a racist piece of shit and always has been.
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
the commentariat is disproportionately white and white people are disproportionately racist. is probably the simplest explanation for why there's so much reluctance to just say that trump is a racist piece of shit and always has been.
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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I think people should read my piece on the democrats instead because I open up by contrasting Cory booker ‘s 24 hour filibuster with him giving Jared kushners dad a diplomat confirmation
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/this-year-in...
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/this-year-in...
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think people should read my piece on the democrats instead because I open up by contrasting Cory booker ‘s 24 hour filibuster with him giving Jared kushners dad a diplomat confirmation
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/this-year-in...
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/this-year-in...