kim yi dionne (she/her)
@dadakim.bsky.social
Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
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"You have to think of [the capture of Maduro] in the context of today, the decline of American democracy, the weakening of guardrails. ..This is playing with fire in a totally different setting than previous precedents," says @profsaunders.bsky.social.
January 4, 2026 at 12:59 AM
"You have to think of [the capture of Maduro] in the context of today, the decline of American democracy, the weakening of guardrails. ..This is playing with fire in a totally different setting than previous precedents," says @profsaunders.bsky.social.
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New piece in @goodauth.bsky.social on what Trump's actions in Venezuela might mean.
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What happens now in Venezuela – and the world?
What happens now in Venezuela – and the world? Trump’s no-guardrails foreign policy raises big questions about the global order, not just about who will run Venezuela.
goodauthority.org
January 3, 2026 at 9:27 PM
New piece in @goodauth.bsky.social on what Trump's actions in Venezuela might mean.
goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...
goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...
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"And with that, the 2025 season comes to an end..."
Here are Good Authority's top 10 articles of the year.
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
A super thread 🧵
Here are Good Authority's top 10 articles of the year.
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
A super thread 🧵
Good Authority’s top 10 posts of 2025
Thermostatic politics, democracy under attack, Venezuela, South Africa, and more – the analysis Good Authority readers counted on in 2025.
goodauthority.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"And with that, the 2025 season comes to an end..."
Here are Good Authority's top 10 articles of the year.
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
A super thread 🧵
Here are Good Authority's top 10 articles of the year.
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
A super thread 🧵
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Number 1 for @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 has been the MSIRA partnership with @dadakim.bsky.social Marissa Brookes and Jennifer Merolla and their team of excellent research assistants cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/str...
Streamlining with strings attached?
Recent research shows allies of major powers often come out ahead when the World Bank reforms.
medium.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Number 1 for @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 has been the MSIRA partnership with @dadakim.bsky.social Marissa Brookes and Jennifer Merolla and their team of excellent research assistants cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/str...
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Not enough conversation about the Mali jerseys IMO.
CAN 2025: le Mali se qualifie au petit trot, le Maroc bien au rendez-vous des huitièmes de finale
CAN 2025: le Mali se qualifie au petit trot, le Maroc bien au rendez-vous des huitièmes de finale
Pas de vainqueur ni de but, lundi 29 décembre, lors de la troisième et dernière journée du groupe A entre les Comores et le Mali, dans la CAN 2025. Un troisième match nul consécutif qui suffit aux Aigles pour accrocher la deuxième place, qualificative pour les huitièmes de finale. Dans l'autre match, le Maroc n'a laissé aucune chance à la Zambie (3-0). Les Lions de l'Atlas terminent en tête et sont aussi qualifiés. Zambiens et Comoriens sont éliminés.
rfi.my
December 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Not enough conversation about the Mali jerseys IMO.
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“The worst outbreaks of measles and whooping cough (or pertussis) in many years are festering around the country, and not only is the federal government AWOL, but Kennedy is expending great effort to make these outbreaks worse, and add more diseases.”
measles and whooping cough are running riot around the country, and RFK has stacked the CDC and the national vaccine oversight panel with anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists: prospect.org/2025/12/15/k...
The Kennedy Center of Contagious Diseases - The American Prospect
Measles and whooping cough are spreading around the country. The man in charge of American public health is making everything worse.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“The worst outbreaks of measles and whooping cough (or pertussis) in many years are festering around the country, and not only is the federal government AWOL, but Kennedy is expending great effort to make these outbreaks worse, and add more diseases.”
“If UC’s leaders have preached restraint, its faculty has opted for open defiance.” www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“If UC’s leaders have preached restraint, its faculty has opted for open defiance.” www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
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Looking for conversations on cutting edge #GlobalHealth #Politics issues to add to your syllabi this Spring? Check out podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @dadakim.bsky.social @jeremyyoude.bsky.social @aliciay.bsky.social @catworsnop.bsky.social @profmarycollier.bsky.social @yanlong-soc.bsky.social
The Global Health Politics Podcast
Social Sciences Podcast · Updated Monthly · Hosted by Joseph Harris, the Global Health Politics podcast features intimate, one-of-a-kind conversations with leading scholars, practitioners, policymaker...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking for conversations on cutting edge #GlobalHealth #Politics issues to add to your syllabi this Spring? Check out podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @dadakim.bsky.social @jeremyyoude.bsky.social @aliciay.bsky.social @catworsnop.bsky.social @profmarycollier.bsky.social @yanlong-soc.bsky.social
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I wrote about the violence reaching the capital of Mali @goodauth.bsky.social
- Peacebuilding failed
- This doesn’t mean all interventions are doomed, just under some conditions (even in Mali!)
- Not too late for international community to think creatively about helping civilians in Mali
- Peacebuilding failed
- This doesn’t mean all interventions are doomed, just under some conditions (even in Mali!)
- Not too late for international community to think creatively about helping civilians in Mali
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I wrote about the violence reaching the capital of Mali @goodauth.bsky.social
- Peacebuilding failed
- This doesn’t mean all interventions are doomed, just under some conditions (even in Mali!)
- Not too late for international community to think creatively about helping civilians in Mali
- Peacebuilding failed
- This doesn’t mean all interventions are doomed, just under some conditions (even in Mali!)
- Not too late for international community to think creatively about helping civilians in Mali
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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Thanks Eric! Apply here for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thanks Eric! Apply here for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
Someone some time in the past found a vendor that could print faces onto African wax fabric (and you could order online). Anyone have info on this? cc @texasinafrica.bsky.social @rachelstrohm.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Someone some time in the past found a vendor that could print faces onto African wax fabric (and you could order online). Anyone have info on this? cc @texasinafrica.bsky.social @rachelstrohm.bsky.social
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🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
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🚨 Applications are open for the 2026–27 Good Authority Fellowship! 🚨
Political scientists passionate about public engagement will receive a $2,500 stipend and mentorship in writing for broad audiences.
Apply by Jan 9, 2026, 5pm PT.
Apply at the link👇
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Political scientists passionate about public engagement will receive a $2,500 stipend and mentorship in writing for broad audiences.
Apply by Jan 9, 2026, 5pm PT.
Apply at the link👇
goodauthority.org/news/announc...
Announcing the 2026-2027 Good Authority fellows program!
Apply by Jan. 9, 2026 to join the Good Authority team of contributors.
goodauthority.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🚨 Applications are open for the 2026–27 Good Authority Fellowship! 🚨
Political scientists passionate about public engagement will receive a $2,500 stipend and mentorship in writing for broad audiences.
Apply by Jan 9, 2026, 5pm PT.
Apply at the link👇
goodauthority.org/news/announc...
Political scientists passionate about public engagement will receive a $2,500 stipend and mentorship in writing for broad audiences.
Apply by Jan 9, 2026, 5pm PT.
Apply at the link👇
goodauthority.org/news/announc...
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The US president cannot take such a reckless, catastrophic action.
Discrimination of this kind is explicitly banned by the 1965 law that governs our immigration system.
Our 1965 law was designed to bar the poisonous racist, bigoted days of Asian+African exclusion that preceded it.
Discrimination of this kind is explicitly banned by the 1965 law that governs our immigration system.
Our 1965 law was designed to bar the poisonous racist, bigoted days of Asian+African exclusion that preceded it.
Trump says US will ‘permanently pause migration from all Third World countries’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that his administration will work to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.” His comments ca...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The US president cannot take such a reckless, catastrophic action.
Discrimination of this kind is explicitly banned by the 1965 law that governs our immigration system.
Our 1965 law was designed to bar the poisonous racist, bigoted days of Asian+African exclusion that preceded it.
Discrimination of this kind is explicitly banned by the 1965 law that governs our immigration system.
Our 1965 law was designed to bar the poisonous racist, bigoted days of Asian+African exclusion that preceded it.
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Great piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, and misogyny. Misogyny and racism over everything else in Trump’s world. And corruption, of course.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Great piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, and misogyny. Misogyny and racism over everything else in Trump’s world. And corruption, of course.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
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As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
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Trump's "peace' plan for Ukraine is not only morally unacceptable but myopic and no basis for a lasting peace. goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...
Ukrainians don’t think much of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan.
Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.
goodauthority.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Trump's "peace' plan for Ukraine is not only morally unacceptable but myopic and no basis for a lasting peace. goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...
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I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Check out my op-ed in @thehill.com on why now is the time for the GOP to embrace the public option @bridgingthegap.bsky.social @buceid.bsky.social @bucas.bsky.social @dadakim.bsky.social @mattmotta.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @whitehouse-47.bsky.social
In this @thehill.com op-ed, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social (Boston University) argues that offering a “public option” could reduce health care costs for millions of Americans and explains why Republican lawmakers could view the idea as a viable strategy for 2026.
Read the piece:
Read the piece:
How Republicans can rescue the party and do something good for Americans
The Republican Party needs to offer a “public option” in the American health care system to provide relief to Americans facing soaring health care premiums and to avoid a midterm electi…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Check out my op-ed in @thehill.com on why now is the time for the GOP to embrace the public option @bridgingthegap.bsky.social @buceid.bsky.social @bucas.bsky.social @dadakim.bsky.social @mattmotta.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @whitehouse-47.bsky.social
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It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election (Gift Article)
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Why do some international conflicts lead to civil war at home whereas others do not? Hear UCR Professor Jennifer Merolla introduces recent research showing how involvement in interstate conflict is related to civil conflict escalation. youtube.com/shorts/nEg0f... #polisky
Why do some international conflicts lead to civil war at home whereas others do not?
YouTube video by Political Science Research
youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why do some international conflicts lead to civil war at home whereas others do not? Hear UCR Professor Jennifer Merolla introduces recent research showing how involvement in interstate conflict is related to civil conflict escalation. youtube.com/shorts/nEg0f... #polisky
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Great work everyone
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Great work everyone