Emmanuel Balogun
@eabalogun.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Political Science at Skidmore College and Visiting Fellow-Hoover Institution | Author: Region-Building in West Africa | Only willing to argue about the Celtics and Golden Era Hip-Hop. | Emmanuelbalogun.org
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I’m thrilled that the Kennan Institute is back as an independent institution and delighted to have joined as a non-resident fellow www.kennaninstitute.org
Kennan Institute | Advancing Scholarship and Statecraft
Explore expert analysis on Russia, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia. Stay informed with the latest research, events, and policy insights from The Kennan Institute.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I’m thrilled that the Kennan Institute is back as an independent institution and delighted to have joined as a non-resident fellow www.kennaninstitute.org
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Jesus I see what you've done for others
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Jesus I see what you've done for others
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For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
www.whatimreading.net
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
This UNGA speech...
a man in a suit holds a box that says " wrap it up "
Alt: a man in a suit holds a box that says " wrap it up "
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September 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This UNGA speech...
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there we go: we've finally gotten to the important part of this speech: how he once bid to renovate UNHQ for $500 million, but they decided to go in a different direction, with terrazzo instead of marble and no mahogany. that was the moment, he said, he knew they didn't know what they were doing.
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
there we go: we've finally gotten to the important part of this speech: how he once bid to renovate UNHQ for $500 million, but they decided to go in a different direction, with terrazzo instead of marble and no mahogany. that was the moment, he said, he knew they didn't know what they were doing.
Whoever "broke" the teleprompter for Trump's UNGA speech...I see you.
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Whoever "broke" the teleprompter for Trump's UNGA speech...I see you.
Can't wait!!
My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!
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Uncivil Democracy
How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities
press.princeton.edu
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Can't wait!!
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It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.
September 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.
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I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better
I’m not looking at colleges with my kids for some years yet but the question about staffing in particular is one I think every parent should ask
September 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better
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🔍 Researching African politics?
📢 Call for Papers: APCG Online Colloquium
Present your unpublished work, get feedback & connect with peers.
🗓 Deadline: September 8, 2025
👉 More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...
📢 Call for Papers: APCG Online Colloquium
Present your unpublished work, get feedback & connect with peers.
🗓 Deadline: September 8, 2025
👉 More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...
APCG Online Colloquium Call for Papers - Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
The presentation of papers in the APCG Online Colloquium is open to all scholars of African politics. Papers broadly related to political topics or subjects in Africa will be considered for presentati...
www.afpol.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🔍 Researching African politics?
📢 Call for Papers: APCG Online Colloquium
Present your unpublished work, get feedback & connect with peers.
🗓 Deadline: September 8, 2025
👉 More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...
📢 Call for Papers: APCG Online Colloquium
Present your unpublished work, get feedback & connect with peers.
🗓 Deadline: September 8, 2025
👉 More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...
Special delivery today! Can't wait to dive in, @hofrench.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Special delivery today! Can't wait to dive in, @hofrench.bsky.social
I see parallels in Higher Education decision-making right now.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...
Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says
In Google's continuing effort to run more efficiently, the company has been getting rid of managers who oversee fewer than three people.
www.cnbc.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I see parallels in Higher Education decision-making right now.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...
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If you're looking to put language about academic freedom on your syllabus this fall, here is some template language we developed at the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom @aaup @aft.org
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/putting-ac...
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/putting-ac...
Putting Academic Freedom on the Syllabus
Fostering the best conditions for learning.
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you're looking to put language about academic freedom on your syllabus this fall, here is some template language we developed at the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom @aaup @aft.org
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/putting-ac...
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/putting-ac...
"This isn’t bringing a knife to a gunfight. This is looking at the sky for fireworks when the bullet casings are landing at your feet.” I guess bars run in the family @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Call it whatever you want but call it something so that the pattern isn’t lost on folks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
Opinion | How to Make Sense of Trump’s Voting Rights Chaos
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"This isn’t bringing a knife to a gunfight. This is looking at the sky for fireworks when the bullet casings are landing at your feet.” I guess bars run in the family @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Thank you @warcticantarctic.bsky.social! Perfect timing if anyone wants to meet over coffee in Bologna for next week's @europeanisa.bsky.social's PEC.
Check out the updated profile of Gabriella Gricius @uni-konstanz.de & @naadsn-rdsnaa.bsky.social and learn more about her work on Nordic security community formation and hybrid threats to critical infrastructure in the European Arctic region womeninthearcticandantarctic.ca/2021/02/01/g...
Gabriella Gricius
Dr. Gabriella Gricius is a Fellow and the Media Coordinator with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz. She is …
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August 22, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Thank you @warcticantarctic.bsky.social! Perfect timing if anyone wants to meet over coffee in Bologna for next week's @europeanisa.bsky.social's PEC.
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What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy
Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
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I mean this from my heart.
That is the experience of every Black woman in corporate America.
White people agreeing with you behind the scenes but leaving you out to swim alone and fight everybody’s battles with ZERO public support
That is the experience of every Black woman in corporate America.
White people agreeing with you behind the scenes but leaving you out to swim alone and fight everybody’s battles with ZERO public support
And certain TX politicians are calling her “a hero” rather than going down there and raising hell to get her out. Unserious.
“Voting blue is still better.”
The white folks are holding a sitting Black representative HOSTAGE and them fuckers aint doing shit about it. Kiss my ass.
The white folks are holding a sitting Black representative HOSTAGE and them fuckers aint doing shit about it. Kiss my ass.
August 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I mean this from my heart.
That is the experience of every Black woman in corporate America.
White people agreeing with you behind the scenes but leaving you out to swim alone and fight everybody’s battles with ZERO public support
That is the experience of every Black woman in corporate America.
White people agreeing with you behind the scenes but leaving you out to swim alone and fight everybody’s battles with ZERO public support
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“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
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That “summit” was the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse.
August 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
That “summit” was the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse.
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One reason why we haven’t seen much “debate” about our economic statistics is because they have moved to being a part of the bureaucracy. They are professionalized and carried out in a routine and systematic fashion. They’re transparent. That isn’t by chance, but by design.
August 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One reason why we haven’t seen much “debate” about our economic statistics is because they have moved to being a part of the bureaucracy. They are professionalized and carried out in a routine and systematic fashion. They’re transparent. That isn’t by chance, but by design.
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in case you want to know what we're saying, we got a lyric video for you
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6C...
Femi and the Foundation - Walk on By (feat. Clifford Cartel) (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Femi and the Foundation
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August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
in case you want to know what we're saying, we got a lyric video for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6C...
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Super impressive effort from journalism students at Franklin College in Indiana covering their state capitol. Not a capstone course, <100 majors, basically one editor. #aejmc25
www.thestatehousefile.com
www.thestatehousefile.com
thestatehousefile.com
www.thestatehousefile.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Super impressive effort from journalism students at Franklin College in Indiana covering their state capitol. Not a capstone course, <100 majors, basically one editor. #aejmc25
www.thestatehousefile.com
www.thestatehousefile.com
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Any suggestions for those of us who might have thicker thighs and waists than those in the photos? Todd Shelton doesn't seem to go past a 40 waist.
If you're looking for jeans you can wear with sport coats, consider Buck Mason's Full Saddle cut, Levi's Vintage Clothing's 1947 501s, Rubato Lot Nr1, Orslow 105 and 107, and The Armoury by Nigel Cabourn. Todd Shelton can also make custom jeans if you can't find what you need.
August 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Any suggestions for those of us who might have thicker thighs and waists than those in the photos? Todd Shelton doesn't seem to go past a 40 waist.