Ora Szekely
@oraszekely.bsky.social
Political science professor | political violence and civil war in the Middle East | very pro-Rhode Island.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky
@oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
@oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
Insurgent Women
press.georgetown.edu
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky
@oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
@oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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A protest against ICE in the Park Avenue neighborhood appeared to provoke the federal agents to leave a roofing job site.
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
www.wxxinews.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A protest against ICE in the Park Avenue neighborhood appeared to provoke the federal agents to leave a roofing job site.
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
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6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
August 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
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Are there any civ-mil scholars who are not alarmed by this?
Anyone?
Anyone?
Sending the Guard to police DC citizens politicizes the military--just like using it and active duty troops against protesters and in immigration and counter cartel missions does.
This is no accident. It's part of a broader effort to transform the military into a partisan force.
This is no accident. It's part of a broader effort to transform the military into a partisan force.
NYT reporting today that the admin. is planning to use the U.S. military ag/ cartels. This has actually been in the works for awhile as I argued in this Foreign Affairs piece from April.
It's part of what I see as an effort to politicize the military and transform it into a partisan force. 1/
It's part of what I see as an effort to politicize the military and transform it into a partisan force. 1/
August 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Are there any civ-mil scholars who are not alarmed by this?
Anyone?
Anyone?
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Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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During McCarthyism, they went after individuals to force their agenda, now they're going after entire institutions.
The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all.
We must fight back.
#DefendHigherEd
The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all.
We must fight back.
#DefendHigherEd
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
During McCarthyism, they went after individuals to force their agenda, now they're going after entire institutions.
The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all.
We must fight back.
#DefendHigherEd
The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all.
We must fight back.
#DefendHigherEd
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it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now
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Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant.
Guess the country.
Guess the country.
June 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant.
Guess the country.
Guess the country.
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Why, it contains no king.
June 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why, it contains no king.
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This phone interview contains a detailed description of the wildest fucking shit I've ever heard on television news, hands down
'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This phone interview contains a detailed description of the wildest fucking shit I've ever heard on television news, hands down
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I don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant
May 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant
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congratulations to Donald Trump on losing the Canadian election
CTV HAS DECLARED A LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
congratulations to Donald Trump on losing the Canadian election
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Political Science and IR people are going to be extremely annoying about star wars for a few weeks. You cannot stop it, so I recommend you shelter in place.
April 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Political Science and IR people are going to be extremely annoying about star wars for a few weeks. You cannot stop it, so I recommend you shelter in place.
Good.
Harvard will not comply.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
— Harvard President Alan M. Garber
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
— Harvard President Alan M. Garber
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
www.thecrimson.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Good.
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to all who celebrate...
April 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
to all who celebrate...
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"Hell is realizing that most of the people you voted for, even those you really admired, were not built for a crisis like this and are not coming to save you."
Meditations on Hell
“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE - - - Hell is not a lake of fire, no...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"Hell is realizing that most of the people you voted for, even those you really admired, were not built for a crisis like this and are not coming to save you."
This is excellent. I'm proud to be a member of the AAUP.
BREAKING:
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
@aaup.bsky.social and @aftunion.bsky.social sue over government “using cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution.” www.aft.org/press-releas...
March 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is excellent. I'm proud to be a member of the AAUP.
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.