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Reda Tamtam (he/him)
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PhD Student in Politics @Princeton
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For the first time in French history, a poll has the far-right RN candidate, here Jordan Bardella, winning the 2nd round of the election:
Jordan Bardella remporterait la présidentielle si elle avait lieu dimanche prochain - Odoxa
L'Opinion tranchée
www.odoxa.fr
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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liberation.fr
Le musée d’Art moderne de Paris consacre une exposition à Otobong Nkanga : ses œuvres, patchwork de matières, textures et formes, mêlent questionnements identitaires et critique de la destruction de notre planète.
Otobong Nkanga au musée d’Art moderne de Paris, talent aiguille
Le musée d’Art moderne de Paris consacre une exposition à l’artiste d’origine nigériane dont les œuvres, patchwork de matières, textures et formes, mêlent questionnements identitaires et critique de la destruction de notre planète.
www.liberation.fr
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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nerd4cities.bsky.social
New on Nebula: which cities have improved the most in the last 15 years?

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
CityNerd — Top 10 US Cities That Are Becoming More City-Like
If you listen to political discourse or follow urbanism content on the apps, you could easily believe US cities are uniformly terrible and getting worse. I'm here to tell you, this is incorrect. US ci...
nebula.tv
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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dannagal.bsky.social
In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
“Did women ruin the workplace”
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone
Matthew Yglesias V @mattyglesias I was sympathetic ex ante to the view that Senate Dems were being pushed by an angry base into a tactically unwise course of action, *but in fact it's worked just fine* and both the polling and election results confirm that — bizarre to give up now for peanuts. 1:41 PM • Nov 9, 2025 • 11.6K Views
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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rbkhoury.bsky.social
In this symposium on Syria contributors paint nuanced, grim, but clear-eyed pictures of multiple transitional challenges. Comparisons to other cases and situation in poli sci lit remind us Syria's not terribly unique. Amazingly, they all suggest ways through the obstacles.
zenodo.org/records/1745...
MENA Politics, Fall 2025
zenodo.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
As a new generation of train makes its inaugural journey in the French capital this week, enthusiasts on board see it as proof of the system’s superiority.
Is Paris Métro better than London Tube? Train buffs say yes
As a new generation of train makes its inaugural journey in the French capital this week, enthusiasts on board see it as proof of the system’s superiority
www.thetimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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nytimes.com
A record 154,000 public school students in New York City were homeless during the last school year, according to data released Monday. It's grim evidence that the city’s worsening housing crisis is wreaking havoc on its youngest and most vulnerable residents. nyti.ms/43rE1II
A yellow school bus in a street. A group of children in jackets stand by the front of the bus. A headline reads: "154,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year, a Record Number." Photo credit: Lexi Parra for The New York Times.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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simonkuper.bsky.social
It's easy to mock the French for seeming to want unlimited government spending. I've done it myself. But I sympathise with their anger: France is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. Me
@financialtimes.com on France's undertaxed billionaires - close to Macron on.ft.com/4qwaFDh
Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks
[FREE TO READ] Does the country need a wealth tax?
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
So CBS as an outlet just copies and retypes reports from the Free Press? Yikes.
newsjennifer.bsky.social @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · Oct 13
CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports
The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.
www.cbsnews.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
The new surprise Prime Minister in France is… the outgoing resigned Prime Minister.
liberation.fr Libération @liberation.fr · Oct 10
Nouveau Premier ministre : finalement renommé à Matignon, Lecornu «accepte par devoir la mission» confiée par Macron ➡️ bit.ly/3Wt7Pkq
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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financialtimes.com
What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong on.ft.com/42wdJ82 | opinion
What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong
People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts
on.ft.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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nilswilcke.bsky.social
Les préfets ont reçu ordre de l'Intérieur de réserver les dates du 16 et 23 novembre pour des élections, selon mes infos (source préfectorale), qui confirment celles du Canard. Macron semble préférer prendre le risque de mettre le RN au pouvoir que d'appeler la gauche à Matignon. #Off
October 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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xuxupolitics.bsky.social
Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
Sébastien Lecornu resigns 27 days into his job, and a day after nominating his government. Breaking the record for shortest PM tenure in France.
liberation.fr Libération @liberation.fr · Oct 6
📊 Démission de Sébastien Lecornu : qui sont les Premiers ministres les plus éphémères de la Ve République ?

➡️ bit.ly/46V47F0
October 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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mathieugallard.bsky.social
🇨🇵📊 sondage pour les élections municipales à Grenoble :

🟢EELV-PS 31%
🔵LR 21%
🔴FI 12%
🟠Renaissance 11%
🟣Place Publique 9%
⚫RN 8%
🔵Horizons 7%

E. Piolle ne se représente pas et la majorité EELV-FI a éclaté, une alliance EELV-PS semble envisageable.
www.ledauphine.com/elections/20...
Exclusif. Municipales 2026 à Grenoble : le sondage qui donne un gros avantage à la liste de Laurence Ruffin
En septembre, l’Ades (association écologiste de Grenoble) commandait un sondage à l’Institut Cluster 17 en vue des municipales de mars 2026.
www.ledauphine.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?
jamiedupree.bsky.social Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · Oct 1
Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
The far-right RN in France get two Vice President seats in the Assemblé Nationale thanks to votes from Macron’s party MPs.
Le RN de retour au bureau de l’Assemblée nationale
Les députés RN Sébastien Chenu et Hélène Laporte ont bénéficié des voix du bloc central pour retrouver leurs postes de vice-présidents, contre l’avis de la gauche, pour qui aucun suffrage ne devait al...
www.lemonde.fr
October 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
I personally benefited from this when I applied, and I highly recommend it with wonderful people!
marchvidkjaer.bsky.social Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social · Sep 30
We will (again) be organizing PS-Prep this year.
I especially encourage (and hope to speak with) students from outside the US to apply, to understand an applicational system that is different, voluminous and complicated.
I will also encourage students early in their degree to ...
September 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
redatamtam.bsky.social
Straighten them out one by one, reminds me a lot of "zenga, zenga" (alleyway by alleyway).
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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mattkribar.bsky.social
I’m thrilled that my job market paper, “Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in sub-Saharan Africa,” is hot off the press and open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. A quick thread featuring more than you ever wanted to know about land tenure.
September 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM