Ruchan Kaya
@ruchankaya.bsky.social
Assc. Prof. of Political Science @AustinCollege. #Oil #Elections #Democratization #politicaleconomy Tweets in #English & #Türkçe #FirstGen #Galatasaray🦁
Not a single lie in there.
October 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Not a single lie in there.
Texas!!
This map is why I encourage all of my students for study abroad, out of state grad school / law school etc.
Maybe, you’ll love it, maybe you’ll hate it; but you gotta try and experience different places.
This map is why I encourage all of my students for study abroad, out of state grad school / law school etc.
Maybe, you’ll love it, maybe you’ll hate it; but you gotta try and experience different places.
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Texas!!
This map is why I encourage all of my students for study abroad, out of state grad school / law school etc.
Maybe, you’ll love it, maybe you’ll hate it; but you gotta try and experience different places.
This map is why I encourage all of my students for study abroad, out of state grad school / law school etc.
Maybe, you’ll love it, maybe you’ll hate it; but you gotta try and experience different places.
Argentine economic history since the 80s is cyclical. Crisis, adjustment, over-borrowing, and crisis again. I am baffled how they keep getting away with this.
www.clarin.com/economia/pri...
www.clarin.com/economia/pri...
Cuatro de los principales diarios del mundo cuestionan el rescate de Trump a Milei
El Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Washington y The Wall Street Journal coincidieron en sus críticas al plan de Donald Trump para asistir con US$ 40.000 millones a la Argentina de Javier Milei.Señalan...
www.clarin.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Argentine economic history since the 80s is cyclical. Crisis, adjustment, over-borrowing, and crisis again. I am baffled how they keep getting away with this.
www.clarin.com/economia/pri...
www.clarin.com/economia/pri...
Good guy Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Good guy Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Zohran Mamdani, cleaning the NYC one criminal at a time.
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Zohran Mamdani, cleaning the NYC one criminal at a time.
I knew DOGE lost the war once they started attacking the national parks.
June 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I knew DOGE lost the war once they started attacking the national parks.
These billionaires love buying politicians and using them as puppies to “run”.
June 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
These billionaires love buying politicians and using them as puppies to “run”.
Annie Lowrey bending over backwards to call out Zohran Mamdani’s policies “impractical” because dems in Albany won’t support it.
Her alternative? Federal policy. As if people in Washington are more supportive of higher taxes for childcare.
Just say it Annie.
Her alternative? Federal policy. As if people in Washington are more supportive of higher taxes for childcare.
Just say it Annie.
June 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Annie Lowrey bending over backwards to call out Zohran Mamdani’s policies “impractical” because dems in Albany won’t support it.
Her alternative? Federal policy. As if people in Washington are more supportive of higher taxes for childcare.
Just say it Annie.
Her alternative? Federal policy. As if people in Washington are more supportive of higher taxes for childcare.
Just say it Annie.
The #NYT prefers Cuomo over Mamdani. The guy who had to resign the governor’s office due to sexual misconduct.
Anyone but a progressive! God forbid.
Anyone but a progressive! God forbid.
June 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The #NYT prefers Cuomo over Mamdani. The guy who had to resign the governor’s office due to sexual misconduct.
Anyone but a progressive! God forbid.
Anyone but a progressive! God forbid.
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Trump/Vance talk about “diplomacy” as a solution as if they invented it or thought about it for the first time.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
March 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Trump/Vance talk about “diplomacy” as a solution as if they invented it or thought about it for the first time.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
Trump/Vance talk about “diplomacy” as a solution as if they invented it or thought about it for the first time.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
March 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Trump/Vance talk about “diplomacy” as a solution as if they invented it or thought about it for the first time.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
No. Many people tried diplomacy with Putin before and it doesn’t work, dating all the way back to Bush era.
Even Zelensky himself offered it several times. Pictured quote is from 2022.
Trump: “He doesn’t have to stand there and say ‘Putin this, Putin that,’ all negative things. He’s got to say, ‘I want to make peace, I don’t want to fight any longer.’”
So, what bothered him was the criticisms against Putin?
So, what bothered him was the criticisms against Putin?
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump: “He doesn’t have to stand there and say ‘Putin this, Putin that,’ all negative things. He’s got to say, ‘I want to make peace, I don’t want to fight any longer.’”
So, what bothered him was the criticisms against Putin?
So, what bothered him was the criticisms against Putin?
Zelenskyy - Trump; sums up perfectly.
March 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Zelenskyy - Trump; sums up perfectly.
I think it was more JD Vance than Trump that confronted Zelenskyy at the meeting. IF Trump's aim was to make a peace deal, Vance undermined those efforts greatly. Rubio's body language during the meeting also tells a lot. I don't think he agreed with the strategy at all.
February 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I think it was more JD Vance than Trump that confronted Zelenskyy at the meeting. IF Trump's aim was to make a peace deal, Vance undermined those efforts greatly. Rubio's body language during the meeting also tells a lot. I don't think he agreed with the strategy at all.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks the world leaders for their support following his meeting with Trump, Vance, and Rubio.
February 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks the world leaders for their support following his meeting with Trump, Vance, and Rubio.
ZELENSKYY: He broke the ceasefire, he killed our people, he didn't exchange prisoners. We did. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
WHAT???
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
WHAT???
February 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
ZELENSKYY: He broke the ceasefire, he killed our people, he didn't exchange prisoners. We did. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
WHAT???
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
WHAT???
No class.
"I have never seen anything like this before" appears like a statement I will reiterate multiple times within the next four years.
"I have never seen anything like this before" appears like a statement I will reiterate multiple times within the next four years.
A breathtaking moment in American diplomacy. Here’s the transcript of today’s Trump/Vance face-to-face public humiliation of Zelensky. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vance becomes a literal shouting match — Meduza
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got into a shouting match in the Oval Office on Friday during a meeting meant to showcase a new agreement between Washington and ...
meduza.io
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
No class.
"I have never seen anything like this before" appears like a statement I will reiterate multiple times within the next four years.
"I have never seen anything like this before" appears like a statement I will reiterate multiple times within the next four years.
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"Alcoa warns Trump's aluminum tariff could cost 100,000 US jobs" https://buff.ly/3QWNK3r
February 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"Alcoa warns Trump's aluminum tariff could cost 100,000 US jobs" https://buff.ly/3QWNK3r
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RFK Jr has cancelled the US’s participation in creating next fall/winter’s flu vaccine. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...
Breaking: US FDA Cancels Upcoming Adcomm Discussing 2025-2026 Flu Vaccine
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting next month was scheduled to select strains for the 2025-2026 flu vaccine. The cancellation could mean delays in vaccine availabi...
insights.citeline.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
RFK Jr has cancelled the US’s participation in creating next fall/winter’s flu vaccine. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...
From ITEP: Impact Of Donald Trump’s Tax Proposals by Income Group.
February 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
From ITEP: Impact Of Donald Trump’s Tax Proposals by Income Group.
While the US giving concessions to Russia left and right, their state TV is showing viewers how they could nuke our country.
February 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
While the US giving concessions to Russia left and right, their state TV is showing viewers how they could nuke our country.
Worth every single penny.
Thank you, DOGE, for clearly visualizing what incredible value the American people get from their national parks. 17,700 permanent employees making an average of $81,000 a year serving 325 million visitors annually.
Is there a better value in the entire federal government?
Is there a better value in the entire federal government?
February 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Worth every single penny.
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If you'd like to be angry at something that's *not* the United States government tonight
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If you'd like to be angry at something that's *not* the United States government tonight