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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

@banuop.bsky.social

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Barrett Hazeltine Professor of the Practice of Engineering at Brown University. Researches #culture, #inclusion, & #innovation. Loves #travel & #chocolate. My books: 📕 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023641 📖 https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529204551 .. more

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly - I always think about Mon Mothma’s Senate speech in Andor:
“The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.”

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 21h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 22h

We’re in the United States of Upside Down:

This administration has convinced people that the “business case for diversity” is scarier than the “business case for fascism”…which is unfolding in real time with the help of tech billionaires

💙 #democracy #diversity #inclusion #fascism #business 💙

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

This is my favorite so far! www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride in Portland announces date

“Joy is a form of protest,” organizers of the in-the-buff bike ride said in a post.

www.oregonlive.com

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is best described by Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’:

👉Normalization of immoral acts
👉Conformity as test of loyalty
👉Weaponized bureaucracy

Even if you’re not an ‘evil’ person, you will be unrecognizable to yourself as you support in more and more extreme ideas and lies

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to have you as our CT Senator. They’re inflicting trauma on a national and global scale - we will need to collectively heal in order to rebuild this great nation

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed #strongertogether and thanks for the follow back!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

it’s all just a grift

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for listing me!!

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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 1d

The Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais on Oct 15—a case that could reshape voting rights nationwide. At stake is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the core protection that stops racial discrimination in redistricting. If it falls, one party could control Congress for a generation. 🧵

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

That would be something! There’s a great research by Mehrsa Baradaran on how ethnic groups became white, a nice snippet explained here www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing....

The Racial Wealth Gap? It All Comes Down to Black Banks

Data show that the median white family has 10 times more wealth than the average black family, a fact familiar to law professor Mehrsa Baradaran.

www.pbs.org

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t disagree with you - changing someone’s perspective and mind takes a number of steps and for DEI work, there is so much misinformation & disinformation that we have to surface first in order to dispel

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 2d

From our ongoing book and research into the origins of the DEI backlash

👉Dogmatic approach to DEI
↪️ reactive resentment 🟰shutting the door in your face

👉Appreciative inquiry to DEI
↪️ opportunity to understand 🟰rolling out the welcome mat

@academic-chatter.bsky.social #science 🧪

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 2d

Yes there is a big difference there

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 2d

Lotus or red bean 🥮 ?

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 2d

Great to connect :)

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 2d

Wow it’s not coming up anymore!

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