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Apr 10 5 tweets 2 min read
Exit Poll #franceelection

Macron 28%
Le Pen 23%
Mélenchon 20%
Zemmour 7%
Pécresse 5%

Pretty good for Macron... maybe too good for high turnout in second round.
Candidates of two main parties (Rep+PS) together at 7% 😮

Le Pen +2%, far right 'just' +6% 🙄

More importantly, not much "mainstream right" left to distribute in second round! 🤔

All in all, not bad for Macron. But not too good for French liberal democracy.
Already listening for 5 minutes to a RN MEP talking on @FRANCE24 about the victory of the "Somewheres" over the "Anywheres". I wonder where he got that terminology from. 🤔
It remains insane that also in France a geriatric professional politician is the voice of the "radical left".
So far every politician interviewed on @france24 comes out strong against Le Pen, both Pecresse and a woman from Mélenchon's party (M himself will probably take another weasily position though).

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Apr 10
The main story of the first round of the #FrenchElections2022 is not at the extremes but at the heart of liberal democracy. And it's not a particularly French story, although there are certain French particularities. A speculative thread. 🧵
1. Far right is not big winner. Le Pen gains 2%, which is minimal, while other far right (Zemmour and Dupont-Aignan), get 5% more than D-A got in 2017.

Zemmour's support is part poor given massive media attention for him as well as his support from within mainstream right.
2. This +7% for the combined far right should be seen in the context of the main story of today, the complete implosion of Les Républicains, the mainstream right, which lost 15% (!) compared to 2017.
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If you want to better understand why the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential elections will not be free and fair by design, and why the Republican Party is fundamentally anti-democratic, I've made a shortt selection of (recent) articles from across GOP-dominated states. #thread
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Oct 28, 2021
Time for some movie recommendations/reviews again. I have been watching a lot and am a bit behind here.

Some absolute gems and a few disappointments.
Fatma 🇹🇷

Turkish short series about a tormented cleaner who goes on a killing spree. Exceptional acting by lead actress in a highly intelligent, intense, and original series. 9/10
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Long Arabic series that is supposed to portray live in the ISIS Caliphate. Pathetic acting and dramatic music together with thin story makes this boring anti-ISIS propaganda. 4/10
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Oct 26, 2021
I often get emails from European students who want to do a PhD "with me." So, let me try to explain how US PhD system and academic system work, so that you can make a more informed decision. 🧵
1. First and foremost, in the US you do not apply to a professor but to a department!
2. Unlike in most other countries, in the US you go to grad SCHOOL, which means you must take 2-2.5 years of classes, take a (pointless) "comprehensive exam", before you actually start working on your PhD research.
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Oct 13, 2021
Today @BORUSG is going to effectively end tenure for all public colleges and universities in Georgia, including my own @universityofga

Let me try to explain what tenure is and why it is important to how academia works. 🧵
1. Let me start by saying that I will not make a moral argument for tenure. Clearly, I support it, and think it is crucial for academia, but there is a moral question why some people have ob security and others do not (particularly in US context).
2. In the simplest terms, tenure means job protection. It means you have a "job for life" barring exceptional circumstances -- such as, your university/department goes bankrupt, you are involved in (serious) criminal activities.
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Today is Mark Rutte’s 4000th day as @MinPres of the Netherlands. 🇳🇱

A thread on his achievements for Dutch liberal democracy. 🧵
1. As junior minister, Rutte was convicted for discriminating on the basis of ethnicity.
2. In his first run as VVD leader, he got fewer preferential votes than #2 (Rita Verdonk),

This was the first time in Dutch history that a arty leader did not get the most preferential votes of his party.
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