Hakan Topal
@hakantopal.info
Art, Politics, and Other Things in Life 🚴
Artist, Engineer, Sociologist, and Professor of a few things at SUNY Purchase
http://hakantopal.info
Artist, Engineer, Sociologist, and Professor of a few things at SUNY Purchase
http://hakantopal.info
WTF ? seriously?
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
WTF ? seriously?
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My new article, "Art After Disaster: Undoing the Negative Community", is now published in Ocean and Society (@CogitatioOaS)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsoci...
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccess
Art After Disaster: Undoing the Negative Community | Article | Ocean and Society
Hakan Topal
www.cogitatiopress.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My new article, "Art After Disaster: Undoing the Negative Community", is now published in Ocean and Society (@CogitatioOaS)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsoci...
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccess
Geriatric self-righteous a-holes!
🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government; the BBC rolling over for Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Mamdani.
Read today's 'First Draft':
zeteo.com/p/democrats-...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government; the BBC rolling over for Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Mamdani.
Read today's 'First Draft':
zeteo.com/p/democrats-...
🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again
Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on healthcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.
zeteo.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Geriatric self-righteous a-holes!
I have been talking to international friends for the last couple of days, and I am happy to report that NYC is cool again.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I have been talking to international friends for the last couple of days, and I am happy to report that NYC is cool again.
My new article, "Art After Disaster: Undoing the Negative Community", is now published in Ocean and Society (@CogitatioOaS)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsoci...
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccess
Art After Disaster: Undoing the Negative Community | Article | Ocean and Society
Hakan Topal
www.cogitatiopress.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My new article, "Art After Disaster: Undoing the Negative Community", is now published in Ocean and Society (@CogitatioOaS)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsoci...
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccess
In this lecture, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social argues that instead of state-run grocery stores, NYC facilitates and establishes city-wide food cooperatives, decentralizing power. Solidarity economy is the way to go.
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
A New Philosophy for the Left: Power to the People, Mamdani, the DSA, and Philosophical Foundations
YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In this lecture, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social argues that instead of state-run grocery stores, NYC facilitates and establishes city-wide food cooperatives, decentralizing power. Solidarity economy is the way to go.
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
YES.
If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
YES.
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If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.
Cuomo represents the worst of NYC, a geriatric, corrupt, shameless political operator.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Cuomo represents the worst of NYC, a geriatric, corrupt, shameless political operator.
If Mamdani wins, Zionists, Islamists, and other fundamentalists lose. Nice.
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If Mamdani wins, Zionists, Islamists, and other fundamentalists lose. Nice.
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Just to be clear, American liberals cheered global enablers of the authoritarian wave we’re now drowning in. Remember how silent Obama was when Erdoğan declared lawfare on democracy in 2010s?
Now this shit hit the fan at home!
Now this shit hit the fan at home!
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just to be clear, American liberals cheered global enablers of the authoritarian wave we’re now drowning in. Remember how silent Obama was when Erdoğan declared lawfare on democracy in 2010s?
Now this shit hit the fan at home!
Now this shit hit the fan at home!
Morally corrupt, racist MAGA billionaire Ackman!
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Morally corrupt, racist MAGA billionaire Ackman!
Independent of the ongoing genocide, Palestinians must confront the reality that Hamas (or other Islamist movements) cannot and should not be seen as the legitimate representative of their rights or aspirations.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Independent of the ongoing genocide, Palestinians must confront the reality that Hamas (or other Islamist movements) cannot and should not be seen as the legitimate representative of their rights or aspirations.
Bari Weiss is a DEI hire by her Lords!
‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’
Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as CBS News' editor-in-chief. Employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias & more censorship, writes @premthakker.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as CBS News' editor-in-chief. Employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias & more censorship, writes @premthakker.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’
Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as editor-in-chief of CBS News, as employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias, more censorship, and lower editorial standards.
zeteo.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Bari Weiss is a DEI hire by her Lords!
Welcome to the Turkish Republic of America my friends!
We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
September 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Welcome to the Turkish Republic of America my friends!
The only thing this country had going was freedom of expression. Now that it’s gone, this is a shitty third-world country, a police state!
this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The only thing this country had going was freedom of expression. Now that it’s gone, this is a shitty third-world country, a police state!
In this neoliberal hell, everyone is a customer, until they are not. Then, they are just nobody.
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In this neoliberal hell, everyone is a customer, until they are not. Then, they are just nobody.
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
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Middle East crisis – live updates
A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts.
It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
There is no such thing as a peace process in Turkey. It is just a cosplay!
Görevden uzaklaştırılan tutuklu Esenyurt Belediye Başkanı Ahmet Özer'den iktidara:
"Barış süreci yürütürken antidemokratik adımların atılması sürece zarar veriyor!"
t24.com.tr/haber/gorevd...
"Barış süreci yürütürken antidemokratik adımların atılması sürece zarar veriyor!"
t24.com.tr/haber/gorevd...
September 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There is no such thing as a peace process in Turkey. It is just a cosplay!
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Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
September 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
Islamism is fascism.
Turkish police fire pepper spray in standoff at opposition HQ reut.rs/4n3Z5wE
Turkish police fire pepper spray in standoff at opposition HQ
Police fired pepper spray and detained supporters of Turkey's main opposition party on Monday as protesters gathered at the party's Istanbul headquarters to prevent the replacement of a senior party official ordered by a court last week.
reut.rs
September 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Islamism is fascism.
I am glad Brazilians are protecting their democracy before it is too late!
Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday in dueling political protests, opening a tense week that is expected to conclude with the conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Read more: nyti.ms/42hKXaT
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I am glad Brazilians are protecting their democracy before it is too late!
This is precisely what Erdogan did when he came to power. Now look at Turkey, a failed state.
He seeks to rule by decree because he cannot govern within the law.
September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is precisely what Erdogan did when he came to power. Now look at Turkey, a failed state.
Stop painting. Make art!
September 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Stop painting. Make art!