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My book threads:
1 Harper's End of Empire teapawt.org/__earth/status/9536130…
2 Roff's Origins teapawt.org/__earth/status/9770079…
3 Mahathir's Malay Dilemma teapawt.org/__earth/status/9444874…
4 Ariffin's Bangsa Melayu teapawt.org/__earth/status/9013073…
5 Winsdtet's Malaya teapawt.org/__earth/status/8788508…
(Others weren't in threads)
But to contextualize, African economies had greater challenges that East Asia/SEA
Studwell cites:
Low population
Low-cost colonialism that led to low educational investment
White settlers legacies
Weak national identities
Weak central govt
In How Asia Works, Studwell was critical of Malaysia-Indonesia-Thailand for incomplete/limited land reforms
But these SEA economies were so successful in terms of broad-based growth versus African economies that they are seen in largely positive light in this book
Robert Mugabe rehabilitated partially?
Studwell is a proponent of pro-smallholders land reforms and Mugabe did just that, although under pressures from rival factions
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This is a stunning upset for so many reasons.
Members of UofM Board of Regents are typically from the state’s richest families and biggest party donors.
Amir not only unseated a regent in the primary who went after pro-Palestinian student protestors hard but now the lawyer who represented these students sits on the board of a major university. That’s a first.
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3 Most Jewish towns in Michigan
West Bloomfield: (Harris +11)
🔵 El-Sayed 14,772 (52.3%)
🔴 Rogers 12,916 (45.8%)
Huntington Woods: (Harris +62)
🔵 El-Sayed 2,971 (65.3%)
🔴 Rogers 1,509 (33.2%)
Franklin: (Harris +23)
🔵 El-Sayed 1,044 (51.4%)
🔴 Rogers 956 (47.0%)
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A common misconception. Only the males are Michiganders, the females are Michigeese and children are Michigoslings.
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🚨ABDUL EL-SAYED TROLLS JD VANCE AND TRUMP IN HIS VICTORY SPEECH:
EL-SAYED: JD. Habibi. There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.
So you know what that means, Wolverine one, Buckeyes zero.
Donald, look, I, I know you, you struggle with my name, so after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator.
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James Talarico defeats Republican Ken Paxton in Texas Senate race, becoming the first Democrat to win statewide office in over 30 years. apnews.com/live/midterm-elec…
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Projection:
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is the Projected Winner in the Michigan Senate election. He will defeat Republican Mike Rogers.
Democratic Hold
#Election2026 #ElectionDay #MISen
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This final effort to other Abdul El-Sayed is appalling, and a good antidote is to listen to the way he speaks about what being an American means to him. This is from our interview in September:
