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parispaname.bsky.social
📸 Kurt Otto-Wasow.
Rue des Grands-Degrés
1950. Paris 5e automne
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
owasow.bsky.social
Random but true story: I have a credit on this film. www.imdb.com/title/tt0113...
Credit from the Film Hackers reads Omar Wasow, Hacking consultant: New York
May 10, 2026 at 5:24 AM
owasow.bsky.social
In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...
O WASOW: Papa, can I ask you a question? Just how does it feel to watch the Voting Rights Act get eviscerated by a thousand cuts? B WASOW: I just don't understand how people like the judges on the Supreme Court can do that. I mean, how could they have so little sense of history? Or is it truly that they are - that they have ill will? I find it astonishing.
April 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
parispaname.bsky.social
📸 Kurt Otto-Wasow.
La Tour Eiffel vue des toits.
1957. Paris
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
haemem.bsky.social
Puszystus Maximus.
25cm rozpiętości wąsów.
January 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
theophite.bsky.social
i think that the fact that people got fired for citing Wasow is pretty exemplary of the problem!
January 22, 2026 at 10:36 PM
rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Oliver Wasow, Portrait of an Old Man, 2025
September 5, 2026 at 12:17 AM
misstrottinette.bsky.social
© Kurt Otto-Wasow
Paris 1950s
December 26, 2023 at 11:08 AM
adaspota.bsky.social
Kurt Otto-Wasow ~ Rue Norvins, Montmartre, 1950s Paris
#Photography #Paris
September 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
gregsargent.bsky.social
Just gonna keep pointing out: White voters mostly *sided with the protesters* during BLM 2020 protests. Many pundits cited @owasow.bsky.social's research on protests hurting Dems in the 60s, but I interviewed Wasow and he correctly predicted times had changed:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
August 31, 2026 at 6:04 PM
gfkot.bsky.social
Jeżeli, jeżeli, jeżeli babcia Romanowski miałaby wąsy to by była dziadkiem. A Blaszczak bez wąsów jest idiotą.
August 14, 2026 at 10:48 AM
kleinman.bsky.social
Who's saying that big rallies don't do anything? Omar Wasow has proven that they do!
tutusntinyhats.bsky.social Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · Apr 5
Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
April 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
anyways. to be a bit more productive, as professor omar wasow notes, "almost no protests are witnessed in person." they are witnessed via images--via media--and, yes, via journalists. that is how information spreads.

you want your images to spread.

www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #61: The State of the Resistance
Samantha interviews Professor Omar Wasow, challenging him to reflect on the first year of the second Trump administration. What forms of resistance have worked? What forms have been less successful? W...
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 AM
innocence.com
Omar Wasow has done some great academic work on this topic: bsky.app/profile/owas...
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Feb 6
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting Article Abstract How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.
April 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Who wore it better?
Bronzino, Portrait of a Young Man with a Book, 1540
Oliver Wasow, Portait of a "Young" Man with a Book, 2025
September 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
monika09.eurosky.social
Z poradnika savoir-vivre dla początkujących
łamaczy niewieścich serc 😉

Nigdy nie komplementuj wąsów u kobiety,
nawet jeśli są zajebiste.
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
ullaeic.bsky.social
'Typisches Touristenbild'
#Fotovorschlag

Nationaltheater „Iwan Wasow“ in Sofia, Bulgarien
Ein großes prunkvolles Gebäude, ein Theater, mit vier Säulen am Eingang. Davor ein großer freier gepflasterter Platz.
November 19, 2024 at 7:31 AM
archimed2020.bsky.social
Adolf Hitler bez wasow😳😳😳
May 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
rabihalameddine.bsky.social
My portrait by Oliver Wasow
Olympia has nothing on me
August 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
bajarka1.bsky.social
Trudno ją wypatrzeć wśród trzcin, gdzie zręcznie przemieszcza się biegając po łodygach we wszystkich kierunkach. Gdy już zobaczymy hipsterskie czarne wąsy, nie sposób się nie uśmiechnąć😍
W 🇵🇱 nieliczna.
#MyClick -> dwa ♂️
♀️nie mają wąsów of course😉
#birds
Wąsatka (Panurus biarmicus)
Dzień dobry!👋
April 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
parispaname.bsky.social
📷 Kurt Otto-Wasow.
Rue Norvins et le Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre
c.1955. Paris France
January 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
leftists love to throw "nonviolence won't protect you!!" at liberals. but they misunderstand. nonviolence isn't about protecting yourself. nonviolence doesn't mean nonconfrontational.

nonviolence. is. about. winning.

www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
tomscocca.bsky.social
Fits very nicely with how Wasow impressed all the centrist dummies in 2020 by analyzing the spring 1968 riots as a wrongheaded electoral strategy for the Democrats
tomscocca.bsky.social Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 27
The post proposes everyone is caught up in a cascade of copycat behavior, except the university administrators who apparently each independently made a rational choice to send riot cops to bust up nonviolent sit-ins
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Apr 27
This seems like a very polite way to deny the protesters any agency or intent
April 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
so like i actually think this isn't true? just did a great interview with omar wasow about (among other things) the tactics of the civil rights movement. the problem isn't that there isn't real work to be done... it's that it's not good for posturing as More Radical Than Thou
January 22, 2026 at 10:35 PM