Really thrilled to receive the honor of first place paper at the PhD level🥇in the West Lakes AAG conference paper competition! Thanks WLAAG! @geographers.bsky.social

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

This is a risible argument, and it's also damning that Obama helped pave the way for it. The weakening of the War Powers Act has been a bipartisan effort. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

Republicans are mostly to blame for the shutdown (and I've said this since September). But Democrats knew that Trump flanked by Russ Vought would use SNAP as a pain point. Still, there's only one person who can end this: Trump. And he's shown no interest. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

No time for subtlety tonight, folks! Sign up to get out the vote for Mamdani here: www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv?r=uf_Vq...

Latest publication in Geoinformatics and Data Analysis is out! ➡️ “Microhabitat Restoration Applications of a Strategic Land Conservation Decision Support Model” 🗺️ We used a GIS resilience model to identify promising religious and faith-owned lands for SW Michigan microhabitat restoration! 🕌

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

Fucking THIS! I was born disabled, I know how hard chronic illness is. My mask isn’t a prison it’s literally my freedom from ✨not making it worse✨ so many people told me “covid is just like the flu so you’re not worse off than you were before you were always at risk” bruh I’ll fight you

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

Some good news. Gullah Geechee community in St Helena’s Island manages to block golf course development. By @kristaldixon.bsky.social

Our research on Microsoft’s data centers is out and it’s 😬 💡Huge energy demand (as much as New England by 2030!) 
⛽️ Fossil fuel reliance (most data centers in states with ≥50% FF grids) 
🏫Local impacts (data centers used to justify more gas) Learn more and take action: stand.earth/microsoft-ai

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

Protests are powerful, but they aren’t the only tool for change. KF Research Fellow @devawo.bsky.social explains how social movements are building community protection strategies that are quieter, local, and just as impactful.

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Self-serving politicians may want you to believe that violent crime is rampant and repeat offenders are to blame – but two things to remember: 1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels 2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"

white academics stop writing about power if you’re just going to cede yours at the slightest pressure challenge.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!

Firing a Black woman for quoting a white man about how unintelligent he believes Black women are is a clear example of how misogynoir, white supremacy & ableism work together to harm Black women uniquely. That is how intersecting oppressions work.

UC Berkeley has given the names of 160 Palestinian rights activists to the Trump administration to be investigated for “antisemitism” - including prominent Jewish professor Judith Butler apple.news/AlC4HA9EpRBi...

all in all I obviously wouldn't say things are peachy right now but as you make your way through the shittiest discourses known to man on this website don't doomscroll your way into a feeling of inevitability and defeatedness that the current geopolitical situation doesn't actually warrant

thank god we’re all against political violence

Opposing political violence requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s death. Opposing political violence also requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s life. Charlie Kirk spent his life encouraging his allies on the far-right to think violence was legitimate and concerns about it were fake.

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way Charlie Kirk: Jail every doctor who has treated transgender children. (Source: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...)

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

It’s such an enormous joy to share that our interdisciplinary team of Indigenous and settler scholars has launched the publicly accessible version of our work on land dispossession!! We have multiple modules available to educators (and the public!) at the link below…

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Just finished our annual start-of-term covid prevention set up!! Thankful to comrades at Mask Bloc 608 for providing supplies and allowing us continuing to help keep our campus safer. 💙

“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.

we have a new listserv, and have just sent a very important campaign update to our members--sign up below with a non-institutional email address! geog4pal.org/join/

one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless: keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff. we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜

Being extra patient with myself this week. My heart, mind, and hands are not going to match the speed of unfolding catastrophes. So, I am moving deliberately where I can, when I can, and doing my best.

Friends, please do yourselves a favor and mask outside in this AQI. I know it might feel silly or sound like overkill. I assure you it is not

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

Reuters: WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT SAYS 19TH CENTURY LAW BANNING NEARLY ALL ABORTIONS CANNOT BE ENFORCED

Burnett: Do you like capitalism? Mamdani: No, I have many critiques of capitalism. Yes! For too long it has been taboo to discuss legitimate critiques of capitalism in mainstream US media. This has shut down any chance of implementing real solutions to social crises. A new day is coming.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Democratic socialism is the future of America. It is the way forward. It is the true victory over Trumpism and the dead centrism that is its business-friendly twin.

🚨ICE is detaining a record 59,000 people, an increase of 10,000 people in a single month — with detention centers massively overcrowded and people being forced into squalid conditions as the admin pushes to hit Stephen Miller's dangerous quotas of 3,000 arrests a day. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...