This is a bit last-minute, but I’m looking for a PhD student to join a newly funded project at SUNY ESF starting Fall 2025. The work focuses on racialized ecologies, reparative land governance, and the layered histories and politics of plantations and forests in New York State.

This is some "but have you tasted cake" shit to defend "but, let them have cake". Precisely why they are so out of touch, they don't get that for most people, that is not a priority because the priority is keeping our jobs so we can have a roof over our head and food on the table.

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

“I cldn’t invent any better demo of how you can expect universities to act in coming yrs than what Columbia is doing right now… Whenever 🇺🇸 safely emerges from the current dark age, those uni’s will be able to safely publish histories of the time that nod obliquely to their own possible mistakes.”

Going back to Neil Smith for his original definition of revanchism for a project I'm working on, and wow, does that sound relevant: "It was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country."

“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” ― Cecil Day Lewis #WritingSky

"I previously wrote that Democrats are bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight. But it’s unclear if most Ds even recognize they’re in a gunfight." from @davidcorn.bsky.social

If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.

Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. "But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.

Oh but what about the "gentlemen's agreement" and being "bipartisan"?

For all those saying that "No one voted for [The Tech Bro]," you are wrong. They voted for him. He was front and center, and they voted for him. He might not have run for election but that does not mean they didn't vote for him.

"But HER emails?"

Exist. Persevere. Survive.

It feels like there's a program running in the background of my human CPU that's draining the battery and I can't force quit it.

This is what is most frustrating to me. The rolling over that we are seeing from the Dems. They have shown a complete lack of understanding of their base and continue to show a lack of strategy and honestly a moral backbone. So much for your ideals and values.

I answered a reporter's question: "The long-term well-being of our climate system is incompatible with the short-term gains of shareholders." I stand by that statement.

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou Happy MLK Day.

Just coz a billionaire looks like you doesn't mean they are any different from the others. They all work in service of acquiring more and more of the same thing and you are just a means to an end. Hope those that drank the "Tech firms with save the world" coolaid realize that they are corporations.

I am looking for recommendations on a guide or book on how to write qualitative research for journal publishing. I know there are many books out there, but I am looking specifically for something that provides help for writing qualitative research for journals. Do you have any recs?

As a female academic in her 40s, I think it is extremely important to pay attention to ways in which you get worn down by the constant mini-struggles. As you age, it accumulates and you get to a point where you just can't anymore. This is not just about the extra mentoring or household labor.

Narratives take over quickly in a disaster. Yes, wealthy and powerful people are losing their homes. Pacific Palisades also has a large mobile home park, and undoubtedly other lower cost housing.

The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people passed $2 trillion last year. 12 people. $2 trillion. Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024. Our problem isn’t an issue of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

Really happy to see this out! Draws on conjunctural and pragmatist methodologies to develop a more nuanced account of the possibility and politics of justice-based climate resilience through research into the Justice40 initiative in the United States. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi Bluesky friends: I wanted to share that my book, THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, is coming out in March. Based on a half-decade of reporting, it examines the rise of America's "working homeless," following five Atlanta families desperate to secure housing in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

As homelessness in the US hits record highs, unhoused people are being demonized, brutalized, and criminalized on an unprecedented scale. This book confronts the myths fueling these cruel, misguided policies—and points to a radically different way forward. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Billionaires need to have their assets seized not just for our own well-being but for theirs as well. One cannot be a normal human being and understand other normal human beings when marinated in so much wealth. These guys going crackers is evidence of that

Via Reddit: "I think a lot of people would do well to remember that just because you don't like someone doesn't mean that person is bad. Sometimes you just don't vibe with someone. You don't have to try and find a reason that not liking them is this big social good. You can just… ignore them."

“i have concepts of a plan”

"I have concepts of a plan." Way to come to class prepared.

"She has not proposed to seize the means of production." NYT fact check has now converted me into a single issue voter

Trump supporters will complain about the moderators, but they have been giving Trump every opportunity to speak and plenty of extra time. He is the one screwing it up. No-one else to blame.

Calling it now: Harris taking Trump apart as he rants and raves incoherently is the liberal dream - every Sorkin fantasy come to life. People will be devastated when this doesn’t end the race and it’s still neck and neck next week.

“I said this at the beginning of this debate and I will say this again- you are going to hear a bunch of lies coming from this fella and this is another one. No I have never met Vladimir Putin.”

Ooooooh!!!! “And why don’t you tell the 800,000 polish immigrants here in Pennsylvania how you would give up on them just for the sake of what you consider a friendship”!

“I think it’s important to remind the former President that you are not running against Biden, you are running against me.” Love how she talks to him directly when she corrects him. It’s gotta rankle him!!

it feels like an understatement to say that harris is just terrific on reproductive freedom

“Donald Trump was fired by 81million people and he’s clearly having a hard time accepting that!!” Oh Kamala!!! @nimueh.bsky.social

Them: women in tech are TOTALLY respected and treated as equals! we have no idea why women complain! Also them:

Wow I can't believe how old the GOP's presidential candidate is.

every time people say "are you optimistic or pessimistic about AI" what I hear is "do you gulp much of the AI hype and corporate PR unfiltered, or do you pause and ask critical questions"

Anyone I know who is going to the UAA in April and wants to share a room with me?

I spend hours on TikTok and watch plenty of political content. imo the problematic generational divide for the establishment is the fact that propaganda doesn't work on the younger generations Millennials and Gen Z like it did on older gens. The youth is all about the truth and they're finding it.

TODAY: The WGA won, SCOTUS told Alabama's AG to suck it re racist gerrymandering, Federal court struck down Texas being bigoted fuckwits re Pride parades, and Trump is utterly fucked having been found guilty of fraud. Democracy is a slog. Today is a day worth celebrating.