Still occupied by the National Guard from multiple states: DC

If the Klein is Naomi Then carry on, homie If the Klein is Ezra Ignore what he says, brah

Lot of people looking at this and saying we need statehood — which we do! — but I'm also thinking about Nat'l Resources Ctte markup @freedcproject.bsky.social attended today, where @reppablojose.bsky.social said, because we don't have federal representation, local authorities deserve MORE deference

Either Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night Or Handyman with lyrical hardware, and my house ain't made of ginger / But it's made of an array of pages that'll slay you like a ninja

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

"The bias is not a bug. It is the entire system."

ymmv but I'm "influencing people" and "combating the danger of the right" by building community in my community and teaching cultural anthropology to young people. That's not what I use social media for

My students are doing informational interviews with professional anthropologists live via zoom, as a collective, and these are the questions they wrote. Thanks @anthrocareerready.bsky.social for the idea!

For those who celebrate

("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

It's an accessible and encompassing overview of human mobilities over the millennia—where we come from, why we move, how it changes us, what the future holds—drawing on anthropology, history, folklore and allied fields www.wiley.com/en-us/World+...

Happy World Linguistics Day from Washington DC (neither a state nor a country! Take that, presupposition!)!

I have a student in intro #anthropology who is taking the course to be able to do more culturally sophisticated sf world building. What reading should I recommend (I've already said @leguinbot.bsky.social)?

D.C. residents deserve the same right to govern themselves as every other community. Yet House Republicans, who know little about D.C., are pushing bills that meddle in what should be local decisions. I stand with D.C. leaders against these harmful attacks.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

ST:TNG S4 E5 "If there's nothing wrong with me … maybe there's something wrong with the universe!" You and me both, Dr Crusher

This is DC

If you have some spare $$, donate to Remora House (based in Washington DC) if you can! They give out important stuff to unhoused neighbours, and build ongoing relationships to help people—showing up to do good work especially (and including) after sweeps from police and fed military. ❤️

Solidarity from the over 700,000 residents of DC, who know something about taxation without representation #FreeDC

Same in DC. It’s been two months. Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

Ruin a band with law: Ringo Starr and His All-Stare Decisis

The music suffers, baby The music business thrives Paul Simon, "Can't Run But"

""refugees"" My great grandparents: refugees from state backed ethnic terror. Grandfather: Princeton, Harvard Law, US Army, to find "we don't hire Jews." Grandmother: HIAS social worker. Their legacy: I teach, work for migrants, DC statehood Miller's great grandparents, same as mine. What the

This is a great piece, but regarding "explicitly vowing to unleash the power of the American state on a vast, inchoate ideological group," isn't "the Global War on Terror" precisely that? Not a nitpick — given violence abroad + foreign-ization of dissenters at home, this is where it goes

To *actually* reduce crime, DC needs ICE to stop kidnapping people, NPS to stop driving recklessly in high-speed chases, our chief prosecutor to be accountable to the people who live here, and residents to trust that police will protect them, not deport them (100% with you on addressing root causes)

Life under occupation. 6000 block of 8th St NW, Washington DC, 9/10/25

Our pups got ice cream on #internationaldogday @nemaveze.bsky.social

This was the most dangerous thing for DC residents as of three days ago: because of record long periods of dangerously high humidity, plus price increases caused by demand from data centers, my last two months of electric bills totaled $741.12

I remember this from Cyrano de Bergerac, at the end Gemini is dying and Roxane realizes that Gemini was the one she loved all along

Anybody you can get to call, any appropriate places to post. Pirro is really bad news. And Tillis isn't abiding by his pledge to block anybody who defended January 6th, either. Scripts and email tools at the link.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Re. yesterday's conversation about the Religious Left, here are rabbis getting arrested protesting US Government complicity in the food blockade of Gaza www.instagram.com/reel/DMskvSV... cc. @jessgrieser.com

Call Tillis and tell him to vote NO in committee tomorrow! 202-224-6342

Recontextualizing the CRAP out of this post to wish everyone a happy Nonbinary People's Day 🫰🏻

The human experience is a rich tapestry, studied for thousands of years and yet still thoroughly a mystery. So forgive me for not believing that your billion-dollar boondoggle of a pattern-matcher has managed to decode humanity's deepest and most complicated experiences. /FIN

As a former unionized municipal employee myself, I always like to imagine what if teachers got the same media treatment cops do, but in this case it's actually literally correct that you could solve a lot of problems in education by staffing up

Good thread, pls read The psychological moment of this bill passing offers a lot of options for pushback

Arlo Guthrie used to tell a story about two rabbits on the run from wolves, and they ran down and hid in a hole. The boy rabbit said "now what? There's a wolf over there, there's one over here, nowhere we can go!" And the girl rabbit said "welp, I guess we'll have to stay here. Til we outnumber 'em"

DC residents are nobody's constituents. Help me out? Make the call that I can't make?

In its cynical disregard for the interests and safety of Jewish New Yorkers, and in its implicit assumption of Jewish insularity and bigotry, Gillibrand et al’s “defense” of Jews is functionally indistinguishable from antisemitism.

"glonzo" is one to watch for Word of the Year #linguistics

Ok but I really do dig the idea of Brad Lander as a small town CPA who needs a way to stay busy outside of tax season and starts solving murders as a sort of hobby

The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?

People think the discourse for war on Iran is dumb, but trust me, it will get worse. We as a nation do not win wars, but we do make ourselves look utterly foolish while losing. Historical evidence

Describe your favorite movie in the most misleading way possible His wife, murdered in a home invasion. His only surviving child, left disabled. When the son is kidnapped & taken to Australia, the father swears to bring him back one way or another, even though his only help is a friend with amnesia

It's time for the annual #pridereads thread! (Here's 2024 icymi, and my incomplete tbr is on storygraph)

My values have sharpened or improved by hearing from marginalized people not via debate with people who share little of my core principles.

"I wouldn't trust a word out of that mountebank's mouth. Not even televisually" Severance s2e4

Attended the House Oversight Committee today with @freedcproject.bsky.social. Disappointed to see two bills targeting DC pass out of committee, but grateful to Congressman @lynch.house.gov for speaking up for us!