Join me on Thursday, October 2nd for our second Indigenous Learning Forum with Tarisa Little, who will speak about "Education as Cultural Continuity: Wyandot Strategies of Survival and Self-Determination, 1790–1915". ***Se ofrecerá interpretación en español/inglés***

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I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Of course there's no shortage of suppressed speech in this country, but one particular form that I learned about from @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social was just how much abolitionist speech was kept from poor white people in the antebellum South. In many ways they lived under a police state.

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...

I travel to DC at the same time every summer and this year (pre-occupation) it was noticeably quieter and more empty.

Woohoo!

Let's get a hell yeah in the chat for this great write up of how we get more free as we adapt to climate change from @mills-novoa.bsky.social, @kimanh.bsky.social & @mmikulewicz.bsky.social

Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

I hired Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017, and worked with him closely until he was murdered by the Saudi regime in Istanbul -- simply for expressing himself. I put my safety on the line for years to push publicly for justice and accountability in his murder. www.npr.org/2018/10/18/6...

I am perhaps most proud of starting Washington Post's Global Opinions section. As its founding editor, I helped build a journalistic home for diverse writers from around the world, many of them censored for their views in their countries. www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/0...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

RFK Jr. insists that today's gun violence is due to psych meds, saying "No one was doing that" (shooting people) when he was a kid. Wait, what's that sound? Could it be RFK, Sr. rolling over in his grave, & those 3 bullet holes rolling over w/ him? Or maybe it's John. youtube.com/shorts/sxMb3...

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I don't know if I can describe going through 48 hours of literally, no hyperbole, getting a death threat every single minute, my phone ringing with death threats nonstop until I put it on silent and then seeing a new voicemail notification every thirty seconds with another one,

🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

"Decolonizing Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Research in the Missouri River Basin", Azmal Hossan, Colorado State University. Sept 11 @ 3 pm ET Habrá traducción simultánea al español. Spanish interpretation will be provided. www.amphilsoc.org/events/decol...?

Real Handmaid's Tale stuff here

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I sincerely hope the @lingsocam.bsky.social is going to respond to this

Our new piece w/ @evidentmedia.org came out right after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions in LA to allow ICE to stop anyone they suspect is an immigrant. Being brown and speaking Spanish is enough to get stopped in LA. Legally. Traffic stops in DC can mean you get detained. This is today.

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

'Decolonizing Indigenous Climate Change: Adaptation Research in the Missouri River Basin. Join CNAIR for our first Indigenous Learning Forum of the fall, presented by Azmal Hossan, on Sept 11th @ 3pm ET! www.amphilsoc.org/events/decol...

The paper has helpful diagrams and it's WILD. They clone the other species so they can produce sterile hybrid workers. It's like if a horse could occasionally give birth to a donkey deliberately so they can make mules to serve them while they sit on their... horse throne... as horse queens do.

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This literally makes me nauseous. How monstrous.

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

US Secretary of State confirms that Trump alone ordered the extrajudicial killing of eleven foreign national civilians in international waters. That's as High Crimes and Misdemeanors as it fucking gets.

The 6-5 Fire has burned over a large chunk or serpentine rocks and soil that make up the Red Hills ACEC. It is home to many amazing endemic species of flowers and even extremophile fish. Recent studies show hot fires on serpentine soils creates hexavalent chromium. 😬😬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'The indictment was handed down two days after...Richard Barker, the acting US attorney for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker called his exit “a very difficult decision”. '“I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in”'

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

A dock workers union from Genoa said if the flotilla gets intercepted they'll shut down all of Europe's ports. The Med having three of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, this could be huge! Especially if they get Union solidarity from North Africa

Wowa! We printed 200+ “How to Report Ice” zines & got them in 41 Little Free Libraries in Takoma, Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, Capitol Hill, H St, & Trinidad! If you see any tag us & let us know! Print (in linktree above), fold, & get some in a little library near you 🤗

Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.

Extraordinary thread about an extraordinary hearing, prompted by the Trump DHS trying to sneak hundreds of unaccompanied children out of the country to Guatemala on a holiday weekend. The government’s lawyer is sure it’s all legal, but needs 5 days to explain how. By @annabower.bsky.social

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

"Rooted in Place: California Native Art, the inaugural exhibition, explores the interconnection between art, ceremony, and the land in the Hupa, Karuk, Tolowa, Wiyot, and Yurok communities of northwest California." Featuring art by/inspired by BDT!

It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air

Platner is very much not the kind of “Democrat but also *a veteran*” moderate that the Dems were recruiting 10 years ago. Punk rock is the through line for his service in both the military and mutual aid.

I spent two days with Platner and, as you’ll read, was as impressed by his theory of power as I was by his policies. I think it’s FAR more important than the “how do you talk to Trump voters” question.

Trump’s ICE is arresting firefighters who are ACTIVELY FIGHTING ONE OF THE LARGEST WILDFIRES IN THE UNITED STATES. There aren’t words to describe this cruelty. It’s absurd and completely against America's best interests. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

“Let’s do pseudoscience, criminalize mental health conditions, and do eugenics!” GOOD FUCKING LORD

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

“I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they’re family, and they’re just ripping them away,” the firefighter told the Times. “And this is what he said: ‘You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I’m gonna make you leave.'”

“It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"CDC director pushed out, flood of top resignations follow: The ouster comes at a tumultuous time for the embattled health agency. Other top officials also submitted their resignations Wednesday."