I've always liked the @brennancenter.org -- I use their reports every time I teach electoral geography in my Intro to Human Geography course. Now I like them even more for backing up my Sec of State. 👍

Taking a moment to imagine what this approach would look like at a national scale, not just for infrastructure, but also housing, child- and elder-care, schools, food security... Important to dream the future we want!

This is lovely, but I can't help noting that if the 1% paid meaningful levels of taxes we could make collective decisions to fund such things publicly and not have to depend on donations from good folks like Steves. Of course, we could also fund supportive *housing*.

Hmm, this G/ATOR thingy sure would be more useful in Ukraine than Trinidad 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...

There's a bat 🦇 in our department seminar room and a Microsoft glitch kicked all my students out of our course Teams channel so I had to manually re-add them. How's your morning going? 🤪

Geography professor -- "so you know all the capitals?" 😬 (I'm actually terrible at trivia)

Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R

Oh, but the real problem of antisemitism is suggesting we maybe don't help kill babies in Gaza.

Really not sure how I feel about this 😬 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...

Repping our professions - me on the right, and my daughter, who is a medical assistant at a GYN clinic while she applies to med school. #nokings

Glad to see Vermont legislators' bipartisan calls for resignation. Let's see swift action against ALL the participants in this disgusting exchange. @politico.com vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

Um, no, it was the scientists, professors, and students, actually. 🙄

Local friends, join me in Essex Junction, Vermont!

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Brilliant, as always. And I would add that NSF now stands for "No Such Funding"

Fixed the headline: STUDY PROVES THAT $333 PER MONTH IS A PIDDLING AMOUNT www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Imagine the outcry if a country baited stray dogs with food and "killed nearly 100 of them". Israel does this to hungry humans day after day and the world shrugs. 😡 Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...

Gotta fit those concentration camps in somewhere 🤷‍♀️

Hey, @welch.senate.gov and @sanders.senate.gov -- now would be a great time for a quorum vote!

NOOOOO!!!!!

Maybe relevant for @histchild.bsky.social?

🥵 (Had to use Montreal as closest big city to us in northern Vermont.) showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

A great list that I come back to again and again. Happy #Juneteenth!

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST STAND FIRM. We must not be dragged into Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran.

You know it's bad when the librarians show up. Great signs, rubber duckies, and upbeat vibes (except for the 'Die-In"!) in #BTV #NoKings #50501movement

Burlington, VT says NO KINGS! Mohsen Mahdawi just finished speaking to our Vermont crowd #NoKingsProtest. Will @sanders.senate.gov be next?

Ugh. Not surprising but just so mindlessly petty and short-sighted. 😪 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

My latest for @theconversation.com on military gap years: theconversation.com/uk-looks-to-...

MACKEREL 😂😭

The introduction @thegj.bsky.social to a set of geographical reflections on the second Trump administration has now been published. Have a read of this here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... and the other papers in the collection here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

In the midst of US constitutional crisis, AI overlords, and rising despair, this was such a refreshing and inspirational interruption of my doomscroll. Thank you, @isabela-bonnevera.bsky.social and @bcnuej.bsky.social!

Thank you, @sanders.senate.gov -- I'm proud to be your constituent.

When are we going to start calling scandals about Musk "Elongate"? 'Cuz they sure do stretch out! 🙄

Easy solution: the 7 year olds have to work too! Oh, but only the ones with single parents. Note the emphasis on *married* in the exemption 🙄

Amidst the doom of the day, it's heartening to read my undergrad students' essays on Brandi Thompson Summers' book, Black in Place. We read the whole thing and they love it, they 'get' it, and they will never unsee "Black aesthetic emplacement". 😤 uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Ah, @mcsweeneys.net, you should know better than to claim a small liberal arts college has a major in "PR & comms" -- far too 'vocational'! - Your friendly Vassar '89 Sociology major 😄

Excited to be presenting my work, Mapping American Childhoods, to the amazing Geography department @uwmadison.bsky.social today at 3:30 CDT!

No surprises, but disheartening to see so much collective progress toward liberation be flushed down the golden toilet. Thank you for doing this work @noamross.net

Excited to see this CFP -- I'm definitely applying. Hoping to share my work on American children's early 20th c. traveling.

Terrible news from my home state. Our dairy workers deserve much better.

This should be nationwide but paid for by *taxing the rich* (not just depending on oil and gas revenues like NM does). New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In an executive order signed Tuesday, President Trump took aim at Vermont and other state climate laws he says are impeding his federal agenda to promote domestic fossil fuel production. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Fired up, ready to go!

Call for Chapter Contributions “Youth, Sustainable Development Agendas and Future Earth”

Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals. Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

Can't wait to dive into this!

Oh, hey, JD, thanks for bringing your positivity to Greenland. Maybe Bernie can lend you his mittens next time. @sanders.senate.gov

Many thanks to all our presenters and audience for 2 terrific sessions!

Small-town Vermont says Hands Off! Join me! mobilize.us/s/uZRNEW/o