Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.

please stop using AI

CFP: Farmers and Rural Lifeworlds in Current Narratives and Discourse, Bolzano, Italy, 4-5 Dec 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

📢TOMORROW: Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe online panel with Marina Levina, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, David Boromisza-Habashi and me exploring how communication studies can contribute to countering authoritarian rhetorics and fictions www.natcom.org/zoom-meeting...

Upcoming: Canadian Environmental Crime Symposium at Ontario Tech U to launch the new Canadian Environmental Crime Research Network May 8 & 9 in person and online. Register at link.

*Upcoming Event* Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe hosted by the National Communication Association, 23 Apr. 3-4:30pm EST. Learn from comm scholars about how culture & communication connect rising authoritarianism in Europe & the US. Free Registration; please share!

This is very, very, very bad

In the Bay Area, pedestrian cross-walk signal voices were hacked to imitate Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and not in a good way. Here’s a sample in Redwood City:

This month's roundup shares scholarship by @emilyreisman.bsky.social, @landstuff.bsky.social, @zeniakish.bsky.social on agrarian platform capitalism, news and commentary on recent rural-related happenings, a map of news access across the state of Nebraska, and more!

"The Ethiopia lawsuit is one of the only measures of accountability Meta currently faces in the Global South for how its platform has been weaponized by military and paramilitary groups to destabilize nations and target ethnic minorities."

Columbia gives Trump basically all he asks for, fires their president when it seems she may not comply fast enough, and then still gets all its remaining funding frozen. These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.

Upcoming event with some stellar communication colleagues organized by the fantastic Marina Levina. More details coming soon! Online and open to all.

This is a very clear explainer of the structure of university Boards for those outside academia. This is who is bowing to the Trump administration.

That facial recognition system at Madison Square Garden sure has been REALLY great for proving that all the worst predictions and fears us researchers have had about facial recognition were accurate and valid: www.theverge.com/news/637228/...

New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Three Ways to Support Detained Farmworker Organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

NEW: It’s unclear whether new NIH guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies focused on the health effects of climate change. One climate health expert called the directive “catastrophic.” @anniewaldman.bsky.social/@fastlerner.bsky.social

A great injustice has been served in denying Dr Steven Thrasher tenure. Defend academic freedom wherever you have the power to do so.

Virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country--conservative and liberal--has joined this statement warning that the Trump administration's threats to Columbia University risk deterring and suppressing constitutionally protected speech.

Excellent fellowship opportunity for Ukraine scholars at the University of Basel, Switzerland: uris.ch/news/call-fo...

Northwestern should be ashamed that they've bowed to political pressure, thereby threatening us all. They hired Steven, in part, for the very social justice activism they are now denying him tenure over. I'm proud to call @thrasherxy.bsky.social a friend and appreciate his courage.

Pleased to share this new collaboration with colleagues who research questions of access and inequality in digital agriculture across diverse geographies in Nature Food. What would inclusive and just ag innovation look like? @naturefood.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @janeezirigwe.bsky.social

Israel killed at least 174 children in its ceasefire-shattering assault on Gaza on Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest 24 hours for children in Gaza’s history.

I love this piece on beefing up Canada's food systems resilience in the face of Trump's threats to our sovereignty: theconversation.com/why-canada-m...

An entire @nytimes.com video on the need for power at AI data centers (& on tech companies now procuring energy) which never even mentions the words #ClimateChange, let alone notes that we need to phase out fossil fuels now to halt heating at a relatively safe level. I'm so tired.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

ICE is now just straight-up torturing green-card holders

Are you thinking about/with soil? Resharing our CFP on the politics and poetics of soil with @newformations.bsky.social, co-edited by Eva-Lynn Jagoe and yours truly. Please share and submit by April 1! We have room for a few creative projects (literary, visual) in addition to scholarly essays.

Today was a good day for 🇺🇦 diplomacy: 🇺🇸 arms and intel support are restored, political pressure shifts to 🇷🇺, at the cost of a notional commitment to a ceasefire, with no territorial concessions and, as yet, no minerals deal. Things get harder from here, though. (A 🧵) /1

Things you could do: -NSJP has called for a day of action 3/11; hold a rally or protest. -send senior faculty to meet with admin and demand guarantees they won’t coordinate with ICE or admin -have all campus unions demand admin non-cooperation or compliance with Trump agenda

This piece explains in a nutshell the staggering failure of capitalism to address the climate crisis. “No capitalist,” Marx wrote, “ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production… so long as it reduces the rate of profit.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're absolutely gobsmacked with what's just happened, ashamed of Ukraine seemingly being abandoned, and wondering how you can help — please consider supporting @kyivindependent.com so we can continue working in absolutely crucial — and dark — times. kyivindependent.com/membership/

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

The Cybertruck is such a flop that Tesla has refused trade-in's and slowed production to a crawl. Musk's solution: Dump thousands of them on the federal government.

Alberta is a crime scene.

Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social

Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

'Our own voice': Organization supporting Indigenous journalists launches in Canada 5 longtime Indigenous storytellers establish Indigenous Media Association of Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm really gonna need folks to pay attention to the anti-disability language that Donald Trump used today. You can read @metrauxjulia.bsky.social for details. It is as central to what he's doing as the misogyny and racism and homophobia and .... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To be clear: this article is a free, public resource and you can do whatever you want with it (as long as you credit me). Print out 1000 copies and give them to community centers. Sell the zine in your bookstore. Send it to all of your relatives. You have my permission to distribute in any way.

Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders? Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.

Are you interested in the deconstruction of "acting" discourse this Oscar season? I've got just the solution for you: buy the audio version of my book, Imagining the Method, while it is on sale! t.co/SOZ7DXIuh2

18(1) is OUT and it is a monster www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... Featuring contribs from @jessaloomis.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social; @stevethreadgold.bsky.social et al; many more we can't tag

Love this movie! Love this episode w/ @herberthistory.bsky.social, @zeniakish.bsky.social, and @emilycontois.bsky.social!

Had a lovely time chatting with @herberthistory.bsky.social and @emilycontois.bsky.social about Chef and other food films on Historians At The Movies Podcast - subscribe to this fun podcast!!