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When I spoke to my students about the potential dangers of AI, they were shocked to learn about cases like this.

We join with ACLS in this statement of concern. And we reiterate our community’s continuing commitment as mission-driven publishers to support scholars by widely disseminating their work, especially the untold stories of the United States’, and the world’s, diverse history.

Reading yet another graduate thesis and wishing yet again that other Asian Americanists would not let their graduate students get away with calling Japanese American incarceration "Japanese internment" in this day & age. 1) it lets the US completely off the hook.

Disgusting. May I recommend instead @overhearddistrict's Instagram round up of everything Washingtonians are actually scared of? It's a much more informative and a better use of one's time. DC rats figure high on multiple lists.

#NAIS folks, looking for recs on articles/books on how the notion that the land wasn't being used was weaponized to force Indigenous people to give up more of their land. Allotment is one example (or a million) but it's all over the place really & I'd love to see how others are thinking about it

A small group of us is planning a craft fair fundraiser for Gaza on September 7. Some of you have already generously reached out to offer a craft to us to sell at the fundraiser. We now have a form with details for anyone who wants to contribute a craft: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - thank you.

Woah 😳😵‍💫

The deadline for the @iehs.bsky.social digital history grants is this Friday! If you’re interested in applying, check out the guidelines below 👇🏽

🚨 A concussion, a chipped tooth, nine stitches and ongoing trauma from February 19, 2025 in Jacksonville, Florida. The police said they pulled him over for not having his lights on; however, it is not dark/raining. He was pulled over to be brutalized. Make them famous.

Tell me again about how the Trump administration is trying to hunt out anti-semitism in academia 🤔

outrageous. you are responsible for the moral and ethical choices you make as a lawyer. the people you work for and against (and in this case, the public) have a right to know if you are conflicted. cowardly and unethical, the whole thing.

Shameful www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-...

As I say here, “This document was written for the American people, paid for by the taxpayers, and it contains vital information we need to keep ourselves safe in a changing climate, as the disasters that continue to mount demonstrate so tragically and clearly.” More by @borenbears.bsky.social here:

WOW. A lawyer told @miamiherald.com that a Florida Highway Patrol agent told her that they are calling Border Patrol to investigate anyone who "appears Hispanic" that they pull over. That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!

This has been my dream @contingent-mag.bsky.social project for seven years and we're finally doing it.

Yet another reason to abhor the techbros pushing gAI into every single thing: they know about the biases embedded in their tech, they DO NOT CARE about its detrimental consequences for women or people of color.

I'm not totally prepared to dismiss it all yet, but so far it seems like AI helps lazy people be lazy. ...and it is only okay at that.

He’s talking about birds, immunity and how the bird flu can be used as a way to ‘cull’ the population so only the immune survive—but make no mistake, he thinks the same way about disease in human populations. He sees disease as a way of culling the ‘weak’.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

parts are dated now but we are AGAIN debating whether to call migrant detention centers "concentration camps." It reflects on the term & its significance as a label for institutions that imprison people due to a shared trait like ethnicity or immigration status. abusablepast.org/forum-3-3-on...

This was the logical next step, if you’ve been paying attention.

Yes I feel like I have been screaming into an empty void. I'm glad someone else sees, feels, and hears it. I have been and will continue to stop this from happening. It is happening to the Iniat up north as well. NPR-A opens up their sacred lands as well. www.silainuat.org/protect-tesh...

As someone born and raised in DC, yes! But also the bill might help some in AK but it is not good to Alaska Native nations. In the words of Tlingit and Haida President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, "This is not just bad policy—it is a betrayal of the federal trust responsibility to tribal nations.”

Hmm, let’s see… mass detention of civilians without trial or traditional legal protections on the basis of identity (race, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation) rather than any criminal act, often for an indefinite period and done principally to expand political power. Check.

RBMS Conference Plenary duties with @hcmaruyama.bsky.social tomorrow! #UConn represent! Whoop whoop!

"When I hear the rhetoric from today's administration, the language is frighteningly similar." -Satsuki Ina in a documentary shown at former Poston incarceree Chizu Omori's #ChangingPerspectives conference

...and you have died from dysentery.

No kings, masters, overlords or any of that bullshit. Time to take the country back.

Covid-19 causes long-covid in approximately 40% of people who’ve had it 3 times, and triggers heart attacks, strokes, dementia, diabetes, etc. We are sickening and disabling our workforce and society. We will see much more of these headlines, shortages everywhere. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is the first media coverage that I have seen of the UNC board's quiet decision to largely pause granting tenure outside of the health sciences. This is worth watching over the coming weeks.

THIS IS ALL CAPS DANGEROUS AS FUCK

As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, hated by the Feds in his lifetime, wrote: "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws..Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust." Do as you will. But a signed warrant from a judge is the minimum.

My interview with Choice about my book Remembering Conquest. @uncpress.bsky.social www.choice360.org/tie-post/tie...

It was never about antisemitism, part 1 zillion.

@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.

It's a narrative many used during Japanese American incarceration too. But issei weren't allowed to become citizens even if most had lived there, raised kids there, built businesses there for more than 20 years by that point. We should stand up for immigrants with no pathways to citizenship too.

I get why this has become the narrative but I kind of hate the "we're citizens" (and therefore don't deserve to be arrested by ICE)... no one deserves to be treated the way ICE treats the people it detains regardless of citizenship status.

"This follows last month’s ICE deportation of a family including a 10-year-old American citizen with brain cancer." This administration seems determined to level-up its disregard for the constitution and general hatefulness/immorality at every turn.

If you're a federal employee tasked with deleting pages from agencies' websites and don't support this, please run the pages through the @archive.org's WayBack Machine beforehand. Help document and preserve access to the resources being erased.

IMHO, one answer to the “why are people calling it deportation when it’s happening to people who shouldn’t be deported” is that deportation is the name for a _policy practice_ — the thing ICE does when it puts someone on a deportation flight. The legal term is removal. That’s what a judge orders.

This is crazy. ICE didn’t have event have a warrant to arrest the guy! The judge asked for it and they said “we have an administrative warrant” (not a real warrant). She told them to kick rock and now the FBI is charging her with obstruction the arrest ‼️

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

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Sadly today was a win for whitewashed history. Our grant for the interpretation at the new Carlisle Industrial School National Monument was rescinded today for not aligning with this administration's "values." Telling the history of US Indian boarding schools was just too scary.

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw