Fury as Indonesia declares late authoritarian ruler Suharto a national hero

"Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

From #Cuomosexual to #CuomoShame

I enjoyed 3 terrific spooky season movies this past long weekend. 1. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Inchoate but barely suppresed white settler Victorian anxieties in Australia. Plot and soundtrack presage The Virgin Suicides, with clear affinities between the two films. #PicnicAtHangingRock (1/3)

The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.

Ja'afar Hassan - They Taught Me [Iraq, Psychedelic Folk Rock] (Unknown Year) https://redd.it/fm65ug https://youtu.be/LQQM5YALkoE

I approve of this plan, also because I am a political anthropologist

It's like she's doing Pokemon Go but with Nazi war criminals.

Hot off the press! 🚨 A new #OpenAccess entry on #Humanitarianism by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social & @malayfiroz.bsky.social is out now - check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h... #Anthropology #OA

Empire State Plaza - Albany, NY r/brutalism

Okay this is a good headline

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

starks early elberta peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

Two skeets within minutes, each quoting #Andor, including one from the governor of Illinois. And that's just from today's brief scroll. Maybe it's cheesy, or tainted because its provenance is Disney, but I'm OK with the Andor screenplays serving as the sacred texts for our *hashtag* resistance.

“And it’s finger popping 24-hour shopping in rapture.” music.apple.com/us/album/rap...

Of all the brands to go for you pick the one that held its own through “the tylenol murders” and refused to change its name

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

lent golden peaches, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

We’re losing so many mothers to childbirth and genocide. It’s our responsibility to act on both | Jacinda Ardern

oh no, not “the relentless unleashing of congressional subpoena power”

We firmly believe firing comedians is not a sign of a healthy democracy. In some countries, they even elect them to defend against ambitious fascists. — PM Tuxley II

It’s time to vote for ruru 🦉 and four others! #BirdOfTheYear www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

the anthropologist comes thru with a possible witchcraft accusation (written before the shooting): www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

Needle drops on #AlienEarth are some of the worst in television history. Boomer/GenX hard rock shatters any suspension of disbelief.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

If you’re enjoying Gavin Newsom’s tweets & it gives you a fun charge I will not try to talk you out of that but I would say whatever value the tweets have is not great enough to excuse him from criticism. Yes, even now.

My take on the recent protests in Indonesia www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...

Aid as a weapon: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I support the nurses' strike #nzpol

I made a humble apple-rhubarb crumble last night, and the sublime rhubarb flavor sent me on a reverie, so I looked up paintings to celebrate. “Rhubarb” (1928) by Nikolai Astrup “Cabbage and Rhubarb” (1929) by Mark Gertler 🍽️ 🍎 🥧

📢📢📢 New Editorial Alert 📢📢📢 American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the ‘black box’ of journal submission... An Editorial Insight: A revise-and-resubmit decision is like a second date, and trying to revise to please every reviewer is likely to ruin the evening.

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"The police killed Affan" Graffiti in Manado, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.

I just listened to (not watched) the interview but this image captures it. Polarizing characterizations of #RitchieTorres or #AdamFriedland are unfair, but it was damning of Torres nonetheless, dramatic and emotional too. I hope voters eventually ask more of their representatives than AIPAC does.

#Aceh commemorates 20yrs of peace today. My academic partners there, including my former supervisor (Prof Byron Good), doctoral sibling (Dr Reza Idria), and many colleagues in Aceh I deeply admire, are right in the middle of it all, hosting a fantastic conference. aceh.tribunnews.com/2025/08/15/2...

We had a lot of fun writing this! It’s a nice distillation of what we’ve learned over the past three years editing American Ethnologist, and how we have applied our vision for it. Link in 🧵below. #Anthropology #AnthroSky #publishing #PeerReview #academia

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Part 1 (of 2) in our interviews with leading anthropologists on the subject of academic freedom. The 🧵 below tells the story of how my co-editors and I decided to do this. #AnthroSky #Anthropology #AcademicFreedom.

We are very far over the cliff here folks

Reminder: Kash Patel is a Q-nut & has pledged to undemocratically prosecute peaceful political opponents. Is NZ prepared for test cases of US citizens/dual nationals being renditioned to black sites from our territory for their legal political activities? Maybe think it through motherfuckers?

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... Finally! We've all been waiting for this very serious and life changing announcement. You knows it and I knows it... #NzPol #BrookeVanVelden #Passport #Cartoon #Caricature #Politics #Announcement