When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

"What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing 'Abundance' over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from 'Pod Save America.')"

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

It’s confirmed y’all. This is not gonna get national headlines but trust me when I tell you that this is huge here in CNY. And nobody saw it coming

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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

A turning point in global biodiversity governance? New Brief Report from @frabitz.bsky.social, @simonbeaudoin.bsky.social, Theresa Jedd, Ina Lehmann, Christian Prip, Guilherme de Queiroz-Stein & @etsioumani.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964...

"One doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you." -Louis Pasteur 'Servant of Humanity' Erected by the people of Chicago, 1928

Do you study the visual art of the United States? Apply for a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in #AmericanArt! These awards of $42K support graduate students at any stage of PhD dissertation research and writing. Deadline 9PM ET October 29: bit.ly/31YOwCY #humanities #funding #arthistory

New Resource: Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity. 📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu

There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social  www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/callforpaper...

Global Witness: 146 Land and Environmental Defenders Killed or Disappeared Last Year

The Heat Will Kill You First is the title of a book I wrote about the dangers of extreme heat. It is also quite literally the story of 24,400 people's lives in Europe this summer. Why so many deaths? This new study shows that 16,500 of those people were killed by the burning of fossil fuels.

Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network The Global Teach-In/Teach-Out 11 November 2025 migrationscholarsmobilize.org/new-page

Worth reading the obit of Joseph McNeil, one of four black college students who, in 1960, staged a sit-in at a Greensboro, N.C. Woolworth’s lunch counter and kick-started a large scale protest movement. Simple acts of civil disobedience can sometimes change the world.

"We’re not mismanaging. We’re not failing. We’re operating exactly as intended. And we are under attack." Read more from UUP President Fred Kowal and UUP ESF Chapter President Matt Smith on the impact of SUNY ESF across the state and why an investment is needed now: www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.

A devastatingly 🌟 post: "Conservative state ldrs appear to be nearly unanimous in their view that big cities shld be prevented from governing themselves... The idea is to make city gov'ts helpless while continuing to blame them for everything that goes wrong... It plays well in conservative media"

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

What if we vilified billionaires and their corporations the way the poor have long been stigmatized: as the "parasite class"—Musk's own favored term—trapped in an "endless cycle of dependency." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

Favorite books in the last 10-15 years on equitable urban development? Prefer wider ranging books to narrower ones (eg, those focusing on transit, urban design, environmental sustainability). Some attention to affordable housing and equitable economic development preferred. Prefer US focus. Thanks!

Homelessness is a crime perpetrated by the rich.

People are proposing this exact policy in cities across the country, like Chicago and Dallas. They’re planning to target the same people there as they are here. If this idea is intolerable, it should be intolerable everywhere, and people should oppose the local versions too.

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

"What does a narrative of support for racial capitalism look like in contemporary political economies, where racism denial is pervasive in political discourse, and trust in authorities are at an all-time low?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Writing Field Notes and Using Them to Prompt Scholarly Writing" This short article of mine provides a few pointers on how to use your ethnographic fieldnotes to help you break free from "Writer's Block". #Free2DownloadAndRead @ijqmonline.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In 2011, FEMA's National Flood Insurance map was updated to include Camp Mystic in a "Special Flood Hazard Area." Camp Mystic fought that designation, getting 15 of the buildings removed in 2013, and 15 more in 2019–20. You can change the map, but that doesn't change reality.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Mamdani, campaigning for bus improvements: "Speeding up buses isn't complicated... all the tools are in the power of City Hall... we just need a mayor who will deliver for the more than one million New Yorkers who ride the bus every day."

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

This is a bit last-minute, but I’m looking for a PhD student to join a newly funded project at SUNY ESF starting Fall 2025. The work focuses on racialized ecologies, reparative land governance, and the layered histories and politics of plantations and forests in New York State.

More than 30 years of the New York Times saying "Iran will have a nuke any day now" 🙄 - from the only country to actually drop nuclear weapons on civilians (twice) and that has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and starts horrific wars and threatens sovereign states all the time.

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

Police injure, kill protestors —> police sued for use of force —> juries hit them hard with financial judgments —> locals demand accountability —> police whine they’re being defunded —> cities give them more money —> local programs gutting for more cops —> police injure, kill protestors

"Even if the faculty member speaks in their private capacity in extramural speech [such as a social media post or radio interview], their free speech rights may be weighed against the impact on the University’s interests and mission."

The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.

This is such thoughtful (mostly kid-centric) programming: a day celebrating the pigeon, featuring puppet shows, birdsong music, birdy crafts, an NYPL bookmobile with avian offerings, bird-friendly horticulture workshops, bird conservation orgs + ornithologists… www.thehighline.org/pigeonfest/?...

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Jail cells are not cheaper than housing. Costs (on cursory research) vary between 30-60k+ per inmate per year. It’s a jobs program to enrich cops, jailers, and prison owners and create a labor force that is essentially slavery

Placed-based learning: “Co-Creating but not Holding Space,” our article in the Knowledge Makers Journal knowledgemakers.trubox.ca/wp-content/u...