Turned out!!!

MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension. She got the joke. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍 📅 May 27–29. Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop

If you're enjoying the new Ken Burns PBS documentary, "The American Revolution," check out this fascinating look at the MAPPING done for the series. We're so proud of Esri Chief Cartographer, Charlie Frye, who was their major cartographic consultant & map maker www.linkedin.com/events/73863...

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

One reason I appreciate working at PSU Geography is thank you week where we write little notes thanking each other for the small things we do for each other to make a community. I hope you get to work with kind people too.

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

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

A secretive organization named the Rockbridge Network has become one of the most influential forces in GOP politics — and it wants to make sure MAGA outlives President Trump.

This is pretty wild. The head of Heritage basically said Nazi ideology is just another flavor of conservatism to be hashed out. Of Nick Fuentes he said: "Cancelling him is not the answer... When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate."

Great new piece with my main writing partner @derekgeographer.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Government Accountability Office: Ca 70% of adult workers participating in Medicaid (health care to low-income Americans) & the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP -- food stamps) WORK FULL TIME. Maybe #Walmart should pay a living wage. #MikeDavis #SNAP www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.

Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2 TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... he told us exactly what he was gonna do...

Tomorrow!

Stay tuned…

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Good morning PA

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Along with Will Payne and Jovan Lewis, I'm organizing an AAG session on the economic geography of scams for the 2026 conference in San Francisco. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

state after state could solve this college funding shakedown from the Trump administration by just agreeing to fund universities at the levels they did in the early 1990s.

Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

“We’re living through a golden age for losers who don’t seem to realize how much they keep telegraphing their loserdom to the rest of us.”

The grim situation for faculty at public universities in the US South. I don’t envy the search committees or chairs trying to hire.

Professor Joshua Inwood (@geogjosh.bsky.social) is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! Prospective students are invited to connect by email & attend our graduate information session on Oct. 23 to learn more about opportunities in our M.S. and Ph.D. programs. Registration 🔗 lnkd.in/gEWHi4NK

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/337...

🏀 NBA analyst and Penn State geography alum Kirk Goldsberry is back on campus Friday, Sept. 26, to talk hoops, cartography, and the big data behind the modern game. 🗓️ Friday, Sept. 26 📍 102 Paterno Library 💻 Zoom Option Available 🕛 Noon 📰 Read more: www.psu.edu/news/earth-a...

The football game is on CBS so that means it won’t be on Peacock like last week, CBS means I have to check Paramount because it’s not airing locally otherwise I’d have to check Hulu Live TV and if it wasn’t there I’d have to check NFL Sunday ticket, which I pay $400/year for but never airs my game

The racial profiling case is the first step in unraveling the civil rights act. That's all.

SCOTUS & MAGA abolished affirmative action because universities cannot use race when determining admissions but allowed legacy admissions because it massively benefits white students but abolished DEI because of the lie of meritocracy but allowed profiling Latinos for ICE raids. One word: FASCISM.

“This is fine” says person promoting book they got a $2m advance for to person (Bari Weiss) about to take control of a news organization in a deal the President had brokered. Nothing to worry about.

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

@geographers.bsky.social check out the great piece @derekgeographer.bsky.social co-wrote! theconversation.com/world-maps-g...

Penn State Geography professor @geogjosh.bsky.social was quoted in the Huffington Post! Inwood's research focuses on race and racism and political, economic and social structures. www.huffpost.com/entry/voter-...

What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

Penn State is showing off this morning!

The suffering of America's gun violence crisis is concentrated in Black neighborhoods damaged by decades of disinvestment and racial discrimination. Trump is unravelling efforts to solve the problem. n.pr/4fOAVUs