This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week, citing “safety concerns,” following the murder committed by an ICE agent. The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal.

A truly gonzo Executive Order from the Trump Administration removes US from not just the UN Framework Convention on Climate change, but also the IPCC (!), the IUCN, the IPBES (the IPCC of biodiversity), and all sorts of other organizations. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Protest sign on Route 4 in Paramus, New Jersey reads “ICE murders woman in MN”

excited to see more new work coming out on the relationship between affective (us/them) polarization and climate change. I'm working on this topic in a very different but complementary way right now journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Trying to think through the regime's actions in Venezuela.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/crude-ideo...

I'm sorry I missed this because it seems to confirm what I suspected about Big Oil

I’m old enough to remember last month

post a picture of your PhD graduation day *It was summer 2020, so I had no ceremony. Here is me clearing out my office at UC Berkeley, the emailed "certificate of completion," and the receipt of the "Phinally Done!" lollipop at my new residence in Massachusetts during my first semester at Tufts.

They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.” Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.

what could possibly go wrong

Rubio: "If I lived in Havana in the government, I'd be concerned"

Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them? TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

Trump on China: "There's not gonna be a problem. They're gonna get oil. We're gonna allow people to have oil ... nobody can stop us."

my hometown is on fire. say a prayer for Arcata, California.

no

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

melt down all the guns and make them into public housing.

and I am a single issue voter

we need higher taxes

“We are losing so much water that groundwater loss is driving up sea level rise and it is doing more damage than glaciers are in terms of sea level rise. So that’s a new one.” A great conversation with @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social on Water Talk out today www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

the candle of arras wants to take the recent "AI boyfriend" discourse seriously. What does it say about the kind of relationships people want with each other? Here's part of their answer, drawing from Marshall McLuhan and Simone de Beauvoir.

I ended my seminar on Anti-Environmentalism in America with the discussion prompt, “what is an idea you had at the beginning of the semester that this class led you to realize was wrong?” The responses were great and now I think I’ll use that every semester to close out every class.

there are at least three dissertations in this headline

My rule is anyone who puts hedge fund managers and CEOs in the same “class“ as journalists and professors is actually a hedge fund manager trying to foment a culture war as a means of tax avoidance.

from the foreword of Project 2025. absolutely brilliant reactionary political rhetoric. the line about those who shower *before* work versus *after* got me. it’s just too good. now I want to teach a class analyzing this as a literary work. more folks on the left need to study this stuff.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

currently in a kafkaesque xfinity broken internet loop. what's special about this one is that it's taken away virtually 100% of my limited working hours while the kids are in a half day of school. how's your day going?

probably net negative with climate/environmental impacts accouted for

the aftermath of discussing the environmental chapters of project 2025 in my seminar on anti-environmentalism in America

I assigned chunks of Project 2025 to my students and as I read it I am honestly surprised by how much the authors seem to want war with China.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!

Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...

Why has it been so much easier to build interstate gas lines than interstate electric transmission lines? This report has some answers: cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u...

I am not hopeful about many things, but there is an emergent shared diagnostic frame around “affordability“ that we didn’t see over the debates over inflation (between denial and exaggeration). It could lend itself to a genuine contest of policy proposals, not merely warring conceptions of reality.

👀 @jake4somerville.bsky.social

The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

you'd think as a society we would have figured out staplers by now but no

as a geriatric millennial, this reads like a mix of things I do/did because of my age, things I do/did because am cheap/not rich, and things I have never heard of www.performativepuritytest.com

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

the crisis is massive, but the political issue is that there are more homeowners than renters by about 2:1.

the Epstein files is a once in a generation opportunity to take out the trash.

i am so ready for woke2

Oh, Canada...

so on brand

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

I introduced my kid to Are You Afraid of the Dark? last night. Still holds up.