Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting "small town America" https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/inside-a-network-of-ai-generated-newsletters-targeting-small-town-america/

209. May 2, 2025 – Just days after joking that he would “like to be pope,” President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed in papal attire.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

Latest 📗 "Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics" with @salliehananthro.bsky.social is finally in my hands & the second edition of my first 📘 "Nighttime Breastfeeding" is highlighted for World Health Day by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social It's 📚 day 🥳

One of my favorite weird signs at the rally

The #HandsOff rally in Chicago is packed!

New parents: If you have questions about our baby formula investigation, our reporter @heathervogell.bsky.social is taking questions in r/FormulaFeeders here:

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

TODAY @ NOON ET in NYC: COLUMBIA PROFESSORS TO HOLD EMERGENCY VIGIL AGAINST ADMIN CONCESSIONS TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Columbia gates at 116th & Amsterdam Ave (Not Broadway) • Hands Off Our Students, Faculty, & Research • Defend Science • Defend Academic Freedom • Defend Freedom of Speech

"We urge policymakers, educators, & the public to recognize that gender justice is not a privilege but a fundamental human right" - statement by Assoc for Feminist Anthro, Assoc for Political & Legal Anthro Board, Assoc for Queer Anthro, & Council on Anthro & Repro afa.americananthro.org

"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women." That was true in 2020, and it'll be even more true now.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

For colleagues teaching med or repro anthro: It's why we wrote our new Basics book! Pair it with your fave ethnography and /or chapters from The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Chapter 2: “Practices and policies that shape how individuals can or cannot take care of themselves while menstruating—such as ... clean water or safe and private spaces—as well as what access they have to contraception and abortion are significant assertions of power ...” (Han and Tomori 2025, 24)

Our new book is out!! So excited to share this with the world. We hope you find it useful! Labor of love with the best co-author one could imagine.

Now available for those of us teaching and learning #anthropology and #reproduction. By @drtomori.bsky.social and me www.routledge.com/The-Anthropo...

"Burnout has been an issue in academe ... But recently, the stress of working in a sector battling for its very existence in the face of declining student enrollment, political attacks, & public skepticism about the value of a college degree has also taken a toll." www.chronicle.com/article/high...

"...funding for the military, which is abs. not profitable, remained 👍. But funding for the arts, education, + care work — easily ✂️. Why fund schools if you don’t have kids in them? Why fund art you, personally, wouldn’t choose? Or a park you don’t visit? Or rsch to cure a disease you don’t have?"

So grateful to Oregon State Anthropology for a wonderful visit! Nourishing connections and conversations 🌻

It's also not true. White maternal death rates are also not great when compared to other countries. The downside of using the people you systematically opress as your benchmark is you fail to recognize how your own policies are killing you.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

Taking in every word of this conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Never felt so seen. Not in a good way.

Gaining Clarity 2025:  A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment. For those affiliated with colleges and universities information during these challenging times, even as some U.S. elected officials are calling professors and universities “the enemy.” docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

"Hi, I'm NAME, I'm the Senator's/ Representative's constituent, and I'm calling to urge her/him to block Trump's and Elon Musk's power grabs. I want Congress to use every procedural tool they have to stop the dismantling of our government for revenge and personal gain."

When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔 He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. “The Library IS for Everyone” 💚 #BlackHistoryMonth

Congratulations to @deadbovids.bsky.social on receiving this prestigious honor! Not only a rising star in research, but also a brilliant teacher and fantastic colleague

In a private meeting of GOP legislators and anti-abortion activists, Republicans promised to repeal the FACE Act—the federal law prohibiting violence against clinics. Rep. Andy Biggs made their intent chillingly clear: “God demands justice." jessica.substack.com/p/god-demand...

A lot of people are going to talk about the headline about Republicans but we need to talk about how Black people increasingly agreed that the reason Black folks are struggling is related to inborn ability. We must emancipate ourselves from mental slavery.

A resource for teaching and learning reproductive justice. By drtomori.bsky.social and me. Available for pre-order February 3 www.routledge.com/Anthropology...

For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...

I have more friends in the US who have nearly died in childbirth - all black women - than Kenyan women friends or family.

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Poem for a new year 🌻 Good words from Joy Harjo poets.org/poem/calling...

Celebrating end of the semester with best colleagues you could wish for! @deadbovids.bsky.social

The barricades that were built inside the National Assembly to block the soldiers from entering while parliament was working to pass the bill to nullify martial law

“It is creating a second class of people to say, ‘You pay your taxes, You vote like everybody else does. But you can’t have the same choices as everybody else, because there aren’t enough of you here,’” Koricich said of the cuts. “In a lot of rural places, the idea of choice is sort of a fiction”

Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack! Please share and let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

How about a kinship studies starter pack? Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share! Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social