professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)
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however much you think the iran war is sapping u.s. military readiness, it's probably more than that. a free link for you, the people www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Iran Blockade’s Growing Price Tag Is Draining America’s Global Military Power
The cost of naval operations since the buildup began in January has topped $7.1 billion — not including all the US assets being used to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
bloomberg.com
Am I wrong in suspecting there are deep connections between "eye in the sky" news reporting and the tele- / visual- / cinematic practices of "realist authenticity" that emerged through the (US experiences of the) war in Vietnam?
KNBC just confirmed live on air that it was in fact their chopper that crashed in Chatsworth tonight. They immediately switched to regular programming to give everyone a chance to collect themselves. It’s been heartbreaking watching them report on this for the last two hours, expecting the worst.
hell of an epistemic consensus you've got there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it
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own goal du jour: searching my own CV for the term "radio" trying to find a radio appearance this was a poor strategy
fully agree that's the intended project... i have not fully metabolized this but it seems interesting? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
muse.jhu.edu
Advocates are rallying at City Hall tomorrow to demand that LA Mayor Karen Bass declare a state of emergency due to the city’s spiking traffic deaths — already 8% higher than the same time last year
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
talkingpointsmemo.com
I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.
Pls roll up if you’re available tomorrow And please read the rest of the thread
Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · 2d agoAdvocates are rallying at City Hall tomorrow to demand that LA Mayor Karen Bass declare a state of emergency due to the city’s spiking traffic deaths — already 8% higher than the same time last year
the only surveillance that belongs on the lightpost
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 7mo agoAcross the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
Melissa Ryan@melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d agoAmerica is being run by monsters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
The Trump admin is afraid of educated critical thinkers which is why they are doing everything they can to bend higher education to their will. We can’t let them. The AAUP & AFT have responded to McMahon’s ‘Compact 2.0’ letter w/ our own “National Call to Action to the Secretary of Education.” 1
AAUP and AFT Respond to Trump's "Compact 2.0"
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten demand that the Trump administration immediately cease weaponizing taxpayer funds and civil rights enforcement to politically coerce coll...
aaup.org
Looking for mentions/conceptualisations of the baroque in African Studies, does anyone have tips? I’ve read Mbembe again, as well as Ong and the Latin American stuff, has any of that left traces in African studies?
A second federal judge has issued an order blocking the new USPS rule on mail voting. This is a separate case from the one in which a federal judge issued another block last week. (This judge refused to block Trump's order in May because USPS had yet to issue a final 'rule', which it since has.)
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
(it does feel sort of silly to post about them when i do but) i am always hoping my books will find their readers! my last book thinks about and with the truly monstrous force field of the ports in Los Angeles, interacting with "nature", the ocean, and oil press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Oil Beach
Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? San Pedro Bay, which contains the co...
press.uchicago.edu
Kate Elliott@kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 4d agoI am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
if you’ve ever wondered why historians are very reluctant to talk about how their own experiences / backgrounds relate to their writing, i wrote a book about some who have tried, and how we all can be more self-conscious & analytical about it. i used myself as a case study. it is free to download!
The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen
How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen
taylorfrancis.com
Kate Elliott@kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 4d agoI am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoBreaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
who wore it better? www.youtube.com/watch?v=APTn...
Jesus Christ Saviour by Klaus Kinski - 1st Attempt
YouTube video by Eva Brun
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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3d agoPeter Thiel—the Palantir billionaire who created JD Vance from a bag of Cheetos and a bucket of eyeliner—is giving his Antichrist lectures in #Nashville. I just bought a ticket… What would Dolly do?
"ICE arrested 50,000 people in July, and another 50,000 in August, eclipsing the monthly arrests made during the peak of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, and Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota."
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d agoWrote about documenting ICE arrests during a surge in southwest Florida -- and how no one wanted any of the footage.
Wrote about documenting ICE arrests during a surge in southwest Florida -- and how no one wanted any of the footage.
ICE is Still Surging
Dispatch from an immigration surge in southwest Florida
turtlediaries.net
Hello #MECFS #LongCovid world, I would just like to share a small victory of mine. A couple of months ago, @statnews.com published an article by a guy whose organization receives funding from insurance companies with a financial interest in not being on the hook for paying for support or treatment.
You wanna know something surprising. I haven’t found one analysis of the 19th c abolitionist movement as a social movement (i.e. not a history of events but an analysis of the movements’ organizing strategies & political tactics, as such). Do you all know of any?
One of the definitions of the "surveillance state" that I operate under is when a government turns *all* methods of data and information collection---no matter what purpose it was supposed to serve, into surveillance intended for punishment.
Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 5d agoBREAKING: EPA is launching a study of water contamination that will, for the first time, test for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Anti-abortion groups consider it a major win that could pave the way for restrictions. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
My distinct impression of HigherEd in 2026 is WE ARE NO LONGER FUCKING AROUND. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
meanwhile my own academic institution library won't acquire physical books any more, not even those written by its own faculty
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo."In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
