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At this point I’m not even asking “where are the Democrats??”. I want to know, where are the witches? Is the witch community prepared to step in here? Are incantations being prepared, spirits summoned?

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Honorable and commendable of Zelensky to hold his ground against Trump. What a contrast with Macron and Starmer. And now, please. Time for Tariffs. On. Oligarchs www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...

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Oh hell yeah. Get all the Public pensions to divest in Musk, Bezos, all the little oligarch nazis. www.aft.org/press-releas...

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(guy whose business is entirely government contracts) we’re going to run the government like a business

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glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

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Going back to Neil Smith for his original definition of revanchism for a project I'm working on, and wow, does that sound relevant: "It was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country."

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Hochul refuses to overstep her authority by...using her legal authority to remove the most blatantly openly criminal mayor in the history of NYC who has traded NYC's entire migrant population in exchange for presidential pardon but when a real crisis strikes, like a professor getting a job?

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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Class warfare

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Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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🚨 Looking for travel funding to AAG in Detroit next month? The Economic Geography Specialty Group still has two Graduate Student Travel Awards worth $500 each available. Just submit an application through the form by March 8th. Please share widely! cc: @econgeog.bsky.social

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“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo

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Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

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We are hiring in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota! If you would be a great urban studies lecturer and u-grad advisor, please apply! And please share with anyone you know who might fit the bill! hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Counterpoint: No. Instead why don’t they actually earn it

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I’m reading this now. It’s super important

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Excellent piece on the wanton destructiveness playing out in federal research agencies: “The US took nearly a century to craft its rich scientific ecosystem; if the unraveling that has taken place over the past month continues, Americans will feel the effects for decades to come.”

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The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm

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Some guerrilla art at this Brooklyn bus shelter.

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“This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.” Yes, indeed.

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Awards for graduate students going to the 2025 AAG! Please share far and wide! Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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the federal government is explicitly acting as if jim crow is the law!

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Strongly recommend this speculative fiction in the form of oral histories as key reading for this moment. Offers a glimpse of the work of building another world, and the possibilities therein.

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This is like if the mob got to fire every federal agent investigating organized crime bsky.app/profile/make...

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Given US politics this past week, seems timely to repost this piece on policyfailing.

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very cool post-doc opening at UBC in Vancouver on Housing Equity and Adaptation for Tenants kin.educ.ubc.ca/postdoctoral...

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we need to see every grant, regardless of discipline or topic, include these words. if they are serious about this, force them to be serious and flag every single grant. if they blink then we learn something. if they haven't come for you, they just haven't come for you yet, so show some solidarity.

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Reminder: we are currently accepting applications from graduate students to join @cplusc.bsky.social as junior fellows this summer to work on progressive climate and economic policy research, design, data, and communications. Deadline is March 3, feel free to reach out with q's. Apps due March 3.

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Bill de Blasio piped up to say the Department of Justice charges against Adams were "flimsy," just in case anyone is tempted to wax nostalgic at this moment in history.

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They are stealing from you to enrich their billionaire and corporate friends.

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Everyone should be pointing out what is happening at CFPB. There is zero argument to be made here that this is being done to provide taxpayer value. The agency's budget is minuscule, averaging like $600 million/year, yet it has obtained $20 billion in payments from corporations to Americans

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"It’s impossible to read about the internet-based frenzy of the late 1990s without drawing parallels with the AI-based frenzy we’re experiencing now. In fact, even the numbers look similar." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/have-we-be...

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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

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Statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren: “Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families. The CFPB has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.”

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Really feeling this today.

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this had such a profound effect on my thinking, and it’s only more relevant now. if Trumpism is a chaotic and embarrassing pastiche of reckless privatization, brute force, wild pronouncements, constant bickering, and malign incompetence, that makes it more like historical fascisms, not less…

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UCSF employees 25k people, more than any other organization in San Francisco except than the City itself. Last year they received over $600 million in NIH grants, which was a third of all their grants.

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