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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers canāt find them and theyāve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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It's flashy for sure, but not much more than that. Rather too facile. There are really great Italian authors of that period, like Elsa Morante, Vasco Pratolini, Dino Buzzati or Italo Calvino (his Our Ancestors - I nostri antenati - trilogy has quite a different take in many ways on Italian history).
America and the English speaking West remake other counties' literary history w/o understanding the local context, version n.0.
Also read the book and the historical context for it. The book is autobiographical sui generis, The major publishing houses refused to publish it, and it was largely panned by left wing literary figures - in the 1970s in my family as I was growing up it was certainly considered middle brow material.
I am so so sorry. She is by your side still, forever.
Lmaooooooo
An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
This piece from @sentientmedia.org, @ninaelkadi.com and @iowapublicradio.org highlights a difficult tension ā¬ļø Meat processing plants harm people's health, but are often communities' largest employers. Moving away from a corporate, highly consolidated food system could help address this issue.
The kissinger thing and the fact that his spouse is samantha power make sense in a very 2025 kind of way.
This type of ag trade stuff is always going to be the most predictable FAFO of the trump administration(s).
lol
There is - AFAIK - at least one exception to this rule, since I do not claim any responsibility for covid lol (the interview feels relevant again today for some reason)
The reports piggyback on "an annual survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census as the December supplement to the monthly Current Population Survey", see below. I do not think they cost very much, but sure, you could decrease their frequency and still collect the data.
Just awful. Awful.
This is, by other means, version 2.0 of the move of ERS to KC during trump1, which effectively set the agency back and reduced its portfolio particularly on env'l issues. Now they are gutting ERS because of its good work in showing evidence of structural inequities and poverty. A real disgrace.
A-FUCKING-MEN
If you buy his new book from Birchbark it will be a signed copy! I just ordered it. Also Owamni is just one of the best and most generative places I have been to in this country! So sad kid1 is done with school in the Twin Cities for that alone.
Just saw somebody share the plagiarized version on here, so hey: please make sure you're posting the original story by @emorwee.bsky.social.
I literally think about this multiple times a day now. It's getting closer pretty fast.
my favorite step in the scientific method: gossip
The idea of not having Tylenol during pregnancy *and never giving it to children* is actually an entire nightmare. Fevers esp. in children are so dangerous, and we've gotten several generations removed so apparently have forgotten that fear. (Not if you've ever lain awake with a feverish infant)
just like in trump 1 - ERS is always doing good work and that is why their people get targeted.
Heeeās @civileats.com on the cancellation of the Household Food Security Reports. Clearly the goal is not just to hide the evidence of the current policies (if one can call chaotic kakistocracy that), but also to eliminate evidence of structural racism & inequality. They pretty much admit it.
Super important to note that the man who led the charge to do this was British national who came to US to get rich; he helped start the National Electric Light Association, which the federal government forced to dissolve because of their role causing the Great Depression. They reformed the next day.
This post links to a most excellent thread by @sevier.io . Reframing the narrative - which has been dominated by industry lobbies (largely led by white men) in energy as in food/agriculture and other sectors such as housing and transportation is an extremely important task - no matter if Sisyphean.
All the free speech discourse is REALLY giving me DARVO vibes today my god
theyāre putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements
Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.
I look forward to reading this!
okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper
Better start composing some heartfelt and totally spontaneous paeans to the excellence of dear leader
Ikr? I just canāt Louise
Thatās quite the board, but the University of Austin president being part of it is really š§āš³š
Are people able to put 2+2 together here with several prominent Democrats only able to say āwhat are we, North Korea?ā every 24 hours?
Oh I believe it is real having checked around - but like so many things today it looks too out there to be actuality.
I'll be honest, I was not sure if it was "AI" or a real photoshop job.
For something that will have all the ambience of the Wichita Marriott's conference center and wedding space
I think I shared this before, once a student complained about my teaching b/c I said country X, (his homeland, it turned out), was known for falsifying statistics, so international orgs kept them separate from global totals. That time the country was the PRC, next time itāll likely be the US š š
Native American glass always takes me happy places. The beautiful beaded flat bag is by iah q, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Above it is a porcupine by Heather Johnston (Unangan (Aleut) / Alutiiq). The two glass cacti on the window sill are by Robert "Spooner" Marcus, San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay-Owingeh).
I have been doing this for USDA data and their webpages too - the Climate Smart Partnership site was down for a while for example when they went after the program and is now back.
Since our pawpaw harvest was a bit underwhelming this season (one fruit, our first since we planted the trees 5 years ago), we were pretty psyched to find these at the farmers market in Iowa City today. They smell divine btw
Right? I am not going to give him the satisfaction of a reply.
Oh for sure. And a Dean.
None of these people are serious and worth of their influential positions and they should not be treated a such.
Lol you know what, I might just reply that hahah Thank you!
I have exercised admirable restraint (by my own standards) and not replied at all, but "so what" was on the top of the list.
Zero bonus points if you guess their gender lol
So I got an email - out of the blue - from a person in a much more consequential position I am, misspelling my name and letting me know that they and their co-author wrote about this but never published the work b/c they got bored with it. That was the whole email. Please senior ppl do not do this.
FOLKS! share this big story with your friends and family off bluesky too! canāt assume theyāll see it otherwise
trump is working real hard at making a share-of-the-pie, not a size-of-the-pie, world.
This is going to be terrible in the short term for international students and their families, but also for US universities whose attractiveness is linked to the training opportunities the OPT allows. Long term, yes, devastating for innovation in both the private and public sectors.
Dutch late night TV has its take
I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of āthe masterās tools will never dismantle the masterās houseā but hereās the explanation.
So so sorry. Sending healing thoughts your way.
One time I heard Ruth Wilson Gilmore make the point that āracial capitalismā is redundant as all capitalism is racial & never has that been clearer than watching all these tech moguls & university presidents & media conglomerates & journalists fall over themselves to promote white nationalism.
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.
This is giving strong āwe are all trying to find the guy who did thisā vibes
One thing I learned in almost 30 years of work in US ag policy is that people self censoring their scholarship & doing work within the parameters of what they think big ag will accept resulted in a world where nobody knows how to think meaningfully about alternative choices & argues for them. My 2Ā¢.
Memories and The Music of the Night on repeat. Busty ladies barely dressed. Crass lily white comedy a la Benny Hill. Basically Berlusconi TV with even more plastic surgery, botox and Turkey hair.
ah, well
Robert Redford talking about how the Algerian War led him to interrogate his own understanding of the United States of America.
At my previous institution Glenn Poshard was hired out of something like his 3rd retirement (had previously been a Blagojevich appointee so you know he's quality), there were plagiarism issues & his son got beaucoup bucks in university contracts. Still he got a hagiography at the uni press in 2023.
I just saw something on Linkedin (that's why you should not go to Linkedin btw) about someone retiring FOR THE THIRD TIME from an administrator position. Get a life people!
Also excuse my pet peeve but a LOT of them are retired from two or more previous institutions and thus collect pensions. Plus they get free housing and other perks such as the use of a car and often fake jobs for their spouses which amount to hidden compensation. Absolutely not transparent BS.
Let's be frank 90% of the time (optimistically) those are consultants ideas, and those people have even less of a clue and get paid millions too.
If anyone thinks "oh but what about the donor/alumni money they bring", please consider that these are largely figureheads who come and go and largely follow the guidance of foundation/development people who did the hard background work of tracking and courting people.
The UCLA chancellor makes almost $1 million a year - a cut from his previous salary at the University of Miami, over $1.6 million. These are grotesque sums of money that have nothing to do with any meaning of the word "value" brought by these upper administrators' work.
The headline of this article is becoming a theme of the higher ed movement and the anti-authoritarian movement in general: rank-and-file folks are forging ahead of our nominal "leaders."
Yeah but do you get to drive a big ass tractor?
Hard pass on baked beans on my end hahah
Ray, that area includes the Provence! Ratatouille and fougasse are vegan. You could live off of vegetables, olive oil, beans and bread...
I mean, I wrote my undergraduate thesis in wordstarā¦
It is, yup!
I think we are really saying ourselves here folks
Haha thatās why I donāt make so many maps anymore!
I particularly like that Sardinia, my homeland, is the center that all the radii start from. I guess I get to eat from all regions then.
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME, hence my pinned post.
By golly I loved ArcMap myself!
If you're around IC and a water person, this may interest you. Waters of the United States: A Conversation with Royal Gardner and Silvia Secchi at Prairie Lights as part of the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Book Festival This is a reading of Prof. Gardner's WOTUS book, in conversation with me.
And just like that, crime stats go down.
Would you consider Tippi Hedren a ātrue starā?
* I hesitate to call the hodgepodge of conflicting, often illegal, set and reset and altered depending on who last left the Oval Office decisions made by the administration āpolicyā.
Feeling a tiny bit of schadenfreude here for the owners of these farms, a tremendous amount of sorrow for the farm workers and their families and disapproval for the reporter who fails to note that trump got rid of the Farm Labor Survey used to set H-2A wages, another sign of our absurd ag policy*
Sorry this gif always comes to mind when I think about these matters
Perhaps I am missing something but I think we are getting closer to when the people who only care about having a larger size of a smaller and whiter pie have a bit of a convo with the people who profit from having ever bigger pies. [policy implications ensue]
at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms. this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.
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NEWS On the heels of Lisa Cook's victory in the D.C. Circuit, Reuters knocks down another foundation of the Trump admin's mortgage fraud claims. The property tax authority over Cook's Michigan home found āno reason to believeā she broke the rules, per the wire. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
It is entirely fitting and proper that Charlie Kirkās admirers are honoring his beliefs about free speech by devoting hours to getting people fired for saying the wrong things about him.
As the footprint of the US empire shrinks, amidst a breathtakingly fast realignment of global trade and geopolitics, it is heartbreaking to see that the first victims of USian imperialism will undoubtedly bear the brunt of its violent death throes.
All the way the bitter end.
As you well know industrial agriculture produces bountiful crops of boosters of many varieties, having had to deal with them for decades has made the whole attitude rather unpalatable for me. Plus, itās often used by industry to put off the real hard but meaningful stuff.