John Armenta

Adjunct prof. teaching speech communication. Studying and writing about Post-9/11 veterans, gender, patriotism, and identity.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

The element of university collapse that none of the recent reports has taken account of is the rampant overreach of trustees and the total lack of any mechanism for actual university members (faculty; students; staff) to hold them accountable.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“crime is a social construct”, what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering, but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.

[Propagandopolis @propagandopolis]

'Metamorphosis of a class society' — Cartoon by Danish communist artist Herluf Bidstrup (1965) depicting inequality through the ages.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

A war economy built on fossil fuel domination requires mass denial. People have been well trained to defend the machine killing them

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

Thank you to @jasper_craven for using the launch of his very important book as a fundraiser for CCW 💪

[Chris Original Black Navy Vet @Chris4Perkins2]

Whoever the next Democratic president is, they better not start talking about forgiveness and pardons to unify the country. This country will unify behind prosecutions and prison sentences. We're still fighting because the Confederacy was never properly punished. End the cycle.

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins playing “Who By Fire” on NBC’s one of a kind Nightmusic (1989). We have the late Hal Wilner and David Sanborn to thank for dreaming up and producing the greatest music show that’s ever been on tv.

[The Costs of War Project @CostsOfWar]

"The costs of these military operations have already climbed to $4.7 billion, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project."

The New York Times cites our research on the cost of recent U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean: https://t.co/m00FTpuOZi

[The Costs of War Project @CostsOfWar]

At least four times as many active duty personnel and war veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in combat. https://t.co/d312wyzamz

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

“why tweet that lol. that’s for the group chat” some ppl don’t have group chats. montaigne’s essays would’ve been letters to his best friend (who died). petrarch would’ve just talked to laura (who wouldn’t talk to him, & died). no group chat is the condition for literary creation

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

New outreach materials on Conscientious Objection for our volunteers near military bases!

Anyone can download and print them here: https://t.co/HIP1NSu2f0

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

One of our new conscientious objector clients has a message for sailors & Marines aboard the USS Nimitz, and others facing participation in a new US war on Cuba 🧵

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

Service members: you don’t have to participate in this deeply immoral military operation. Call us (877) NO-2-WARS

[Ana Escobar @AnaEscobarShow]

Sounds like Israel is getting ready to bomb some churches.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

it's genuinely crazy that Elon got free reign to do the exact thing that every "just cut spending" dipshit has wanted to do for decades, it failed catastrophically, and they're still running the exact same script like nothing happened

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

IDK man but all these people talking about how the "open secret of academia" is that academics do bullshit work might want to consider all the academics - and I know plenty - who actually did do real work and quite coincidentally are now unemployed or adjuncting to the grave

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

My hypothesis: US university education was a massively successful export industry (foreign students paying tuition + housing + living expenses is literally classified as exports) and Trump admin collapsed this demand.