Kate Ritchie

Philosophy professor at UC Irvine working on social kinds and groups and our linguistic and mental representations of them

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

🚨@NyVasil and I are excited to share that we’ve been awarded a 3-year @NSF grant! We’ll be studying the developmental trajectory of how people learn, represent, and talk about generalizable regularities across social & natural domains 🧵

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel is exterminating northern Gaza right now.

There are 400,000 Palestinians there being deliberately starved, with nowhere to go, trapped inside a killing field. There’s no outrage or wall-to-wall media coverage because Israel is the one doing it and the victims are Arab.

[Populism Updates @PopulismUpdates]

Found this image of Tim Walz holding a piglet

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

This is unhinged.

Israeli parliament votes to label UN relief agency a terror organisation https://t.co/9Dvj5c8DKH

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

JD VANCE, 2016: “He’s America’s Hitler.”
JD VANCE, 2024: “He’s America’s Hitler!”

[Dr. Canton Winer @CantonWiner]

Saying the protests are “violent” appears to be a preemptive alert about the violence police are about to CAUSE on campus—not violence they have been called to respond to.

So misleading of UCI.

[bencamach0.bsky.social @bencamach0]

@MayorofIrvine just put out a statement.

“I am asking our law enforcement to stand down. I will not tolerate any violations to our students rights to peacefully assemble and protest.”

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

https://t.co/5uKivr108P

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

Our workshop on Genericity, Stability, and Structural Interactions will be held in Oakland this weekend! Keynote talks by Samia Hesni (BU) and Mahesh Srinivasan (Berkeley). We (@NyVasil and the UCI and CSUEB team) would love to see you there! (flyer with more info below)

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Israel accidentally bombed a food aid convoy which had shared their coordinates with the IDF in advance. Then they accidentally bombed it again. Then they accidentally bombed it a third time to finish off the survivors

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

US moral depravity continues

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

US approves bombs, jets for Israel amid threat of offensive in Gaza’s Rafah https://t.co/Lh5JJtiC5c

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

New piece on Zone of Interest: the speech, the lies, most of all, Glazer's harrowing warning about how genocide can become "ambient."

This is what feels most contemporary, most of this terrible moment, about Glazer’s staggering film.

https://t.co/K0NWUKdYbX

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

The White House strategy on Gaza currently boils down to this:

1. Continue the flow of weapons and other support to Israel to continue its campaign of war crimes against the Palestinians trapped in a killing cage

2. Make a big public display of how frustrated Biden is with his “great, great friend” of 40+ years, Netanyahu, in an effort to eventually promote a narrative that it was Netanyahu that was out of control and Biden tried to reign him in, rather than the truth, which is that this is a deliberately genocidal war waged by the Israeli state with the full backing of Biden

3. Lead the public to believe Biden is drawing a “red line” while simultaneously refusing to use the substantial powers and influence of the US presidency to actually confront Israel’s war crimes, which continue to be supported by the U.S.

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

@MetrolinkOC What time will it be in Tustin?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

No, NYT, starvation isn't stalking Gaza's children, like some weird, abstract predator. Israel is choosing to starve Gaza's children by blocking aid.

Starvation isn't committing genocide. Israel is.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Self-immolation is widely recognised as the most extreme form of protest possible—to publicly destroy one’s own life in the most violent and extreme way is a stark warning for society to pay attention, as it has already crossed a line.

Now, two US citizens have self-immolated over the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza in less than three months. The first was dismissed as antisemitism, the second is already being labelled as a ‘mental health issue.’

Our society is broken in the most disturbing of ways. Those with their fingers on the levers of power are guilty of the most heinous of crimes—crimes that reveal a deep psychopathic sickness at the heart of government. And the gatekeepers of truth, our media body, collude with them to cover up these sick and twisted crimes.

We must not let them. We must continue to speak truth, loudly and constantly, and work tirelessly to inform one another of the criminals in power and their depraved actions. We need to fight against this disgusting narrative of lies and death, before it kills us all.

[Dr Eleanor Janega @GoingMedieval]

If you are feeling sad and hopeless that is completely understandable, but it's also a luxury we can't afford right now. Here's a list of some great organisations helping on the ground, just as a handy guide:

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Imperial Feminism is an entire discourse angry about two white women not getting enough nominations for a doll commercial while staying silent on US funding &supporting a genocide killing two Palestinian mothers every hour, starving girls &causing a 300% increase in miscarriages.

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

@realesttheorist @OrinKerr @jennifermmorton @CivilRightsProf @clioprof3 I loved having you in class and am so proud of all the amazing things you’re doing now!

[Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 @itranslate123]

If I must die, let it be a tale.

#FreePalestine
#Gaza