Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. https://t.co/hsr1HyHf6V
Just published! Ten more essays on Palestine and what Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza demands of us all — read Anthropology in a Time of Genocide now, here: https://t.co/9B2NSYijfc
Birth certificate. Eyeglasses. Cell phone. Teddy bear. Sewing machine. Hep C medication. Breast pump. Bible. Urns of ashes.
@propublica spoke with people across the US about what they lost during encampment sweeps. Please spend time with this. https://t.co/Ai4xadcUlJ
... supporting cultural preservation in Indian Country to counteract the attempt these schools made to eradicate Indigenous cultures, and ensuring history does not whitewash this era by glossing over the ugly history of this program. (3/3)
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We look forward to working with this and future administrations to ensure those words are matched by actions - ensuring all the ancestors who perished at these schools return home ... (2/3)
Thanks to @POTUS for finally offering a formal apology on behalf of the United States government for its role in the Indian Boarding School Program. This long overdue acknowledgement is an important step in the right direction. (1/3)
These people are giving the game away. They want to create a world in which no one has the desire to read, create or think, and eventually no one has the capacity to. Reading, critical thinking, the humanities, are never wastes of time; they are what make us free.
Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch
*heavy sigh* How am I expected to circle back on emails when the salmon are running and the leaves are changing and the trails are out there and it is peak fall weather?
I have made it one of my top priorities to help tell the story of the trauma of federal Indian boarding school policies with Indigenous voices front and center. On this National Day of Remembrance, we reaffirm our promise to let survivors' voices be heard. https://t.co/JUDVEtxvlZ
Whether talking about police violence, climate change, homelessness, or genocide, a key form of propaganda is that the most powerful institutions in the world—who are directly causing and profiting from horrific stuff—really want to make things better but just can’t.
Congress could make it a crime tomorrow for judges to fail to meet ethical disclosure obligations. Seems important, right? In The Punishment Bureaucracy, I explained with lots of examples why criminal law is not seen as a domain for regulating the behavior of powerful people.
It’s the funniest thing in the world that schools are cracking down on political speech without bothering to take any of this stuff off their websites.