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Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. Focus on anthropology and more. Casting a critical, but wishfully hopeful, eye on current events. Sharing new research and opportunities

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Berlin is asking the right questions.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/10/2025
I ❤️ my hometown. Well done…
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Sociocultural anthropology teaching position at Purdue University careers.purdue.edu/job/Professo...
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Professor Clinical/Professional Assistant
Professor Clinical/Professional Assistant
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Andrew Flachs @drflachsophone.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships. doi.org/10.1177/0278...
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Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025
For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...
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Risk & Disaster TIG @riskdisastertig.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Join the Risk & Disaster TIG at #SfAA2026 in #Albuquerque! Learn more about submitting a Risk & Disaster TIG panel or paper at bit.ly/SfAA2026. Learn more about the conference in general at appliedanthro.org/an... #RDTIG2026 #AppliedAnthropology #Anthropology
Black text on a yellow background that reads "Risk & Disaster TIG Call for Panels & Papers 
for the 86th SfAA Annual Meeting 17th - 21st March 2026 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Risk & Disaster Call: https://bit.ly/SfAA2026; SfAA Annual Meeting: https://appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting."
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Maxime Polleri @maximepolleri.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I'm happy to say that my book called "Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan" will be out with New York University Press in January 2026. nyupress.org/978147983683... #nuclear #atomic #Japan #Fukushima #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #disaster #Chernobyl #governance
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Radioactive Governance
Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Ja...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
US: MAGA is MAGA-ing on human rights. This NPR article discusses several changes in the process and product of the US government's annual global human rights review www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...
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State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A look at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, an archaeological site that attracts conspiracy theories. Lee Clare, an archaeologist who has led the excavation site for over a decade, has heard it all — including the outlandish theories. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
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An ancient archaeological site meets conspiracy theories — and Joe Rogan
In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and leading to conspiracy theories.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
MAGA hates unions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...
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Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Artifacts in US museums explain the outsized role of racism in the nation's history.Public access to these items at federal sites may be restricted or prohibited under Trump administration rules. apnews.com/article/civi...
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Artifacts in US museums explain the outsized role of racism in the nation's history
Museums across the U.S. have artifacts on display that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In memoriam: Ruth Krulfeld, long time anthropology professor at George Washington University and women’s rights advocate, dies at 94 gwhatchet.com?p=1236817
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Hollywood, CA: report on a visit to Musk's new drive-in diner: hype and glitches www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out
The tech billionaire’s ‘retro-futuristic’ drive-in and Tesla charging station has long lines, plenty of glitches – and adoring fans
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A Native retelling of Sacagawea's story is "richer and more ambiguous" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Interview with a British surgeon about his latest stint in Gaza www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
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Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand
Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
US: Florida representative comments on her "curated" visit to "Alligator Alcatraz" www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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Florida lawmaker Anna Eskamani on her 'horrific' visit to 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center
Eskamani says detainees are being held in "cages."
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The only country in the world to do so, Japan requires name change after marriage — with big effects on female scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Japan requires name change after marriage — with big effects on female scientists
Survey finds law requiring married couples to share the same family name causes havoc for researchers.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Meddling in a UN investigation of human rights abuses in Gaza: Trump's rationale? That there are serious human rights abuses in Gaza and that the US is deeply implicated ? www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g...
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U.S. issues sanctions against United Nations investigator probing abuses in Gaza
The State Department's decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, follows an unsuccessful campaign to force her removal.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
US Supreme Court ponders the balance of power – and sides with President Trump theconversation.com/us-supreme-c...
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US Supreme Court ponders the balance of power – and sides with President Trump
A recent judgment by the US Supreme Court calls into question the separation of powers established by the constitution.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
US: Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation apnews.com/article/ston...
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Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation
The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed a lawsuit against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, and white supremacy.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Unmasking fascism: Edward Said’s pedagogy of wakefulness in an age of educational repression - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/u...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Keep telling their stories www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n...
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A D.C. cemetery's 'Gay Corner' is a final resting place for trailblazing LGBTQ+ icons
The Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., includes a section of graves of LGBTQ Americans. We take a pride month tour.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
US: So far, Trump is not getting what he wants from this intervention www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...
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Asked to flag 'negative' National Park content, visitors gave their own 2 cents instead
Signs installed earlier in National Parks earlier in June asked for feedback on signs "that are negative about past or living Americans." Comments viewed by NPR didn't provide the requested feedback.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Lessons about universal, affordable child care from Quebec www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Quebec provides universal childcare for less than $7 a day. Here’s what the US can learn
Public childcare network is a win for everyone – kids, parents and the government, and the Quebec model is a shining example
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Op-ed by a Devi Shridhar, public health professor: the US can't make American children healthy by ignoring the two biggest killers: gun violence and traffic accidents www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How can RFK Jr ‘Make America healthy again’? He is ignoring the two biggest killers of American children | Devi Sridhar
The US health secretary’s latest report is more interested in vaccine scepticism than the brutal toll inflicted by guns and road traffic accidents, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public healt...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
US: masked men who do not identify themselves arbitrarily arresting people does not look like democracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding
Shrouded in secrecy, the US agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
8. That Iran is trying to assassinate the US president when all US presidents have the same foreign policy 9. That Iran (a country that never starts wars) cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons, but Israel (a country that starts wars constantly) can 10. That attacking Iran benefits Americans
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Nigeria: the fight goes on for environmental damages from Shell www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution
Residents of Bille and Ogale in Niger delta are suing Shell and subsidiary, but company denies liability
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
US: Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks
Republicans in Congress are trying to ram through the Trump Tax Scam, a bill that makes extreme cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Under ...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A segregated school for Black children long sat unrecognized on the campus of William & Mary where it was used for other purposes. It's been restored and relocated to Colonial Williamsburg www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...
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Enslaved Black Children Were Educated Here. Now the Public Can Learn the History.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Everyone ought to pray at least one violent prayer a day" -- a sign displayed in a Dallas hotel lobby. open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...
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On the Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter
When a bullet is a "prayer"
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
US: new state laws target job protections for college professors wapo.st/44jMQ8m
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New state laws target job protections for college professors
At least 11 states have imposed new reviews for tenured faculty, made it easier to fire them or proposed banning tenure altogether.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
US: Minnesota shooting suspect allegedly attended a Bible college that is a stronghold of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that teaches that Christians are called to take over the US government www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @MotherJones
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Minnesota shooting suspect allegedly attended a Bible college popular among Christian nationalists
Including several who were instrumental in the 2020 "Stop the Steal" campaign.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Interview with Marci Shore, a historian of fascism, who recently left Yale University for the University of Toronto www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Illegal Attack on Iran - this article argues that Israeli attacks against Iran since 2023 have been illegal CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/13/t...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Op-ed by Miriam Lewin, journalist, author, and survivor of Argentina's dictatorship. A seven episode podcast about her experience as a prisoner of the state and her fight for justice is titled The Burden: Avenger. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I was disappeared under Argentina’s dictatorship. I know how autocracy begins | Miriam Lewin
Foreigners treated as enemies, judges under attack: the signs are everywhere in the US. But there are still reasons to hope
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Guardian reports on the US No Kings protests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump
Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
US: reflections on the assault and handcuffing of a Senator who was trying to ask a question at a press conference www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Handcuffing a U.S. Senator Is a Warning
The treatment of Alex Padilla is part of a pattern of harassing Donald Trump’s opposition.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
US: The Old South is rising--the so-called Lost Cause has strong support in the White House. Naming public places and spaces is more than just about names www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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'Deeply Negative Message': Relatives of Fort Gregg-Adams' Namesakes React to Trump Renaming
Relatives of the late Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams-Earley anticipated it, but when President Donald Trump announced their parents' names would be stripped from the Virginia base, t...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Indigenous rights: the Heiltsik tribe of western Canada have retained more land and autonomy than most tribes. They have a new constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’
Product of decades-long process aims to restore Heiltsuk’s system of coherent governance destroyed by colonial powers
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Among the many possible models for establishing authoritarian rule, Hitler's stands out and resonates (or more than that) today www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
US: Justice Department allows Trump/MAGA to override standing designations of national monuments and use the protected lands for resource exploitation www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...
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Justice Department says Trump can cancel national monuments that protect landscapes
A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Smithsonian Board of Regents takes a stand on personnel decisions www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...
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Smithsonian board to keep institution 'free from political or partisan influence'
The Smithsonian has issued a statement supporting Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch following President Trump's claim that he fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
US: Governor Gavin Newsom says there's a process that Trump disregarded, calls Trump a stone-cold liar newrepublic.com/post/196276/... via @newrepublic.com
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Newsom Calls Trump “Stone-Cold Liar” as California Threatens to Sue
California Governor Gavin Newsom is furious about Trump sending in the National Guard to deal with protesters.
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In memoriam: Diane Nelson, professor of anthropology at Duke University. "A member of our department for twenty-one years, she showed us how to hold onto our commitments to social justice as much as she did how to play..." today.duke.edu/2022/04/duke...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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18 Universities Seek To Back Harvard in Federal Funding Lawsuit | News | The Harvard Crimson
Eighteen universities — including five Ivy League institutions — plan to submit an amicus brief in support of Harvard’s legal challenge to the Trump administration’s freeze on nearly $3 billion in fed...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In fight with Columbia University, Trump threatens to remove its accreditation status thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Commentary: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means? www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The arrest of a union president in L.A. will likely activate these unions to bec...
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