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Chloe Ahmann

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anthropologist studying industrial pasts and environmental futures // author of futures after progress: hope and doubt in late industrial baltimore // bingo enthusiast anthropology.cornell.edu/chloe-ahma…

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.
We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact. 

We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators. 

The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses.

We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 22/05/2026
The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Friends who have been external reviewers for tenure cases (many of you): any advice on writing good letters for a first timer? How long are these? How do they differ from letters of rec in style and substance? What less-than-obvious things should one know about the genre? Thank you!
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Cornell president accused of running over students foot, backing up into another - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff is accused of backing his car into a student and running over the foot of another.  The incident allegedly occurred as Kotlikoff […]
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The films are live! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Polluted by Design: Histories of Waste and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Baltimore - YouTube
Set in the neighborhoods of South Baltimore, Polluted by Design is a four-part documentary series examining how waste infrastructure, industrial zoning, and ...
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Over the past year, @anandian.bsky.social and I have joined forces with our students and the remarkable folks at South Baltimore Community Land Trust to produce a 4-part documentary series on the history of environmental (in)justice on the city’s southern edge. It’s called “Polluted By Design.”
Poster for screening and panel discussion of “Polluted by Design: Histories of Waste and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Baltimore.”
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Friends! Our collaborative piece “Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism” is now out (OA) in AA! Featuring Zeynep Oğuz, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social Julia Leser, Yuka Suzuki, and @noahtheriault.bsky.social ✨ tinyurl.com/4tb8vncp
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ....
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Friends! Our collaborative piece “Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism” is now out (OA) in AA! Featuring Zeynep Oğuz, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social Julia Leser, Yuka Suzuki, and @noahtheriault.bsky.social ✨ tinyurl.com/4tb8vncp
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ....
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A big shout out to our two Bateson Book Prize 🏆 Honorable Mentions! Congrats to @chloeahmann.bsky.social and Jean Dennison for these phenomenal books from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @uncpress.bsky.social:
Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore by Chloe AhmannVital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future by Jean Dennison
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Congratulations to Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann on receiving an honorable mention for the 2025 Bateson Prize! Explore a powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore and celebrate this well-deserved recognition by securing your copy here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAA
Blue background, congratulations to Chloe Ahmann, book cover center titled futures after progress, 2025 bateson prize honorable mention
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Friends attending #AAA2025 - some health stuff is keeping me from all the spooky fun in NOLA but I have to boost this Thursday sesh on “The Specter of Fascism” co-organized with the best comrades. GET THERE! There will be brilliant people, urgent scheming, ZINES. #anthrosky 👻📚✊✨
There is a specter haunting the globe. Once imagined as a hollow revenant of 20th century catastrophe, fascism again looms large in our political present: as a resurrected governing formation; a glaring threat to minority lifeways; a crisis of liberal norms; an incendiary charge to lob at one's opponents; and, perhaps most often, a question. Questions like the oft-invoked "Is this fascism, yet?" embed a temporality that makes it hard to mobilize, for they posit fascism as that which cannot be named until too late. Historically, conceptually, politically, we hold this position is untenable. Rather, the ghosts of fascism are emergent, tangible, hauntological presences across a spectrum of horizons.This roundtable therefore gathers scholars who are not content to consign fascism to the extreme, nor to the 20th century. We study fascism that calls itself by many names and charges banal sites of social life: mundane violences that emerge in liberal institutions, structure school curricula, shape relationships with nature, identify as "critical" and "feminist." Turning from book burnings to blockbuster films, dictators to PTAs, and examining sites of racialized and gendered violence across the Global North and South, we consider fascism not as an ideal type but as it haunts the everyday – all with an eye toward grasping fash-ish moods before they advance into full-fledged fascist masses.Despite a growing sense that fascism is on the rise, boundary work has muddled what could be a clarion call for antifascist research. Popular responses range from naive tolerance to bloody confrontation, and academics appear hamstrung by a similar dissensus. Some frame fascism as an illiberal force; others as an apparition that stupefies the masses into (neo)liberal norms. Some call developing a general theory of fascism the most pressing matter of our time; others hold the concept loses teeth when abstracted. Some lament that fascism "is not who we are" in liberal democracies, while others locate its inception at democracies' frontiers. These debates are hardly frivolous, but while they unfold, fascism unfolds, too. There are questions worth exploring that do not hinge on their belabored resolution. And anthropology, ever curious about the instability of meaning, is precisely the discipline to ask them.In short: we believe anthropology has rarely been more needed, but also that our field needs work to meet this moment. Recent scholarship has gestured notionally toward the possibilities of an antifascist anthropology, but the time has come for thinking programmatically. Together, we ask what fascism becomes when unhinged from its natal contexts. We map its spectral presence in domains from home to healthcare, economy to education. We inquire how to approach it as an ethnographic object and as the condition of our lives and work. And we consider how to remake anthropology into an antifascist discipline that can fight back not only in theory, but in practice.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I haven't shared reviews here lately since it feels a little cringe, but I'm always humbled when folks give Futures an earnest read and take time sharing what they think. So to get to sit with a ✨whole ass forum✨ has me floored! Grateful to all the contributors. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9CWVB...
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A book forum on Chloe Ahmann's Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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We Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom.
Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am...
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Noah Theriault @noahtheriault.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
👀 Check out this provocative new collection of brief essays on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” that Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz co-edited for Society & Space. I contributed a piece on the banality of eco-fascism in the Philippines (and beyond). Thanks, Chloe & Zeynep, for the opportunity!
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday... t.co/JUowfqw7cB
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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/07/2025
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
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Rehman Siddiq @rehmansiddiq.com · 22/06/2025
No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news
Email from the Anthropology Department Chair reads: 

Dear Chloe,
 
I am delighted to share that I have just been informed that the provost has approved your tenure case.  The final step is the board of trustees, but that is just a formality.  So you can count on being an Associate Professor with indefinite tenure as of July 1.
 
Congratulations, and good work!!
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news
Email from the Anthropology Department Chair reads: 

Dear Chloe,
 
I am delighted to share that I have just been informed that the provost has approved your tenure case.  The final step is the board of trustees, but that is just a formality.  So you can count on being an Associate Professor with indefinite tenure as of July 1.
 
Congratulations, and good work!!
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨ newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
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Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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L Gil @gilanthro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Futures After Progress - from Baltimore to the world! Listen for a teaser of this powerful read and a timely conversation with @chloeahmann.bsky.social on toxicity, politics, and the possible futures of our pasts 🌱
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨ newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
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Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“Instead of asking: ‘Do we all share the same worldview,’ [we might] ask: ‘Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Rare bright spot: www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/04/08/a...
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A long-sought victory for community groups: Lawmakers end Maryland’s subsidy for incinerators | Baltimore Brew
Until it got a powerful new ally in Annapolis, a decade-long effort to end state support for trash-burning facilities, like South Baltimore’s BRESCO plant, always flamed out.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/04/2025
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
[text from the Declaration of Independence]

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/03/2025
The Trump administration has targeted at least eight foreign academics in America for deportation, often sending officers to snatch them off the street and shipping them halfway across the country—increasingly in apparent defiance of court orders against their rendition.
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Trump's secret police are stalking more and more students
Scholars targeted by ICE are suing to fight deportation—and halt Trump's war on the First Amendment.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you're a US historian who'd like to do this but are unfamiliar with the process, hit me up & I'll help you identify your target publication, write your pitch, & get your piece into that sweet, sweet 600-750 word range. (Pro bono in case that wasn't clear). It's my literal job & I'd love to help.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Universities are not w/o recourse, despite what they want you to believe. (Cornell bought a building last week for $15mil, even as it cries austerity.) Our leaders are CHOOSING to abandon the core principles w/o which there can be no higher ed. There are other paths. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
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Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
it’s ok to be bad at your job when everything’s unraveling (note to self)
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"This is what happens when universities don't stand by their students...Cornell has placed a target on my back." democracynow.org/2025/3/24/mo... via @democracynow.org
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Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation
The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to target free speech on college campuses and one doctoral student at Cornell University who was involved in pro-Palastinian protests on campus now finds...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Apropos of nothing, "Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare" is now out in Public Culture. We grapple with the surprising glut of Shakespeare references in far-right fiction (so you don't have to) and ask wtf is going on there. The essay starts like this: doi.org/10.1215/0899...
Screenshot of first page of article in the journal Public Culture. 

Title reads atop the page in bold font: Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare: Literary Populism in White Power Fiction.

Beneath that, authors: Chloe Ahmann and Devin Proctor

Beneath that, the article:

Five days after he helped Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election, news broke that chief strategist Steve Bannon once penned a rap musical based on William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. The play, set amid the 1992 Los Angeles riots, features a grisly war between the Bloods and Crips, who trade poetic spars like, “I’m an OG from the hood,” and “I will return to rep my peeps!” Rarely has Roman tragedy been such comedic fodder. 

Within weeks, Bannon’s collaborator leaked the script, and choice excerpts landed in the New York Times. By spring, NowThis had staged a table read with seasoned actors. Subscribers to Vanity Fair soon learned that this was Bannon’s second adaptation. During his fabled time in Hollywood, the would-­ be playwright pitched an intergalactic take on Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. 

Reporting on the play is, understandably, hilarious—a bit of light within a dark 100 days when brazen White supremacists filed into the West Wing and fractured liberal norms with a ferocious speed. As newspapers mourned democracy’s demise and prophesied fascism’s rise in the United States for the first (but not the last) time in this century, stories on Bannon’s Shakespeare fandom broke from the seriousness of it all.

What made them funny?
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Association for Political and Legal Anthropology / PoLAR journal @polar-journal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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APLA Taskforce on Academic Freedom
Letter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends,  As you know, these are unprecedented and scary times in US higher education, with ongoing at…
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This. When we speak out in defense of the university, let it not be the university as it existed on Jan 19, 2025, which was a deeply authoritarian space. Let it be the one our students brought to life against all odds and for which they continue to be criminalized.
Post from the bad place that says: “Columbia didn't cave--administrators are using this crisis to implement the draconian measures that *they want*” Paired with a screenshot from an article, with this line highlighted: “Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
Last night at 12:52 AM, the Department of Justice contacted the undersigned via email. Under the subject line “Momodou Taal et al v. Trump, 25-cv-335 (NDNY),” the government informed the undersigned for the first time that the government intended to serve Mr. Taal with a Notice to Appear (NTA), and that they intended to take Mr. Taal into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Given that this information confirms the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ request for an emergency temporary restraining order, ECF No. 23, and the increased urgency with which the Court’s intervention is needed, we respectfully request the Court construe this letter as any procedurally appropriate vehicle to obtain the same. Plaintiffs’ counsel is immediately available to follow up with any submissions the Court deems appropriate in this extraordinary situation. Attached to this letter is an affidavit from Counsel Eric Lee (Exhibit 4), the government’s 12:52 AM email (Exhibit 5), and Plaintiffs’ counsel’s reply (Exhibit 6). The email reads: My colleagues and I represent the United States in this matter. The applications for admission of Messrs. Stone, Moss, and myself to the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York are pending, so we have not noticed our appearances yet. But we wanted to reach out to establish a line of communication, and relate some information concerning your client. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has asked us to convey to you the following. ICE invites Mr. Taal and his counsel to appear in-person at the HSI Office in Syracuse at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the NTA and for Mr. Taal to surrender to ICE custody. Accordingly, if you are interested in proposing such a date and time, we will promptly forward it to ICE for consideration
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