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Constance Gordon

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Constance Gordon @cogophd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some reflections on the first two years as Art Director of Cultural Studies, with more to come.
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
3,000 people have read our @environmentalpol.bsky.social article in its 1st month online The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest - a repertoire of repression With @crossdale.bsky.social, C Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & T Franco Brotto
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/02/2026
I am usually a very behind the scenes person but I stepped outside of my comfort zone because I hope reading this will inspire other people just to step up and do the thing. You never know what your impact can be.
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‘We have to keep showing up for each other’: In Minnesota, caregiving is a form of resistance
School pickups, diaper runs and mutual aid funds are central to how many Minnesotans are challenging the militarization of their state.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 17/08/2025
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/08/2025
This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
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MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days. But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
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Constance Gordon @cogophd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:
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ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Props to @jasonaw.bsky.social and Ali Winston for connecting the dots between a cheesy ass crypto fascist hell resort in Wyoming and the network state movement in the Bay, including Oakland of all fucking places
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Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right
Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards
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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So many Silicon places. Tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...
Silicon Valley Imperialism
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Regulations.gov
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
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USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/04/2025
Rafah no longer exists. Israel has flattened an entire city to build a buffer zone and carve Gaza into military corridors. This about permanent occupation and ethnic cleansing. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
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Rafah no longer exists. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently occupy Gaza.
Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its people.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
!! “Environmental reviews that typically take a year to complete would be finished in 14 days, administration officials said. More complicated environmental impact statements that usually take two years would be completed in 28 days, they said.”
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Interior Department to Fast-Track Oil, Gas and Mining Projects
The Trump administration plans to dramatically reduce environmental reviews before permitting drilling and mining projects on public lands and in federal waters.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
SCOOP: Barnard students are being interrogated about a bomb threat last month on the day students held a pro-Palestine sit-in at the library. But the school never revealed to the public -- or the students -- that the threat was against student protesters. theintercept.com/2025/04/24/b...
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A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters. So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?
A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.” But you wouldn’t know that from the school’s statements.
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Constance Gordon @cogophd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This article is from a few days ago, but as we anticipate EOs on Earth Day, some pre-reading: insideclimatenews.org/news/1804202...
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Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders - Inside Climate News
Environmental groups say they are preparing for the worst—and preparing to fight back.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My sincere condolences to the faithful, and to the Palestinians who lost in him a rare world leader ally.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2025
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.
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Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
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US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We've updated Drilled's guide to global climate disinformation: drilled.media/news/disinfo... Let me know what we're missing!
drilled.media
The Drilled Guide to Global Climate Disinformation
The terms and narratives the fossil fuel industry is using to obstruct climate action.
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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Next week, some environmental orgs will likely be charged w/ bogus accusations by POTUS. Here’s the deal: we stand together. An attack on one is an attack on all. Those not named aren’t off the hook; they have to lean in to support those falsely accused. #unity www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...
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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Bringing back McCarthyism.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”
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Trump admin terminates ‘illegal DEI’ settlement over raw sewage in poor, majority-Black Alabama communities
The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I will not stop pointing out that the Trump admin is following the lead of organized right-wing forces; universities pretending that there are genuine/popular/widespread concerns underpinning the attacks on our work completely ignore the way they have been manufactured. We must fight back.
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Constance Gordon @cogophd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Cannot recommend this article enough for those wishing to make sense of the confluence of forces and coalitional contradictions shaping many aspects of our conjuncture. Thank you as always @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/04/2025
Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 06/04/2025
We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science
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Annie Pho @anniepho.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Lots of people can’t protest and I think @prisonculture.bsky.social’s guide on other actions is really useful: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Everyone has a part they can play from where they’re at.
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Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...
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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Energy Transfer has received requests to power 70 new data centers. Good piece by @andy-rowell.bsky.social + @ninalakhani.bsky.social on the gas pipeline companies poised to cash in on Trump's support for AI data centers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/04/2025
DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Folks, the *goal* is to tank the dollar. That’s a feature not a bug. Once again begging people to read through this very comprehensive guide to what we’re dealing with right now: www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi... (more on the dollar stuff in particular: www.vcinfodocs.com/implications...)
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Venture Capital Extremism — Venture Capital Status
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The logic of the new argument should be shouted from every rooftop: according to DOJ, even if you are a US citizen, after they kidnap you, you would have no recourse once they illegally hand you over to any other country in the world.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
Brian Eno 2h. On the Arrest of Young People at a Quaker Meeting House Last night, six young people were arrested by police during a peaceful gathering at a Quaker Meeting House. They had assembled to talk, reflect, and organise around two issues of overwhelming moral gravity: the climate emergency, and the continuing destruction in Gaza. That the police chose to forcibly enter a Quaker space-a site known throughout history for its deep commitment to peace and nonviolence—is both alarming and telling. These young people were not disrupting the peace. They were enacting it. We live in a time where the greatest threats to our future go unchallenged by those in power, while those who speak out are increasingly met with suspicion, hostility, and force. When the state begins to treat moral concern as criminal intent, we should all be paying close attention. The people arrested last night were not extremists. They were citizens who care-young people who see the interconnected crises of climate collapse and human suffering and refuse to turn away. They gathered not in violent defiance, but in peaceful conscience. I stand with them. I believe their voices are not only valid, but vital. If the institutions meant to protect us cannot bear to hear these voices, then it is not the protesters who are disrupting order—it is the silence of those who look away. - Brian Eno
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/03/2025
Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/03/2025
“Food banks across Michigan are bracing for food shortages this year after the federal government stopped $4.3 million worth of shipments, including chicken, eggs and cheese ― even as many report that the need for food assistance is increasing.”
freep.com
Feds cancel $4.3M worth of poultry, cheese, eggs to Michigan food banks
The government's decision to cancel the food shipments has caught food banks off guard, and could lead to shortages.
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