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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"There is scarce new information on MKUltra, so it is surprising to see congressional inquiry over half a century after the program terminated. But as is often the case, these questions about the past have less to do with this horrible past than they do with the horrible present."

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Congressional MKUltra Hearings as MAGA PSYOP

For the record, as someone who distrusts the CIA and who spent years studying MKUltra. I believe MKUltra died within the agency in the 1960s. It died because it didn’t work. The types of mind control ...

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Tomorrow morning (6/30) Congressional Hearing on the CIA's MKULTRA program. Don't expect this congress to cut through the disinformation, but the circus should be worth watching. Below link to chapter I wrote on anthropologists unwitting contributions to MKULTRA research in my CIA anthropology book.

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Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"... just as anthropologists demonstrating the social construction of race and racism were subjected to McCarthyism’s attacks, today scholars complicating our understanding of race, sex, gender, class, and other topics central to our understanding of inequality are under attack."

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The Hidden Architecture of Knowledge: Intelligence, Academia, and the Shaping of Power

This exclusive commentary explains the role that intelligence agencies, philanthropic foundations and state power have played historically in the creation of academic knowledge, especially during the ...

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This article just came out that I co-authored with the late Estonian anthropologist Kristin Kuutma thinking about Cold War impacts on the development of anthropology in the Baltics, Soviet Estonia, and Dr. Strangelove's America.

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Soviet and US cold war borderlands

This paper discusses how geographical and ideological borders impacted anthropological practices in the East and West during the Cold War. Examples from the Baltics and Soviet Estonia and the Unite...

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Day three, Library of Congress research.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The main reason that anyone pretends Iran won't be a Forever War is that everyone knows Trump's attention span is shorter than his tiny hands. But we're all going to be dealing with Trump's damage long after his boredom sets in and he's left the scene of the crime.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Please consider signing this petition supporting union workers at the University of Washington Press & Libraries as they negotiate their contract. Academics need to do all we can to support union workers at academic presses. I am a proud supporter of UW Press's great union workers. #UWashingtonPress

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"TLDR: Use Signal for as many texts, calls, and video chats as possible, and set up disappearing messages. Just remember that encryption isn't magic. Consider the security of the devices on each end of the conversation—and how much you trust everyone in it."

wired.com

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Recorded feed from an hour long broadcast this week on NYC's Pacifica WBAI radio show "Uncontrolled Opposition," talking about the history of The Asia Foundation and the CIA.

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The Asia Foundation and the CIA w David Price | Uncontrolled Opposition Live Recording for WBAI 99.5

YouTube video by Pasta 2 Go

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"Kung Fu practice" needs a new entry in Urban Dictionary.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

We should expect nothing less in a country where our public schools' history classes are seldom more an afterthought delivered by videos and peppered with the impressionistic ramblings of football coaches.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My piece forgotten roots of techno-feudalst movement. "It should concern all of us who dream of a world where Americans have universal health care, food security, and meaningful work, that our oligarchs dream of a world where they have unchecked power and we are chattel."

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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A stack of various Pluto books against a white backdrop. Books piled on top of each other in a neat stack. Titles include, Radical Antiquity, Fascist Yoga, The Feminist Art of Walking, The Backstage of the Care Economy, Renters Unite, The New Racial Regime, Radical Abundance, Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica, Naseej, The Forgotten Era and Drax of Drax Hall. Black text reads 40% off all books until October 28th

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Salmon running the Deschutes River a few blocks from my home.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Sights I saw in Washington DC today. National Guard at the National Museum of the American Indian.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Camping along the Yakima River.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. . . .'It's a really powerful tool,' says one former Palantir employee. 'And when it's in the wrong hands, it can be really dangerous. And I think people should be really scared about it.'”

wired.com

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I hope that some of you can help donate to a legal fund for this family under threat of separation by Trump. The person stepping up to organize this effort to help them is one of my oldest dear friends, Lisa Queen. Anything you can give helps gofund.me/5d7d6821

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Donate to Help a family about to be separated by deportation, organized by Lisa Queen

Ines, a parent at my school with 3 US-born children under the age of 10,… Lisa Queen needs your support for Help a family about to be separated by deportation

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

American Idiocracy brought to you by Citizens United, Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, and American capitalism's refusal to acknowledge what it's doing to the planet.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Taking the ferry south from Tromsø.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Rule Number 8: Anyone not marching or not looking at their phone is suspicious.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Opinion | I was addicted to heroin for 20 years. Here's why I am eliminating federal funding for Narcan so that an extra 10,000 people can die each year from opiate overdoses. by RFK Jr.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“This is what we were always scared of,” said Kevin Bankston. . . a senior adviser on A.I. . . “The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.” Infrastructure built with policies of Bush, Obama, Trump v1.0 & Biden.

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State

DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/04/2025

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia. “They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.

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