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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, as held by me on an NYC subway car.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Trust" is a vague word not conveying much meaning to me. Like as a professor, I do not trust university administration to support my field. I do not trust the trustees of Land Grab U's to take seriously their debt to Indigenous peoples. I do not trust some engineering profs to teach ethics. Etc.

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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News

About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

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A war criminal without a war

It's just murder.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Is it possible that Bluesky is even more reactive and angry than Twitter ever was? Yikes on bikes.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

No Rebecca, my dad was friends and colleagues with Jim. I was just noting a piece of info I learned as a teen that I always found interesting. This is such a curious response! What makes you read fear? I'm merely noting that it actually had religious foundations, rather than transcending them.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Maybe an op-ed for a high school newspaper? Most opeds i read are far better.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I know you, doctor, are the last who needs to be told this: it is hard to see the same evacuation to sciences that arts, humanities, and non-quant social sciences have seen for 30 years. I hope the allies created will stay, if science funding/infrastructure gets restored.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Message me for a PDF if you don't have institutional access! muse-jhu-edu.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/.../article/...

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The editors at NAIS put so much thought and care into refining this one with us. I know we were both grateful to Abigail Echo-Hawk who let us put her powerful dress (made of the body bags sent to SIHB instead of PPE, in 2020) in our article, and on the cover of this volume of the NAIS journal.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I remember that we were so grateful to Chris Andersen and M. Murphy, Vanessa Gray and Beze Gray for being there with us and sharing their work. And Theresa is truly such a pleasure to write with and think with. Brilliant, patient, thoughtful, ethical, and attentive.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I am thrilled to see this article in print, just about 3 years after Theresa Rocha Beardall and I started hatching this plan, and just 2.5 years after we organized discussion at NAIS in Toronto to get critical Indigenous Studies' STS arm and IDSov to be in conversation.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Can you elaborate by any chance? I'm interested!

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I record every single lecture in my large anonymous undergrad classes. I know it's not Texas but I keep my receipts anyway. I speak carefully but factually.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“We must be very aware of the future that we portray in English. I think of English as a strange wing that sprouted, not grounded in the old thinking about the land, but one that we must learn to soar in.” – Dian Million, PhD, Tanana Athabascan.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I don't know about the guy in the upper left, but it seems key to not that the greatest beneficiaries of all DEI programming were white women.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I got to meet and present with the brilliant Dr. Melanie Yazzie in April at Dtmth. She's analytically sharp, a storyteller, and funny af. Fk Ann Coulter.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

From @witchytwitchy.bsky.social on IG

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I desperately want historians of sci to step up & remind us how complicit we scientists were for decades, all in the hope of keeping that sweet money coming. I've watched scis ruin activist & labor movements on uni campuses all from the fear of appearing political. Time for a reckoning, and repair.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”

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Hundreds of veterans volunteer to attend asylum hearings with Afghans

The effort began after a former Afghan interpreter was detained after his San Diego asylum hearing this month.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

Jason Delgado (Florida Capitol reporter for Spectrum News 13) on X: "Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz." What is shown in the picture is a long tent structure, about 50 feet wide. There is a corridor running down the middle. On each side are three rows of bunk beds. The bunk beds are sectioned off into cells which are constructed out of chain link fence, with chain link on the ceiling as well, making each cell a literal cage. It looks to me like each cell contains 9 bunk beds, so has capacity for 18 people each.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I agree. Tho, the ivies offer free tuition if ur fam makes < 100-160k (depending on ivy). But most (like me) still take loans to pay room/board/fees (my 2 jobs didn't cover it). They govern the middle class through debt & play into "meritocracy" farce w/ the stories of their few poor students.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Honestly, just let the Marxist bros have their highfalutin debates about Settler Colonialism. Give them some Capital Vol. III and snacks and they'll keep themselves busy.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

External camps. Internal camps. Where are the women?

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested.
"How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked.
"Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied.
"That was a good day today," the first agent responded.
The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said.
Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly

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"You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled.
An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said.
Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing.
"That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said.
The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running.
As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here."
"You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?"
He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. -

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"I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back.
No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification.
"They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview.
The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van.
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Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell.

Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands began to swell.
The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway.
"I smeared my blood in their seat," he said.
And he thought, "They're going to remember me."

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The part where you've chosen a hypothetical world with TWO OPTIONS... BOTH WHICH allow your daughter to suffer abuse.... instead of the THIRD OPTION where it is neither. You've shrugged your shoulders and said "sorry sweetie, it's either rape or harassment. No other choice."

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ok save your skeet, and show it to your daughter when she's 18. No? Then don't say it now.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 20/06/2025

Watch this. Let their bravery fill you up. We should be fighting tooth and nail alongside these people. If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us. Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

*writing, not worrying lol. But same thing, honestly

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I really appreciate your response! Im very curious and will be reading it soon. As I'm worrying about now, immediately after it's founding the US began pushing past the 1763 proclamation line. Nothing past this was claimed by the US yet. The frontier was barely further west than the Appalachians.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Yeah he put the white hood back on for this 2nd term

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I will have to look into this first, but the fact that Native reservations don't make it into this map, and the Geography of empire is bracketed to "off the mainland" is an immediate red flag.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

If you're NDN and want to have a wild night, put your Nations name in the bluesky search bar and see how yt ppl on here are invoking your histories/governance etc for their various arguments about whatever.

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

No serious Indigenous Studies scholar thinks this. I don't think the Euro/American anthros are the best place to go for arguments about us (ironic use of "us" there, on my part.)

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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The ONLY time I use AI in my college classroom is to, during lecture, have it answer anonymous student questions about everyday social issues of race/class/gender. It corrects them well. I then have them seek formal sources about AIs claims. Very useful.

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