April Anson

Note there is nothing in this piece about the benefit to students. "Success" is defined in this piece as capacity to further the program of commercial capture of education & revenue-generation through distance-learning. An example here and then a laughable follow-up in my next post.

lmao

If you attend a protest, wear black, and use Signal, congratulations you are now a terrorist.

This is incredibly bad. Incredibly bad.
This is how you start the process of criminalizing all opposition to the fascist machinery of power and it happens quickly once this kind of bar is set and accepted as normal.

Holy shit. This is very, very bad.

This was also a nightly observation in Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. I’m so glad some reporting is out on it now.

ICE buys Salt Lake City warehouse The sale came nearly two months after rumors surfaced that the agency tried to acquire a different property in the area.

A large warehouse facility on Salt Lake City’s west side has been sold to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Colorado River may deliver just a third of normal water supplies this spring, projections show Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin could reduce the amount of water delivered during spring runoff to a third of normal, according to federal forecasters.

Not great

The Hill United CEO: Airfare likely to rise as jet fuel prices surge United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby warned this week that soaring jet fuel prices tied to conflict in the Middle East could soon push airline... . 4 hours ago Aerospace Global News Airfares could rise as Iran conflict drives soaring fuel costs and flight detours Airlines face rising jet fuel prices and costly rerouting around Middle East airspace after US-Israel strikes on Iran, and may raise... . 1 day ago BBC Surge in jet fuel prices could push up air fares, analysts warn Disruption to supplies from the Gulf, in the wake of the US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, has pushed the cost of aviation kerosene up by... . 1 day ago Українські Національні Новини (УНН) War with Iran triggered a sharp rise in fuel prices in the US УНН Economy ✎ Gasoline prices in the US rose by 11% due to the conflict with Iran and oil at $90. This creates political risks for... . 15 hours ago Simple Flying Airfare Warning: United CEO Says Ticket Prices Will Rise ‘Quickly’ As Fuel Costs Skyrocket As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, airlines brace for the impact on their pocketbooks, with United CEO warning of rising...

Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS

Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history.

THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.

Would you hate a country that dropped a bomb on your child's school? 🤔 Asking for a friend!

Every day drops another example of why media and literary criticism are essential to unpacking contemporary aesthetic hyperpolitics

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Bard faculty call for ‘transition’ plan for college president linked to Epstein Faculty members stop short of calling for Leon Botstein to resign in wake of revelations about ties with sex offender

Another headline here is “Bard faculty declines to call for Leon Botstein’s resignation over Epstein ties.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Appreciated this time with Cara Furman and co-authors @redped.bsky.social, @mishuana.bsky.social, Jessica Fremland, and Kali Simmons about our paper on Gardening with Indigenous Feminisms. I feel so lucky to be a part of this project.

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My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

The fascism is killing us, some faster than others, but nearly all of us either way.

I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Please share with any Indigenous youth that you know!
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mapping power is so hot right now

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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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Seems like a smart move for climate people is to organize these folks and stop with the, "AI is good, actually," takes.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

What the National Park Service Has Flagged Thus Far. It's Much Worse Than I Thought. Note: This is a long post.

I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Erik Prince—a former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater, the private military contractor later rebranded as Constellis—provided a blunt assessment to conservative influencer Steve Bannon on Sunday, a day after the killing of Iran's 86-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and more than 40 top Iranian security and regime officials. "Look, Steve, I'm not happy about the whole thing," Prince said on Bannon's War Room podcast. "I don't think this was in America's interests. It's going to uncork a significant can of worms and chaos and destruction in Iran now."

When Erik Prince takes a break from blowing up civilians in Haiti and the DRC with drones, and even he’s like “whoa man, this Iran stuff is too chaotic for me”

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Who’s Deciding Where the Bombs Drop in Iran? Maybe Not Even Humans. Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability even exists anymore.

Truly dystopic.

"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."

We were asked to contribute to the employee food pantry today in the email that goes out to all of the employees at my university

brave to publish this on the very day netanyahu himself said he’s been wanting to do this for 40 years

One of the biggest successes of The War on Terror was recoding war as a form of global policing. There are no invasions, only actions; no enemies, only combatants; no countries, only jurisdictions. When there is no such thing as war, there's also no such thing as peace.

Note: this includes cuts to Connect Oregon which funds the Amtrak Cascades. Join me in yelling at the people who are taking the train away. If we yell enough we can stop the train from going away but only if we yell enough.

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