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Elisabeth (Libby) Anker. Political theory & culture. Author of Ugly Freedoms, Duke 2022.
i hate new technology

https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/elisabeth-anker

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She (life peeress, former dep governor of Bank of London, uni president) is actually the powerless victim of powerful students. Sheer melodrama. @libankerdc.bsky.social

Is it weird for a newspaper to frame a whole story around an objective falsehood, like a person claiming their free will was magically suspended

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Please sign, all DMV faculty: dmvfaculty4academicfreedom.wordpress.com

DMV Faculty for Academic Freedomdmvfaculty4academicfreedom.wordpress.com

Please sign, all DMV faculty: dmvfaculty4academicfreedom.wordpress.com

DMV Faculty for Academic Freedomdmvfaculty4academicfreedom.wordpress.com

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Excellent work by the Boston Globe *already* catching the cops lying about what happened. But more broadly: Our liberal cities let their police depts operate as far-right violent counterprotest squads. Why? www.vox.com/2020/6/1/212...

all, don't miss that Emerson College in Boston had what looks like a pretty violent clearing out of their encampment overnight www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/25/m...

Boston police forcibly remove Emerson pro-Palestinian tent encampment, more than 100 arrested - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Several videos posted on social media showed a chaotic scene as law enforment officers in helmets and reflective jackets scuffled with shouting protesters, some carrying umbrellas. Many of the protest...

These videos show the police aren’t neutral. They’re counterprotesters.www.vox.com Some law enforcement officers are treating America like a battlefield.

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So I am in New Haven. I teach at Yale. I’ve seen the protests here. I’ve also been in demonstrations from New York City to South Africa over the years. 1/

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Petition calling on Hobart & William Smith Colleges to respect academic freedom and revoke the teaching suspension of Jodi Dean. chng.it/Fd6VkC5BTB

Stand for Academic Freedom: Support Professor Jodi Dean's Right to Teachchng.it In a letter dated 13 April 2024, the President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Mark D. Gearan, announced that Jodi Dean, the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences ...

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If you understand that the tech bro “ai” fetish has at its foundation a deep seated hatred of women, then so much of this stuff falls into place.

Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industryfuturism.com When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec began seeing dollar signs instead of red flags.

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What a day in Enid, Oklahoma www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Oklahoma official with white nationalist ties is ousted in recall votewww.nbcnews.com Judd Blevins, who marched alongside neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, lost his fight to remain on Enid’s City Council.

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"This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," Andres said. "Even if we were not in coordination with the (Israel Defense Forces), no democratic country and no military can be targeting civilians and humanitarians." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car'www.reuters.com Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car."

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Indiana University professor who is the faculty advisor for a Palestinian student group suspended from teaching because the university administration, which had received a related warning from a Member of Congress, on the grounds that the Prof didn’t fill out a room reservation form correctly.

IU suspends professor after Palestine Solidarity Committee event. Other faculty denounce the decisio...www.idsnews.com Faculty expressed concern that the suspension harms academic freedom and shared governance.

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“Two virtual students created by the university will be enrolled in classes starting in the spring semester. The students, named Ann and Fry, will enroll as freshmen and be part of hybrid classes, where they’ll interact with classmates and complete assignments.” www.freep.com/story/news/e...

Students' classmates at this Michigan university could be AIwww.freep.com Two virtual students, Ann and Fry, will enroll in classes as freshmen during the spring semester.

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On January 9, there will be a launch event for the newest issue of @bostonreview.bsky.social with Aziz Rana, @libankerdc.bsky.social, Mark Paul, and myself. We'll be arguing about freedom. You can register here:

Register now – Reclaiming Freedom: A Boston Review Launch Event – YouTubewww.tickettailor.com Reclaiming Freedom: A Boston Review Launch Event – YouTube, Tue Jan 9, 2024 - “A curious thing has happened within American culture,” Aziz Rana writes in Reclaiming Freedom. “The language of f...

“Stop Idealizing Freedom” My thoughts on Ron DeSantis, social media, and the power of “going low” to fight for freedom are part of this sharp forum on Reclaiming Freedom in Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...

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I’ve been listening to NPR for 39 minutes. Nothing —not a peep— on the COP 28 agreement. Why isn’t it (its success or its failure!) the biggest story? Why does the media not pay any attention to Climate Change at all?

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Our new issue, RECLAIMING FREEDOM, takes back a term long wielded by the right. Aziz Rana leads a forum w/ @leaypi.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @markpaulecon @marxinhell.bsky.social @libankerdc.bsky.social—plus work by @samuelmoyn.bsky.social & more! www.bostonreview.net/product/recl...

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The EPA's inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn’t Set Safety Limits on...www.propublica.org The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in t...

I AM FLOORED!! Ugly Freedoms won Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize, awarded for the best book in American Studies. Thank you ASA 🙏🙏🙏

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Thus is an extraordinary piece of writing. "We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history’s wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."

“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”jewishcurrents.org The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.

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American politicians election-yearing Israel-Palestine right now perfectly demonstrates how the US political establishment has been a destructive influence, an accomplice to a militarized apartheid regime. A bankrupt, failed foreign policy since 1967.

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““The U.S. is the only country in the world that is known to sentence children to die in prison,” said Preston Shipp, who works on policy issues for the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, a national advocacy organization.”

Sentenced to die in prison, 'juvenile lifers' ask lawmakers to end life without parole for minorswww.michiganradio.org Michigan sentenced over 360 minors to life without parole — more than any state except Pennsylvania. Half of them have now been released and 90% have been resentenced, in most cases to a finite leng...

Terrifying and mind boggling www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023...

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Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

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The number of kids killed by gunfire in the US rose 50% in two years. 2021, the most recent year with available data, had the highest recorded count of kids killed by gunfire since at least 1999, when the CDC began making this data available. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Whoever writes “Bohemian Grove: The Musical” is my new BFF

Among many other things, it’s quite a heel turn for Ken Burns to wander into the Bohemian Grove with David Koch and Clarence Thomas. www.propublica.org/article/clar...

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Eventswww.propublica.org Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

Proud to have been a UAW member in my Berkeley days, this speech is 🔥🔥!!

good morning UAW! good morning labor storytellers. good morning denizens of hell burning to get out.

reproductive control is always about Necropolitics

Multiple West Virginia lawmakers have recently supported voluntary sterilization of incarcerated people. Said one lawmaker: “If you want to lessen your prison sentence… then you get your tubes tied, so you don’t bring any more drug babies into the system.” boltsmag.org/west-virgini...

New Law Could Make It Even Harder to Get Health Care in Deadly West Virginia Lockupsboltsmag.org In a last-minute special session, the GOP-led legislature rushed through a law denying care that corrections officials don’t deem “medically necessary.”

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