Exciting CFP alert!

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

Seeking geographic accounts of grift by 10/17. We expect your abstracts to have the integrity of the President of the United States! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

President who engaged in housing discrimination as landlord lays off housing discrimination staff

The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently running an event featuring about the UC’s release of 160 names of faculty, staff and students to the Trump administration’s OCR. Three lawyers - Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, and Asli Bali will speak. I’ll be live-tweeting key moments.

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

trump crossed the line to objectively fascist a long time ago but it's funny that he can have an anti-anti-fascist task force and people still treat it like an open question

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

When the margin of the value produced by labor which capital claims as their right and privilege is "all of it," we are no longer in capitalism.

Somehow, in the midst of all of this, there are several hires in Black Diaspora Studies being made across CUNY. This is one of them:

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Sounds like some flim-flam to me. What geographies of consumption and regret does BNPL underwrite? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Can’t miss this opportunity to get in something that will be so big. Huge!

Along with Will Payne and Jovan Lewis, I'm organizing an AAG session on the economic geography of scams for the 2026 conference in San Francisco. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

The Weekly Read is "Fear of a Dead White Planet," by the More Worlds Collective (Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek, and M. Murphy), which asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? Read this book now for free! buff.ly/86Bikuh

It’s great that companies start out like, “We have a fun new app where we deliver fresh fruit to your door” and then ten years later, “NEW: FRUITMAIL DEVELOPING AUTONOMOUS SWARMING EXPLOSIVE RECTAL DRONES DESIGNED TO HUNT DOWN THISE WHO WERE MEAN TO THE PRESIDENT KING SO AS TO EXPLODE THEM RECTALLY”

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

I feel like not nearly enough people understand this:
"Where real thinking involves organic associations, speculative leaps, and surprise inferences, AI can only recognize and repeat embedded word chains, based on elaborately automated statistical guesswork."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This should be great for the economy. Imagine what it will do for the real estate market, contractors, and big box stores to make furnishings and common renovation materials more expensive. Homeowners and real estate agents will be thrilled.👏 👏 👏