My Father’s Daughter
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ARCH/IA/LA assistant professor. landscape architecture for the health of all living beings via psychocultural & behavioral analyses. spatial restitution = belonging to place-wellbeing. cortisol reduction re-wilding. magazine editor.
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This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
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REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus):
Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus):
Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
“So I emphasize the misogyny, the social media aspect, the fact that they captured the presidency. And I think there are all these ways in which I borrowed this phrase from Matthew Taylor, who borrowed it from someone else, but the fringe becoming the rug…” - @lkatfield.bsky.social
I agree. I started it this week and can't put it down. Such an excellent chronicle of our current horrors.
This book on the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field is excellent, not least because the author has a training in Straussian political theory and knows how to read texts with care.
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“So I emphasize the misogyny, the social media aspect, the fact that they captured the presidency. And I think there are all these ways in which I borrowed this phrase from Matthew Taylor, who borrowed it from someone else, but the fringe becoming the rug…” - @lkatfield.bsky.social
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MAGAs ideas? Join our special guest @lkatfield.bsky.social, @stephenricher.bsky.social and me to talk about what strands of the "ideas first" right such as Chris Rufo, Curtis Yarvin, "Bronze Age Pervert," Michael Anton, JD Vance, and others. Terms of Engagement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odk0...
What Does the MAGA New Right Think?
YouTube video by Harvard Ash Center
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December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
MAGAs ideas? Join our special guest @lkatfield.bsky.social, @stephenricher.bsky.social and me to talk about what strands of the "ideas first" right such as Chris Rufo, Curtis Yarvin, "Bronze Age Pervert," Michael Anton, JD Vance, and others. Terms of Engagement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odk0...
I guess it didn’t occur to me that he wouldn’t live forever…
Following Frank Gehry’s death, tributes have poured in from across the design world — leading architects, major studios, institutions, and academia. Here’s a snapshot of the global reactions.
archinect.com/news/article...
archinect.com/news/article...
In pictures: the design world pays tribute to Frank Gehry
As Archinect reported last week, iconic Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry has passed away at 96. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Gehry reshaped the possibilities of architectural f...
archinect.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I guess it didn’t occur to me that he wouldn’t live forever…
“…a fundamental reordering of the fed bureaucracy…Powers that liberal-democratic revolutionaries the world over fought to take away from absolute monarchs…are being reconstituted…Instead of being ruled by experts answerable to Congress, we will be ruled by cronies answerable only to the president.”
The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Is About to Give Trump His Crony State
During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—and reorder the separation of powers.
www.thenation.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“…a fundamental reordering of the fed bureaucracy…Powers that liberal-democratic revolutionaries the world over fought to take away from absolute monarchs…are being reconstituted…Instead of being ruled by experts answerable to Congress, we will be ruled by cronies answerable only to the president.”
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The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
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Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.
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Adam knows that this was the freedom of enslavers, who freedom was bound up with absolute control of their enslaved property.
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Adam knows that this was the freedom of enslavers, who freedom was bound up with absolute control of their enslaved property.
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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Look for gardeners--every time we plant something, we have hope for the future! And yes, we do notice all the plants, all the birds, all the creatures.
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Look for gardeners--every time we plant something, we have hope for the future! And yes, we do notice all the plants, all the birds, all the creatures.
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also you know what else is dangerous to individual liberty? a totally unconstrained executive, which we're seeing right now thanks, in part, to kavanaugh's own actions as a justice!
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
also you know what else is dangerous to individual liberty? a totally unconstrained executive, which we're seeing right now thanks, in part, to kavanaugh's own actions as a justice!
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Leaving some leaves on the ground is, at least ecologically speaking, a good thing—decaying leaves fertilize the soil and form a protective layer that provides shelter for snails, bees, and butterflies.
Why is it so hard to ban gas-powered leaf blowers? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Get a rake: Dispatch from suburban America's forever war
Why is it so hard to ban gas-powered leaf blowers, our most hated appliance?
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Leaving some leaves on the ground is, at least ecologically speaking, a good thing—decaying leaves fertilize the soil and form a protective layer that provides shelter for snails, bees, and butterflies.
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"Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively....The future of education has already arrived, as a liquidation sale of everything that once made it matter. " Ronald Purser Dec, 2025
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively....The future of education has already arrived, as a liquidation sale of everything that once made it matter. " Ronald Purser Dec, 2025
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Stop saying “DEI” or “equity-related.”
Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate.
Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male.
Name the hate. Make them own it.
Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate.
Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male.
Name the hate. Make them own it.
A new memo gives the National Park Service two weeks to review bookstores for “equity-related” content for removal.
Trump Orders DEI Out of National Park Bookstores | KQED
A new memo gives the National Park Service two weeks to review bookstores for “equity-related” content for removal.
www.kqed.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Stop saying “DEI” or “equity-related.”
Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate.
Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male.
Name the hate. Make them own it.
Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate.
Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male.
Name the hate. Make them own it.
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Fascism is not a narration, its a grammar. It has no end, it transforms
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fascism is not a narration, its a grammar. It has no end, it transforms
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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if you don't understand by now that once tech companies are entrenched they break out the thumbscrews and try to ruin their user's lives idk what to tell you man, you might lack pattern recognition
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
if you don't understand by now that once tech companies are entrenched they break out the thumbscrews and try to ruin their user's lives idk what to tell you man, you might lack pattern recognition
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We are underreacting to this‼️
We have no explanation on SCOTUS decisions affecting our lives.
The emergency docket, aka “shadow docket,” is the quiet backdoor of the Supreme Court. Decisions drop fast, with little explanation, and Trump is hammering it harder than anyone in modern history.
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We have no explanation on SCOTUS decisions affecting our lives.
The emergency docket, aka “shadow docket,” is the quiet backdoor of the Supreme Court. Decisions drop fast, with little explanation, and Trump is hammering it harder than anyone in modern history.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are underreacting to this‼️
We have no explanation on SCOTUS decisions affecting our lives.
The emergency docket, aka “shadow docket,” is the quiet backdoor of the Supreme Court. Decisions drop fast, with little explanation, and Trump is hammering it harder than anyone in modern history.
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We have no explanation on SCOTUS decisions affecting our lives.
The emergency docket, aka “shadow docket,” is the quiet backdoor of the Supreme Court. Decisions drop fast, with little explanation, and Trump is hammering it harder than anyone in modern history.
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1935, the Nazi regime enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship.
Reich Citizenship Law declared that only those of "German or related blood" could be citizens - part of a broader racial discrimination & persecution strategy culminating in the Holocaust.
Reich Citizenship Law declared that only those of "German or related blood" could be citizens - part of a broader racial discrimination & persecution strategy culminating in the Holocaust.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1935, the Nazi regime enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship.
Reich Citizenship Law declared that only those of "German or related blood" could be citizens - part of a broader racial discrimination & persecution strategy culminating in the Holocaust.
Reich Citizenship Law declared that only those of "German or related blood" could be citizens - part of a broader racial discrimination & persecution strategy culminating in the Holocaust.
thank you @sunny1udno.bsky.social ! so honored to be included🌅
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
thank you @sunny1udno.bsky.social ! so honored to be included🌅
“…as I have said elsewhere, we cannot function as a society without trust, certainly not without trust in expertise.” - @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“…as I have said elsewhere, we cannot function as a society without trust, certainly not without trust in expertise.” - @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
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In the realm of white grievance, personal pettiness and insecurity, this takes the cake.
#NPS
#Project2025
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
#NPS
#Project2025
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In the realm of white grievance, personal pettiness and insecurity, this takes the cake.
#NPS
#Project2025
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
#NPS
#Project2025
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...