April Anson
@aprilanson.bsky.social
Asst prof at UConn (prev. asst prof at sdsu, postdoc at penn). she/her, settler. Studying ecofascism and anti-racist/colonial enviro humanities.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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Alex Menrisky on why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right governmental structure but a genre, a mode of storytelling.
asleecocast.podbean.com/e/expanding-...
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Expanding Our Sense of Ecofascism: Everyday Ecofascism with Alex Menrisky | ASLE EcoCast Podcast
What is ecofascism and who "is" ecofascist or "does" ecofascism? Alex Menrisky walks us through why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right ...
asleecocast.podbean.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Alex Menrisky on why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right governmental structure but a genre, a mode of storytelling.
asleecocast.podbean.com/e/expanding-...
asleecocast.podbean.com/e/expanding-...
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Why won’t Silicon Valley invest millions in me? If I chug a ton of water, I can also write a mediocre essay and lie.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Why won’t Silicon Valley invest millions in me? If I chug a ton of water, I can also write a mediocre essay and lie.
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This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
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Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
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As someone who has had to sit down with admin with highlighted printouts, annotated screenshots, and, in one case, a fucking PowerPoint, to defend myself against bad-faith complaints, including being racist and sexist against white men:
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As someone who has had to sit down with admin with highlighted printouts, annotated screenshots, and, in one case, a fucking PowerPoint, to defend myself against bad-faith complaints, including being racist and sexist against white men:
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
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Tech bros 🤝 eugenics
Silicon Valley sets its sights on building the perfect baby | Fortune
Tech-savvy parents to be are using IVF and screening embryos to build families in ways that were unimaginable a few short years ago.
fortune.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tech bros 🤝 eugenics
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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It's been quite something to see one of the world's leading climate scientists, James Hansen, being vilified the past years for presenting data showing the rapid acceleration of global and regional warming, associated with continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapid reduction of air pollution.
November 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's been quite something to see one of the world's leading climate scientists, James Hansen, being vilified the past years for presenting data showing the rapid acceleration of global and regional warming, associated with continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapid reduction of air pollution.
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Oh interesting, whose fault is that?
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Oh interesting, whose fault is that?
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this is good, but at one point, he says it’s not political, it’s a human-nature thing.
idk, i think it’s both. i think a LOT of things we do and ways we feel are political in at least some way.
(“political” meaning “who has—or *should* have—the systemic power and privilege in this situation?”)
idk, i think it’s both. i think a LOT of things we do and ways we feel are political in at least some way.
(“political” meaning “who has—or *should* have—the systemic power and privilege in this situation?”)
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
this is good, but at one point, he says it’s not political, it’s a human-nature thing.
idk, i think it’s both. i think a LOT of things we do and ways we feel are political in at least some way.
(“political” meaning “who has—or *should* have—the systemic power and privilege in this situation?”)
idk, i think it’s both. i think a LOT of things we do and ways we feel are political in at least some way.
(“political” meaning “who has—or *should* have—the systemic power and privilege in this situation?”)
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If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
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I'm giving the talk "The Ends of US Public Media" at the University of Québec at Montreal on where NPR and PBS came from, and what's going to happen next for US public media.
This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!
This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!
The Ends of US Public Media - Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques - UQAM
dandurand.uqam.ca
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'm giving the talk "The Ends of US Public Media" at the University of Québec at Montreal on where NPR and PBS came from, and what's going to happen next for US public media.
This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!
This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!
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The response to demands for police accountability being the construction of training facilities and shooting ranges across the country definitely set the stage for this moment as well.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The response to demands for police accountability being the construction of training facilities and shooting ranges across the country definitely set the stage for this moment as well.
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From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Tomorrow is our last chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025. We can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits, but only if we turn enough voters out — please make some calls to help us send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Tomorrow is our last chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025. We can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits, but only if we turn enough voters out — please make some calls to help us send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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The thing I keep coming back to about this is it’s the OU administration coming out against… learning
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The thing I keep coming back to about this is it’s the OU administration coming out against… learning
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Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
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Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
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This is the point:
“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter [CRLS CEO]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter [CRLS CEO]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is the point:
“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter [CRLS CEO]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter [CRLS CEO]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...