Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
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Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My most recent book that has actually been published is Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion 2022). (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL)
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
God made somebody’s breast milk, but not mine: my milk is my own.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
God made somebody’s breast milk, but not mine: my milk is my own.
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Happy eradication of smallpox day to all who celebrate. Why not go book a vaccine you haven’t had yet or need topped up on this special day?
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Happy eradication of smallpox day to all who celebrate. Why not go book a vaccine you haven’t had yet or need topped up on this special day?
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Perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF...
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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I made zucchini latkes and we put lox on them :3 extremely decadent (and I make a great latke)
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I made zucchini latkes and we put lox on them :3 extremely decadent (and I make a great latke)
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Wins 2025 hands down
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wins 2025 hands down
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New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.
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Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney's Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration is in the @newyorker.com!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Ancient Roots of Doing Time
The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney's Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration is in the @newyorker.com!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Nobody tells you how important *sleep* is to writing a book.
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Nobody tells you how important *sleep* is to writing a book.
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"I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas" is so perfect and I think about it all the time
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas" is so perfect and I think about it all the time
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On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
As someone who has spent a lot of the last few years checking people's citations in detail, a fairly high percentage of them have always been wrong. Even without ChatGPT it's important to check them for yourself.
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
As someone who has spent a lot of the last few years checking people's citations in detail, a fairly high percentage of them have always been wrong. Even without ChatGPT it's important to check them for yourself.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The Warren Cup at the British Museum today, an ancient Greco-Roman silver drinking cup decorated in relief with two images of male same-sex acts. It was purchased by the British Museum for £1.8 million in 1999, the most expensive single purchase by the museum at that time. 🗃️🏺
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Warren Cup at the British Museum today, an ancient Greco-Roman silver drinking cup decorated in relief with two images of male same-sex acts. It was purchased by the British Museum for £1.8 million in 1999, the most expensive single purchase by the museum at that time. 🗃️🏺
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This is something a lot of us have been talking about in academic circles.
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
"The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men."
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
"The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men."
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is something a lot of us have been talking about in academic circles.
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
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worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
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Fuck YEAH!
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Fuck YEAH!
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Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
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the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity
Local North American Christians surprised to learn of missionary work’s effects on faraway countries for first time
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity
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I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
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From leading abolitionist organizers, How To End Family Policing is a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2609-h...
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
From leading abolitionist organizers, How To End Family Policing is a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2609-h...
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
One of the pious legends about St. Nicholas is that even as a baby, he would observe days of fasting, refusing to nurse on those days. This stone carving circa 1140-1150 depicts the infant Nicholas turning away from his mother (probably rather inconvenient, if you ask most moms).
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
One of the pious legends about St. Nicholas is that even as a baby, he would observe days of fasting, refusing to nurse on those days. This stone carving circa 1140-1150 depicts the infant Nicholas turning away from his mother (probably rather inconvenient, if you ask most moms).