Lisa Covert
@covertprof.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | LatAm | Tourism | Disasters | Urban Studies | UNESCO | etc. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496200389/
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Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
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they say there are no teachers or medics in the region and they'll be preventing the army from undertaking eradication of poppy crops while the government doesn't do anything to prevent farmers becoming destitute
Communities in #Guerrero #Mexico say they're going back to growing opium poppy after the withdrawal of the Sembrando Vida program of subsidies to farmers to grow sustainable crops www.reforma.com/pasan-de-sem...
Pasan de Sembrando Vida... a sembrando amapola
Autoridades de 66 comunidades de Guerrero informaron que campesinos regresaron a siembra de amapola tras retiro de programa Sembrando Vida.
www.reforma.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
they say there are no teachers or medics in the region and they'll be preventing the army from undertaking eradication of poppy crops while the government doesn't do anything to prevent farmers becoming destitute
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What I love about @gingerthompson.bsky.social’s project is that it shows the power of a journalist’s curiosity and sincere search for truth, beyond expected narratives.
Immersing in a story, and changing as you discover more information, more history, more nuance.
There’s no substitute for this.
Immersing in a story, and changing as you discover more information, more history, more nuance.
There’s no substitute for this.
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What I love about @gingerthompson.bsky.social’s project is that it shows the power of a journalist’s curiosity and sincere search for truth, beyond expected narratives.
Immersing in a story, and changing as you discover more information, more history, more nuance.
There’s no substitute for this.
Immersing in a story, and changing as you discover more information, more history, more nuance.
There’s no substitute for this.
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The decision reflects a major disconnect between the AHA’s leaders and its members—and underscores the growing irrelevance of an organization unwilling and unable to advocate for a beleaguered discipline and all of its practitioners. 2/2 www.historians.org/news/respons...
Response to Proposed Resolutions: Taking Action to Support Historians - AHA
The AHA has a broad responsibility to advocate for the historical discipline and to enable our members and affiliates to carry out their own priorities. We are united across our different missions in ...
www.historians.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The decision reflects a major disconnect between the AHA’s leaders and its members—and underscores the growing irrelevance of an organization unwilling and unable to advocate for a beleaguered discipline and all of its practitioners. 2/2 www.historians.org/news/respons...
As someone who lives in a place experiencing a creeping crisis of uninsurability, I am glad to see people are working on this
Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
As someone who lives in a place experiencing a creeping crisis of uninsurability, I am glad to see people are working on this
Imp thread about why UC administrators might have tried to keep faculty out of this fight: lack of respect for shared governance and the desire to do things they wanted to do anyway but blame the feds will resonate with faculty beyond the UC system
You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks
YouTube video by UC Faculty
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Imp thread about why UC administrators might have tried to keep faculty out of this fight: lack of respect for shared governance and the desire to do things they wanted to do anyway but blame the feds will resonate with faculty beyond the UC system
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
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AAUP members qualify for liability insurance and other legal resources, including protection for charges brought by students or a parent claiming an AAUP-AFT member denied their Constitutional rights or committed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, or a criminal act.
Check out our webinar👇
Check out our webinar👇
Professional Liability Insurance and Legal Resources webinar
Join us for a virtual informational session with an AFT representative to learn more about the legal benefits and professional liability insurance available to AAUP members. It provides liability…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
AAUP members qualify for liability insurance and other legal resources, including protection for charges brought by students or a parent claiming an AAUP-AFT member denied their Constitutional rights or committed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, or a criminal act.
Check out our webinar👇
Check out our webinar👇
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We launched a PAC!
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We launched a PAC!
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Also: This widely obscures the role that the US often has in the countries we later declare “failed.” Often, their mess is our mess.
Stephen Miller explains his view about why non-Aryans Musk not be allowed to emigrate to the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Also: This widely obscures the role that the US often has in the countries we later declare “failed.” Often, their mess is our mess.
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Peru: Two former presidents jailed in two days
Peru: Two former presidents jailed in two days
Pedro Castillo and Martín Vizcarra are the latest in a series of Peruvian presidents to be sent to prison.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Peru: Two former presidents jailed in two days
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“Without a true reckoning of what happened in Afghanistan, it became clear the US could easily deploy the same failed tactics in some new country against some new threat.” Very disturbing report on tactics, including night raids, whose main goal was to terrorize Afghan civilians.
Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
What We Know About U.S.-Backed Zero Units in Afghanistan
Deadly night raids. Faulty U.S. intelligence. A “classified” war loophole. Reporter Lynzy Billing’s investigation offers an unprecedented insight into the civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s Zero Uni...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“Without a true reckoning of what happened in Afghanistan, it became clear the US could easily deploy the same failed tactics in some new country against some new threat.” Very disturbing report on tactics, including night raids, whose main goal was to terrorize Afghan civilians.
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Kudos to whoever runs the UFW account.
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Kudos to whoever runs the UFW account.
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"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached."
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached."
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
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Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
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"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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With the Trump administration reportedly considering the assassination of Venezuelan president Maduro, we published documents on Presdient Ford's effort to quash publication of the 1975 Senate report on CIA assassination plots (the Church Committee report). nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Washington D.C., November 20, 2025 - Fifty years ago today, a special Senate Committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church lifted the veil of secrecy on the clandestine efforts of the Central Intelligen...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With the Trump administration reportedly considering the assassination of Venezuelan president Maduro, we published documents on Presdient Ford's effort to quash publication of the 1975 Senate report on CIA assassination plots (the Church Committee report). nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Oh hey, I found the war on christmas
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Oh hey, I found the war on christmas
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.