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@teebeegeo.bsky.social
UOregon political-economic geographer. Interested in fixes and solutionism, marketization, insurance and public finance, carceral & legal geographies, how we know
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
All I see is how these "exits" (i.e, the capacity to exit) express the feudal character of the very white structure that is academia
More US-based academics exit the United States, including world famous astronomer Sara Seager 🔭🧪
www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
New constellation of academic stars headed to U of T
In a “big win for Canada,” the University of Toronto is further strengthening its academic ranks with three top researchers from U.S. universities whose work ranges from the search for new planets to ...
www.utoronto.ca
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
All I see is how these "exits" (i.e, the capacity to exit) express the feudal character of the very white structure that is academia
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Pretty sociopathic that this announcement comes the week after the due date for 2026-27 applications
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Pretty sociopathic that this announcement comes the week after the due date for 2026-27 applications
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
THE CAPITAL OF CAPITAL ya bish
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
THE CAPITAL OF CAPITAL ya bish
Welcome to hell shithead
cheney lived 15 years longer because he got a luxury mechanical heart repair in 2010 and a transplant shortly after. dude lived with a presumed death sentence of heart disease but spent his life making illegal racist war and stoking the worst people imaginable into a frenzy. unrest in piss satan
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Welcome to hell shithead
a must-attend session at AAG26
Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:
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October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
a must-attend session at AAG26
At this point I am merely grading how well a student queried ChatGpt
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
At this point I am merely grading how well a student queried ChatGpt
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My hot take is that the reason Trump broke Silver, Yglesias, Klein, et al (to varying degrees) is because the brand of Very Smart Person TM was valuable when politics was interesting but more or less normal and they think their careers depend on pretending that things are still like that.
October 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My hot take is that the reason Trump broke Silver, Yglesias, Klein, et al (to varying degrees) is because the brand of Very Smart Person TM was valuable when politics was interesting but more or less normal and they think their careers depend on pretending that things are still like that.
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Even if AI is the future, “teaching classes in AI skills” is like “teaching classes in how to use a dishwasher” in 1952.
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Even if AI is the future, “teaching classes in AI skills” is like “teaching classes in how to use a dishwasher” in 1952.
“This is not philanthropy,” Dimon said. “This is 100 per cent commercial. We are going to take our resources of research, bankers and investors, and we’re going to scour the United States and maybe the world for a new opportunity.”
i.e, maniacal alienation loading
i.e, maniacal alienation loading
What kind of statement is that 😂
JPMorgan CEO: “You need America to be very, very strong to secure global security,” Dimon said in a call with reporters following the announcement. “If America isn’t very strong, there’s no global security.”
www.ft.com/content/2556...
JPMorgan CEO: “You need America to be very, very strong to secure global security,” Dimon said in a call with reporters following the announcement. “If America isn’t very strong, there’s no global security.”
www.ft.com/content/2556...
JPMorgan backs ‘America First’ push with up to $10bn investment
Chief executive Jamie Dimon says US too dependent on ‘unreliable’ sources of materials ‘essential’ to national security
www.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“This is not philanthropy,” Dimon said. “This is 100 per cent commercial. We are going to take our resources of research, bankers and investors, and we’re going to scour the United States and maybe the world for a new opportunity.”
i.e, maniacal alienation loading
i.e, maniacal alienation loading
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The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.
Judicial warrants can still be served.
Judicial warrants can still be served.
Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect
The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.
Judicial warrants can still be served.
Judicial warrants can still be served.
I hate to say it, but Stephen King's book "On Writing" has been very good for my writing.
October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I hate to say it, but Stephen King's book "On Writing" has been very good for my writing.
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Yeah I bet Trump is so mad that a woman who opposes communism and chavism, promotes capitalism and privatizations, and agrees with sanctions on Venezuela and wants her country to be invaded by the US, just won. He's gotta be so mad
October 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Yeah I bet Trump is so mad that a woman who opposes communism and chavism, promotes capitalism and privatizations, and agrees with sanctions on Venezuela and wants her country to be invaded by the US, just won. He's gotta be so mad
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Trump has unleashed ICE, but the foundations of what's happening has had the full-throated endorsement of Democrats. We are less than a year away for a Democratic campaign that argued Trump wasn't serious enough about deporting people. Why would we expect this party to act?
October 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trump has unleashed ICE, but the foundations of what's happening has had the full-throated endorsement of Democrats. We are less than a year away for a Democratic campaign that argued Trump wasn't serious enough about deporting people. Why would we expect this party to act?
A fascist gestapo of mediocre white males, the longest song in history
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A fascist gestapo of mediocre white males, the longest song in history
reminder to whomever needs to hear it/see it, medical offices and especially pediatric care locations are routinely and coolly racist spaces
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
reminder to whomever needs to hear it/see it, medical offices and especially pediatric care locations are routinely and coolly racist spaces
I think about this every day
“We’re living through a golden age for losers who don’t seem to realize how much they keep telegraphing their loserdom to the rest of us.”
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I think about this every day
my city mane
This is important. Six steps for recording ICE in Chicago
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
my city mane
Seems like this is maybe the most unsung variable about the current job market. New grads in the pool with fully endowed professors looking to jump ship and even take paycuts
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Seems like this is maybe the most unsung variable about the current job market. New grads in the pool with fully endowed professors looking to jump ship and even take paycuts
Quiz: Did Stuart Hall write "The Great Moving Right Show" in 1979, or did he write it yesterday?
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Quiz: Did Stuart Hall write "The Great Moving Right Show" in 1979, or did he write it yesterday?
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I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman
September 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman
Academic professor pens nonsensical article-cum-plea that is unironically self-referential
"Universities should see the White House’s campaign as a wake-up call rather than the root of their troubles—a warning that they have to rebuild trust among not just prospective students, parents, and donors, but also voters and elected officials across party lines," E. Thomas Finan argues.
Higher Ed Has a Bigger Problem Than Trump
Universities should see the president’s interventions as a wake-up call, not the root of their troubles.
bit.ly
September 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Academic professor pens nonsensical article-cum-plea that is unironically self-referential