Every day drops another example of why media and literary criticism are essential to unpacking contemporary aesthetic hyperpolitics
06.03.2026 19:14
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Every day drops another example of why media and literary criticism are essential to unpacking contemporary aesthetic hyperpolitics
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Another headline here is “Bard faculty declines to call for Leon Botstein’s resignation over Epstein ties.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Appreciated this time with Cara Furman and co-authors @redped.bsky.social, @mishuana.bsky.social, Jessica Fremland, and Kali Simmons about our paper on Gardening with Indigenous Feminisms. I feel so lucky to be a part of this project.
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My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
The fascism is killing us, some faster than others, but nearly all of us either way.
I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Please share with any Indigenous youth that you know!
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mapping power is so hot right now
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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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Seems like a smart move for climate people is to organize these folks and stop with the, "AI is good, actually," takes.
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Erik Prince—a former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater, the private military contractor later rebranded as Constellis—provided a blunt assessment to conservative influencer Steve Bannon on Sunday, a day after the killing of Iran's 86-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and more than 40 top Iranian security and regime officials. "Look, Steve, I'm not happy about the whole thing," Prince said on Bannon's War Room podcast. "I don't think this was in America's interests. It's going to uncork a significant can of worms and chaos and destruction in Iran now."
When Erik Prince takes a break from blowing up civilians in Haiti and the DRC with drones, and even he’s like “whoa man, this Iran stuff is too chaotic for me”
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Truly dystopic.
"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."
We were asked to contribute to the employee food pantry today in the email that goes out to all of the employees at my university
brave to publish this on the very day netanyahu himself said he’s been wanting to do this for 40 years
One of the biggest successes of The War on Terror was recoding war as a form of global policing. There are no invasions, only actions; no enemies, only combatants; no countries, only jurisdictions. When there is no such thing as war, there's also no such thing as peace.
Note: this includes cuts to Connect Oregon which funds the Amtrak Cascades. Join me in yelling at the people who are taking the train away. If we yell enough we can stop the train from going away but only if we yell enough.
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This may be blatantly opportunistic but the doors for IMMEDIATE TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY HAVE BEEN BLOWN OPEN BY THIS FILTHY WAR!
LFG!
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News gambling is some wicked shit.
Democrats would win a generational landslide victory running on this platform in ‘26 and ‘28 but Schumer and Jeffries will never support it, which is why they need to be ousted.
The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
You can see the corporate stooges salivating over the possibility that their 6+ year plan to raid PCEF might finally bear fruit.
Anyway, if you think we should use the climate justice fund for climate justice, you should speak up!
Screenshot of news article printed in Yahoo from Jewish Insider: “Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner's team said the post was made in error and "immediately" removed it after learning it elevated a "despicable account." In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself "a longtime fan" of Cornacchia's YouTube channel, "Valhalla VFT," and said it was "an absolute pleasure being" on the show.”
Screenshots of the Valhalla VFT YouTube channel thumbnails include vile racist images of the “Somali fraud scandal” and “robberies and looting” due to SNAP benefits being cut, depicting black people robbing stores
Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.
a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
/3 Prompted to reread Bill’s recent book by Stewart Motha who shared this interview with me this morning. For those who would like to hear Bill’s voice and brilliance again, here is the link:
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
