americanarthist.bsky.social
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A tic that is simultaneously lazy, accurate, and sounds right wing to an untrained ear. Just stop.
They will put on my tombstone: "Here lies a lady who kept asking people to define what they mean by neoliberalism in their grant proposals"
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A tic that is simultaneously lazy, accurate, and sounds right wing to an untrained ear. Just stop.
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our terrible mayor. but we have ranked choice voting and no one will acknowledge that at some point we have to coalesce around a single candidate or ranking order, so the progressive candidates split the vote and the result is very likely frey again
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
our terrible mayor. but we have ranked choice voting and no one will acknowledge that at some point we have to coalesce around a single candidate or ranking order, so the progressive candidates split the vote and the result is very likely frey again
The librarians said years ago “please get off academia dot edu”
What the French-fried fuckity fuck?
I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?
When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?
You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?
When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?
You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The librarians said years ago “please get off academia dot edu”
Honestly, House of Dynamite - which includes a intact White House, a fully staffed FEMA, and a *foreign* assault on Chicago - was a nice, escapist, feel good romp
It’s been a long time since I’ve been this shaken by a movie. Wow. I guess this means it’s a good movie.
“A House of Dynamite” wore me OUT. I watched it in the middle of the night and woke up stressed. It should come with a free therapy appointment.
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Honestly, House of Dynamite - which includes a intact White House, a fully staffed FEMA, and a *foreign* assault on Chicago - was a nice, escapist, feel good romp
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University of Arizona declines to sign onto Trump administration 'compact' reut.rs/4nfM3f6
University of Arizona declines to sign onto Trump administration 'compact'
The University of Arizona on Monday cited academic freedom as it became the seventh elite college to decline to sign onto a Trump administration proposal that offered nine of them preferential consideration for federal funding in exchange for agreeing to a set of policies.
reut.rs
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
University of Arizona declines to sign onto Trump administration 'compact' reut.rs/4nfM3f6
Oh damn. As someone fighting for the life of the “art history lecture” as genre… this lands
flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university
The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Oh damn. As someone fighting for the life of the “art history lecture” as genre… this lands
Ransacking vandals
They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ransacking vandals
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Reformer gets results: University of Minnesota ends gun range rental to all outside groups. Had a contract with ICE. No longer. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/24/u...
University of Minnesota ends gun range rental to all outside groups months after Reformer report • Minnesota Reformer
A Reformer analysis in April found four contracts between the university and ICE, the most recent amounting to $18,867, for the federal agency to use the firearm range for training.
minnesotareformer.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reformer gets results: University of Minnesota ends gun range rental to all outside groups. Had a contract with ICE. No longer. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/24/u...
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Hello Lyndale Ave South community. Opponents of a safer design for Lyndale are generating a ton of emails (via action network), many from outside Minneapolis, to city council members in support of the no bike lane option. You may want to get busy contacting your council members.
September 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hello Lyndale Ave South community. Opponents of a safer design for Lyndale are generating a ton of emails (via action network), many from outside Minneapolis, to city council members in support of the no bike lane option. You may want to get busy contacting your council members.
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The Mayor has failed to implement the Emergency Housing Vouchers program meant to provide housing and wraparound services for 50 individuals/ 50 families experiencing chronic unsheltered homelessness.
He even proposed cutting the program entirely next year. It could have helped. 💔
He even proposed cutting the program entirely next year. It could have helped. 💔
Dear neighbor,
I am writing this update regarding the senseless acts of gun violence on Lake Street. 1/
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I am writing this update regarding the senseless acts of gun violence on Lake Street. 1/
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My Statement on the Recent Gun Violence on Lake Street
content.govdelivery.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Mayor has failed to implement the Emergency Housing Vouchers program meant to provide housing and wraparound services for 50 individuals/ 50 families experiencing chronic unsheltered homelessness.
He even proposed cutting the program entirely next year. It could have helped. 💔
He even proposed cutting the program entirely next year. It could have helped. 💔
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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So, Chicago, it's your turn now and man, I am so so sorry. Nobody should have to go through this. This is awful. This is fascism. Organize. Step up. Don't think other people will do it -- the might, maybe even they will, but they need you, too. Be like LA -- be sand in their gears. 9/
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So, Chicago, it's your turn now and man, I am so so sorry. Nobody should have to go through this. This is awful. This is fascism. Organize. Step up. Don't think other people will do it -- the might, maybe even they will, but they need you, too. Be like LA -- be sand in their gears. 9/
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Big anti-couch potato talk from a man whose name I know only because of daytime television
Mehmet Oz: "It is reprehensible to criticize the president on this I think very earnest effort to save Medicaid ... an able-bodied person on Medicaid today watches about 6.1 hours of television or just hangs out -- leisure time. That's a lot of time."
August 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Big anti-couch potato talk from a man whose name I know only because of daytime television
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A US child has been abducted without due process by Israel and is being held in a notorious prison, very likely being subjected to torture.
This appears to be something neither the mainstream media nor US government care at all about.
Seems rather alarming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This appears to be something neither the mainstream media nor US government care at all about.
Seems rather alarming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Family pleads for release of Palestinian-American teen held in Israeli prison
Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim, 16, has been detained for five months on accusations of rock-throwing and has reportedly developed scabies
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A US child has been abducted without due process by Israel and is being held in a notorious prison, very likely being subjected to torture.
This appears to be something neither the mainstream media nor US government care at all about.
Seems rather alarming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This appears to be something neither the mainstream media nor US government care at all about.
Seems rather alarming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
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we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Editorial | Penn descends into fascism
The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.
www.thedp.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Once as a kid I bumped into existential terror realizing I would never see the whole wide world. Then I realized I’d never see the whole of my hometown. Life changing shift into a die-hard local explorer.
and maybe its the pbs kid in me, but you can get pretty amazing insights into people and places around the world without endangering them by like…watching travel shows and youtube videos.
especially if you don’t speak the language
especially if you don’t speak the language
July 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Once as a kid I bumped into existential terror realizing I would never see the whole wide world. Then I realized I’d never see the whole of my hometown. Life changing shift into a die-hard local explorer.
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If Fateh was the only guy who said he wouldn’t continue if not endorsed and he is head and shoulders above Frey, I need all the Hampton and Davis people to go all in. Jazz and Dewayne will stay in the race but imagine shutting jakey boy out
July 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If Fateh was the only guy who said he wouldn’t continue if not endorsed and he is head and shoulders above Frey, I need all the Hampton and Davis people to go all in. Jazz and Dewayne will stay in the race but imagine shutting jakey boy out
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If you’re at the Minneapolis DFL convention and you’re a don’t rank Frey voter like me, switch your vote to Fateh in the second ballot! He’s got a chance of endorsement. We cannot allow Frey to be endorsed.
If Davis and Hampton are still in it come November, you could still vote for them then.
If Davis and Hampton are still in it come November, you could still vote for them then.
July 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
If you’re at the Minneapolis DFL convention and you’re a don’t rank Frey voter like me, switch your vote to Fateh in the second ballot! He’s got a chance of endorsement. We cannot allow Frey to be endorsed.
If Davis and Hampton are still in it come November, you could still vote for them then.
If Davis and Hampton are still in it come November, you could still vote for them then.
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The primary owner of two Twin Cities Mexican restaurants was held in ICE custody for weeks after federal officers served search warrants at his business.
Restaurant owner in Lake Street raid spent weeks in ICE detention
Francisco Estrada de Haro, who owns the Las Cuatro Milpas restaurants targeted last month in a federal raid, was being held in Freeborn County until recently.
bit.ly
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The primary owner of two Twin Cities Mexican restaurants was held in ICE custody for weeks after federal officers served search warrants at his business.
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Kristi Noem must resign now.
July 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Kristi Noem must resign now.
“let it be a courageous mourning. The kind that refuses to turn away. The kind that holds sorrow in one hand and determination in the other.”
It’s been almost a month since Melissa Hortman was assassinated.
Emilia, one of the best organizers I know, honors her beautifully here:
“Let us not return to business as usual. Let us rise with the courage she carried, with the clarity she led with, and with the compassion she never abandoned.“
Emilia, one of the best organizers I know, honors her beautifully here:
“Let us not return to business as usual. Let us rise with the courage she carried, with the clarity she led with, and with the compassion she never abandoned.“
In Melissa Hortman's Minnesota, no one’s humanity is up for debate • Minnesota Reformer
Let us not return to business as usual.
minnesotareformer.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“let it be a courageous mourning. The kind that refuses to turn away. The kind that holds sorrow in one hand and determination in the other.”
“universities need a regulatory framework as badly as AI, chemical and fossil fuel companies do… [to] require managers to assess systematically the educational effects of proposed financial change.”
This is how I feel too: "I’m an institutionalist. Institutions often sabotage human powers but also multiply them. They are as important as technology to collective capacity, and probably more so..."
isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...
isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...
A New Regulatory Framework for University Cuts
isrf.org
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“universities need a regulatory framework as badly as AI, chemical and fossil fuel companies do… [to] require managers to assess systematically the educational effects of proposed financial change.”