April Anson
@aprilanson.bsky.social
Asst prof at UConn (prev. asst prof at sdsu, postdoc at penn). she/her, settler. Studying ecofascism and anti-racist/colonial enviro humanities.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
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Holy shit. THIS IS HOW AN ANTI-BOOK BAN LAW WORKS, Y'ALL.
Maryland's school board overturned a Harford County Schools ban on FLAMER.
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
Maryland's school board overturned a Harford County Schools ban on FLAMER.
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
In a first for the state, Maryland’s school board reverses Harford County’s book ban
Maryland’s school board is reversing Harford County’s decision to remove a book from public school libraries — the first time the state has intervened in a local decision about what’s appropriate for ...
www.thebanner.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Holy shit. THIS IS HOW AN ANTI-BOOK BAN LAW WORKS, Y'ALL.
Maryland's school board overturned a Harford County Schools ban on FLAMER.
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
Maryland's school board overturned a Harford County Schools ban on FLAMER.
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
Locking up the libraries.
The Tennessee Secretary of State handed public library boards that are eager to ban LGBTQ+ books–and particularly trans books–from their collections the biggest permission slip last week.
Rutherford County is *closing* libraries to remove books.
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Rutherford County is *closing* libraries to remove books.
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Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books
Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."
bookriot.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Locking up the libraries.
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someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
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The complete annihilation of entire ecosystems was not a side effect of civilisation. It was a deliberate crime perpetrated by the greatest minds, leaders and technologies humanity produced
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The complete annihilation of entire ecosystems was not a side effect of civilisation. It was a deliberate crime perpetrated by the greatest minds, leaders and technologies humanity produced
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CBS news just gutted its climate team.
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
CBS news just gutted its climate team.
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✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
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NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
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Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week:
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week:
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
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ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment
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Wow. I thought I'd check in on what Danis Goulet was up to, and Netflix shelved her *completed* film! I don't know how I missed this, but I'm kinda livid. Between the (deeply tragic) death of Barnaby and this, it feels like a movement of indigenous genre filmmakers is being seriously set back.
Netflix Offloads Two Completed Films, Filmmakers Shop Projects Elsewhere
'The Inheritance' and 'House/Wife' are the latest completed projects, along with the likes of HBO Max, Disney and AMC offerings, to be unloaded, shelved or canceled by distributors.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Wow. I thought I'd check in on what Danis Goulet was up to, and Netflix shelved her *completed* film! I don't know how I missed this, but I'm kinda livid. Between the (deeply tragic) death of Barnaby and this, it feels like a movement of indigenous genre filmmakers is being seriously set back.
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This is outrageous! Dr. Sultana is an outstanding scholar. She must be immediately reinstated. Please sign:
"persecution of Prof Sultana is not only an attack on one scholar but a manifestation of the systematic assaults on higher education that have undermined the very autonomy of academic life"
"persecution of Prof Sultana is not only an attack on one scholar but a manifestation of the systematic assaults on higher education that have undermined the very autonomy of academic life"
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is outrageous! Dr. Sultana is an outstanding scholar. She must be immediately reinstated. Please sign:
"persecution of Prof Sultana is not only an attack on one scholar but a manifestation of the systematic assaults on higher education that have undermined the very autonomy of academic life"
"persecution of Prof Sultana is not only an attack on one scholar but a manifestation of the systematic assaults on higher education that have undermined the very autonomy of academic life"
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Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
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Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
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Musk and the DHS have used “The Lord of the Rings” references to push anti-immigration messaging, seemingly positioning themselves as underdogs to justify oppression. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk and the Trump Administration Really Don’t Get Tolkien
Musk and the DHS have used “The Lord of the Rings” references to push anti-immigration messaging, seemingly positioning themselves as underdogs to justify oppression.
www.wired.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Musk and the DHS have used “The Lord of the Rings” references to push anti-immigration messaging, seemingly positioning themselves as underdogs to justify oppression. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The intermingling of armed private paramilitaries and government forces in an effort to enact ethnic cleansing and what amounts to genocide is a sure sign of fascism and an incoming tidal wave of violence against the population.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The intermingling of armed private paramilitaries and government forces in an effort to enact ethnic cleansing and what amounts to genocide is a sure sign of fascism and an incoming tidal wave of violence against the population.
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I have a new piece up at The American Scholar on a little discussed facet of the Salem Witch Panic:
Cotton Mather didn’t start out a fire-breathing zealot condemning witches; he spent the first half of 1692 urging caution and restraint.
What changed his mind?
Cotton Mather didn’t start out a fire-breathing zealot condemning witches; he spent the first half of 1692 urging caution and restraint.
What changed his mind?
The Conspiracist Cotton Mather - The American Scholar
The zealot who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials initially voiced restraint—what changed?
theamericanscholar.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I have a new piece up at The American Scholar on a little discussed facet of the Salem Witch Panic:
Cotton Mather didn’t start out a fire-breathing zealot condemning witches; he spent the first half of 1692 urging caution and restraint.
What changed his mind?
Cotton Mather didn’t start out a fire-breathing zealot condemning witches; he spent the first half of 1692 urging caution and restraint.
What changed his mind?
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I find this hard to forget. The world’s new climate plans achieve less than one-sixth of the emissions cuts needed by 2035 to stay below 1.5 °C
How is this not headline news everywhere?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
How is this not headline news everywhere?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows
Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I find this hard to forget. The world’s new climate plans achieve less than one-sixth of the emissions cuts needed by 2035 to stay below 1.5 °C
How is this not headline news everywhere?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
How is this not headline news everywhere?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
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October 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape.
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13 Must-Read Indigenous Horror Books That Will Haunt You Long After the Last Page
Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their righ...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape.
redpopnews.com/13-must-read...
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