Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
Reconciliation ecologist working towards decoloniality at a Land Grab University on Saponi lands • Writer • Alien of extraordinary ability • 🏳️⚧️ parent • 🐦⬛ 🦚 🪶 📽️ 🏏
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A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing
Spoken in Greensboro, NC in June 2025
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A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing
Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.
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Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.
(and yes, this also launches my newsletter, so please subscribe!)
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Was just thinking of how you clarified this as I read www.thecut.com/article/taki...
Taking GLP-1s to Get Ahead at Work
“The truth is, I’m taking it because I’m afraid not to.”
www.thecut.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Was just thinking of how you clarified this as I read www.thecut.com/article/taki...
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@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has repeatedly observed that the MAGA feminine aesthetic, instead of aiming for a coherent beauty heuristic, is meant *only* to signal female willingness to self-subjugate to a male desire.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has repeatedly observed that the MAGA feminine aesthetic, instead of aiming for a coherent beauty heuristic, is meant *only* to signal female willingness to self-subjugate to a male desire.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
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Plastic surgeons in DC are being asked by Trump insiders to get plastic surgery that's obvious and in keeping with "Mar-a-Lago face."
Paging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, whose episode on Republican Makeup (another term for the same tendency) was an eye-opener for me.
Paging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, whose episode on Republican Makeup (another term for the same tendency) was an eye-opener for me.
D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders
"[They] want to look like they had something done."
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Plastic surgeons in DC are being asked by Trump insiders to get plastic surgery that's obvious and in keeping with "Mar-a-Lago face."
Paging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, whose episode on Republican Makeup (another term for the same tendency) was an eye-opener for me.
Paging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, whose episode on Republican Makeup (another term for the same tendency) was an eye-opener for me.
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In a lot of ways the elites and land grants are experiencing what many regional privates have for decades now that they’re losing their grant funds and realizing how thin the margins are to run a school
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
In a lot of ways the elites and land grants are experiencing what many regional privates have for decades now that they’re losing their grant funds and realizing how thin the margins are to run a school
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Reading this after seeing it on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social timeline & it’s hard to miss how moving funding from grants and state support to individual student loans as a huge catalyst for lots of issues & also how they’re doing it to k-12 now with vouchers
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Reading this after seeing it on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social timeline & it’s hard to miss how moving funding from grants and state support to individual student loans as a huge catalyst for lots of issues & also how they’re doing it to k-12 now with vouchers
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The people who financialized (and then destroyed) the housing market in the mid 2000s did not care about building homes. Similarly this kind of sweaty shell game makes me very suspicious of the AI sales pitch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The people who financialized (and then destroyed) the housing market in the mid 2000s did not care about building homes. Similarly this kind of sweaty shell game makes me very suspicious of the AI sales pitch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now
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going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Specifically, it was the National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring, begun in the 70s, which completely overhauled how we predict and respond to rapid weather events.
vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heri...
vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heri...
The NWS Modernization and Associated Restructuring - A Retrospective (Part 1) - National Weather Service Heritage - Virtual Lab
Planned in the 1980s and implemented in the 1990s, the NWS Modernization and Associated Restructuring modernized the agency’s organization and technology to ensure more rapid detection of storms and d...
vlab.noaa.gov
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Specifically, it was the National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring, begun in the 70s, which completely overhauled how we predict and respond to rapid weather events.
vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heri...
vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heri...
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Schumer needs to go, and Senate Democrats like you need to make it happen.
(Separately, there is the matter of Schumer's refusal to endorse Mamdani, a man who is clearly the future of the Democratic party. Schumer's refusal to embrace him underscores that he's a dinosaur).
4/6
(Separately, there is the matter of Schumer's refusal to endorse Mamdani, a man who is clearly the future of the Democratic party. Schumer's refusal to embrace him underscores that he's a dinosaur).
4/6
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Schumer needs to go, and Senate Democrats like you need to make it happen.
(Separately, there is the matter of Schumer's refusal to endorse Mamdani, a man who is clearly the future of the Democratic party. Schumer's refusal to embrace him underscores that he's a dinosaur).
4/6
(Separately, there is the matter of Schumer's refusal to endorse Mamdani, a man who is clearly the future of the Democratic party. Schumer's refusal to embrace him underscores that he's a dinosaur).
4/6
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What scares me is: 1) the size of the department - it is not small by my standards, 14-16 faculty members depending how you count, includes meteorology; 2) the fact that the state requires geologists to be licensed; 3) geology alumni tend to be very active and generous (as the thread makes clear).
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
What scares me is: 1) the size of the department - it is not small by my standards, 14-16 faculty members depending how you count, includes meteorology; 2) the fact that the state requires geologists to be licensed; 3) geology alumni tend to be very active and generous (as the thread makes clear).
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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT – Dir. Jafar Panahi is fearless. I’m in awe of his resourcefulness as a filmmaker. Even in confinement, he made films that took aim at Iranian society. This one’s suspenseful, unexpectedly funny, & deeply moving - a powerful act of political resistance. So grateful for him. 📽️
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT – Dir. Jafar Panahi is fearless. I’m in awe of his resourcefulness as a filmmaker. Even in confinement, he made films that took aim at Iranian society. This one’s suspenseful, unexpectedly funny, & deeply moving - a powerful act of political resistance. So grateful for him. 📽️
Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is an astonishing film about resisting authoritarian regimes and the cycles of violence they can generate in ordinary people who yet show great moral courage. I wish there were more than 5 people watching it with me just now. It’s so so relevant to Americans rn
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is an astonishing film about resisting authoritarian regimes and the cycles of violence they can generate in ordinary people who yet show great moral courage. I wish there were more than 5 people watching it with me just now. It’s so so relevant to Americans rn
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Martin Scorsese interviews Jafar Panahi at Film At Lincoln Center
(Minor spoilers. Contains some description of a scene in the last 15 mins. Tho it doesn't necessarily reveal the plot)
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4?...
(Minor spoilers. Contains some description of a scene in the last 15 mins. Tho it doesn't necessarily reveal the plot)
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4?...
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Martin Scorsese interviews Jafar Panahi at Film At Lincoln Center
(Minor spoilers. Contains some description of a scene in the last 15 mins. Tho it doesn't necessarily reveal the plot)
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4?...
(Minor spoilers. Contains some description of a scene in the last 15 mins. Tho it doesn't necessarily reveal the plot)
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4?...
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This is one reason why a liberal analysis utterly fails to capture the true dynamics here. Liberals also structurally are opposed to communism in a very deep way and share the core goal of suppression of communist movement with tech fascists. It is one of their closest bonds to tech fascism.
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is one reason why a liberal analysis utterly fails to capture the true dynamics here. Liberals also structurally are opposed to communism in a very deep way and share the core goal of suppression of communist movement with tech fascists. It is one of their closest bonds to tech fascism.
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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The daily onslaught of actual antisemitism side by side w/ bad faith weaponization of antisemitism really is impacting Jews standing against the genocide. We are fighting the weaponization but we’re fighting antisemitism directed at us too. Please stop saying antisemitism isn’t an issue in the US
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The daily onslaught of actual antisemitism side by side w/ bad faith weaponization of antisemitism really is impacting Jews standing against the genocide. We are fighting the weaponization but we’re fighting antisemitism directed at us too. Please stop saying antisemitism isn’t an issue in the US
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An early cold snap will chill much of the U.S., potentially breaking records in the Southeast
Early Arctic Chill Could Break Records—And Bring Falling Iguanas to Florida
An early cold snap will chill much of the U.S., potentially breaking records in the Southeast
www.scientificamerican.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
An early cold snap will chill much of the U.S., potentially breaking records in the Southeast
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"Agenda for the morning to include a seminar from our corvid allies on flocking behaviors titled "Herds, Schools, Swarms: Prey Rules for Predator Success."
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Agenda for the morning to include a seminar from our corvid allies on flocking behaviors titled "Herds, Schools, Swarms: Prey Rules for Predator Success."
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"The Spider Consortium sends greetings to the Unified Orca Pods of the Northern Sea in advance of our first meeting."
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"The Spider Consortium sends greetings to the Unified Orca Pods of the Northern Sea in advance of our first meeting."
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We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
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ICE is paying a $50,000 sign-on bonus to get you to turn on your neighbors
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICE is paying a $50,000 sign-on bonus to get you to turn on your neighbors