Sayd Randle
@saydrandle.bsky.social
Assistant prof of urban studies at Singapore Management University. These days, writing mostly about water, climate adaptation, resource storage, and wild hogs. Author of Replumbing the City (University of California Press 2025). saydrandle.com
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There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say
Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
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The issue contains a seven-article Symposium, "Political Ecologies of Storage for the 21st Century", organised by @saydrandle.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The issue contains a seven-article Symposium, "Political Ecologies of Storage for the 21st Century", organised by @saydrandle.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social
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What, and I repeat, the fuck?
I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.
I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
What, and I repeat, the fuck?
I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.
I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.
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legends walk among us
March 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
legends walk among us
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The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
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Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today.
Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
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Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today.
Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
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Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
1/15
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Tomorrow in NYC will be sunny & pleasant. This will be important.
March 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Tomorrow in NYC will be sunny & pleasant. This will be important.
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
February 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
The past month seems to have spiked interest in questions about how and why water circulates (or not) within the US West. This collection offers some rich, thoughtful, and challenging answers. Thanks to my co-editor Kathleen Sullivan and all the contributors for your work on bringing it into being
Sullivan KM & S Randle (eds) 2024. Water in short supply. Spec Section, J of Political Ecology, 31 972-1123 @pollenetwork.bsky.social @saydrandle.bsky.social
Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.
Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.
FERC, hydropower, and tribal rights: Confrontations at the Little Colorado River
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is well positioned to help advance the United States' clean energy transition through their management of energy projects. One obstacle to achieving the...
doi.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The past month seems to have spiked interest in questions about how and why water circulates (or not) within the US West. This collection offers some rich, thoughtful, and challenging answers. Thanks to my co-editor Kathleen Sullivan and all the contributors for your work on bringing it into being
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The water misinfo climate is rife.
Many conspiracy theories around the LA wildfires + water supplies revolve around billionaire pistachio moguls in the central valley and clearing the land for "open air prisons".
@npr.org did a fact-check ⬇️
Many conspiracy theories around the LA wildfires + water supplies revolve around billionaire pistachio moguls in the central valley and clearing the land for "open air prisons".
@npr.org did a fact-check ⬇️
Pistachio moguls and reservoirs: False water claims spread about California fires
Influencers and politicians are spreading false narratives about water and the L.A. wildfires. These include the idea that farm moguls took firefighting water and an empty reservoir is part of a plot.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The water misinfo climate is rife.
Many conspiracy theories around the LA wildfires + water supplies revolve around billionaire pistachio moguls in the central valley and clearing the land for "open air prisons".
@npr.org did a fact-check ⬇️
Many conspiracy theories around the LA wildfires + water supplies revolve around billionaire pistachio moguls in the central valley and clearing the land for "open air prisons".
@npr.org did a fact-check ⬇️
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Shoutout to Kathryn McConnell and @koslov.bsky.social for putting together a very useful primer on managed retreat as a response to wildfire risk, a topic that deserves much more serious thought and attention than it's getting at the moment
Critically assessing the idea of wildfire managed retreat - IOPscienceSearch
Critically assessing the idea of wildfire managed retreat, McConnell, Kathryn, Koslov, Liz
iopscience.iop.org
January 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Shoutout to Kathryn McConnell and @koslov.bsky.social for putting together a very useful primer on managed retreat as a response to wildfire risk, a topic that deserves much more serious thought and attention than it's getting at the moment
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Fires are burning blocks away from where Octavia Butler is buried.
January 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fires are burning blocks away from where Octavia Butler is buried.
www.latimes.com/california/s... shuddering at the images and stories trickling in, friends please stay safe
How to help those affected by fires raging across Los Angeles County
Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.
www.latimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
www.latimes.com/california/s... shuddering at the images and stories trickling in, friends please stay safe
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"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
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December 17, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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"A new analysis skewers the assumption that a ton of CO2 is the same everywhere, whether in the atmosphere, embedded in wood or pumped underground. Turns out that's a vast oversimplification & could render net-zero efforts meaningless" - from @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scientists Behind ‘Net Zero’ Concept Say Nations Are Getting It Wrong
In a new study, high-profile climate scientists say countries are using flawed carbon accounting by relying too heavily on trees and oceans to absorb new carbon emissions.
www.bloomberg.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:27 PM
"A new analysis skewers the assumption that a ton of CO2 is the same everywhere, whether in the atmosphere, embedded in wood or pumped underground. Turns out that's a vast oversimplification & could render net-zero efforts meaningless" - from @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’?
‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’?
Campaigners fear ruling on the toxic Matanza-Riachuelo basin will worsen the region’s many health crises and sends the message that environmental damage is not a priority
Two decades ago, the waters in Argentina’s basin flowed over abandoned shipwrecks…
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:16 PM
‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... key points esp re:soil carbon storage fantasies...
Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion | George Monbiot
The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:21 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... key points esp re:soil carbon storage fantasies...
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Some good climate news: judge rejects Gov. Youngkin's attempt to ignore Virginia state law in trying to withdraw from the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI). Great work from NRDC!
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
Judge Rejects Youngkin’s Attack on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
A judge ruled today Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin broke the law when he attempted to withdraw the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) climate program....
www.nrdc.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Some good climate news: judge rejects Gov. Youngkin's attempt to ignore Virginia state law in trying to withdraw from the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI). Great work from NRDC!
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
Matthew's book is rad, highly encourage anyone lucky enough to be in London to attend
📕 book launch 🚨
i’m giving a talk about UNSUSTAINABLE at the @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Centre for Sustainable Business on 5 dec at 2pm. hope to see some of you in #london (or online) to talk about #sustainability & #anthropology! register below👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-limits...
i’m giving a talk about UNSUSTAINABLE at the @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Centre for Sustainable Business on 5 dec at 2pm. hope to see some of you in #london (or online) to talk about #sustainability & #anthropology! register below👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-limits...
The limits of corporate sustainability: Book launch with Matthew Archer
Join author Matthew Archer as he launches his book 'Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Matthew's book is rad, highly encourage anyone lucky enough to be in London to attend
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BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.
And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.
We explained this lawsuit here:
And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.
We explained this lawsuit here:
How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access
Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.
boltsmag.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:26 AM
BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.
And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.
We explained this lawsuit here:
And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.
We explained this lawsuit here:
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“the violence wreaked on Black, Indigenous, and Global South communities through enslavement, empire, and colonialism has always been intergenerational. The effects of violence on those communities haunt contemporary arguments about loss and damage.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Loss and Damage
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:47 PM
“the violence wreaked on Black, Indigenous, and Global South communities through enslavement, empire, and colonialism has always been intergenerational. The effects of violence on those communities haunt contemporary arguments about loss and damage.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... Given Bela's passing, it's striking to read articles like this one from 1991. So much is spelled out: the conventional wisdom about tiny bodies he did so much to create, the isolated training environment of the ranch, the silent gymnasts...
“I Have Made Their Lives Miserable”
Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:23 AM
www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... Given Bela's passing, it's striking to read articles like this one from 1991. So much is spelled out: the conventional wisdom about tiny bodies he did so much to create, the isolated training environment of the ranch, the silent gymnasts...