Wesley Dean
@wesleydean.bsky.social
Sociologist of the food system at the University of Copenhagen, interest in food poverty and food access, lapsed Fed, lapsed philosopher, lapsed baptist, lapsed Texan, Malmönian, he, him, his. My avian friends mostly keep me from going off my rocker. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
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"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
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Hoagie Rat has entered the chat! (From Reddit www.reddit.com/r/philadelph...)
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hoagie Rat has entered the chat! (From Reddit www.reddit.com/r/philadelph...)
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Welcome to:
Words against death - a conversation about poetry, academia and silence on the Palestinian genocide
17.15, 2 December
Edens hörsal, Lund
Authors, poets and researchers reflect on language and violence, silences and screams: www.luap.se/activities/
#FreePalestine
Words against death - a conversation about poetry, academia and silence on the Palestinian genocide
17.15, 2 December
Edens hörsal, Lund
Authors, poets and researchers reflect on language and violence, silences and screams: www.luap.se/activities/
#FreePalestine
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Welcome to:
Words against death - a conversation about poetry, academia and silence on the Palestinian genocide
17.15, 2 December
Edens hörsal, Lund
Authors, poets and researchers reflect on language and violence, silences and screams: www.luap.se/activities/
#FreePalestine
Words against death - a conversation about poetry, academia and silence on the Palestinian genocide
17.15, 2 December
Edens hörsal, Lund
Authors, poets and researchers reflect on language and violence, silences and screams: www.luap.se/activities/
#FreePalestine
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Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
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And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.
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Dagen er oprunden. "Dyrenes Bog - Det begynder med os" er på gaden og kan købes i velassorterede boghandler og byggemarkeder, bestilles online og, ikke mindst, nydes som lydbog indtalt med forfatterens egne sprøde røst. Tag godt i mod den. Her er bogens indledningscitat #dyrenesbog #julemad
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Dagen er oprunden. "Dyrenes Bog - Det begynder med os" er på gaden og kan købes i velassorterede boghandler og byggemarkeder, bestilles online og, ikke mindst, nydes som lydbog indtalt med forfatterens egne sprøde røst. Tag godt i mod den. Her er bogens indledningscitat #dyrenesbog #julemad
What was it like before SNAP? In 1968, CBS News aired Hunger in America. It motivated a shift in public policy and its message bears repeating.
cbs documentary hunger in america (1968)
YouTube video by Garry J
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 5:50 AM
What was it like before SNAP? In 1968, CBS News aired Hunger in America. It motivated a shift in public policy and its message bears repeating.
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Anyway: it’s an American tradition. www.startribune.com/trump-admini...
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Anyway: it’s an American tradition. www.startribune.com/trump-admini...
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“Intellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.” Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...
The Right-Wingification of UT
Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools
www.austinchronicle.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:37 PM
“Intellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.” Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...
Vampyroteuthis infernalis: Official Squid of Spooky Season™
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This is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which literally translates as "Vampire squid from hell".
They dwell in the darkest places of the ocean, living in the 'hell' of the Oxygen Minimum Zone, where low dissolved O2 levels make this a 'land of the undead' where they have lived for 120 million years.
They dwell in the darkest places of the ocean, living in the 'hell' of the Oxygen Minimum Zone, where low dissolved O2 levels make this a 'land of the undead' where they have lived for 120 million years.
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Angie has been contributing to a 401k account and over $30k in the last 5 years
Her account is less than $3000. We stoping contribution with E*trade via Morgan Stanley at the moment
Is there something she missed? Should she have been managing it more closely?
Any legal action to take?
Her account is less than $3000. We stoping contribution with E*trade via Morgan Stanley at the moment
Is there something she missed? Should she have been managing it more closely?
Any legal action to take?
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Angie has been contributing to a 401k account and over $30k in the last 5 years
Her account is less than $3000. We stoping contribution with E*trade via Morgan Stanley at the moment
Is there something she missed? Should she have been managing it more closely?
Any legal action to take?
Her account is less than $3000. We stoping contribution with E*trade via Morgan Stanley at the moment
Is there something she missed? Should she have been managing it more closely?
Any legal action to take?
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Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable
@nasilemak.bsky.social I’m struggling to recall our mutual squid antagonist’s handle and I’m afraid to call her out by her real name in a public forum. Please tag her! It’s been so long since we fought these beasts on the Alberta prairies.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
@nasilemak.bsky.social I’m struggling to recall our mutual squid antagonist’s handle and I’m afraid to call her out by her real name in a public forum. Please tag her! It’s been so long since we fought these beasts on the Alberta prairies.
I know there’s a lot of awful stuff going on right now but this one just hits close to home. These are some fantastic and very devoted researchers and public servants.
Exclusive | USDA Puts Food Researchers on Leave
The move comes days after the Trump administration abruptly canceled an annual Agriculture Department report that measures hunger in America.
www.wsj.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I know there’s a lot of awful stuff going on right now but this one just hits close to home. These are some fantastic and very devoted researchers and public servants.
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Me: the internet is awful and you should avoid it
Also me: IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK CHECK YOUR PHONE DHAIFBSJ
Also me: IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK CHECK YOUR PHONE DHAIFBSJ
GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Me: the internet is awful and you should avoid it
Also me: IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK CHECK YOUR PHONE DHAIFBSJ
Also me: IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK CHECK YOUR PHONE DHAIFBSJ
Assholes. Is the report political as Trump says? Let’s not forget child hunger in the US, anywhere for that matter, is an expression of his political values.
Could a collapsing fascist regime do THIS?
After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America
The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, saying it had become “overly politicized″ and ”rife with inaccuracies
abcnews.go.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Assholes. Is the report political as Trump says? Let’s not forget child hunger in the US, anywhere for that matter, is an expression of his political values.
I always thought Sonny Purdue would be the worse ever Secretary of Agriculture but Brooke Rollins is hurtling along and catching up in record time. #foodsystems
USDA's DEI Purge: How Trump and Rollins are reshaping American agriculture - Investigate Midwest
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, the south end of town near the municipal airport has no grocery stores, no food pantries. Mired in a federally recognized food desert, nearby families struggled to obtain he...
investigatemidwest.org
September 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I always thought Sonny Purdue would be the worse ever Secretary of Agriculture but Brooke Rollins is hurtling along and catching up in record time. #foodsystems
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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September 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This well informed editorial excoriates the American political class and its penchant for starving children both in the US and abroad.
For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about America’s favorite bipartisan pastime: starving people at home and abroad. As officials confirm what we already know, that there is a famine in Gaza, I hope we can all remember that none of this is unavoidable. It is a choice.
From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime
"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."
www.teenvogue.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This well informed editorial excoriates the American political class and its penchant for starving children both in the US and abroad.
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Kyrgyzstan was the closest thing to a democracy in Central Asia. Now it is maybe the worst government there. An organized crime connected government has eviscerated rule of law, democracy and human rights. Here is the story of what happened. www.occrp.org/en/project/u...
Inside the Crackdown: Kyrgyzstan's Preemptive Assault on Investigative Journalism
In Kyrgyzstan, authorities are no longer just reacting to stories — they are trying to stop them before they are told, dismantling entire newsrooms and effectively criminalizing journalism.
www.occrp.org
September 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Kyrgyzstan was the closest thing to a democracy in Central Asia. Now it is maybe the worst government there. An organized crime connected government has eviscerated rule of law, democracy and human rights. Here is the story of what happened. www.occrp.org/en/project/u...
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Got denied a covid vaccine at my pharmacy today even though I have asthma.
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Got denied a covid vaccine at my pharmacy today even though I have asthma.
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This is an amazing video! The clarity is remarkable. Not many of us have this gift in academia.
Conceptual frameworks from decolonial and postcolonial theorisation presented in a capsule.
Conceptual frameworks from decolonial and postcolonial theorisation presented in a capsule.
September 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is an amazing video! The clarity is remarkable. Not many of us have this gift in academia.
Conceptual frameworks from decolonial and postcolonial theorisation presented in a capsule.
Conceptual frameworks from decolonial and postcolonial theorisation presented in a capsule.
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111 years ago today, Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon died in her enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. September 1st is Species Requiem Day to mourn the 869 species driven to extinction or extinction in the wild in the last 500 years by humans. Today is a day to recognize the grave danger we are in.
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
111 years ago today, Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon died in her enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. September 1st is Species Requiem Day to mourn the 869 species driven to extinction or extinction in the wild in the last 500 years by humans. Today is a day to recognize the grave danger we are in.