My Father’s Daughter
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ARCH/IA/LA assistant professor. landscape architecture for the health of all living beings via psychocultural & behavioral analyses. spatial restitution = belonging to place-wellbeing. cortisol reduction re-wilding. magazine editor.
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Outnumbering your enemy is not enough. *Strength* in numbers requires a shared sense of purpose. That must be cultivated. Understanding and relationships must be built. This is the work most people don't want to do. To turn moments into lasting movements, we need organization.
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Outnumbering your enemy is not enough. *Strength* in numbers requires a shared sense of purpose. That must be cultivated. Understanding and relationships must be built. This is the work most people don't want to do. To turn moments into lasting movements, we need organization.
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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"He’s 62, and she’s 64; she’s going to get on Medicare next year. Their premium is going to $3,000," Congressman Flood said...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Rank-and-file Republicans feel heat from constituents on health care
As efforts to address expiring Obamacare subsidies stall in Congress, members of Trump’s party say it’s time to find a way to help millions afford health insurance.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"He’s 62, and she’s 64; she’s going to get on Medicare next year. Their premium is going to $3,000," Congressman Flood said...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
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Peter Thiel's reign of terror continues to escalate
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 PayPal $PYPL submits application to become a US bank.
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Peter Thiel's reign of terror continues to escalate
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It's possible. It just takes political will.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's possible. It just takes political will.
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I like how we still think these things are “hidden” instead of “normalized”.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
Inside the White supremacist compound hiding in plain sight | CNN
Patriot Front, a White supremacist group, has been quietly building a 124-acre compound in the mountains of east Tennessee, where they train members and host fight clubs.
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I like how we still think these things are “hidden” instead of “normalized”.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
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I had some serious issues with decisions made while Claudine Gay was president, but I appreciate the very clear example of the normalization of pushing Black women out of their jobs and moving right along
#BREAKING: Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 will continue to lead the University beyond June 30, 2027, after Harvard’s governing boards agreed to extend his presidency for an indefinite period.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Alan Garber to Remain as Harvard President Indefinitely | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 will continue to lead the University beyond June 30, 2027, after Harvard’s governing boards agreed to extend his presidency for an indefinite period, according to…
www.thecrimson.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I had some serious issues with decisions made while Claudine Gay was president, but I appreciate the very clear example of the normalization of pushing Black women out of their jobs and moving right along
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This is an essential and thorough examination of Stephen Miller, the man and his thinking.
@gregsargent.bsky.social lays out in riveting detail how Miller’s Western supremacist, anti-cosmopolitan worldview defines his politics.
To call this a must-read is an understatement.
@gregsargent.bsky.social lays out in riveting detail how Miller’s Western supremacist, anti-cosmopolitan worldview defines his politics.
To call this a must-read is an understatement.
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an essential and thorough examination of Stephen Miller, the man and his thinking.
@gregsargent.bsky.social lays out in riveting detail how Miller’s Western supremacist, anti-cosmopolitan worldview defines his politics.
To call this a must-read is an understatement.
@gregsargent.bsky.social lays out in riveting detail how Miller’s Western supremacist, anti-cosmopolitan worldview defines his politics.
To call this a must-read is an understatement.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
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Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
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During oral arguments in the Trump v. Slaughter SCOTUS case today, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recognizes what Campaign Legal Center argued in our amicus brief: Independent agencies promote democratic accountability.
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
During oral arguments in the Trump v. Slaughter SCOTUS case today, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recognizes what Campaign Legal Center argued in our amicus brief: Independent agencies promote democratic accountability.
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Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
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So you’re telling me that Terra Cotta just gets to sell million-dollar green cards, no questions asked?
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So you’re telling me that Terra Cotta just gets to sell million-dollar green cards, no questions asked?
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we’re (white folks) really good at exempting ourselves from any admonition of guilt. beyond much of an “oh that sucks; someone else did that, not me.” And those that feel guilt, their (perceived) powerlessness turns to apathy quickly as self preservation takes over.
December 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
we’re (white folks) really good at exempting ourselves from any admonition of guilt. beyond much of an “oh that sucks; someone else did that, not me.” And those that feel guilt, their (perceived) powerlessness turns to apathy quickly as self preservation takes over.
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This seems incredibly illegal. Somebody should pay a lawyer hundreds of thousands of dollars to file a lawsuit that will result in a lower court injunction in 2-4 months which will be upheld by an appellate court in 3-6 months and overruled in a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in 12-18 months
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This seems incredibly illegal. Somebody should pay a lawyer hundreds of thousands of dollars to file a lawsuit that will result in a lower court injunction in 2-4 months which will be upheld by an appellate court in 3-6 months and overruled in a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in 12-18 months
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friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
“…it’s time to reimagine what a map can be…Maps are not neutral visualizations of facts. They are innately political, defining how the world’s divided, what becomes visible & what stays hidden, whose voices are heard…how the world works. A map’s visual argument can change how cities are designed…”
Is it time to redraw our maps?
Is it time to redraw our maps?
From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“…it’s time to reimagine what a map can be…Maps are not neutral visualizations of facts. They are innately political, defining how the world’s divided, what becomes visible & what stays hidden, whose voices are heard…how the world works. A map’s visual argument can change how cities are designed…”
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What on earth does ‘AI proficiency’ in history even mean? Why would it matter for any professor teaching history to students?
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What on earth does ‘AI proficiency’ in history even mean? Why would it matter for any professor teaching history to students?
This initiative represents one of the largest recruitment programs of its kind globally, uniquely designed for exceptional speed and flexibility in securing top research talent.
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers - Canada.ca
Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent
www.canada.ca
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This initiative represents one of the largest recruitment programs of its kind globally, uniquely designed for exceptional speed and flexibility in securing top research talent.
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
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“The Golden State is the 4th-largest economy in the world but doesn’t have political clout proportional to its population, let alone to our status as a global cultural, technological & agricultural juggernaut.” - @clarajeffery.bsky.social
"California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required."
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“The Golden State is the 4th-largest economy in the world but doesn’t have political clout proportional to its population, let alone to our status as a global cultural, technological & agricultural juggernaut.” - @clarajeffery.bsky.social
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If we do not abolish ICE, what is to stop them from opening up death camps for all minorities and all Dems, in just a few years???
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If we do not abolish ICE, what is to stop them from opening up death camps for all minorities and all Dems, in just a few years???