George Dutton
@gedutton.bsky.social
He/Him. Professor of SEA Studies at UCLA; voracious reader; writing a YA novel on climate change anxiety; frequently outraged activist. 🏳️🌈 ally. Opinions my own.
We had T-Mobile for 15 years and loved their service, but last week I dumped them for sponsoring the Trump Ballroom and jettisoning their DEI policies. Impossible to boycott all the disgusting US corporations, but doing my best . . .
Defending Democracy Starts With Your Phone Plan: Why I Cut Ties With T-Mobile | Common Dreams
The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business r...
www.commondreams.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We had T-Mobile for 15 years and loved their service, but last week I dumped them for sponsoring the Trump Ballroom and jettisoning their DEI policies. Impossible to boycott all the disgusting US corporations, but doing my best . . .
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Good riddance to mass murderer Dick Cheney - for his horrific slaughter of Iraqis and others may he rot in hell.
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Good riddance to mass murderer Dick Cheney - for his horrific slaughter of Iraqis and others may he rot in hell.
How about somebody write NINETEEN REASONS WHY Utah leaders are pearl-clutching moral cowards who hate students
Surprise–Utah just quietly banned its 19th book from *every single public school* in the state.
THIRTEEN REASONS WHY was banned yesterday. It must be removed from every public school statewide.
bookriot.com/utah-bans-th...
THIRTEEN REASONS WHY was banned yesterday. It must be removed from every public school statewide.
bookriot.com/utah-bans-th...
Utah Quietly Bans Its 19th Book from All State Public Schools
Utah just quietly banned THIRTEEN REASONS WHY from all public schools across the state. It's their 19th state-sanctioned book ban.
bookriot.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
How about somebody write NINETEEN REASONS WHY Utah leaders are pearl-clutching moral cowards who hate students
Sure feels like a “Let them eat cake” moment to me …
Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sure feels like a “Let them eat cake” moment to me …
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Peter Howitt of Brown University is one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in economics. He won for showing that “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate & sustain economic growth." Brown University paid a $50 million ransom to Trump-Vance. Maybe Brown will reflect. Very on the nose.
Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Peter Howitt of Brown University is one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in economics. He won for showing that “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate & sustain economic growth." Brown University paid a $50 million ransom to Trump-Vance. Maybe Brown will reflect. Very on the nose.
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Call for applications -- Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop. Deadline Oct. 20! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop - Association for Asian Studies
Keywords: Southeast Asia, Global Studies March 10-12, 2026 Vancouver, Canada Application deadline: October 20, 2025 The Association for Asian Studies, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, i...
www.asianstudies.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Call for applications -- Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop. Deadline Oct. 20! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app...
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Join us on Tuesday Sept 30 for a UNEP webinar on governance of nature-based solutions - some great perspectives on offer across researchers, decision-makers, and NGOs! Later on Thursday will be an additional webinar on Financing for #NBS
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Join us on Tuesday Sept 30 for a UNEP webinar on governance of nature-based solutions - some great perspectives on offer across researchers, decision-makers, and NGOs! Later on Thursday will be an additional webinar on Financing for #NBS
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Interested in AI and its impact? Join the seminar “The Role of Media, Disinformation and Political Propaganda in Indonesia’s 2024 Presidential Election and Singapore’s 2025 General Election.”
September 29 @ 9:30 am Singapore Time
tinyurl.com/ycrxc46d
September 29 @ 9:30 am Singapore Time
tinyurl.com/ycrxc46d
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Interested in AI and its impact? Join the seminar “The Role of Media, Disinformation and Political Propaganda in Indonesia’s 2024 Presidential Election and Singapore’s 2025 General Election.”
September 29 @ 9:30 am Singapore Time
tinyurl.com/ycrxc46d
September 29 @ 9:30 am Singapore Time
tinyurl.com/ycrxc46d
This is a singularly dispiriting interview with UCLA’s chancellor fully of mealy-mouthed non-answers and mis-statements. What kind of “leadership” is this??
UCLA chancellor ready to stand firm against Trump demands, unless they’re ‘valid’
UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk, speaking at an event with a Los Angeles-based Jewish organization, defended campus efforts to support Jewish communities.
www.latimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is a singularly dispiriting interview with UCLA’s chancellor fully of mealy-mouthed non-answers and mis-statements. What kind of “leadership” is this??
This is a deeply disturbing case that raises profoundly troubling questions about Harvard’s tenure review process. That a scholar of this caliber would be denied tenure seems unthinkable.
Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
www.thecrimson.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is a deeply disturbing case that raises profoundly troubling questions about Harvard’s tenure review process. That a scholar of this caliber would be denied tenure seems unthinkable.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Brown University’s craven capitulation and willingness to toss its trans students, faculty, and staff under the bus is disgusting and humiliating for this alumnus. Didn’t think its president was stupid enough to try to pay off a blackmailer. That never ends well…
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Brown University’s craven capitulation and willingness to toss its trans students, faculty, and staff under the bus is disgusting and humiliating for this alumnus. Didn’t think its president was stupid enough to try to pay off a blackmailer. That never ends well…
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"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster
Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
www.aaup.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
So, submitting a panel proposal to the @asianstudies.org website only to be confronted with a participant ethnicity drop-down menu that looks like this. My panel, with no less than three SOUTHEAST Asians once again falls between the cracks. Do better AAS! (Also, are any of these even "ethnicities"?)
July 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
So, submitting a panel proposal to the @asianstudies.org website only to be confronted with a participant ethnicity drop-down menu that looks like this. My panel, with no less than three SOUTHEAST Asians once again falls between the cracks. Do better AAS! (Also, are any of these even "ethnicities"?)
That's how it's done!
July 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
That's how it's done!
“ICE and CBP have NOT targeted any construction sites in Altadena and the Palisades,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for DHS. What utterly irrelevant bullshit. ICE raids across SoCal affect EVERYTHING; their actual targets are immaterial. Just more explicit punishment of blue states.
ICE Raids Scare Off L.A. Workers Rebuilding Fire-Torn Areas
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“ICE and CBP have NOT targeted any construction sites in Altadena and the Palisades,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for DHS. What utterly irrelevant bullshit. ICE raids across SoCal affect EVERYTHING; their actual targets are immaterial. Just more explicit punishment of blue states.
Apparently HHS is requesting people to snitch on DEI actions and for some idiotic reason has made submissions open to anyone who wants to fill out this form: forms.office.com/g/HXGhXVdGKZ . So, have fun . . .
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Apparently HHS is requesting people to snitch on DEI actions and for some idiotic reason has made submissions open to anyone who wants to fill out this form: forms.office.com/g/HXGhXVdGKZ . So, have fun . . .
A fucking "show of presence" ?? What utter and intense bullshit. Well, that accomplished nothing except to piss off an already enraged city. ICE hasn't seen anything yet - we're gonna run those bastards out of town.
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.
After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
July 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A fucking "show of presence" ?? What utter and intense bullshit. Well, that accomplished nothing except to piss off an already enraged city. ICE hasn't seen anything yet - we're gonna run those bastards out of town.
Proud of these fans - NOT of Galaxy and the team's deafening silence. This isn't a time for silence, especially when the US government is targeting families, co-workers, and neighbors.
LA Galaxy supporters walkout in the 12th minute following the club's lack of response to the ICE raids in Los Angeles
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✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
July 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Proud of these fans - NOT of Galaxy and the team's deafening silence. This isn't a time for silence, especially when the US government is targeting families, co-workers, and neighbors.
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Friends who are members of the American Historical Association (or wish to join), please vote by July 15 for the slate that is committed to democratizing our profession and holding itself accountable to the membership during these perilous times.
July 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Friends who are members of the American Historical Association (or wish to join), please vote by July 15 for the slate that is committed to democratizing our profession and holding itself accountable to the membership during these perilous times.
Thinking we need more Wanted Posters for the lineup of villains serving this administration. Here's a modest start.
July 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thinking we need more Wanted Posters for the lineup of villains serving this administration. Here's a modest start.
Just contributed to this. Never going to stop supporting trans books and LGBTQ books, especially for kids, and librarians who recognize the importance of books that represent all experiences and identities. Book banners should and will never win!
Please join me in supporting librarian Lavonnia Moore, fired for including inclusive books in a community-curated display. gofund.me/41fd0cc4
July 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just contributed to this. Never going to stop supporting trans books and LGBTQ books, especially for kids, and librarians who recognize the importance of books that represent all experiences and identities. Book banners should and will never win!
As the House votes, I'm doing an internet search on "Canadian Permanent Resident." I'm wondering what the criteria are for 'political refugee' . . . Not sure I can take much more of this.
July 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As the House votes, I'm doing an internet search on "Canadian Permanent Resident." I'm wondering what the criteria are for 'political refugee' . . . Not sure I can take much more of this.
Guess we're about to find out what post-apocalyptic feels like . . .
July 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Guess we're about to find out what post-apocalyptic feels like . . .