🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓
@meredithalberta.bsky.social
skarù•ręʔ by mother line at 6N | Asst Prof at UBuffalo in Geog and Indigenous Studies | (Indigenous) Geog PhD at Berkeley | MPH | writer | tall | lifter | she
New article just dropped!
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
New article just dropped!
I record every single lecture in my large anonymous undergrad classes. I know it's not Texas but I keep my receipts anyway. I speak carefully but factually.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I record every single lecture in my large anonymous undergrad classes. I know it's not Texas but I keep my receipts anyway. I speak carefully but factually.
“We must be very aware of the future that we portray in English. I think of English as a strange wing that sprouted, not grounded in the old thinking about the land, but one that we must learn to soar in.” – Dian Million, PhD, Tanana Athabascan.
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“We must be very aware of the future that we portray in English. I think of English as a strange wing that sprouted, not grounded in the old thinking about the land, but one that we must learn to soar in.” – Dian Million, PhD, Tanana Athabascan.
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I got to meet and present with the brilliant Dr. Melanie Yazzie in April at Dtmth. She's analytically sharp, a storyteller, and funny af.
Fk Ann Coulter.
Fk Ann Coulter.
July 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I got to meet and present with the brilliant Dr. Melanie Yazzie in April at Dtmth. She's analytically sharp, a storyteller, and funny af.
Fk Ann Coulter.
Fk Ann Coulter.
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Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA
July 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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I desperately want historians of sci to step up & remind us how complicit we scientists were for decades, all in the hope of keeping that sweet money coming. I've watched scis ruin activist & labor movements on uni campuses all from the fear of appearing political. Time for a reckoning, and repair.
Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts
Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the...
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Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the...
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Nobelist: Scientists Took Support “For Granted” Before Trump
Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the benefits of research funding for “far too long.”
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July 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I desperately want historians of sci to step up & remind us how complicit we scientists were for decades, all in the hope of keeping that sweet money coming. I've watched scis ruin activist & labor movements on uni campuses all from the fear of appearing political. Time for a reckoning, and repair.
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“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”
Hundreds of veterans volunteer to attend asylum hearings with Afghans
The effort began after a former Afghan interpreter was detained after his San Diego asylum hearing this month.
www.kpbs.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”
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Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
July 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
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Honestly, just let the Marxist bros have their highfalutin debates about Settler Colonialism. Give them some Capital Vol. III and snacks and they'll keep themselves busy.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Honestly, just let the Marxist bros have their highfalutin debates about Settler Colonialism. Give them some Capital Vol. III and snacks and they'll keep themselves busy.
External camps. Internal camps. Where are the women?
🚨 Absolute horror show as Florida takes steps to build its own detention center it’s calling “Alligator Alcatraz” for non citizen human beings to be held in facility surrounded by alligators and snakes in dangerous heat with NO oversight
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
Florida Builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
External camps. Internal camps. Where are the women?
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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Watch this. Let their bravery fill you up. We should be fighting tooth and nail alongside these people.
If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us.
Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!
If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us.
Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!
June 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watch this. Let their bravery fill you up. We should be fighting tooth and nail alongside these people.
If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us.
Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!
If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us.
Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!
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Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news
June 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news
If you're NDN and want to have a wild night, put your Nations name in the bluesky search bar and see how yt ppl on here are invoking your histories/governance etc for their various arguments about whatever.
June 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If you're NDN and want to have a wild night, put your Nations name in the bluesky search bar and see how yt ppl on here are invoking your histories/governance etc for their various arguments about whatever.
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BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling striking down the 2024 Biden-era HIPAA rule protecting reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement investigators when it was legally obtained, such as in another state.
June 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling striking down the 2024 Biden-era HIPAA rule protecting reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement investigators when it was legally obtained, such as in another state.
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Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
June 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
I finally experienced that toxic male bullsht of old Twitter again. I really didn't miss that lol.
June 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I finally experienced that toxic male bullsht of old Twitter again. I really didn't miss that lol.
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Two Palestinians legally visiting the US with visas, invited by local Jewish leaders to speak on human rights, are being held at SFO to be sent to West Bank.
June 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Two Palestinians legally visiting the US with visas, invited by local Jewish leaders to speak on human rights, are being held at SFO to be sent to West Bank.
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“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
www.bostonreview.net
June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
prospect.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
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The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.
June 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.