April Anson
@aprilanson.bsky.social
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Asst prof at UConn (prev. asst prof at sdsu, postdoc at penn). she/her, settler. Studying ecofascism and anti-racist/colonial enviro humanities.
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
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patblanchfield.bsky.social
people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...
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lmacthompson1.bsky.social
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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jayshams.bsky.social
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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dearsarah.bsky.social
Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
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leahsottile.bsky.social
We are at the terrifying point where Doug Wilson is being interviewed by Ross Douthat, and there is no earnest caveat of his extremism.

I interviewed Wilson in 2020. Compare Douthat's interview and this, and you'll see only one is not normalizing his bigotry:

www.hcn.org/issues/52-8/...
As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven - High Country News
Extremist pastors are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push their conservative religious ideologies.
www.hcn.org
aprilanson.bsky.social
Sending so so much love and care to you, your family and communities
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smullins3000.bsky.social
How is it not news, according to the @nytimes.com, that an ICE agent in Chicago said "do something bitch" and deliberately SHOT a United States citizen? Can someone answer that question for me? @toddgregory.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social @risenc.bsky.social
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chanda.blacksky.app
our planet. our one and only earth. this is what the colonizers choose to do it with it.
wordglass.bsky.social
Supreme Court refuses Apache plea to save Oak Flat from copper mining destruction

* *Gorsuch dissent calls the decision a “grave mistake” as copper mine threatens to create massive crater

By: Shondiin Silversmith- May 27, 2025 12:54 pm
UPDATED OCT 6TH 2025

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Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold talks to a crowd of people outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse on May 7, 2025, as Apache Stronghold urged the federal court to save Oak Flat. Photo Courtesy of Becket
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paulisci.bsky.social
A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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coryjamesyoung.bsky.social
People incarcerated in Iowa state prisons earn between 28 and 95 cents per hour according to the ACLU. This is legal because the Iowa state constitution still permits slavery for people convicted of crimes.

You used to be able to learn about this history in the materials the state is disappearing.
Screenshot of a 10/7/25 Cedar Rapids Gazette article lede reading: “IOWA CITY - Despite a lawsuit fighting the State Historical Society of lowa's unexpected and
"haphazard" closure of its lowa City research facility and archives - and a court hearing scheduled in the dispute next week - the state on Monday began moving some of the historical documents with help from prison inmates.”
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵
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nickcunningham.bsky.social
“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...
Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers
New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.
www.eenews.net
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Check your savings → zohranfornyc.com/calculator
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."
Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books
Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.
www.publicbooks.org
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joelhs.bsky.social
The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."
idgordon.bsky.social
The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)
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courtneymilan.com
My statement is simply this: they're using deadly force on unarmed, peaceful civilians. At some point they're going to kill someone on camera, and I do not know that we can control what will happen after that.
aprilanson.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Assistant or Associate Professor of Sustainability and Environmental Studies in the School of Social Science and Human Services. Ramapo College! www.schooljobs.com/careers/rama...

#envhum #environmentalhumanities #environmentalstudies
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melinabuns.bsky.social
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
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internethippo.bsky.social
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that