April Anson
@aprilanson.bsky.social
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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I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.
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It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
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I love this idea. My dad died when I was three and I had to figure out simple things like how to tie a tie and even shave on my own. Please retweet this because I know there are a lot of kids out there who could use some help with day to day life.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I love this idea. My dad died when I was three and I had to figure out simple things like how to tie a tie and even shave on my own. Please retweet this because I know there are a lot of kids out there who could use some help with day to day life.
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spend today making pie and designing relish trays with recipes and lore from human experts trained by human brains; then spend tomorrow finalizing syllabi to make and design future human brains!
In case you, like me, have not yet found this incredible resource/s by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and a few others, IT IS SO GREAT!!! 🙌🔥🙌 against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
spend today making pie and designing relish trays with recipes and lore from human experts trained by human brains; then spend tomorrow finalizing syllabi to make and design future human brains!
In case you, like me, have not yet found this incredible resource/s by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and a few others, IT IS SO GREAT!!! 🙌🔥🙌 against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In case you, like me, have not yet found this incredible resource/s by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and a few others, IT IS SO GREAT!!! 🙌🔥🙌 against-a-i.com
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NY POST ON TN-7: “Republicans are growing increasingly anxious over a once sleepy special election in a district Trump won by 22 points last year… alarmed by a recent poll and fearful that an upset could see their House majority slip to a 0 vote margin.” nypost.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
NY POST ON TN-7: “Republicans are growing increasingly anxious over a once sleepy special election in a district Trump won by 22 points last year… alarmed by a recent poll and fearful that an upset could see their House majority slip to a 0 vote margin.” nypost.com/2025/11/27/u...
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
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Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Private prison profits are booming under Trump 2.0. The CEO of America’s largest private prison operator said their mission “is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment.” From @matthewcook5 with the Center for Media and Democracy: trib.al/7P1WGmU
State and Local Contracts Prop Up For-Profit Prisons - The American Prospect
CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Private prison profits are booming under Trump 2.0. The CEO of America’s largest private prison operator said their mission “is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment.” From @matthewcook5 with the Center for Media and Democracy: trib.al/7P1WGmU
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If you want to give me a birthday present, please donate to the Native Organizers Alliance 🎁
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you want to give me a birthday present, please donate to the Native Organizers Alliance 🎁
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Re-sharing a 2022 article from the journal Southern Cultures about 100+ years of extractive research on my Tribe. It's well known that extractive research can harm Indigenous peoples; my coauthor & I show how it can also lead to poor results & junk insights.
www.southerncultures.org/article/stor...
www.southerncultures.org/article/stor...
Stories We Tell
Telling one’s own story is a way of asserting identity. It is simultaneously a fundamental responsibility and an inherent gift for each human being—and is often one of the first casualties of…
www.southerncultures.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Re-sharing a 2022 article from the journal Southern Cultures about 100+ years of extractive research on my Tribe. It's well known that extractive research can harm Indigenous peoples; my coauthor & I show how it can also lead to poor results & junk insights.
www.southerncultures.org/article/stor...
www.southerncultures.org/article/stor...
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
Soil Is Bigger Carbon Sink Than Previously Thought: Report
The world’s soils store 45% more carbon than previously estimated, making them a powerful, largely untapped carbon sink.
earth.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
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Happy Flytrap Tuesday! We are really honored to post this one, a comic in the Anishinaabemowin language about the Aadizookaan spirit, a foundational story to Indigenous trans identity.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Berdache
A comic by Shaawan Francis Keahna and Waabanokiizhick Mandosking.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Happy Flytrap Tuesday! We are really honored to post this one, a comic in the Anishinaabemowin language about the Aadizookaan spirit, a foundational story to Indigenous trans identity.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 25, 2025 ~ and he is us
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
Gone, Gone...And Gone: The IUCN Drops Its 2025 Species Extinction List
Yes, this grim roll call of vanished species comes with a side serving of climate chaos and human meddling.
www.2oceansvibe.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 25, 2025 ~ and he is us
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
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(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Years of him claiming but not seeking citizenship. 🚩🚩🚩
Curious what this is going to do to various syllabi and lists that have his books on them.
At least he isn't disputing it.
Curious what this is going to do to various syllabi and lists that have his books on them.
At least he isn't disputing it.
(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Years of him claiming but not seeking citizenship. 🚩🚩🚩
Curious what this is going to do to various syllabi and lists that have his books on them.
At least he isn't disputing it.
Curious what this is going to do to various syllabi and lists that have his books on them.
At least he isn't disputing it.
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"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
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With Donald Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein facing scrutiny, QAnon believers are suddenly not so interested in Epstein anymore.
For @nytopinion.nytimes.com, I asked a man whom many believe to be JFK Jr in disguise for his take. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
For @nytopinion.nytimes.com, I asked a man whom many believe to be JFK Jr in disguise for his take. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | Why the Epstein Story Is So Awkward for QAnon
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
With Donald Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein facing scrutiny, QAnon believers are suddenly not so interested in Epstein anymore.
For @nytopinion.nytimes.com, I asked a man whom many believe to be JFK Jr in disguise for his take. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
For @nytopinion.nytimes.com, I asked a man whom many believe to be JFK Jr in disguise for his take. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been endorsed by Sunrise Movement! @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social
A Green New Deal and aggressive climate action are essential for our future — I promise to fight for both when I’m in Congress and also on the campaign trail.
A Green New Deal and aggressive climate action are essential for our future — I promise to fight for both when I’m in Congress and also on the campaign trail.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been endorsed by Sunrise Movement! @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social
A Green New Deal and aggressive climate action are essential for our future — I promise to fight for both when I’m in Congress and also on the campaign trail.
A Green New Deal and aggressive climate action are essential for our future — I promise to fight for both when I’m in Congress and also on the campaign trail.
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X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from.
asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco...
With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social
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With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social
X added account location — and turned it off hours later.
A window onto what is most broken about the internet.
asbruckman.medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from.
asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco...
With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social
asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco...
With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social
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Patrick Bet-David’s app Minnect is profiting from hate, selling “expert” advice from extremists like Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer, and Martin Sellner alongside public figures such as Chris Cuomo—normalizing far-right ideology as legitimate expertise.
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Consultation Service Owned By Patrick Bet-David Profits From Calling Neo-Nazis “Experts”
Patrick Bet-David’s app Minnect lets neo-Nazis and violent extremists sell “expert advice” for profit. Listed alongside mainstream figures are Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer, and others...
globalextremism.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Patrick Bet-David’s app Minnect is profiting from hate, selling “expert” advice from extremists like Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer, and Martin Sellner alongside public figures such as Chris Cuomo—normalizing far-right ideology as legitimate expertise.
Read more:
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The Great Artesian Basin covers a 5th of Australia & contains ancient water that feeds mound springs. Arabana people should rightfully be compensated by BHP for their decades of extraction of this fossil water resource that's damaged their landscape, cultural heritage, knowledge, histories & stories
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Great Artesian Basin covers a 5th of Australia & contains ancient water that feeds mound springs. Arabana people should rightfully be compensated by BHP for their decades of extraction of this fossil water resource that's damaged their landscape, cultural heritage, knowledge, histories & stories