I hope seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive will convince some of you to stop preemptively declaring people dead. I know it comes from a place of fear, but cynicism and pessimism can demobilize people and lead folks to give up before a fight is lost. Let's not seed that attitude.

My brilliant friend @daniellebainbridge.bsky.social's series "Breaking the News: Press Pass" has been nominated for a Webby Award! (I also wrote scripts for some of the episodes!) If you haven't seen it already, go check it out and give it a vote before Thursday, April 17th! Link to vote below.

My brilliant friend @daniellebainbridge.bsky.social's series "Breaking the News: Press Pass" has been nominated for a Webby Award! (I also wrote scripts for some of the episodes!) If you haven't seen it already, go check it out and give it a vote before Thursday, April 17th! Link to vote below.

Ethnographers:

This coming Thursday, I will be teaching a lecture (online, asynchronous) on ethnographic writing. Please recommend beautiful writing (yours included, of course).

I'd love to get a sampler across disciplines/fields/areas of study.

Re-skeet for broader samples.

For those who may be feeling alone or isolated:

centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...

Internalize that the United States as we understood it on January 19, 2025 is gone. We are in the midst of rewriting the rules and reconstructing society *right now* and must adjust accordingly. There is no going back, so we must imagine and think forward

Make your doomscroll praxis by saving the news reports of what happened in your own archive ideally offline because they will try to deny all of this later - thats why they are doing everything by phone and on private servers now

And there it is. Same holds for activists, writers, "free speech" orgs, arts institutions and everyone else who has been silent for 15 months.

Thanks Vicki. Here's my version:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Anyway, I wrote about all this last week, there's nothing much new to say about it I guess. I also believe that people who want more from this country and care more for each other outnumber the people trying to make all that impossible, and that we'll outlive them. defector.com/billionaire-...

Again: I don’t think the primary goal of the anti-D.E.I. authoritarianism we’re seeing is re-segregation. It’s TOTAL human enslavement to corporations. Re-segregation is just a stop on that train. Explicit white supremacy and patriarchy are being used to make techno-fascism seductive to the masses.