From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools

From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools Rewriting the map can influence the public psyche in ways subtle and not so subtle.

From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools. I am honored to write with @sethographer.bsky.social @jpbrasher.bsky.social to amplify critical name research @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social theconversation.com/from-greenla...

“If those who speak Spanish as their second language are included, then the U.S. is the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Mexico.”

By ending Spanish-language communications, the White House ignores U.S. demographics: buff.ly/T5h8YCR

5 years ago this week I defended my dissertation with so much hope for what was next. Then, the world shut down, never recovered, and in fact continues to worsen. I have no words to express the grief around that.

Congrats @stnameslab.bsky.social. What a wonderful resource your team has created for geographers and place/street naming scholars @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

Three days after his detention, Mahmoud Khalil still has not been charged with a crime.

Trump administration threatens to slash federal funding to 60 universities - www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-administratio...

Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced Amid a massive drop in global support, Israel and its supporters are in a panic, working overtime to hide the evidence of its crimes

Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-can-ban-a...

If Trump Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil, Freedom of Speech Is Dead It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.

It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student. interc.pt/3Dvhxgk

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

Israeli group calls Gaza power cut a 'war crime' <span class="field field-title">Israeli group calls Gaza power cut a 'war crime'</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-10T06:31:48+00:00" title="10 March 2025 06:31 GMT">Mon, 03/10/2025 - 06:31</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Tania Hary, executive director of&nbsp;Israeli rights group&nbsp;Gisha, has condemned Israel's decision to cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, calling it a war crime.</p> <p>“Cutting electricity supply used for civilian purposes like desalinating water is not ‘using the tools at our disposal’ as Minister Cohen says, it’s committing the crimes at Israel’s disposal,” Hary said on X, referring to the Israeli Energy Minister’s statement on the move.</p> <p>Hary also told the Associated Press that the plant has been providing 18,000 cubic metres of water per day, but that it will now need to rely on generators, meaning it can only process about 2,500 cubic metres per day, about the amount in an Olympic swimming pool.</p> </div>

Israeli group calls Gaza power cut a 'war crime' - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

Just started listening to the blowback podcast, they’re doing some great counter history storytelling (and they’re very funny and cheeky). Highly recommend.

What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care When doctors feel unable to provide the care they believe is best for their patients, they may experience what bioethicists call ‘moral distress.’

Doctors' moral distress rises as trust in health care erodes. A bioethicist examines how declining public trust impacts difficult end-of-life decisions and physician burnout. https://buff.ly/4gqXKvN (Daniel T. Kim, Albany Medical College) 🩺#medsky #MedicalEthics

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening.

This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail.

The Census API, for now, is still up.

A spatial and demographic analysis of cycling safety perceptions: A case study in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA Bike-friendly cities offer scores of benefits to both individuals and society, but a lack of safety is a major barrier to ridership. Significant research has been devoted to studying demographic drive...

Just published a new open access paper on cycling safety perceptions in Eau Claire, WI! I'd highly encourage readers to download the HTML file and play with the embedded interactive maps! #rstats #rspatial #quarto openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.ph...

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory ‘Ours is the only city in Brazil where the Confederate flag flies,’ said a city council member in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste. A new law there bans ‘symbols that promote racist and segregationist ideas.’

Symbols of the Confederacy have been removed from an annual festival in Brazil.

A geographer explores how a small Brazilian town became an unexpected battleground over Confederate memory and memorials. https://buff.ly/3Pqvf6J
(@jpbrasher.bsky.social, Macalester College) #BlackSky 🗃️ #racism

Dearborn mayor says his city will abide by ICC warrant and arrest Netanyahu The US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute nor bound by ICC warrants, but individual jurisdictions may act however they please

Mayor of Arab-American capital says his city will abide by ICC warrant and arrest Netanyahu - www.middleeasteye.net/news/mayor-arab-american...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but while electric cars are great and all, what we really need is to design human landscapes that don’t rely so pathologically and obsessively on cars in the first place. You can’t car your way out of a geography problem.