Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Seen on my news and academic feeds today:

"This is highly illegal!"
"Where are the courts?"
"Someone needs to arrest him/them!"
"The military needs to oust them!"
"WHERE ARE THE DEMS?"

This is the denial stage of grief. None of the above institutions are coming to save us.

We are all we've got.

decolonization does not mean disrespect. we can fully divest from colonial systems without being jerks. for example, in Native Nations we have relational protocols, like introducing ourselves in a good way or when elders speak, you listen.

Dr. Jami Lockhart Retires Dr. Jami Lockhart, Director of Archaeogeophysical Research at the Survey, retired in December 2024 after 39 years of service.

Huge Congrats & Thanks to Dr. Jami Lockhart, who retired at the end of 2024! He worked for ARAS for almost 40 years and was integral in incorporating new kinds of data in to AMASDA. You can read more about him on our website: archeology.uark.edu/staff-news/l... Thank you, Jami, enjoy retirement!

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Cover Up at Red Onion, Prisoners are Setting Themselves on Fire Prisoners at Virginia's Red Onion supermax prison are resorting to self-harm to protest inhumane conditions and demand urgent reforms.

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Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …

Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist.
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
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Psychoanalysis under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine Published in Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol. 53, No. 2, 2024)

“If the ethos of [the book] compels but one thing, it is that mental health practitioners have a duty to locate their clinical work within material reality,” writes Roula Hajjar in her review of Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s book.
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