Also if the US has bombed/invaded your home country during your tenure clock, your clock should be automatically suspended until the attacks stop

I just don't buy that making your faculty stress about tenure more is going to make them produce better scholarship. More scholarship, maybe. But better scholarship? Nah.

My friends in the Twin Cities have described it in similar terms. This should terrify all of us.

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Truly dystopian times we're living in. You know it's bad when the police are calling ICE out. I'm glad they're speaking up but I'm wary of how much positive PR police are getting from their anti-ICE antics, particularly given how many cooperate with ICE.

my dad has started carrying his tribal ID to work because ICE is around all the time and he thinks he’s going to get deported

then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.

Curious how others handle it when they suspect students of unauthorized, unreported AI use on assignments. Have you found anything that has worked well? I'm not really looking to fail the students but I'd like to have a talk with them and get them to cut it out

thinking about the amount of side-eye I received from my students the other day while talking about freedom of the press as a cultural value in this country and I can't decide if their jadedness is a good sign for future generations or just depressing 😞 it says a lot about our current moment 👀

It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”

I was raised on the Washington post. It's horrible seeing how far it has fallen... I wrote in weeks ago to tell them off for giving RFK a platform for his misinformation but apparently they take pride in that now.

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

Morale is great. 😭

On top of that, we're now not allowed to pay for meals at "primarily" faculty and staff events--and "staff" includes graduate students which is several levels of messed up. So that speaker you wanted grad students to network with? Nope, you can't feed them all lunch.

Ah the joys of being treated like you're trying to rob the university after going out of your way to spend less (took an awful red eye out of a way less convenient airport & for my efforts, I got $5 for breakfast so I wouldn't fall asleep at the wheel during the drive home)

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When I spoke to my students about the potential dangers of AI, they were shocked to learn about cases like this.

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Ooh yes, always enjoy (e-)meeting other descendants! Have you been to the Heart Mountain pilgrimages @marinaomi.bsky.social?

I think many of them knew it was being used, had in fact witnessed and learned from Indigenous land use as they built lives for themselves in those regions (settler origin myths even recognize this), they just used the notion to justify the theft. We can't let them off the hook that easily.

Thanks, I'll take a look at those!

Oh yeah the little house books are very deeply embedded in that colonial rhetoric, I'm not surprised they used that logic

At the very least it should be "Japanese American internment" and you should have to justify why you are using that term against the wishes of the community.

2) internment is inaccurate, see @denshoproject.bsky.social terminology & @jacl-national.bsky.social power of words for why. If you're not aware of this yet, I'm not sure you should be mentoring/teaching students on the topic 3) it's unclear if they're discussing Japanese Americans or Japanese POWs.

Reading yet another graduate thesis and wishing yet again that other Asian Americanists would not let their graduate students get away with calling Japanese American incarceration "Japanese internment" in this day & age. 1) it lets the US completely off the hook.

Trump is not mentioned as much as I would have thought but I suppose that's just a given for Washingtonians at this point 🫣

Disgusting. May I recommend instead @overhearddistrict's Instagram round up of everything Washingtonians are actually scared of? It's a much more informative and a better use of one's time. DC rats figure high on multiple lists.

Also @jimmyskuya.bsky.social @kaylenjoi.bsky.social @sammaj.bsky.social thanks in advance!

@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @redped.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @brunomarzipan.bsky.social @kaseyrk.bsky.social thinking you may have leads?

#NAIS folks, looking for recs on articles/books on how the notion that the land wasn't being used was weaponized to force Indigenous people to give up more of their land. Allotment is one example (or a million) but it's all over the place really & I'd love to see how others are thinking about it