It might not surprise folks to know that legal scholars that are new to the birthright citizenship debate are also new to federal Indian law and are also horrendously bad at it.

Announcement of lawsuit from American Association of University Professors and Middle East Studies Association against the Trump administration

New — The American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association are suing the Trump administration to block it "from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations" of students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestine or other First Amendment activity.

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.

Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:

www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)

“As anthropologists, we are witnessing a doubling down on the discipline’s classical roots where a Palestinian woman can only occupy the savage slot–she can only speak as an object of research, through the colonizer’s narrative of her”
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

love this 😭😭

If you think this isn’t also happening in Oklahoma, you’d be very wrong. When I’m out knocking doors and talking to voters, I tell people that it’s not safe to be pregnant in Oklahoma anymore since the abortion ban. Here is evidence to back that up.
#AC4OK

fixed to address the real problem

what a time to threaten state funding when so much of the federal funding that funds the daily operations of numerous offices is also being threatened by the president

So many interesting dynamics at work: selective state enforcement of federal treaties, bill introduction by a democrat (but is a bipartisan opportunity to undermine tribal sovereignty), tribal sovereignty being used to maintain antiblack policies by not enrolling freedmen in the first place

A new, novel approach for Freedmen enrollment by going through the state legislature. House bill 1118 would make tribes who fail to enroll Freedmen descendants according to their 1866 treaties forfeit all cooperative agreements & contracts with the state + forfeit state funds that benefit the tribe

it's the best part of spring!!!

Northwestern’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research is accepting applications for a NAIS postdoc! Due Jan 3, 2025. CNAIR is just the right balance of community and academia so it will be a good time!

nais, as a field, has slept on mark minch-de leon!!!! rectifying by reading everything and anything that he writes now!!

what are your slc hot takes!!!!

so where are the housewives memes