@stacynationknapper.bsky.social
Historian | Mom | Goofball | Settler on Apsaalooké, Salish Kootenai, Tséstho’e lands (Bozeman, MT) | she/her cover image: https://www.umt.edu/this-is-montana/columns/stories/ekalaka.php
No Kings Bozeman, MT
18.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 517 🔁 120 💬 11 📌 6
"NO KINGS RALLY" in Bozeman, Montana
18.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:
I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.
So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
Gartner calls what AI is going to go through next year (as people realize the tech has been broadly misrepresented by hucksters) the "trough of disillusionment"
30.09.2025 17:24 — 👍 92 🔁 19 💬 10 📌 1
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
I see a lot of utility for AI, but I’ve stopped using it entirely. It gets things wrong. It’s glib. And AI sorts information and people into preset hierarchies. It’s this latter point that’s giving me the most pause. The current iteration of AI is also a social engineering project.
24.09.2025 12:36 — 👍 181 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 2Today in my "Age of Hamilton & Jefferson" course we discussed Jefferson's belief that Americans need to be educated because only by understanding their nation & its history can they recognize threats & defend it
An educated public was a tool against tyranny.
Yup.
Thus current attacks on knowledge.
A play about women of the fur trade set in the 1800s is about to open in Vancouver.
As APTN's Ryan Cunningham reports, this play takes a different look from a women's perspective.
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
If you haven’t, there are only three days remaining to submit a comment on the planned rescission of the roadless rule in the National Forests. Losing this means a loss of biodiversity, wilderness areas, and recreation.
16.09.2025 23:55 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Ta-Nehisi Coates's article on Kirk is typically brilliant, rooted in history and also prophetic: "If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
16.09.2025 22:39 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A series of reported threats toward historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S. on Thursday led to lockdown orders, canceled classes and heightened security. Read more here: http://bit.ly/3JRLLNw
11.09.2025 23:26 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
Mine in today’s New Yorker. Greetings from America’s High-Capacity Server Coolant Reservoirs, formerly the “Great Lakes.” Read my cartoon-filled rant about this at open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth...
04.09.2025 15:36 — 👍 621 🔁 195 💬 6 📌 16
There are now at least 20 coyotes living in New York City, including at least two in Central Park.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
what this makes me think about - with regard to right now - is how so much of the information about Trump and Epstein that’s resonated in recent weeks is old stuff, widely and publicly reported. but a lot of it didn’t break through to lots of ppl in their information environments
22.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 2237 🔁 410 💬 55 📌 27
Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans put 338 rural hospitals at risk so they could fund tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
22.07.2025 22:40 — 👍 1341 🔁 543 💬 73 📌 25Thanks to @lastweektonight.com for a great story on why work requirements are bad policy and for citing my research!
Never thought I’d see my name next to John Oliver’s face while he talks about my work!!
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days.
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
It just hit me why some people get so defensive when you tell them, as @tressiemcphd.bsky.social says, that the stuff AI poops out is pretty mid. It’s because you are saying they work in a space where mid is all that’s needed. And doesn’t feel good.
30.05.2025 03:20 — 👍 125 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
Blue background with light blue frame and title stating: Asian Heritage Month at top centre. Below is a black and white drawing of Toronto’s Chinatown and Dragon Mall. Beside is the text: “Saving Chinatown, 1971-2021. Daniel Ross.” Below the black and white drawing is the photo information: “Toronto Star, August 28, 1971 (courtesy of Jamie Bradburn).” In the lower half of the page there is a black and white photo of four women sitting in a circle reading from papers. The text beside says: “Snapshots of Canada-Timor Solidarity. David Webster.” The photo information says: “Solidarity groups meeting, Geneva, 1989. Members from the Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People, Portugal; Free East Timor! Campaign, Japan, and Australian solidarity groups. ETAN/Canada collection, Timor International Solidarity Archive.”
Read Daniel Ross’ post on Toronto’s Chinatown and David Webster’s post on Timor-Leste and the power of protest here: linktr.ee/activehistory
Make sure to check out the whole Asian Heritage Month Collection!
Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Here’s a breakdown of the ways Trump’s proposed budget is angling to make your life harder, including cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, longer hospital waits, unchecked AI, and more.
22.05.2025 20:40 — 👍 293 🔁 131 💬 14 📌 10
After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%.
So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.
From the NYT: Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home As the Trump administration shrinks federal child care programs, Republicans are backing policies they hope will allow more parents to scale back at work.
They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
