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Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12

ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12

ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14

Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

Postdoctoral Associate in Public History HRC The Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Rice University seeks to appoint one Postdoctoral Associate in Public History.

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Post-MFA Fellow The Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Rice University seeks to appoint one Post-MFA Fellow in Creative Writing.

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At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

Donate to Support Carol's Recovery and Community Aid, organized by Timothy Morton Hello. I'm Tim Morton and Carol Balds is my wonderful Jamaican mother-in-law… Timothy Morton needs your support for Support Carol's Recovery and Community Aid

My friend and colleague Timothy Morton is raising funds to help their in-laws recover from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Please donate if you are able.

Donate to send a Hurricane Recovery Kit to Jamaica:

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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.

Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.

NEW ANALYSIS: For the first time in history, the US has not sent any official delegates to the annual UN climate talks #COP30

Full details from my colleagues, below, inc that with 56,118 delegates registered, COP30 is provisionally 2nd-largest

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Not just now but down the road maybe!

More details on the program here:

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We made a new MFA.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us that for more than a decade

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Screenshot of the following text: “That European birds migrate across the seas or to Asia was understood in the Middle Ages, but subsequently forgotten. Dr. Johnson held that swallows slept all winter in the beds of rivers, while the naturalist Morton (1703) stated that they migrated to the moon. As late as 1837 the "Kendal Mercury" "detailed the circumstance of a person having observed several Swallows emerging from Grasmere Lake, in the spring of that year, in the form of 'bell-shaped bubbles,' from each of which a Swallow burst forth ...." [The Rev. F.O. Morris, "A History of British Birds," London, 1870]”

A surprise find in the Etymonline entry for “migration”

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

EPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review.

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YouTube video by PBS Terra Did Scientists Just Figure Out Why People Die A DECADE Earlier in the Southeast US?

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

Sending love to her and you.

SHIFT

I am SO EXCITED about this!

Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.

Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.

jointheshift.earth

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

Trump's Central Park Five ad in Newsday : Newsday LLC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Donald Trump placed advertisements in several prominent newspapers, including Newsday, in 1989 calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty so that the...

As a reminder: this is the full page ad he bought in Newsday in 1989 calling for the execution of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting a jogger in Central Park (they were later exonerated and are now known as the Exonerated Five):

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Trump suggests National Guard could go into New Orleans, a blue city in a red state President Trump suggests New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime.

It’s important that the only cities Trump has sent (or is threatening to send) national guard troops to have Black mayors — LA, DC, now Baltimore, Chicago, and New Orleans.

It’s NEVER been about crime.

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Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.

All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
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Rice is hiring!

"The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms…”

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Come work with us!

"Rice University … seeks applicants for a tenure- track assistant or associate professor position in Medical Humanities, specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine and health in the 20th-21st centuries."

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Come work with us!

"Rice University … seeks applicants for a tenure- track assistant or associate professor position in Medical Humanities, specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine and health in the 20th-21st centuries."

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Rice is hiring!

"The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms…”

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re-order & get 25% off my new graphic novel A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis. Today through Friday (9/3 to 9/5) only, with ‪@barnesandnoble.com‬ preorder sale!
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More exciting news: it was just chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection!

Greta Thunberg: “You do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide.

“Israel is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I don’t know what is”.