Sarah Pickman

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Editorial: A society that stops reading stops thinking Daily reading for pleasure in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past 20 years — roughly 3% per year, according to researchers at the University of Florida and University College London.

From the Editorial Board:

Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

'Born in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty region in 1873, Papakura grew up during a time of significant change for Māori, including the rapid loss of land, language and Indigenous knowledge as the grip of colonisation tightened.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

News - Personal Toolkit of Ice Age Hunter Recovered - Archaeology Magazine MORAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC—Thousands of years ago, an Ice Age hunter set down a small pouch […]

#Archaeology is about people.

People like the #Gravettian hunter who, 30,000 years ago in southern Moravia, lost or dropped his pouch containing a well-used tool kit of stone blades and points, (including partially broken pieces he could've let go a lot earlier):

🏺 archaeology.org/news/2025/09...

Yeah that makes sense now that I think about it and the people I know who have taught at NYU. He may even have been adjuncting at CUNY at the same time, we just don’t know! (I’m from the same hometown as Larson btw-he’s one of our local heroes)

It definitely seems like he’s an adjunct. Explains why he has to live in an unheated loft with his friend who makes mediocre video art

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

I mean, David Graeber got fired from Yale for similar and then got hired at Goldsmith’s. Then again, I don’t know how Collin’s scholarship compares to Graeber’s. I have not read his work

(solemnly) You've had mail.

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

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Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Could not come at a more dire time, tbh.

Reading: still fundamental, no matter what the anti-intellectuals may say!

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

There will be dinner after at the most unremarkable Italian restaurant you’ve ever been to. Someone will ask you a question that demonstrates they slept through your talk

There is no problem in American that they cannot blame on trans people or immigrants. Your government is shutting down? That's trans. Political violence? Trans. Just an obvious pattern of demonization. www.wired.com/story/herita...

It also feels so offbase for these publishers that think they are going to hook in so many fans this way! Maybe that’s how it works for the Dramione folks but not over here

I’m a romance girlie but seriously wtf is going on??? What did they put in the water?

A 50% tariff on remodeling supplies seems like exactly the kind of thing you don't want to do when your base is a bunch of bored well-off suburban white people, but what do I know

Exactly what we expected: painting anyone on the left as antifa to justify using the full coercive power of the government against them.

This line is key: “Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity.” The unholy trinity.

People in or near New Jersey: look at this amazing opportunity!

A mannequin wearing a long narrow sleeveless dress. It has a slim black skirt and a pale turquoise knotted bodice with a V neck. The bodice is sprinkled with rhinestones

Evoking all the glamour of thirties chic, a dress of two halves that combines some sleek black with an inventive bodice, sprinkled with rhinestones. It just needs a smoky, low lit bar and jazz filled dance floor @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Real life monster battle. Wow.

someday a historian will begin their history of the Trump era with the Trump Tower escalator descent and finish it with the stalled UN escalator ascent and they will be so pleased with that neat little bookended narrative encapsulation and anyway release the Epstein files

I once say someone on here say that Katie Hopkins (one of the UK’s leading professional racists) was in her 40s but had the neck tendons of someone who had watched George Wallace stand in the schoolhouse door and I still love that phrasing

That man is 46 years old. Fascism is worse than UV rays.

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!