Matt Farish

Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025 What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...

Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

NYT comment from Helen Tager-Flusberg, Center for Autism Research Excellence, Boston University

Update at New York Times from Christina Jewett, F.D.A. reporter.

"Did you know that Sinclair will air an hourlong tribute to Kirk in place of Kimmel’s show on Friday night?"

The number of university presidents who beclown themselves to please the far right, only to end up being shark chum anyway just keeps growing

Whew.

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/theb...

"Friend" and "contributor". Bleak.

He spent one semester doing pre-engineering classes.

This pretext to further assault higher ed is not fundamentally different from the views of The Free Press, whose editorial board said universities were the "main culprits" behind political violence.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

Characteristically good from @jamellebouie.net: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. This Fall, we are activating a nationwide wave of creative resistance. Beginning November 21–22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, theaters, and concert halls across the country will host exhibitions, performances, and public events that channel the urgency of this moment. Fall of Freedom is an open invitation to artists, creators, and communities to take part—and to celebrate the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation. Art matters. Artists are a threat to American fascism.

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st...

www.falloffreedom.com

I see yesterday's Colorado school shooting is not news today.

Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go? After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into a unshakeable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...

"The pattern is clear: if you work at a liberal institution and you want the Trump-controlled federal government to step in and discipline it, Bari Weiss is there to help."

In one video, an artificially generated John Adams says, "Facts do not care about your feelings" — a phrase often used by conservative commentator and PragerU presenter Ben Shapiro.

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

Obituary information for Margaret Walton-Roberts View Margaret Walton-Roberts's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

Margaret was my first-year TA at UBC. She was one of a small handful of inspiring people I encountered in that moment. I remember her then as I do more recently: a brilliant, funny, and above all compassionate human. Good-bye to a great geographer and person: www.henrywalser.com/obituaries/M...

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So, so wrong.

Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic

hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press

Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society.

That's it. That's the post.

There is simply a huge audience among the youth for critiques of the state of Israel, given what young people see the state doing to the children of Gaza. This critique can come from someone like Zohran Mamdani, or it can come from Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson interviewing a Holocaust denier.

Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.

Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:

theconversation.com/yellowknifes...

imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves