Liz Renner, Ph.D.

greta thunberg invokes the planetary politics necessary at this time - both staunchly internationalist+anticolonial and environmentalist, with these two knit into one, and unafraid at the prospect of rapid movement - at a moment where narrow conservative nationalisms are the dominant trend

Truly the wildest shit is happening as we approach rapid collapse with Trump ready to circumvent court orders to deluge US cities in troops for the “crime” of disagreeing with him—and normies are hardly aware of it

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Stephen Miller Follow @StephenM Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself. › Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance • 3h 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. IMMERGUT, District Judge. This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

Sobe it. We cannot awaken this sleper, and God knows we have tried. We must do what we can do, and fortify and save each other—we are not drowning in an apathetic self-contempt, we do feel ourselves sufficiently worthwhile to contend even with inexorable forces in order to change our fate and the fate of our children and the condition of the world! We know that a man is not a thing and is not to be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else's profit. We know that democracy does not mean the coercion of all into a deadly-and, finally, wicked—mediocrity but the liberty for all to aspire to the best that is in him, or that has ever been.

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

I worked under Noem when she was still our governor. My fam's farmland directly abuts her maternal fam's. I've operated a boat on Lake Oahe so she could get dolled up and have a staged ridealong photo-op w/our walleye spawning crew. She's a spiteful, morally bankrupt, and extremely dangerous leader.

Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

"If you’re reading this, I’ve likely been illegally detained by Israel for trying to deliver food to starving children. They are holding me against my will. I stand by my decision, breaking the siege during genocide was the right thing to do."

Activist Tommy Marcus of the Global Sumud Flotilla

a dolphin is jumping out of the water with a netflix logo in the background ALT: a dolphin is jumping out of the water with a netflix logo in the background

Interrupting the rise of authoritarianism with a request: would love to see your favorite papers/resources on life-history diversity in fishes (particularly but not exclusively salmonids). Bring me your weird spawning run timings, your unexpected anadromy, your improbable portfolio effects. Thanks!

Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...

An incredibly important article and increasingly relevant in modern political climates. Thank you to @rogerslabucd.bsky.social and colleagues for writing this for @dev-journal.bsky.social

"Speaking up can feel like walking a tightrope strung between conflict and silence."

#TruthMatters

Federal agencies blame Democrats for looming shutdown in apparent Hatch Act violation Housing and VA departments attack ‘radical left’ despite law limiting political activities of government employees

BREAKING: Federal agencies are blaming Democrats and leftists/liberals in Congress for the looming shutdown. That appears to violate the Hatch Act -- my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A few more have loaded, including Office of the Secretary. This includes the consolidated employees.

6,640 of 8,188 employees are being furloughed.

My heart goes out to each and every one of my colleagues impacted.

Sumud flotilla 150km NW of Port Said heading towards Gaza

They're getting close

globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

It's a good idea at this point to keep as many eyes as possible watching their livestream to make sure the genocidal regime knows the world cares what happens to them. Put it on in the background if you are busy doing something else

#AcademicSky #PhDLife

Cross-national graduate student survey finds 43% (overall) experience discrimination/harassment as part of their studies

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My Ask #1: check in with your students. They okay?

My Ask #2: check yourself. Are you causing their problems?

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies.

It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.

Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.

Or a boat full of fishermen.

Lmao @ "HEPATITAS." This country is run by ghoulishly evil and embarrassingly moronic rich people who couldn't pass a basic evaluation of science literacy. The vaccine paranoia and claims that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism is just anti-intellectualism, ableism & misogyny in a trenchcoat.

Indigenous fishers lead science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands When Fredy Yavinape was a young child, he didn’t know the biological concept of an “umbrella species.” These are species that require large areas of undisturbed habitat to survive, which is why they…

A community-based monitoring project is helping protect the rich diversity of freshwater fish species in the Ramsar-listed wetlands in the Colombian Amazon.

Their efforts have helped inform fishing regulations to better protect ecosystems and ensure the sustainability of local livelihoods.

One take: This is an insult to eels!

Alternative take: Anguillification happens really often so EEL truly is peak vertebrate body shape.

A square sampling plate that is completely covered by zebra mussels.

Photos have been rolling in for our Zebra Mussel Safari program and whenever I see photos like this come in, I'm grateful I don't have to count these by hand. 😂

Here is a pretty powerful reason why farming every last acre of the corn belt is not a good idea btw
Also why it is so important to protect places like the Dakotas

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

CRESTRICTED] ORIENTATION FACT SHEET 64 WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Dr. Jane Goodall’s Take On Sustainability In Trying Times: ‘Have Courage’ This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.

This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.

If you're interested in absorbing scientific literature, this concise, smart, extremely valuable for people at a range of experience levels: How to Read a Paper, by S. Keshav 🧪 #NEISvoid

web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m...

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs:

"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

illustration of a man an horse skeleton. it looks wrong, so very very wrong

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.