Nathan Tanner

James Baldwin said, “To study the economic structure of this country, to know which hands control the wealth, and to which end, seems an academic exercise—and yet it is necessary, all of it is necessary.”

And as Ruth Wilson Gilmore said about the money, "Really follow it––not pretend to follow it."

Just saw this, too. Big yikes! 😬

Washoe Tribe Completes Historic 10,274-Acre Land Return Near Lake Tahoe The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California announced Wednesday that it has completed the purchase of more than 10,000 acres of ancestral land in the Sierra Nevada, marking the largest tribal land retur...

The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California have acquired 10,274 acres northeast of Lake Tahoe, an area known as Loyalton Ranch.

#landback #culturesback #languagesback #ceremonyback #everythingblack

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The Trauma of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools.

The Trauma of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US.
ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools.
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A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.

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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Mormon settlers colonized southwestern Alberta in the 1880s as an outpost to protect the practice of polygamy beyond the borders of US interference. Ironically, one of the leaders of this movement is a Mormon politician w/ a degree from BYU.

I talked about G. Harris Daggett today. You might not know him. He was central to the case that led to the Supreme Court's 1957 Sweezy v. New Hampshire decision--in which Warren wrote that without academic freedom "civilization will stagnate and die." First time the Court endorsed academic freedom.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

What can you do with a history degree?

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Do you wanna make sure you didn’t miss a single second of symbolism from Bad Bunny’s halftime show? This thread gotchu!

i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes

Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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So, legal experts/scholars… is their no recourse these professors have if they were hired under the auspices of and/or earned tenure? What about contract law, etc?

My kiddo is playing Hogwarts Legacy, and I’m wondering what this game might look like from the POV of the main character as a professor. 🤔
I guess they’d get to have immediate access to cool magic, grade student HW, distribute house points, & visit the Hogsmeade bar lol.

Iowa universities reviewing low-enrollment majors, could close or merge programs The University of Iowa is reviewing undergraduate majors with low enrollment – like African American studies and gender, women's, and sexuality studies – after the Board of Regents last year mandated ...

Iowa closing the African American studies major during Black history month is diabolical.

This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.

For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...

This is a fantastic dialogue and I think presciently describes the current global crisis we have on our hands, and provides some great analysis about pathways forward without pretense or false hope.

Illinois always knows how to show up!

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

Also hope that 2026 is when people bring back earnestness. Sincerity is GOOD.

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Legacy of Black educators in Navajo Nation schools New research reveals how desegregation displaced Black teachers and led many to Navajo Nation schools, shaping Indigenous education.

Very generous of @unevadareno.bsky.social to speak with me about my involvement in a wonderful collaborative research project culminating in a publication in @erjournal-aera.bsky.social. I know we are all very excited for more people to become familiar with this "different Brown (vs. Board) story."

I didn't know about these! This is fantastic, thanks for sharing. This will work great!

That’s awesome!

Really wish Apple would bring back iPods. I don’t want my oldest to have a phone, but I want her to experience the joy of thousands of your favorite songs in a simple-to-use device that sleekly fits in your pocket.

“But Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war.” This is on point.

🔥🔥🔥"These tools, reportedly deployed across Minneapolis, were not created in America, but in Israel, still another Homeland, enforcing the longest “occupation” in modern history. Thus, the citizens of Minnesota have...subsidized an occupation overseas that is effectively a laboratory for their own"