Jared Margulies

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

amazing :)

I love a donkey as much as the next person (actually, a great deal more, I dreamed as a child of going on a great journey with a donkey as my trusted comrade) but I still don't understand why people in the UK seem really obsessed with donkeys and why they always appear to be in need of saving?

gorgeous!

Spain approves ‘total’ arms embargo in Israel * * *

"The Spanish government approves a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called “the genocide in Gaza.”"

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

ICYMI: New online! The value of political ecology in biodiversity conservation

A completely empty Lowe’s at 1:30 pm On a Saturday

I love game days in the SEC. Hardware store midday Saturday is as busy as midnight on a Tuesday 😂

Any group of people more despicable than a university board of regents? Y’all… the thing that just destroyed your reputation was the country watching your university president buckle to mere hours of pressure after the complaint of a single student. Just pathetic. Solidarity to my TAMU colleagues.

That will soon be a bit easier… at least on my end 😉

I wish this could have been an interactive conversation because its a wonderful group of folks, but nevertheless I enjoyed taking some time to reflect on questions related to the value of political ecology for biodiversity conservation with @brambuscher.bsky.social and others rdcu.be/eEKqA

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Yet another example of ruthless targeting by Israeli gvt #ecocide #genocide #FreePalestine

In Yellowstone, Migratory Bison Reawaken a Landscape

Your good news article of the day in a bleak mediascape- TL;DR- give the land back to the tribes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/s...

Abdulkader Sinno: Why I left IU, Indiana and the United States Selfish politicians, irresponsible trustees and unethical administrators are destroying a once great university.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

I just learned that the UK doesn't know about or have access to Duke's Mayo and this is extremely concerning to me for... reasons.

The University of Alabama's refusal to defend its students will be a disaster | Alabama Reflector The school's administrators seem more interested in bending and scraping to the powerful than standing up for those enrolled at UA.

alabamareflector.com/2025/08/18/t...

Israel Is in Talks to Send Gazans to South Sudan, Officials Say

So at this point Netanyahu is really just following the third reich’s playbook. When the Nazi Madagascar Plan fell apart, they just opted for total annihilation. Hard to imagine what Bibi is planning next when the world doesn’t get on board with Plan South Sudan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

really fantastic article, Hannah.

Wow!

Reintroduction of Przewalski's horses in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 1990s. Transported by aircraft, arriving in crates. Photo by ITG, Ruth Baumgartner.

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities.

It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

Sure this looks bad when you put it like this, but some college kids in America waved signs that frightened me so it is complicated.

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Solar power is now California's largest source of electricity. ☀️🔌💡

GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency” in U.S. History The budget bill just passed by the Senate provides more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement and detention. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American...

GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE "Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation"

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

Trump wants to direct an extraordinary amount of new money for ICE. The spending is so large that it defies easy understanding. For example, ICE will receive a 365% increase in detention, spending $45 billion. For context, the current budget for the federal Bureau of Prisons is just over $8.3 billion. The ICE detention budget is larger than the total budget for USAID used to be. The ICE detention budget increase is larger than cuts in education, or for SNAP in the BBB. It is larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined.

Huge increases in ICE spending provides the fuel for Trump to fulfill his promise to go after cities run by Democrats, to do what he has done to LA, with less need to rely on the military. The new funding allows Trump to create a Department of Domestic Military Enforcement.

This is going to be great. Please spread the word.

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Application deadline is August 7.

Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

You can get The Cactus Hunters plus many other wonderful titles from @uminnpress.bsky.social for ten bucks a pop until July 1 if you buy 3+ titles.

www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...