Craig Campbell

You won’t hear about this in the. Western media - 50 boats sailing to Gaza on 31st August and 4th September globalsumudflotilla.org

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes' "What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."

www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Friendly reminder that our Spectral Remix RFP closes June 1 -- if you do art/media/design and are interested in the haunted quality of remix practice (incl. AI etc) please do send a proposal our way!

Funny because it’s true

Winning at everything!

It's not clear how the news media can continue to call what Israel is doing a "war." Don't they have enough letters left to spell "genocide?"

(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

A Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated May 2, 2025, at 7:25 AM. The post reads: "We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!" The post has 3.53k ReTruths and 17.8k Likes. Trump's profile picture shows an American flag painted over a face.

You mean to tell me banning affinity group graduations, handing over school records to the DHS gestapo, cracking down on protests, and dismantling DEI didn't appease this fascist dictator?! I'm shocked I tell you. /s

Cover of Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka by Vivian Y. Choi. The cover is an abstract image of swirling black lines that resemble an oncoming storm, with a background that has a gradient of a brown yellow at the top and burnt orange at the bottom.

We have many exciting new titles coming out this May, including "Disaster Nationalism" by Vivian Y. Choi @vivvychoi.bsky.social . #AsianStudies #Anthropology
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Cultures of Energy: 228 - Noise (feat. Marina Peterson) Cymene tells us about her struggles to get a passing grade in art class in this week’s podcast. And then (15:20) we welcome a dear friend, Marina Peterson from UT-Austin, to the podcast. We start with...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk about urban atmospheres, noise pollution, folding and glitching with the wonderful @marinapeterson.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5xnsptc2 @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social

He’s so good at this.

artist/anthropologist alert!

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Essay | Meet MAGA’s Favorite Communist Conservative activists like Christopher Rufo are taking inspiration from Antonio Gramsci, the 20th-century Marxist thinker who drew up a battle plan for winning culture wars.

Here is a gift link for the WSJ article: www.wsj.com/politics/mee...

“Viewpoint diversity!” What a euphemism they’ve invented! Rest of the world calls an authoritarian government pressuring universities to staff them with its supporters with other names: Nepotism, clientelism, patronage…

Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?

"the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a technical abstraction. It is not about some theory of government functioning. It is about the president’s use of secret police to abduct a man from American soil and send him to a foreign gulag."

No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper.

And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.

Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

Fixed it for you, New York Times.

UT Austin is blocking www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Supreme Court says Trump officials should help return wrongly deported Maryland man The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there.

The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

At today's March on Washington for Gaza, little kids' shoes and sandals ran down Pennsylvania Ave to represent the 17,400 Palestinian children that "the US has paid for Israel to murder."

📸s from the demonstration (1)

the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....

Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump's power grab · Hands Off Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, claiming anything standing in their way is illegal, and daring the American people...

Join the call to plan for April 5th!

www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Trump lies kept.