Congress could make it a crime tomorrow for judges to fail to meet ethical disclosure obligations. Seems important, right? In The Punishment Bureaucracy, I explained with lots of examples why criminal law is not seen as a domain for regulating the behavior of powerful people.

Whether talking about police violence, climate change, homelessness, or genocide, a key form of propaganda is that the most powerful institutions in the world—who are directly causing and profiting from horrific stuff—really want to make things better but just can’t.

I have made it one of my top priorities to help tell the story of the trauma of federal Indian boarding school policies with Indigenous voices front and center. On this National Day of Remembrance, we reaffirm our promise to let survivors' voices be heard. doi.gov/priorities/str…

*heavy sigh* How am I expected to circle back on emails when the salmon are running and the leaves are changing and the trails are out there and it is peak fall weather?

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch

“Place names are important to understanding the history of an area. However, they can also be an expression of power and oppression.” Read more: loom.ly/aOwvWjM

These people are giving the game away. They want to create a world in which no one has the desire to read, create or think, and eventually no one has the capacity to. Reading, critical thinking, the humanities, are never wastes of time; they are what make us free.

“The problem with Hancock’s theory is that he nitpicks existing archaeological research ... There is no archaeological evidence within the Grand Canyon and Chaco Canyon to support his claims.” Read more: sapiens.org/archaeology/an…

Thanks to President Donald J. Trump for finally offering a formal apology on behalf of the United States government for its role in the Indian Boarding School Program. This long overdue acknowledgement is an important step in the right direction. (1/3)

We look forward to working with this and future administrations to ensure those words are matched by actions - ensuring all the ancestors who perished at these schools return home ... (2/3)

... supporting cultural preservation in Indian Country to counteract the attempt these schools made to eradicate Indigenous cultures, and ensuring history does not whitewash this era by glossing over the ugly history of this program. (3/3) nbcnews.com/video/full-spe…

I spoke w/ The Associated Press about the use of inaccurate, insecure AI transcription tools in clinical settings. The stakes are high & the consequences may be grave. We must demand that AI in medicine abide laws and codes of ethics like HIPAA and the Hippocratic Oath. apnews.com/article/ai-art…

Birth certificate. Eyeglasses. Cell phone. Teddy bear. Sewing machine. Hep C medication. Breast pump. Bible. Urns of ashes. ProPublica spoke with people across the US about what they lost during encampment sweeps. Please spend time with this. projects.propublica.org/homeless-encam…

Just published! Ten more essays on Palestine and what Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza demands of us all — read Anthropology in a Time of Genocide now, here: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

I want people to understand that any chance of saving the Supreme Court and what rights we had left? Gone. You think you're going to protest, freely criticize this government? That's over with. You thought fascism was already here? Buckle up.

Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…