Chris Ehrick

Join your union, folks.

What is this faculty lounge you speak of? In all my years in academia I don’t believe I’ve ever seen such a specimen

The ones I know have fully capitulated/shown their true colors. With the possible exception of Rand Paul

Yeah I agree. Mexico is a completely different situation. More than some kind of invasion, I do worry about Trump admin using drone strikes like they do tariffs: a way to punish and terrorize countries, groups they don’t like and to throw red meat to the MAGA cult (like the recent Nigeria thing).

The last time Trump tried to change the government of Venezuela, it lead to economic collapse, a 7 million person exodus, and a hemispheric refugee crisis, without actually changing the government. But I'm sure that now that Maduro is gone, everything with go swimmingly.

Oh I bet there is….

Unless you’re Indiana

When I was in high school (1980s), one of our psychology teachers had a wall in his classroom featuring glamor photographs of female students taken in parks/ off campus. At the time I thought it and he were gross, but it was just there, out in the open. That’s how normalized this shit was then.

The same reason I tell students sometimes you have to write the paper to figure out what the paper is about

Word of warning in this holiday season. Do not assume that gift cards are more secure than cash. I have spent the last week trying to get a refund of money that was stolen from a gift card. Scammers somehow get the number and then grab the money before the recipient has a chance to redeem. #Kroger

Oh this is just so terrible, in so many ways

No Kings Louisville. Amazing turnout in Breonna Taylor’s city

The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.

'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'

This is the plan. Nothing about crime; all about suppression of the dissent they know is coming

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Point taken. But these are not comparable cases. The other two were mass shootings, and this week’s was a targeted assassination of a prominent political figure. Nobody else shot. I worry that the 🤷 will be the MAGA strategy rather than explore right on right violence

Aww I didn’t know or forgot you’re an IU alum. My kid is a junior there at the Media School

One of the Cold War era notions that needs to go away is the “we’re the greatest country ever” idea (repeated by both Dems and Republicans). Ironically perhaps, this smugness and denial led us to the current mess, and is making it harder to resist it.

I am a fan of shorter chapters. Grandin’s new book has 50 chapters, and I love it 😀

Take note.

like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud

I’ve heard amazing things about Georgian food, but have yet to experience it’

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Wow - heartbreaking but also an amazing statement Alondra. Thank you for your strength and advocacy in this strangest and scariest of historical moments

This is going where we knew it would be going. Offshoring and disappearing “undesirables” with no due process to a gulag where they have no rights.

So heartbreaking and so revealing of the DOGE-MAGA agenda. They want to suffocate anything that stands for truth and beauty and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s really that simple.

Good god. These people continue to perform like our most unprepared undergrads

Keep it going, Senator Booker! Hope Chuck Schumer is awake and watching/ listening- this is what the moment calls for.

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

We’re gonna miss each other by about 10 days. Not at UCI but nearby