Katie Kearns
@CMKearnsy
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Landscape archaeologist and Assoc Prof @UChicago. Working at the interface of classics, environmental history, anthropology, and geography.
Chicago, IL
Joined October 2014
Two months ago! Still the same useless worded statements from horrifically evil statesmen!! The dam is not breaking until we see them enact actual material intervention. Still the same plea to support @sameerproject to help Palestinians on the ground 🇵🇸
While we watch cowardly statesmen and officials pretend to care about the situation in Gaza now, and utter useless worded threats instead of taking actual action to end these atrocities, please consider donating to groups like @sameerproject to help Palestinians on the ground:
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Wow, how amazing. Huckabee’s grandchildren, touring a West Bank cave with their mother @SarahHuckabee and an Israeli archaeologist, found five ancient coins, which a settler leader then hailed as “testimony to our historical right to every part of the Land of Israel.”
During visit to Binyamin | US Ambassador's grandchildren make ancient discovery https://t.co/XcXaneCgj9 via @ArutzSheva_En
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"Israel’s use of archaeology to facilitate the takeover of Palestinian land [is] a practice that can aptly be described as “archaeological cleansing”"
972mag.com
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
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Please please please give everything you can to this absolutely essential and lifesaving campaign put together by @sameerproject
The Sameer Project is receiving hundreds of requests for tents, tarps & blankets. Donate now to our “Give Warmth to Gaza” campaign: https://t.co/l8EtoEGbEg.
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New report from @AAUP & @MESA_1966 on the weaponization of antisemitism claims shows how Biden used civil rights law as a cudgel against student anti-genocide protesters, and Trump used it as a battering ram for his war against higher ed https://t.co/9671rMowxU
theguardian.com
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
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As a member of the working press, I can tell you what courage it took to take this photograph. The fear in his eyes tells it all. Kudos @mandophotos
This is Operation Midway Blitz: a scared, untrained, underperforming terror squad of boys trying and failing to prove themselves as men against unarmed locals minding their own business ... a global embarrassment. Photo by @mandophotos
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I wrote about what @ZohranKMamdani's victory means to me, a leftist, Muslim former New Yorker. And I remind us, as always, that there is still work to be done!
"Zohran Mamdani’s victory—a socialist, Muslim one—feels like a celebration of my New York." Mamdani wins & the first piece we're publishing to mark the historic election is from @inthesetimesmag Columnist @emanabdelhadi
https://t.co/OLiAzyQOtR
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Excellent piece on UChicago's crisis by Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock
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A week from today, 11/3 at 5 pm, we will be hosting @PeterBeinart to discuss the appointment of John Kirby to direct @UChiPolitics at UChicago. Please put it in your calendar—locations and flyer to follow!
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The appointment of John Kirby to direct @UChiPolitics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.
John F. Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy with nearly three decades of military service, has been appointed Director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics! https://t.co/9b2kuZl4v0
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University administrators are trying to destroy whole traditions of knowledge as fast as they can
🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German
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last time the jays were in the world series i was nine and it was my first real experience of watching a philly sports team of dirtbags break my heart. nostalgic and pleased to now say go jays, f the dodgers.
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One of the most sickening but important things about writing my copaganda book was digging more deeply into how elite universities are so deeply connected to manufacturing consent among educated liberals for many of the ugliest and most depraved things about our world.
Kirby was the face of the Biden administration’s Gaza disinformation campaign. For that, he’s rewarded with a sweet gig. Because elite impunity is our political class’s only truly bipartisan value. The next Democratic administration needs to hold these people accountable.
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Revolting. 🤮
🗳️NEW in @axios AM: John Kirby — a podium regular as national security spokesman under @JoeBiden — will move to Chicago to become director of @UChicago's Institute of Politics, founded by @davidaxelrod, on Nov. 15 ⬇️ Get your very own Axios AM ... part of a good breakfast!
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When we fight, we win! A federal judge is calling on Chicago ICE Field Office Director Russell Hott to appear before court because ICE agents continue to use chemical agents and excessive force against our neighbors. Maybe after having to appear in court, Hott will finally meet
A federal judge ordered the Chicago ICE field director to appear in court next week regarding several incidents.
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It’s a sign of how completely lost the liberal establishment is that its primary solution to egregious, ineffective, illegal government repression is to require ICE use more surveillance technology while it keeps doing what it does.
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"A Mask the Color of the Sky" is coming out in English in 2026, Addie Leak's translation.
Palestinian writer Basem Khendaqji, recently released as part of the exchange deal and exiled to Egypt, embraces his novels for the first time. These works were printed and distributed secretly during his 21 years in Israeli prisons. His novel "Mask the Color of the Sky" has
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wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago for @thenation
thenation.com
The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.
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“Two years of this genocidal state that has every dollar of U.S. support, every weapon in its arsenal. And yet, our people in Gaza and across Palestine continue to fight.” @uspcn @AMP_Chicago @AntiWarChicago
https://t.co/1Wz5PvQVBJ
fightbacknews.org
Chicago, IL- Hundreds of Chicagoans came out on October 4 in response to a national call for protests against the two-year anniversary ...
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UPDATE: Federal Judge issues restraining order barring DHS use of riot control weapons "on members of the press, protestors, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others" — in part because of this incident.
The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball.
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