Tuesday Afternoon Links!

[image error]* CFP: ASLE 2019: Paradise on Fire. CFP: Trans Futures. CFP: Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media.

* The return of the MA in SF at Liverpool.

* American Literature 90.2: “Queer about Comics.”

* ‘Mothers could not stop crying’: Lawmaker blasts Trump policy after visiting detained immigrants. Immigrant moms in SeaTac prison ‘could hear their children screaming.’ Asylum seekers are being sexually assaulted in U.S. detention. A Janitor Preserves the Seized Belongings of Migrants. Morristown, TN. Jeff Sessions is an evil man. There is no bottom. More denaturalization. More surveillance. ‘Again’ is happening right now on America’s border. What will you do?

Hell doesn’t exist, but I hope Jeff Sessions never feels a moment of joy or peace for the rest of his miserable, wicked life.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 11, 2018

This is only the beginning. Some of these kids are going to be lost, hurt, get seriously sick due to unhygienic and unsafe conditions. Some will die. This has to end. https://t.co/s2dBlMtNrJ

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 10, 2018

I don’t think anyone understands up thin the slippage is between stage 5 and stage 6. Some of the children who have been kidnapped will never be reunited with their parents. We’re already at the “disappearance” stage. It’s here. https://t.co/fb5DMyFn6Q

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 11, 2018

If your news outlet isn't referring to Trump and Sessions as white supremacists, consider why you are using politically correct language rather than accurately conveying the world as it is to your readers.

— abolish ice. send sessions to the hague. (@SeanMcElwee) June 11, 2018

* Meanwhile. By Trump’s own yardstick, NKorea pact falls flat.

One Perfect Shot: MEMENTO (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2000) pic.twitter.com/EThZRCj7S2

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 12, 2018

we go now to the summit in Singapore pic.twitter.com/oh60prc4NI

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 12, 2018

Infinite Jest predicted war with Canada too, just saying

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 10, 2018

* Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together.

* It’s hard to imagine a shift that better embodies a sound public health response to the opioid epidemic, and yet it’s the result—one among many—of a process initiated by Burlington’s mayor and chief of police, neither of whom have a background in health. What’s happening in Burlington suggests how a small city can begin to confront a monster epidemic and, in the process, stretch ideas about the role of a small-city police department.

* Meanwhile, in NYC.

* The World Cup of Disputed Nations.

* n+1’s patented World Cup Preview 2018.

* Nike v. Iran.

* The New York Times is bad, exhibit 657. 658.

* For almost 25 years, Shane Smith’s plan for Vice was that, by the time the suckers caught on, he’d never be stuck owning the company he co-founded.

* Look what you made me do has emerged as the dominant ethos of the current White House. The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence.

* Neoliberal Fascism.

* How Unions Help Adjuncts.

* I’m Asking You For A Peer-Reviewed Study Showing That A Typical Fat Person Can Become Sustainably Non-Fat Through Deliberate Weight-Loss.

* Computer assistance for the modern novelist.

* The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham. Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?

* Vanity Fair revisits The Staircase.

* Researchers from Cambridge University’s Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) say the obesity gap between the rich and poor is wider than ever. An explosive U.N. report shows America’s safety net was failing before Trump’s election. Private schools’ curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together. Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health.

* A Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protector Is Sentenced to Prison in North Dakota.

* Sadly The NRA is immune from prosecution no matter how flagrantly it broke the law here. Them’s the rules.

* Moving Animals to Safe Havens Can Unexpectedly Doom Them.

* Oil companies struggling to drill in the permafrost the oil they burn is melting.

* Puerto Rico’s morgue is overflowing with unclaimed dead bodies after a storm nine months ago.

* nobodywantsthis.tv

How we live now pic.twitter.com/OYjBI3618Q

— Jacob Brogan (@Jacob_Brogan) June 12, 2018

* A Review of the ‘Hereditary’ Wikipedia Page, by Someone Who Is Too Afraid to See ‘Hereditary.’

* Of course: Bill Clinton comes to Al Franken’s defense.

* My petard — it seems to have somehow hoisted… me?

* What Happens When an Adjunct Instructor Wants to Retire?

* Jeff Bezos Is Already $40 Billion Richer This Year—While Because the Typical Amazon Worker Has Made Just $12,000.

* New Study on Rising Suicide Rates Suggests Capitalism Is Quite Literally Killing Us.

* Days Before Murder Trial, Prosecutors Reveal a Missing Confession. Dozens claim a Chicago detective beat them into confessions. A pattern of abuse or a pattern of lies?

* Marine Veteran Trains White Supremacists in Military Tactics.

* The best Mario Kart character, according to data science.

* Another military-industrial nightmare stealing its branding from Tolkien.

* The World Can’t Afford High-Tech Insulin.

* The age of the MSNBC Mom.

TV news is elder abuse.

— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) June 11, 2018

* We Aren’t Teaching What Students Need to Know About Climate Science.

* Job Satisfaction of Humanities Master’s Degree Recipients.

* Building the Dream: LEGO Friends and the Construction of Human Capital.

* Hamlet and science.

* What the world would be like if land and sea were inverted.

* Talk. Talk or suffer the consequences. The state of our union is typical. Quantum computers. Herman Melville. Screenwriting. Dreams of flight.

* Infinity War crosses $2B. That this set of characters has revolutions both comics and film, fifty years apart, is pretty incredible.

* Map of North America, c. 2024 (start of Trump’s third term).

* On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

* And giant African baobab trees die suddenly after thousands of years. Seems fine!

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