Stacy VanDeveer
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Stacy VanDeveer
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Professor - Environments, Humans, Governance, Politics, Peace. 🏳️‍🌈

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Stacy D. VanDeveer is an American academic and international relations scholar. He is Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. He has also taught courses with Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School, and been a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Brown University's Transatlantic Academy, UMASS, and UNH London Program. VanDeveer has authored and co-authored over 90 articles, book chapters, reports and six co-edited books on his specialties. His research interests include international relations, comparative politics, LGBT rights, EU and transatlantic politics, humanitarian degradation and connections between environmental and security issues. .. more

Environmental science 27%
Economics 23%
This video was filmed in Palestine.

My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

Horrible. #Beef is a villain
Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century.

Over the last two decades, around 128 million hectares of forest have been cleared to make way for agriculture and forest plantations. That’s an area five times the size of the United Kingdom.
Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century.

Over the last two decades, around 128 million hectares of forest have been cleared to make way for agriculture and forest plantations. That’s an area five times the size of the United Kingdom.

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"Such individual protests, though tiny, might ultimately work better than the mass protests he had staged since the 1960s against Kentucky’s addiction to fossil fuel. …Saving the planet had to be reduced to the scale of each person’s competence."

www.economist.com/obituary/202... [gift link]
Wendell Berry urged Americans to think little, local and deep
The agrarian writer, poet and activist died on August 31st, aged 92
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Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.”

Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

RIP. Some truly wonderful stories and prose.
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared.

What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
blockclubchicago.org

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Some Defector staffers wrote about what Annie Dillard's work and example have meant to them. defector.com/annie-dillar...
Annie Dillard Gave It All | Defector
Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about what her work and example have meant to them. Much is made of Dillard’s…
defector.com

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If you're a hockey fan who cares more about hockey than holding accountable a fascist shill, then just say that. These mealy-mouthed and stupid explanations are deeply embarrassing.

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This bizarre PR campaign to excuse Alexander Ovechkin for supporting Putin is disgusting and shameless and wholly without moral or logical merit.

Fuck every single one of you who are making excuses for this man supporting a brutal dictator.

😂

Total. Fucking. Madman.
RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"

Just regular “man on the street” people… who leave NYC for The Vineyard and Greece
RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"