They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

One Battle After Another was really fun! Our little theater crowd was hooting and hollering in a way I haven't experienced in a long time at a movie

We need to learn from the journalistic failures during the Biden administration [literally the exact same thing immediately happens again] everyone good with doing the exact same thing?

Why aren’t reporters covering the president’s obvious mental decline? Well, I suspect there will be quite a few SHOCKING tell-all NYT bestsellers after Trump’s term about how he was senile and Miller/Vance ran the White House

“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.” More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.

I also think this is an essential point re: the push for “neutrality” by universities on the assumption their scholars can somehow use their individuals voices more effectively

I still can't get over the surreal experience of watching Trump effectively telling all our generals he is going to order them to kill American citizens in my city in a speech that he also stopped midway through to spend 5 minutes explaining how he is so smart for walks down stairs slowly.

“Oh you served in Fallujah? Me, I was on the Brooklyn Front in ‘27. Commander wouldn’t let us out for the late-night shows at Nowadays but we made do. Who could forget the Battle of Bushwick, across from that fantastic espresso spot?”

Everything else aside (and it’s a lot) he sounds 100 years old.

This is one reason why encampment sweeps can actually prolong homelessness. If you toss out someone's psychiatric meds or birth certificate, you're taking away the tools they need to access services and housing. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/28/h...

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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Monday 29 Sept 2025: Brad Bolman @bolman.bsky.social will discuss his book Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (UChicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series. Join us online at 16:00 Central European / 10:00 Eastern / 9:00 Central. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Extremely excited about this game

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Texas is still planning to kill Robert Roberson clayjak.substack.com/p/theres-sti...

A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

The new Meta facility in Louisiana uses double the energy of the entire New Orleans area (chart from the Hullabaloo)

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

An all-time Chotiner ending

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I remember being amazed when I first learned how active US actors were in deposing foreign governments in Latin America, but looking back it's kind of remarkable how open people were about it at the time (image is NYT in 1911)

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

“The apes were particularly fond of figs, which contained some of the highest levels of alcohol the team recorded” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

CA takes big step for ratepayers & planet, advancing legislation to pave way for Western RTO (part of suite of climate & energy policies to be celebrated as national government takes us backwards on these issues). Still, many hurdles & obstacles remain to establishing a well-functioning Western RTO:

NYT: “Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in Sept 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump admin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company. No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

Beagles—beloved pets, cartoon icons...and the lab dog of choice in 20th-century science? 'Lab Dog' by @bolman.bsky.social traces their surprising role in experiments from nukes to nicotine, reshaping how we see dogs, science, and ethics. https://loom.ly/nWwxuXc

@petervale.bsky.social & I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!

@petervale.bsky.social & I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!

Israel had already occupied Gaza City and forced its population out - in late 2023. The difference this time is that Israel pledges loud and clear to destroy the city in its entirety, and not to allow the population back. This is what it makes this occupation into a crime against humanity.

The new iOS design is really great for people who hate seeing things very clearly

Spent so much time on here

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

People without smart glasses will never be able to light money on fire to create this

Baudrillard could never

Border patrol appears to have intimidated their way into this home, shot the family’s dog for no reason, and then just stood around while the dog bled to death. kfoxtv.com/newsletter-d...

An important essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.

There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Yesterday, someone told me entirely seriously that they never eat leftovers because “after the first day, the energy is gone” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this