The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home. Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home. If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...

D’Angelo, one of the greatest musical artists of our catastrophic age, is dead. Learn his music through and through, it will change your life.

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Contemporary modernism

The anxiety of influence—an “astral disease“ as Harold Bloom called it

Fantastic thread

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,” the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

"After you've done that, can you dig a hole 6ft deep?"

51st state’s official music

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

Miss this guy much

As things go, a low priority but: good weather apps? With good radar features? It feels impossible to find one that doesn't require a huge yearly fee! Recs?

It’s true!

128 members of the Royal Ballet and Opera sign an open letter in solidarity with Danni Perry displaying the 🇵🇸 flag at a curtain call, and ask the Royal Ballet and Opera to acknowledge and act against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. via Make Freedom Ring www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...

Those tables were how she kept her house hot!

Yay @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social is on the bsky! With this banger on Verdi and the neutering of opera. “The last thing that Verdi … cared about in that moment was music: ‘There is and should be only one kind of music pleasing to the ears of the Italians of 1848 – the music of the guns!’”

The High Court has granted a full legal review of the govts proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The groups co-founder Huda Ammori will now be able to bring a full legal review in the Royal Courts of Justice.

"The Israelis don't want us to film out of the window at the devastation inside Gaza. But I've spent 10 mins looking at it with my own eyes and I can tell you communities in the north of Gaza, that I knew well, are flat. There's nothing left of them." Jeremy Bowen www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

There were 31 church leaders & christian school employees who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes in the month of June.

This is basically Berlin

inside me are two wolves

Gary Cooper in The Texan (1930)

OK Darmstadt Summer Music Courses let’s figure out sex

Landmark ruling in Belgium! Today, a Brussels court ruled that the Flemish government must block transit to Israel of all goods that can be used in military equipment, citing Israel's breaches of int'l law. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide.

Nominative determinism is real

Chapeau

This, a thousand times. So much of the contemporary sickness boils down to hating youth, its concrete idealism, the open future it carries. Behind every so-called report on the degeneration of the young, preemptive revenge for older generations’ failures.

It's true

Good lord this dhrupad. Everything's so awful, but aesthetic miracles that create the opposite conditions—attention, space, care, duration, the limit as form-making & changeable rather than apocalyptic & stupid—are still everywhere, reminding that another world is possible. youtu.be/QRmVmROOQnk?...

It’s true

Fick Spotify, get off it right away, really really, what’s stopping you, nothing

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

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So. I've been on field manual labor crews where most of my coworkers were convicts. I've also worked with a lot of tech companies on automating farms. And this press conference is incredible. Rollins hasn't the foggiest clue what she's on about.

I quite adore the show, the staging of the mad struggle to make something really well seems so outrageous rn, but all the same this is pretty exactly how I feel about the cues.

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

Jesus Christ

”Britain is economically dead,” argues Prof Richard Murphy. “We are being screwed by the system, and not by accident. It's by design…What we're seeing here is market failure. But it's also the consequence of deliberate political policy.” With thanks to @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

I love Berlin, land of a thousand playgrounds, little children welcome at every one

Here is the realer story: a county whose leadership has already long abdicated its responsibilities

Stockhausen: The Grafiknovel