Over at the old place, I kept an updated thread of the guerrilla memorials to Michele Robey, always mounted to an electrical box near the site of her murder police (Irving Park & Western, Chicago). I hadn’t seen one in a while, but this is new.

Detroit autoworker (Fantastic book)

If Vallas were Mayor, the Tribune Editorial board would be petitioning that he be declared a saint on this alone. Instead they continue their copaganda crusades against Brandon.

Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.

What is a “public artist”? Maybe I’ve just never heard of any private artists because they’re…very private?

If I had to act nose-to-nose with Glen Close doing a death scene, I would also cry tears of anxiety. (Highly enjoyable flick, even if it wasn’t quite Catholic.)

Being exceptional can be so confusing.

Very funny to see Alito complain about the court skipping full briefing and oral arguments for a quick shadow docket decision when he has signed onto innumerable orders that pull the exact same tricks and rebuked colleagues who complain about it ... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable & nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature." - Eno This is so bleak.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

this is an amazing thread research is the creative process of asking questions, doing the diligence, talking to people, testing out ideas, asking more questions, analyzing and writing, asking more questions it's an absurd and glorious process 🏵️

For 6 years my teacher candidates & I have studied CPS' "Reparations Won" curriculum & the history behind it. And every year I have to say, the unit summative asks kids to design a memorial, which will have to change when the city finally does what it promised to do. One step closer.

For those following along at home… The House of Delegates passed the legal defense fund for NCSS members. There’s an existing fund with monies in it. It’s on the Board to design the program for implementation.

In America, the border comes to you!

When they redefine the border from being a place to being a law enforcement practice, then the border is everywhere.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

i fell down a rabbit hole landing softly on a ward map from 1980, hand drawn by Charles Brubaker he was a prolific designer at perkins & will, nationally known for school design, he designed whitney young magnet high school he is known for having designed 1 fist national plaza an artist's artist

there is not a small number of people who can no longer go to the grocery store or the food pantry, there are many who are taking risks we have a small wishlist and i will keep sharing it, we keep hearing from families who trust us or trust their networks to trust us bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

I invite you to help me feed people in Chicago. bit.ly/distributefoodchicago we're good on the diapers for now but the food is needed

Perhaps just not funding the fascist stormtroopers *at all* might be an idea? Just a thought...

Sister Jean put me in my place once, very nicely.

Haverhill

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Call for Papers: History Education from the Classroom Up: Re-examining Purposes and Values of the Field in Social Studies Research & Practice. Submissions open now. Please get at us with any questions. #SSchat #edusky

As we're fighting with the feds over racist policies, don't forget we're also fighting with our local city government over racist policies.

An ICE watch zine (Chicago edition) being handed out today.

E-bow the Letter And also Camera

"They just use your mind and you never get the credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it" Happy Labor Day

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

The regime cannot erase Ida B Wells-Barnett or U.S. Black history. They will try and they will fail. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

More brain rot AI sludge.

josh long's office has sent letters to kids with cluster placements indicated on their IEPs to try going to their neighborhood schools [where they definitely won't be served, hence the cluster designation] because cps fucked up student assignment huge violations for least restrictive environment

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Wait, what? This "report" from AEI is ridiculous in so many ways. Also, teacher educators in states controlled by GOP legislators and governors should seriously expect these insane policy ideas to be mandated soon (and be ready to resist). www.aei.org/research-pro...

Zuck has no vision for the future, just a skimpy business plan to sell AI “superintelligence” as a self-help software subscription service. Damn the environment.

Plyler v Doe (1982) is still law, though many states have been pushing cases so they can get SCOTUS to strike down another precedent. Looks like RFK Jr wants in on that action, too.

Entertainment should be apolitical & align exactly with my values.

Are religious schools able to endorse candidates to their students & families?

So many districts & states rushed into requiring coding courses for kids because that was the future. Except it’s no longer the future, and we’re rushing heading into this new future. Our past is littered with so many discarded futures.

If you believe that democracy can only work if its citizens are all share the same culture & are like-minded, then you’re just a supremacist. And the list of internal enemies will never grow shorter.

Intelligence is part of human agency. AI is a product. It is not intelligent.

From the same people who lionized Scalia’s obnoxious & pugnacious approach to job.

I read every ED statement in the Mach Man voice.

Gunning for that Pulitzer in race science reporting.

K12 #teachers! The white supremacists in the admin cancelled this amazing NEH workshop so the scholars are offering it as a free teach-in. And you can earn CEUs!

We’re on the front end AI slop wars where some AIs will be used to churn out text, models, & fake research to manipulate AI systems used to make decisions. And the amount of slop generated will be in proportion to the value & importance of those decisions. All of which destroys our environment.

At least it’s a smart move to keep speaking long enough to get coverage in the morning news programs. Can he keep it going until 9am pst?

If anyone can be stripped of their legal citizenship at anytime, then citizenship has no meaning. It’s a complete inversion of “the comment of the governed” when the state gets to choose who it governs.

Call of Duty: Cosplay Gestapo