Possible Time Machine: The big white Ford Econoline just rolled by my Brooklyn stoop, blasting Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” while its driver and passengers sang along at the top of their lungs.

ICE's Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

An ICE agent was caught on a bodycam last week saying he teaches his children that nonwhite immigrants are "animals", and the frequency with which ICE throws grenades at children is evidence of how widespread that belief is.

Available Now: Review of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness! In this substantial review essay, Xavier Livermon explores the content and research avenues explored in the recent Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Available now at musicresearchannual.org/livermon-oxf...

I hate them. And the people who let it happen again. 💔

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

honestly just a disasterclass in civil-paramilitary relations

Sunday morning on the porch with coffee and a bagel listening to my neighbor on his porch strumming his ukulele and singing “Me and Julio” to his kids.

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

A joyous Earth, Wind & Fire Day to all who celebrate.

Since Wednesday, I have been in my car every day beginning at 6 a.m., chasing down reports of ICE throughout the 20th Senate District—my home, where my constituents live—while my phone has literally been ringing off the hook with updates about ICE activity in our neighborhoods.

Horrible, upsetting news that’s a huge blow to our community and central PA media landscape.

Indeed. #katabasis

My friend @drjohnduffy.bsky.social writes clearly and eloquently about the legacy of sustained gun violence and what we can do about it. drjohnduffy.substack.com/p/a-very-bad...

The USTA’s censorship of Trump dissent at the US Open is cowardly, hypocritical and un-American | Bryan Armen Graham

Leon Botstein on “Autocracy and the university in America today.” Link below requires sign up. Full article also available here: www.bard.edu/wwwmedia/pr/...

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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Teachers are reportedly spending an average of $895 out-of-pocket on school supplies — a nearly 50% increase since 2015. Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the dignity, support, and pay they deserve? https://youtu.be/AbBbhoHRPSU?feature=shared

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in the state over the governor’s repeated objections. Pritzker also warned Trump will soon launch large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not even the scariest quote in the article.

Even though my child has long since been capable of sending himself to the moon, I still need to play this every first of September, Dar Williams’ perfect meditation on the cyclical yet unstoppable forward motion of time. youtu.be/piFW7LT6xiw?...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do. Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...

I have mixed feeling about my alma mater: I had a terrible social experience and transcendent intellectual one, but the weirdness and freedom of the academic culture keeps me mostly proud of it. I definitely IDENTIFY as a UChicago grad. This is relationship-ending shit. I won’t be alone.

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

Please check out our new white paper on the state of our music publishing written by my esteemed colleagues @normhirschy.bsky.social and @buddytwo.bsky.social. If you're formulating your next project, be sure to read to the end for tips on maximizing the reach and impact of your work!

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped. [Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

what is UChicago even for if they’re not doing classics

Well, then. Everyone gets As & there are no lectures. Seminars will be study halls where students can use AI to write their ungraded assignments that will not include any comments, because those, too, are "government speech" This is apparently the "higher education" that what we want, as a country

U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thanks to @drcanonic.bsky.social for flagging this thorough —and shocking—article on the irresponsible proposal to dismantle the Arts and Humanities at the University of Chicago

Did this occur at 6 AM?

It says a fair amount about my neighborhood farmer’s market that at 8 am, the vendor at one end was playing the Smiths’ “This Charming Man” while the vendor at the other was playing the Benny Goodman Orchestra’s version of Gershwin’s “Fascinatin’ Rhythm.”

In case you are wondering, it’s best to avoid turkeys when you are hurtling down the highway. We are fine; the turkey not so much.

Still not sure who started picking Crazy Train in the middle of last night’s trad jam, but you are legend. #fiddlecamp

Vacation alarm clock: 5 AM, rooster crowing from across the lake. Vacation snooze alarm: 6:45 AM, someone playing Angelina Baker in the woods. #fiddlecamp

Music historians WATCH THIS SPACE: @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position. Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct. Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.

“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...

“If we do nothing, or if we become divided, we will essentially hand over control of shaping the future of the arts and humanities at UChicago to others outside our division” bit.ly/4f7YM0L

Distressing news from my Alma mater chicagomaroon.com/48215/news/u...

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about punk rock in #Superman - not Rock N Roll High School, as pictured, although I do discuss that as well. Thanks as always for checking it out - it's free!

I am the editor of the oxford handbook of punk, so hey feel free to ask me my opinion on the freewheelin' use of the punk rock sub theme in the new Superman movie!

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

NYT: Zohran Mamdani took a renaissance counterpoint class during his days as an undergrad. But now, former fellow students are coming forward to say that he routinely employed parallel fifths in his first species exercises AND used inappropriate intervals at final cadences. We analyzed

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

There terrible things happening but right now the thing that is saving my will to live is the fact that my search for the website of the Universidad de Jaén in Spain was thwarted by my spellcheck, which insisted I wanted The University of Jawn. (And truly I do.)