Once again, jury nullification is one of the few, direct ways that ordinary people can make the law more fair. Don’t dodge jury duty! See below for a quick history of the jury!

This is irresponsible. Best practices in phrenology means using the calipers in person.

This replaces a TRO and the judge’s comments make it clear she favors a permanent injunction. This means that violation (BP and ICE using force) can receive criminal and civil penalties.

A federal judge in Chicago said she will issue a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying officials lied in their testimony and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”

If you watch the video, you can hear the children screaming in the background.

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...

Earnest Q for copy editors bc I might be going insane. I always thought it was “[more moderate] much less [more extreme].” As in: “I can’t afford a night out, much less a vacation.” But in three printed news sources in the last week I have seen the reverse (ie vacation, much less a night out). WHAT

The attention Mamdani shows to cultural details shows that he actually loves the city, loves cities. Dems never seem to make the affirmative case for urbanism, even though that’s how most of the country lives, and it’s nice to see a sense of city I grew up with wholeheartedly celebrated.

This is why we can’t have nice things

I don’t even care about baseball and this game is STRESSFUL

almost as though we know that there is a relationship between desperate poverty and crime

Apparently we are about to find out if a team can survive solely on James Harden’s free throws

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

That was quite the season opener

This is wrong and ahistorical. Charles I of England shut down Parliament for +10 years because it didn't do what he wanted. Among other things, Parliament would not giving him the tax revenues he wished, so he dissolved that body and had a "personal rule" from 1629-1640. He was executed in 1649.

I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social

This whole thing is WILD.

This is an unusual and frankly scary tone for an appellate judge to strike.

One of the conversations I've been trying to have with anyone who will listen if that for unis like mine, which have big classes, this will require either shrinking class sizes drastically or significantly scaling up teaching assistance. There's no way around it.

Just reupping this for no reason at all today

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

I have absolutely brought this upon myself but when I hear from old friends out of the blue it’s shocking how often the opener is “I found this description of a torture chamber and it made me think of you 🥰”

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

One of my favorite medieval dudes is a guy named Sir Hugh Eland, a knight who started his career by pillaging his neighbors and ended it as a noble advocate for prison reform (from behind the bars of Nottingham jail). Medieval story time!

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I swear I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled medieval content soon but it’s just that I’ve only been a medievalist for about 18 years and I’ve been an immigrant Catholic Chicagoan all my life so actually this IS my area of expertise

I will say one thing and then I will let it go I promise but (as a Chicagoan, I admit!) it bothers me how much more coverage Portland is getting than Chicago, when the bulk of the violence and also the bulk of everyday resistance is in Chicago.

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

This article also reveals that ICE arrived with a map of who lived where, and stickers to mark doors, which could only have been provided by an owner or management.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Reading request! If you could recommend one text that explored the history of an idea/concept in a riveting and surprising way what would it be? Please re-skeet if you can. I know this is a niche ask.

I like Bsky more than any social platform I’ve used, but my goodness it has big “I knew them before they were cool” energy. You mention something bad: “are you surprised?” You mention something good: “I knew about that WAY before you.” This is an exhausting, anti-social way to interact, you guys.

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

I like Bsky more than any social platform I’ve used, but my goodness it has big “I knew them before they were cool” energy. You mention something bad: “are you surprised?” You mention something good: “I knew about that WAY before you.” This is an exhausting, anti-social way to interact, you guys.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

This will not happen unless the mayor directs CPD to arrest ICE in violation. At this point, he will discover why it is a problem that the CPD does not answer to the mayor. If only some well-organized movement in 2020 had pointed this out.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/...

Fun little culinary history about kofta kebabs in 1660 in England. Making me quite hungry. Also not a bad recipe! Veal, nutmeg, onion, fried in patties.

Blood libel, the conspiracy theory that Jews crucify and drink the blood of Christian children, was started by a dude who wanted to con his neighbors out of their livestock and feel important. I’m not kidding. He was willing to burn the world down to feel like a special little guy.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

It goes back even further than the Black Death. I give you a post for a post! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2017/02/20/w...

From my little thread on “able-bodied” and its origins in the labor laws after the Black Death.

You can see the doodler started with the smaller one and then was like nope, not enough coffee