Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Submit APSA award nominations! (Including to the Dahl award— I'm on the committee and am looking forward to reading a lot of excellent scholarship on democracy.)

Join me and The Tompkins County Veterans Services at Shops at Ithaca (Former ULTA Beauty space) for my Tompkins County Veterans Resource Expo! Date: November 14, 2025 Time: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Shops at Ithaca, 40 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850

Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."

And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino admitted to lying about whether a rock hit him before he used tear gas on Chicagoans in Little Village last month. https://to.wttw.com/4nJOtmp

Ellis attacks the characterization of rapid responders as "agitators": "Describing rapid response networks - neighborhood moms - as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are," Ellis says.

lol

Honestly grateful to Douthat for this accessible distillation of this point of view. Going to be a great teaching tool that generates lots of conversation.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

They raided a daycare.

i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

lol Lmao

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district. #ice #chicago

I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Generally, when a party is trying to appeal to a new cohort of voters, they don’t send masked men to publicly kidnap and disappear thousands of members of that cohort.

Ok this playlist slaps

Our aspiring dictator once again expresses his envy of a real one

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.” The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

Big results for Dems, sure, but the real winners were all of us getting to watch Cuomo eat shit along the way.

I am pumped for NYC, but what I would really like are bunch of newspaper profiles about these campaigns that I can read IMMEDIATELY

big night for dems, sure, but the real winners are the aloof wives quietly steering mayoral campaigns from behind the scenes

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

I listened to a podcast about a year ago with two male writers talking about their writing routine. A very famous one said he slept in and then wrote during the night. The other asked if he got up with his children in the morning and he said: "No. Why would I do that?" and then they both laughed.

I'm still looking for participants to interview about Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing co-ops and feminist architecture! Please share 💗

The temps are down, so Berner zooms are up!

There's a lotta silliness and falsehoods in this statement, but I'm going to focus on the bigger issue: It is immoral to make low-income folks and their hungry children political pawns. Need is need.

If you study India, what would be the best source of contemporary state-level population estimates, given that the last census was postponed due to COVID and previous one is from 2011?

They're running this country like a budget airline. Nickle-and-diming customers who can't afford a full-price ticket on a decent carrier.

even if it's a hoax, I feel like the mere threat of bombing a polling place is political violence

The Meeting by Man Ray, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137428

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On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

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The Roosevelt Institute was honored to present @teenvogue.com with the 2025 Freedom of Speech Medal because their team understood that freedom is about both speaking truth to power and the capacity to build power. Read our full statement: rooseveltinstitute.org/press-releas...

Tomorrow is Democracy Day at Stanford. If folks are around campus tomorrow, I’ll be on a panel with colleagues from 3-415 pm at Meyer Green: “Democracy Under Threat at Home and Abroad” Join us if you’re around! Should be a nice day out!

<Criss Angel Mindfreak voice> *~pErSuAsIoN~*

Hey all, I’m hearing the height of intellectual openness is making yourself miserable on a website. Big if true!

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

no no it's not seasonal depression I'm simply working my way through a playlist of 65 versions of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and some Lake Superior spilled down my face.