I'm just over halfway to my goal of raising $500 for the National MS Society before the Bay-to-Bay ride next month! Please chip in if you can -- they provide support for people living with MS and fund innovative research to help end this disease 🧪👩‍⚕️ events.nationalmssociety.org/participants...

There are signs that while ICE is driving around, they may be scouting out homes where they see any signs laborers are present. If you have people working for you, whether it’s roofers, painters, landscapers, carpenters, whatever, you should have a plan to protect them if ICE shows up.

It’s crazy to think that for the first 16 years of my life I was completely dependent on my parents to go anywhere beyond my neighborhood. When I have kids, I don’t want to be responsible for that, for that long. Kids should have more independence.

We just drove by an accident where every air bag went off including on the sides and the back and side of the car were basically obliterated and it looks like everyone walked away Seatbelts and airbags, incredible technology. Regulation works.

I can tell this site needs more sports knowers because everyone's been yelling about canceling Disney+ and Hulu all day and I literally haven't seen anyone yelling about canceling the new ESPN app, which was just rolled out and the success of which is existential for ESPN.

In turn, car tires have metal wires (“belts”) that they shed pieces of when they become very worn. They will give you flats on *your* bike, and you can’t avoid running them over because they’re too small to see. I wish riding my bike could be boring, rather than a reminder of car-centric design!

This moved me to tears. What a beautiful, tragic profile. A highly recommended read.

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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

🚨 Breaking News 🚨 The Admin just destroyed $10M of birth control purchased by USAID for women in low-income countries. That birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

I know I’m old because I think this absolutely rocks

these are great talking points about ADUs from AARP Illinois to adapt for when you call or email your alderperson

Just what you want hear from the guy in charge of things like rockets, airplanes and trucks.

i have been saying that "school choice" is not an actual choice without robust public transportation infrastructure. by normalizing caregiver transport, we have devalued school transit, so this seems like an unsurprising consequence of our disinvestment in educational access.

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Will be assigning this piece alongside @jessicacalarco.com's Holding It Together this year: apnews.com/article/stud...

This reporting is based on original research from Jack McDonald's award-winning BA thesis in Public Policy at UChicago. I'm so proud of his incredible work (and so angry about the ongoing destruction of our environment) 🔥 www.propublica.org/article/texa...

In Oslo, with great public transport, electric cars, bike lanes, no traffic, and wondering why can’t we have this in the US?

I said this today about law school recs, and really all LORs. We’re all just trying to use a bunch of adjectives to say how much we believe in these people? Give me a Likert scale or give me death.

School shootings are not a mental health issue. They are a gun issue. As a child psychiatrist, I see kids struggle every day—but their struggles don’t put AR-15s in classrooms. #GunReformNow

Another mass school shooting in the US. Another day of shame for the United States. How many more kids have to die before the government takes action? This isn't happening in other G7 countries. There will always be unstable individuals- it's whether they can get their hands on a gun.

The first segment of this old John Oliver episode is about how much Cuomo sucked during the height of the pandemic and man, I hate how every single old episode of this show is still relevant www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGq-...

Despite Chicago’s #VisionZero plan to eliminate all traffic deaths by next year, nearly as many people are dying on Chicago roads as when the goal was announced in 2017. The number of yearly injuries and crashes has actually increased since then. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

I really wish we were spending $1 million a day on upgrades to the Air Traffic Control system rather than litter patrol in DC.

Ah, the undergrad reading discourse again. It almost scared me off from teaching a book-a-week class last winter. I gave it a try and I'm so glad I did. My students were nervous about the volume, but they thrived. Did every student read every single word? No. But they got darn close & I'm so proud!📚

Today I wrote a bunch of words and also cut a bunch of words and it’s hard to feel like that’s progress, even though I *know* it’s progress 📝

These snowflakes and their cancel culture 🙄 apnews.com/article/trum...

One thing I want to say is that our best traditions and values are still here — at least where I am. I worry about the future, but I know we still have these here and now. I’ve been lucky to be a part of this university for 15 years, and will fight to keep the UChicago I know and love so much.

Great piece which I’ll probably assign this year

I need to raise another $100 by Sunday to get my packet! Can you chip in a few dollars? Your donation can help fund in-person support for folks with MS, or cutting-edge research towards a world without MS. Please donate if you can!

Traveling on N-American railroads is like watching priests performing the rituals of an obscure lost religion: weigh the luggage, leave votive offers, open just some random doors, shout some inaudible psalms in the loudspeaker, close the doors, pull the stool, ring the small bell, ring the big bell.

Next month, I'll be biking 150 miles across New Jersey to raise money for MS research and support for people living with MS. If you're able to donate, any amount makes a difference! 🚴‍♀️🧪🥼 events.nationalmssociety.org/participants...

I've read many articles debunking the supposed link between vaccines and autism, but this might be the best one. @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social uses excellent graphics to clearly break down the deceptive tactics behind the myth, helping readers recognize flawed scientific reasoning when they see it.

For 15 yrs, I’ve co-organized informal, volunteer, peer mentoring for women in my college to help them navigate being outnumbered in dept, sexist colleagues, or professing while pregnant. We’ve been told to stop b/c it’s exclusionary. No word on if sr men vs jr men’s tennis matches also cancelled.

“Dear Law maker, I really be trying to do my work so I won’t be getting in trouble but I don’t be understanding the work,” wrote one student. “They don’t really hands on help me.” apnews.com/article/scho...

I love Chicago.

Sobbing about what we could have 😭

Absolutely evil.

ICE arrests parent outside Chula Vista school during student dropoff inewsource.org/2025/08/06/s...

"For the Medicaid families I know, leaving a job is something they consider when their child is near death or the demands of caregiving become too all-consuming and physically exhausting to work outside of the home." slate.com/life/2025/07...

It's hard not to be a mean cyclist. Drivers keep risking your life to save a few seconds off their trip. You quickly get sick of it

Is there a place to look at past flight plans and paths for an aircraft, including administrative info like the listed operator for that aircraft, without paying for Flightradar24? I know it's public data, but not sure where non-current info is surfaced in a user-friendly way for free.

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My students: quantitative analysis is ✨objective✨ Me: *sputtering, gesturing wildly at the concept of “statistical significance”*

Identification cards & other important documents; Rx meds; money; photos of parents, kids & weddings; ashes of loved ones; baby shoes. I encourage folks to read these collected notes. People lose everything in these inhumane "sweeps," and that makes their difficult lives immeasurably harder.

ChatGPT is it a real citation or is it actually a cactus. (My “try out ChatGPT for a task I just did myself” strategy is yielding a lot of great examples.)

This man has no idea what he’s doing, oh my god

JOHNSON: How many air traffic controllers have left the FAA since January 20? And don't tell me you don't know DUFFY: I don't know that JOHNSON: Are you trying to tell us you don't know how many air traffic controllers are in the building? DUFFY: They're in towers

This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report. bsquarebulletin.com/bloomington-...

I submitted a journal review a few days ago and got TWO more invitations today... I want to go into hiding.