He was for them.

And the same is true for universal basic income. The entire economy is oriented around the default setting of desperation to survive amidst maldistributed abundance.

Honestly, given the year that happened to me with critters in my house (including a lost bat), I'm surprised this *didn't* occur.

where am I 🤫 and merry Xmas

concentration camps.

I’m working on a report about data centers in Illinois and remembered this resource that gathers redlining maps from across the USA in case anybody else might find the resource useful for similar (or other) projects:

Ther ys no neede to ban bookes when you kan defund educacioun and promote easy-fix consumerist tech tools to make sure young people will have a much harder tyme learninge how to become confident, actyve, and critical readeres.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Happy winter solstice! Never give up.

Solstice at the Point, 2025 #Chicago

We need detailed plans on how to prosecute the lawbreakers in the current administration, and how candidates plan to implement those plans

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

Get vaxxed (it's not too late), mask up, and run some HEPAs, folks. This looks ugly.

"After the funding cuts, cases in South Sudan spiked. It’s the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history." By late Feb., DOGE was "on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work." "Publicly, the administration tried to temper international backlash by... 1/3 www.propublica.org/article/usai...

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

I love this so much for me! 🤩 "The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go."

... to education, to freedom of speech, to research - all of that for as long as I live. She should never hold power of any kind again. A disgustingly cynical, power-hungry handmaiden to fascism.

Elise Stefanik was a pivotal figure in using bogus charges of antisemitism to attack university presidents; the Trump Administration has continued to use bogus charges of antisemitism to extract concessions from universities. I will hold her responsible for this administration's damage...

I'm disappointed that Elise Stefanik is dropping out, because I was so curious to see what her campaign would look like now that the MAGA groyper wars are in full swing. She pretended for years that most antisemitism was coming from *checks notes* Black women administrators at Ivy league schools?🤡

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

The self-congratulatory tone of this press conference is astonishing. Law enforcement misidentified the initial suspect—again—then allowed the actual perpetrator to be completely in the wind for 48 hours, during which time he went on to kill again

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

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Did someone mention Joliet?

AP story by my CSH schoolmate, the one and only Nicole Winfield 👏👏

Santa Snaking Thru the City. The CTA Holiday Train on Wednesday night.

Heartbroken for the amazing NCAR community and for all people in Boulder. And for the world and children, really. WTAF

My article in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social is now online. It's much more personal than my usual work, an acknowledgement of how much we've lost and what I see as the only path forward. Is next year America's 250th anniversary or year one? That's up to us. progressive.org/magazine/aft...

Dear God, Jay Bhattacharya is just hopeless. He can't simply say getting polio is bad and is far worse than any side effects from the vaccine. He's is so far gone. It's tragic really. Too bad for all of us that he runs the National Institutes of Health.

i also want to add that i think a lot of the reduction in phd students we are seeing at Chicago, Harvard etc is in retaliation to wins grad student unions have had that led to increase stipend. certainly there is financial strain from Trump (and mismanagement in case of UC) but theres more going on

Tuesday at the Towers. This morning's chilly start in Chicago.

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That’s the point

If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump. Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com

Major universities making AI a requirement for all course syllabi seems like another "Last Exit" sign in the rearview mirror

#bloomscrolling #geraniums taking a break from snow shoveling

We are not doing them a service by pretending this is normal and that everything in science will snap back to the way it was if we manage to vote our way out of this. We are not doing them a service by refusing to validate what they can see with their own eyes.

With today’s third Rocky statue being installed in Philly, there are almost as many Rocky statues as there are monuments to actual historic women anywhere in Philadelphia. www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/stor...

bien sûr

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

"One of the things people are commonly worried about with this kind of program is that when you give people cash they’re going to be less likely to go to work and be less productive members of society. And we didn’t actually find any evidence of that in our study." Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI

Choose your task Saturday! Call - phones are too quiet. Leave a message 1. ACA credit extension 2. Hegseth's illegal actions 4. trump financial corruption 5. Miller, Noem, Homan - inhumane, illegal Gestapo

The incomparable health & human rights leader Dr Mary Bassett has been terminated - a shocking move by Harvard bowing to pressure 🇺🇸 Read more & sign petition

This is 'let's circle back in the new year' o'clock.

the energy i’m bringing to 2025

Racism. The answer is racism.

Exactly. There has been a lot of bluster and some house defections, but not a single senator has officially called for Schumer to step aside. Not Bernie, not Warren. None of them.

Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool

He and his parents left their *still extremely privileged life* in post-apartheid South Africa because it wasn't racist enough, hi