As @kathleenbelew.bsky.social might say: they're "Bringing The War Home"

I don't like what researching the Dominion movement is doing to my algorithm.

coming down the home stretch #amwriting

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

Why I am so hopeful, in a sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

to be clear I oppose the shooting of bears whether or not there are llamas, and whether or not there are christian nationalists involved

The Intercept reports on the companies that are making millions as ICE bounty hunters: theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

Okay, do we care about a weird detail if it's hilarious? C. Peter Wagner, founder of the New Apostolic Reformation, who by the way looks a little bit like a Christmas elf of some kind, once shot a bear in Colorado Springs to protect his llamas

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

his family wrote on a GoFundMe page, created to help cover the 26-year-old's funeral expenses, as well as help fund an organization that assists people with behavioral health conditions in Florida.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/21/c... Local man with untreated diabetes who is not a public safety threat dies in ICE custody at 56.

Yeah, this picture is of women freaking out over the Beatles and has perhaps less to do with feminism "failing women" than they think?? photos.com/featured/bea...

Just writing up my to do list today

I mean, at this point the idea of the DNC is absurd on its face

The idea that the DNC knows why Trump won is absurd on its face

yeah, this is a great, humanitarian, noble thing they created from all of our writing they stole

can i put tamiflu in my acknowledgements section

Mask up, Chicago, this flu is no joke

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Ice caravan coming off LSD on Hollywood, heads up northside

it me #amwriting

Huh. Turns out that Greg Bovino isn't terrified of Chicago's winters after all. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/b...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

After being released from custody yesterday, Abrego Garcia has been ordered to report to ICE at 8am today, his lawyers say in an emergency overnight court filing trying to prevent him re-detained. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...

whose stupid idea was it to write a book anyway

Anybody else? (I'm not procrastinating from writing AT ALL, lol)

Oh no, I agree with something they did www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u... Calibri is, indeed, terrible

"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said. He said all four are U.S. citizens..." www.kare11.com/article/news...

I used to do a thing on the other app where you describe a person you're holiday shopping for and I tell you a really good book they would like (usually history but other ones too). Y'all want to do that this year? Comment if so. 🎄

the end of the world is truly such a bummer

Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

Pay librarians, teachers, and archivists

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!

historians everywhere to elon: this is not how any of this works

nobody wants you to come to Chicago, Kristi Noem

Remember how @kathleenbelew.bsky.social wrote an entire book about how the white power movement in America mobilized after the Vietnam war ended? Well guess what: we’re in the midst of coping with a very similar phenomenon in the aftermath of the GWOT. newrepublic.com/post/203784/...

"Patino said he spent the next four days in Broadview under fluorescent lights that were never turned off. He was crammed into a holding cell with between 60 and 100 prisoners, forced to share three toilets out in the open and a limited number of chairs." evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/19/n...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4... 400 people to be released Friday because there wasn't cause to justify their detention by ICE/border patrol in Chicago

It’s why we’ve launched OJO Obrero (ojonc.org), knowing these operations profile people on their way to work. And as of tonight, over 300 people have already joined our Safe to Work, Safe to School Community Patrols: Las Brigadas Cuidando el Camino.

Attention, historians of Watergate! I'm getting flashbacks from the months of back and forth, reversals and blunders over release of White House records. What stage are we at with the Epstein Files? Drip, drip, drip, as we used to say. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social