noooooo not my emotional support jessica chastain political thriller 😭 😔

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

fun to chat cultural studies with Toby Miller! www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Keeping tabs on international student enrollment for the fall, spoiler alert, it looks mostly bad for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

a most useful+dialectical philosopher, on shame +decency "seeing this kind of basic social norm enforcement as fundamentally at odds with living in a free country is deeply delusional...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

reminder at this anniversary that Jameson's 90th birthday was celebrated with short essays by many many nerds on his many many major books! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

"higher ed is an economic engine, health-care engine, technological-innovation engine. it should be a common public good for everyone. the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward." www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...

as absurd as this is, it also means that any non-US citizen who has vaguely written on marxism, cultural materialism, or social justice issues even most broadly must now fear entering the US. bsky.app/profile/wmur...

📖❤️ NEWS: You can now pre-order my book! "Unlocking Justice confronts America’s unfair legal system with data—and humanity." It's accessible, optimistic, and in the spirit of Ida B. Wells, who said “the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” I wrote it for each of you. Also, ⬇️

what's everybody wearing to the rapture

may the new year bear schmaltzy apples to all, sweet freedom in palestine and in broadview, illinois - and in and for us all.

I try to maintain healthy skepticism about the metrics, but stuff like this boggles my mind. I know I'm still making a niche academic humanities podcast, because I live that everyday. But, y'know, maybe the academic humanities aren't as niche as we've been lead to believe.

Broadview ICE Protesters Now Plan To Rally Daily, With Goal Of Shutting Down Facility blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/b...

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

today in aesthetic correlations of neofeudal hypothesis

We all said this would happen. We knew it would happen. And really no one in power gave a flying fuck. This is a feature, not a bug. www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

Today's a good day for The Jameson Tapes.

fredric jameson died one year ago today. i wrote this about him earlier this year: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

NEW: A former Ball State University staff member is suing the university president after she was fired for a private Facebook post about the death of Charlie Kirk. She is being represented by ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social. READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"hegel's publications are more like films of thought than texts." chicago thursday interccect.com/2025/08/19/d...

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

"a stages theory incites us to imagine what a radically different social formation of the future might be like: an effort of the imagination I have tended to call, following Marcuse+Bloch, The Utopian Impulse, without which political action seems to me impossible." Jameson, one year gone, eternal

Growing opposition to @AFT @UFT partnership to push #AI is apparent in this article. Context to consider is political role @the74.bsky.social plays - mouthpiece for neoliberal policy in education. Big money sees the project is contested: www.the74million.org/article/will...

This is very moving, and then you get to the last paragraph 😭 which is THAT paragraph

teaching today: greatest neckbeard to ever do it

“.. US Attorneys around the country must ask themselves whether they are willing to become just another instrument of political power. .. Each must be prepared to resign rather than baselessly punishing the president’s enemies ..” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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"constitutional conventions have been abandoned. What if we decided to take tools out of toolbox on the 250th anniversary for 1 purpose: addressing challenges AI poses to fundamental law, consent of the governed, equal rights, life, liberty+the pursuit of happiness?" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

As I show in the book, once women are pushed into stay-at-home motherhood, they become easy targets for conservative messaging that valorizes their unpaid labor--telling them they're better morally than other women and that their kids will be better off. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Chicago Thursday! "Philosophy is supposed to pay in cash, and on the spot. But philosophy is a protest against the principle of equivalence, and in that regard it is unbourgeois even as bourgeois philosophy." interccect.com/2025/08/19/d...

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... Many employers have decided that it’s worth violating principles of academic freedom & contractual obligation, rather than “displease the president…And that’s a political calculation, it’s a legal calculation. But it’s dangerous.”—AAUP general counsel

the @nlgchicago.bsky.social condemns the “violent actions” of ice/border patrol on friday outside the broadview detention center. in a statement, nlg says feds targeted protesters w/o provocation & sent 2 people to the hospital. 10 people arrested. some were let go miles away behind a gas station.

The first Chicago River swim in 98 years! The water is now clean enough. Congratulations to the hundreds of swimmers completing the swim this morning!

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

the birthdays keep coming in spite of it all; recs for chocolate chocolate chocolate they really love chocolate cake concepts?

"the time has passed when you can turn your back on the fundamental needs of the people."

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

today in books received! go @maeveadams.bsky.social !!

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

this but our students and campus

it is once again Decorative Gourd Season Motherfuckers™ and this Hubbard humbly requests the best antisquirrel solution?

ICE is violating article the U.N.'s "Mandela" rules for the minimum treatment of prisoners: "Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs...detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior."

this exists it is called thinking

Your Members of Congress need to hear from you. Urge Senate Democrats to keep holding their ground. If you’re represented by Sen. Fetterman or Rep. Golden (or Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, who was recorded as not voting), be sure to let them know how you feel about their support for the GOP’s proposals.

"Over 70% of Americans Jews oppose Trump's weaponizing of anti Semitism by attacking and defunding universities, according to a new poll" www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is the other big story people aren't paying attention to but you really need to widen your lens. The broligarchy is coming for all of our milkshakes. fair.org/home/as-elli...