DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown. A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift. And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.

We managed an 11–27 loss this week. Gotta say that’s an improvement.

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

I just want to point out that JUST NOW my wife says to me, gesturing at the end table, “This is out of control.” The dance begins.

Initiated by Francis, Leo gets his first shot at World Day of the Poor this Sunday. With 1,500 slated to join Pope for Mass & lunch, the words of Leo’s Apostolic Exhortation bear repeating: “We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor.”

day 151 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't

I’m such a peasant. This is just about the thing that I want to eat more than anything else. I’m so content right now.

We really need to stop allowing the fascists to dictate how we talk. They've openly said that even criticizing them is criminal. Anyone who isn't them is a "criminal" in their eyes. They don't believe in due process. Literally no one deserves to be kidnapped off the street and disappeared

For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

The proper response to this is a lifetime ban to all NCAA events. So we'll wait to hear from the NCAA.

Texas A&M professors have to get clearance from a dean if they want to talk about this game on Monday

I’m dedicated my afternoon to making a cassoulet.

“What emerges is […] a 21st-century return of social Darwinism, wrapped in a language of choice, freedom and national greatness.”

What I want to say about Alice is this: we have not decided as a society that we want people like her to live as human beings. Currently, the regime under which she lived & died is closing off the elements that made her extraordinary life possible. Her work is literally being erased.

Did we ask birds if they preferred baths over showers or did we just assume that?

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

Next weekend, my partner and I will commence our annual tradition of her forcing me to repatriate all of the books that I have accumulated on our end table over the last eleven months so that we can move said end table to put up our Christmas tree. There are at least 20 books on that end table.

This Aminityville: The Podcast episode is, indeed, a cursed object. Which raises the question: When we encounter a cursed object, what must we do? How do we confront the curse? It’s gotta be together, man, there’s no other way. Sixteen hours down. Nine hours to go.

The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP. SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud. There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.

What a terrible day to know how to read

Ignoring a problem doesn't usually solve it-- except in this case, when it would absolutely solve it

the cultural elites of our age is characterized by the pastiche of their output and their unmoored relationship to the ever-unfolding history? picture unrelated

I’ve made a terrible mistake.

Good reporting and analysis here from @heidischlumpf.bsky.social. What still feels lacking to me is an emphasis on Catholic doctrine, not just emotions. The Church's teaching has a LOT to say about what justice requires when it comes to respecting immigrants' human rights. I want them to teach it.

One of the weird things about 2025 is that I legitimately don’t know whether or not we’re at war with Venezuela right now.

“Just smile and move on” is a social skill we need to revive

There is no earthly reason why this abomination should have ever been conceived, let alone developed and marketed. And even less rational justification for it being so unfathomably delicious or utterly addictive. It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.

My MOST woke opinion: Borders (in their modern nation state conception) should not exist.

Bananas.

When I read stuff like this, I’m trying to puzzle out what folks who are making these policy decisions understand the classroom to be. Like, fundamentally. What do they see the purpose of the classroom as?

This is my job. What am I doing if not training students to be critical thinkers and ethical helping professionals in a diverse, pluralistic society? If I can’t do that then I already have no job.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

While it is all about the penis—certainly—I can also itemize, in excruciating detail, how each little thing is about the penis.

Multiple immigration agents detained a man on Wednesday outside Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the Southwest Side in a chaotic struggle that broke a fence and left blood on the pavement, according to video footage provided to the Tribune by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

A presenter talking about the new org chart at the monthly faculty meeting.

The stubborn reluctance to acknowledge that women and children are holders of inalienable human and political dignity and rights arises from the fact that we can’t be both that and loot for rich reprobates to plunder whenever they want to feel powerful

Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."

"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

Congratulations to @mike-eagle.bsky.social on being named the 2026 NPHM’s Artist as Instigator.

My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets. chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

You know how I hit you up for donations to the National Immigrant Justice Center from time to time? This is the work those donations support.

This is wrong. It’s wrong morally. It’s wrong theologically. It’s wrong. As a Catholic, I want trans folks to be part of my community and I want trans folks to have the access to the lifesaving care they need. As a Catholic, I believe that Catholic institutions should be institutions of service—>

Sincerely wishing that more students would be humanities majors.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Dear pedestrian who I splashed with water in the alley off Wrightwood: I am really, really sorry. I was trying to give you space and I didn't know that puddle contained a huge hole. I'm mortified. And an asshole. I've gotten a fair few middle fingers in my day, none more well deserved than yours.

Ok, frustrated sarcasm out of my system: there’s a deeper depressing point here. NYC crime is hitting historic lows. By the NYPD’s metrics, it’s likely never been safer. But our coverage of crime is so appalling that the richest safest ppl in the city are losing it over free buses.

The last penny will be struck today. Its unilateral elimination by presidential decree is likely illegal, but no one's gonna kick up a fuss. This is perhaps the only instance of Alexandrian gridlock cleaving that Trump's done that's served the public interest, yet it's tiny & still causing chaos

Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard. "Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.