Today the Supreme Court heard a very, very technical case about whether a government contractors (in this case, private prison company GEO Group) should get essentially qualified immunity for contractors (I'm oversimplifying). The answer, it seems, will be no. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

"friends disappear" is really, really good

“Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly.”

Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

for University Press Week, I hope you'll check out our series Chicago Visions and Revisions, a growing peer-reviewed trade series full of great books about Chicago that you can cuddle up and read while it snows press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

"Banned in the USA" has the juice that we need this morning youtu.be/zKjXF5a3R9g

my dad told me he's going to wear his Eagles hat (???) to his Seahawks bar in Western Washington (!!!!) I don't know what's happening but go birds

👁️👁️ “Hird said while some faculty have six months of medical leave available to them, it does not include healthy post-partum mothers, fathers, non-birthing mothers & adoptive parents that are not experiencing a qualifying medical condition.” dailycampus.com/2025/11/10/u... #nutmegsky

seems important that people who can connect the dots between events and interpret their meaning are part of the workforce and society

the vibes are in shambles, may I suggest a Kate Atkinson book? (all of them, but especially Behind the Scenes at the Museum) www.nytimes.com/article/kate...

it is important to my Future Employability (??) that I demonstrate my utter dependence (???) on a tool I believe replaces me (????) even for tasks that it does badly (?????) and that a less lazy version of me could learn without undue difficulty (?????????????????????)

There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Once one person trusted me enough to talk, my number spread through the Mohican Young Star Academy network. Over and over, I heard the same thing about the residential treatment facility for boys: someone is going to get hurt. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...

while i have your attention

my kid expressed a preference for trumpets and as a former band kid I love this assignment. concertos by Haydn! Miles Davis!

"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

An LA sheriff's deputy was caught on camera *choking a handcuffed inmate* because he got mad that the inmate was eating a burrito and refused to stop eating and put it in his pocket (???) According to a 1421 file posted on the LASD site this week, the deputy got a 30 day suspension.

“All of a sudden, my eyes were just burning and I couldn’t breathe,” a Chicago mom told @nbcnews.com Then she heard her 2-year-old scream: “Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” She realized immigration agents were in the neighborhood and deployed chemical agents. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

In Police Against the Movement, @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social offers critical insight into the power of political resistance in the face of government attacks on protest. Out now (2 Dec UK pub). Explore a free preview of this insightful book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I am just a mom, asking everyone to stop touching me

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Can we please help this writer and these cats?

finally!!

whenever I do political work, I always identify myself as a “mom from West Hartford.” suburban moms have so much status and power. we absolutely have to use it.

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

so much of everything is in a crisis and yet my students make me smile until my face hurts

already teaching it for a second time. it's the perfect book for the US history survey.

Did Women Ruin the Workplace

"TCU is a private institution. The Texas Legislature didn’t force this decision. No law required the school to close these departments. They did it willingly. That should terrify anyone who cares about academic freedom." www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...

the other ways include foster care, jails, and emergency rooms. an indictment of Governor Ned Lamont's greed. His failure to fund basic services is costing us

the thing about phrenologists at Penn is that it’s like, “oh, which one?” folks forgetting this guy was everywhere ten years ago www.theguardian.com/science/2013...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

White Power by @gauthamrao.bsky.social - the inaugural book in our new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint! A brutal, brilliant history showing how America’s slave-policing system never really ended--just evolved. uncpress.org/978146969484...

The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)

the way ordinary people now emphasize basic democratic principles in basically every setting

remember when congregating at work used to be normal, like "water cooler conversation" was a whole culture

wild that workers should have to sit idly by while workplaces create morally injurious working conditions that undermine the mission of the whole outfit. 2020s employment culture has gone too far

the bosses will work hard to protect their own working conditions until morale improves. beware of being not nice in the workplace

We only rate dogs. This is spaghetti con salsiccia. Obviously has the noodles and the sausage, but is notably missing sauce. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (IG: futrinka_tacsko)

who could have predicted that a nation that wouldn’t ratify the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT would still hate women’s guts fifty years later

An excerpt of my @pennpress.bsky.social book -- on school bonds in Levittown -- was just published in FINANCIAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. 🤑 Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/tRDd/p18/p18.