the thought police

unbelievable

The violent incident was also witnessed by Fr. Vidal Rivas at nearby St. Matthews Episcopal Church. St. Matthews has served as a safe space for community members; Rivas has pledged to become legal guardian for any children whose parents were deported, signing documents on behalf of 14 children.” ⚓️

proud of my union every day

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

the exact right question if you ask me

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

Italian Unions Lead General Strike Demanding End to Israel’s Assault on Gaza

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now. But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

lol

Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!

Terrific and clarifying conversation on @thedigradio.bsky.social with Ian Gavigan on labor and the politics of universities www.patreon.com/posts/138288...

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Jesus christ what is wrong with Democrats

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

this seems like the place for this: www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

As expected, they aren't going deep into the city proper at the moment and are crawling through the suburbs, including Elmhurst, potentially Evanston, Des Plaines. Seeing an arrest video now out of Elgin again yesterday as well.

they should be fighting *everything* -- the failure the Dems to oppose the rise of fascism is monumental, staggering, unforgiveable

it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

The New York Times is devoted to this list.

This is pure dictator shit and ALSO it is a sign of a flailing regime that they A) Have to demand this because they know they'll actually get boo'ed in advance and B) they're so bad at doing that it gets leaked long before the event

Anti-ICE/Gestapo protest - Chicago, IL Right now!

New in PN: @itsafronomics.bsky.social on why Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women & Black economists "In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"

UC workers, alums, community members, please send Governor Newsom and your state legislators encouraging them to sue the federal government like Harvard did and release the feds' demand letter so Californians know what is at stake. It takes 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...

Always read Robin D.G. Kelley: "We need to create a new university. And we will never change anything unless we are organized," and, how? in the style of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, "putting...body and...future on the line" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

hands off our neighbors, our schools, our streets, our best city

A dollar for every New Yorker. $8 million. The maximum, achieved early. And yet another charming, witty video.

why are there snipers needed domestically by ICE? We are living in hell.

This case was about more than funding cuts — it was about academic freedom, the future of life-saving research, economic mobility, & the role of higher education in democracy. 8/8

This is a victory for our members, all grad students & faculty (whose jobs, futures, & academic freedom have been put on the line) who organized collectively, mobilized resources, & put pressure on the university to do the same. 7/

Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some of you asked if I would make a playlist for my Hip Hop history class. Here it is! It's pretty long because I basically condensed all of my Spotify playlists and added more notable tracks. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

Zohran Mamdani on Andrew Cuomo’s affection for Benjamin Netanyahu @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

important to remember: "A majority of Americans, 54 percent, believe that burning down a Minneapolis police precinct building following the death of George Floyd was justified, according to a new poll."

An analysis of U.S. weather data shared with The Washington Post shows which places are experiencing notably longer summer seasons than they were three decades ago.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.

good morning chicago, bernard will be at a fine public u campus on sunday

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.