Are you in the Chicago area? Venmo me $11 and I will make one for you.

I wish more people had the time to actually listen to and watch Trump each day. If they did, even some of his supporters might come to and realize how bad it’s getting. Today at @Aaron Rupar’s PN: aaronrupar.substack.com/p/trump-cogn...

the world (especially our country) is screwing over africa cdc and the entire ebola response, and i really need more people to give a shit

I am currently writing a book for a broad audience titled Immigration: An Ethic of Resistance. It's finally time to write an overview of current immigration policy, and it's....a lot. If you know how to develop sangfroid, tell me all the tips.

Goddam that's racist

I've spent 15 years becoming a researcher & tenured professor. I will absolutely quit and do literally anything else the moment someone tells me my job is to sell the racist, environment-destroying machine to students (esp. 1st gen, low-income ones). Shame on CSU. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

1️⃣ I met with the detainees at Delaney Hall who are on a hunger strike because the food is inedible. The hunger strike is a desperate effort to improve the deplorable conditions.

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

George Washington was an enslaver so who cares whether he prayed or not?

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵

Really wish people would internalize just this bit here more

-Students are afraid of writing like AI. -Graders have to check for AI writing. -Researchers have to make sure the people they're citing aren't citing AI hallucinations. -Journal reviewers have to check for AI writing and make sure AI isn't being cited. This is extra work for everyone.

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

Leo XIV proves that I was right about Augustine all along and that all you Augustine-haters were wrong.

Apropos of Leo's first social encyclical, I would like to announce that the pastor of my Episcopal church mentions Leo more than the priest at the Catholic church I most recently attended.

New Papal Encyclical! www.vatican.va/content/leo-... Thread of my reactions. 1/x

Think about it: suburban schools and private schools have the same teaching force and the same curricula (Montessori and Waldorf excepted). Why would anyone think they’d be better??????

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

One of the most heartbreaking things is witnessing the many kids of all ages who come to Delaney Hall to visit their parents in detention. They come week after week for their hour or half hour visit with their mom or dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u... 1/2

Someone AGAIN has posted on another platform that "reading is elitist" and I am sorry but NO. That's ridiculous and it's actually INSULTING. The end.

When DHS surges resources, it does not find criminals. There is no public safety reason to spend more $$ on ICE to arrest peaceful people who live with or work for Americans.

This is the normalization of evil. Elon Musk has blood on his hands.

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

I continue to believe that my policy of keeping my head down and waiting for everything related to AI to blow over on its own is the right approach.

Long Covid & ME, two of the most common & severely disabling chronic conditions in existence, don’t qualify for work exemptions. This will be devastating to our already drowning community #FrailAndFurious

Mrs. Hamer and her colleagues were beaten and jailed multiple times. She was forcibly sterilized. They paid for our* ballots with blood. Congrats to those people. And everything they were JUSTLY outraged about is worse.

This is so terrible. The third country removals are human rights catastrophes; South Americans fleeing persecution in their homes, then being dumped in Kinshasa and told they can’t stay and must go… somewhere. Preferably right back to where they fled.

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

They cut this out of the extended 60 Minutes transcript.

I think it’s time to rethink all classical liberal ideas. My question is not just “can the social contract be restored?” My question is, “Was America’s social contract ever a valid contract?” A contract implies agreement from all involved. American history does not ever demonstrate this happening.

This is AWFUL and should get national press.

Imagine the delusion or denial required to propose that — as they’re building triumphal arches, waging wars of choice to defend Western civilization, and looksmaxing to approximate Greek statuary — it’s somehow pathetically “radical” to acknowledge the inherent politics of classics as a field

Be grateful for small mercies.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

How awful are these people? I once took my kids to our local playground in Chicago and counted five different languages spoken by the handful of families present. My kids made friends with those kids! They learned that there are other languages! And that some people wear a hijab!

I went to grad school with Charbel, a Lebanese Jesuit who lives in Beirut.

The murders continue. The U.S. Has Now Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

"Adan" shared this photo from the Coachella CA where hes picking green beans. "I get paid 40 cents per pound. The work is exhausting - especially due to the excessive heat in the area. But this is how I support my family." #WeFeedYou

So….the most powerful person in the world attacks the leader of your faith. Powerful people in your govt are manipulating your church’s doctrine to make it sound like God supports their heinous actions. Naturally as a bishop, you decide to stay silent and say NOTHING about it at Sunday Mass.

The framing says more about the NYT than it does about the Pope, Marion Budde, Jim Wallis or anyone else. Because the NYT is cowed into timidity by Trump and his band of merry sycophants, they are surprised others are not.

This framing is super annoying. He didn't need help finding his voice. He really hasn't said anything that anyone immersed in the Gospels and the social teaching of the Church wasn't already thinking. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/w...

The Markets love to present themselves as a measure of objective reality and not the consensus among youngish, white, rich men who will lose their jobs and social circle if they say anything bad about Trump in the racist group chat.