is this the place to say that this is a nice cover actually, and that the original is fine, even good, cringe and all? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlV...

zohran’s victory has me thinking I don’t even NEED my mouth guard tonight

If I can get a little too sincere: Tonight is the first time where I can believe with my whole heart that I can live in the place I love for the rest of my life, and live in the way I want to, and I am jubilant at the possibility. This is what politics is supposed to feel like.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

DEBS 😭😭😭😭😭

if Mamdani PR is listening I humbly request a victory speech cut to Mobb Deep

every free little library offers the contradictions of the moment

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

our neighbor got abducted the other day and the neighborhood is raising money to help out his wife and kids until he gets free. Any help/shares are appreciated gofund.me/7c2338d40

good morning chicago find your neighborhood group docs.google.com/document/d/e...

officially knows the word “yam” 👇

For ICE, "an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is [considered] a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status," & any other evidence (incl birth certificate) is irrelevant if the app returns a positive match. Who made the app? What databases does it use? How does it work? Nobody knows

seeing cindy lee next week

shout out to all the adjuncts and freelancers

being slapped is a nice reprieve from being beaten to death

is there any way to monetize this

Kind of feel like America’s canned and shelf-stable food manufacturers should be announcing massive donations and community profit diversions and food pantry partnerships right now, ahead of the massive surge in demand they are, I assume, about to get extremely rich off of

yeah good call to unleash this on college students with the highest levels of institutional endorsement

the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now

Great, scathing, important essay by @jraden.bsky.social on the function of "AI" in accelerating already-existing dynamics of transformation in higher ed —and what we can do to fight them

"EdTech has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze...clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms." every day is a good day to be burstingly proud of @jraden.bsky.social defector.com/higher-eds-r...

UVA damaging much more than its own reputation -- weakening the bulwark for all of academia. Now's the time for solidarity across the academy against these moves. UVA's weak capitulation is damaging for everyone

Was such a pleasure to see this great essay come into focus—writing is social, and worth defending against the deadening imperatives of AI and capital. Another world is possible!

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

The appointment of John Kirby to direct the Institute of Politics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.

I have read every word of this book many times and I am eager to read them all again and for you to read them too. You will learn so much about poetry’s interdisciplinarity and its ties to political economic shifts. Congrats @keegancf.bsky.social!

it happened again—I warned Cosmo that it was too late for Miguel and I was wrongo

sous le canvas, la plage

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

It would be lovely if both my alma maters, Brown U and U of Arizona, rejected the compact. We're 1 for 2. Bear Down, Arizona!

make that over 100K of our neighbors www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/n...

RIP D'angelo. Black Messiah is a top 5 of all time record.

Devastated to hear D’Angelo has died. He knew more than most that music and desire are a problem of time. Everyone talks about the video of “How Does it Feel” (understandably!) but the chorus of that song hits a minute and 26 seconds in a 4:23 song, and arrives languidly.

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

I taught 16 80-minute seminars this week

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

I live near a restaurant which has outdoor seating in the summer. Every night since June, Cosmo sits by the door for a treat & a pet from one of the servers. It's too cold to eat outside now & the curtains were drawn so I told C we'd see him later. Miguel ran out, treats in hand. No idea how he knew

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground. 🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

I lived in 6 states (UT, AZ, OH, RI, MA, FL) before moving to Chicago and I've never felt safer or more connected to my neighbors than I do here

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Where are you @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Where the fuck is @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Representatives of three unions on campus—GSU, AAUP, FACULTY FORWARD—wrote about the proposed cuts at UChicago. I'm happy to see these finally in print, and proud to fight alongside so many who care deeply about the future of higher ed chicagomaroon.com/48537/viewpo...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

so nice to be old and jaded and yet still surprised by poetry

all four of my classes this term are low tech (unless students need accommodation)—no AI, no laptop use, all note-taking is manual, readings all print, assignments designed and scaffolded to make AI fairly useless/obsolete, even for brainstorming. another world is possible!

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.