For academics ditching academia . edu, I am hoping this spot takes off: hcommons.org. Let's connect there.

Chicago for capital of the u s

Maybe a leading journalist is like a work of art. I might not be able to define it exactly, but when I'm not looking at one, I can tell.

Winning heading of the day

There are days of great privilege when my work is to read. I am in the academic labor movement not only to save those days for myself but so that anyone who wants them will have at least some of those days in their lifetime.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Mood #organize #rebels

If someone says class struggle, do you think of Psych 210?

Was silence not an option?

That's a win. Freedom of speech is not the exclusive property of citizens.

Omg

the very definition of antifa - protecting communities by acting as the target

Roxane Gay's tour de force of an op ed. 🎁post.

Unbelievable…

Swisher: "Nexstar is trying to do a very large merger with Tegna, and so they will do whatever it takes." Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."

“Let’s save pessimism for better times." -Eduardo Galeano, thanks to Marike for quoting him

Ida B Wells memorial, Chicago

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

Coverage of the UKansas faculty union bargaining, by an independent student weekly weeklyroseku.blogspot.com/2025/08/kuni...

Everybody gets a Nobel participation trophy, right?

Bandname: Deep State Sandwich

I've discovered a beautiful workaround for avoiding annoying AI Overview results on internet searches. I just typed in "What the fuck is Gemini," and AI informed me that it had no overview available for that search. The exact right reddit thread was top of the list, though. You're welcome.

professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:

Midwest dawn

Yep. Instead, we get mealy-mouthed distortions like "polarization", which masks right-wing radicalization as a both-sides drift. Or "populism", which lends a democratic veneer to antidemocratic, white rage. Your daily reminder that the legacy media have utterly failed this political moment.

Adirondack park

A full day witnessing my son's graduation in the Hudson valley

What's amazing about this list that is sparking panic about required reading of the manifesto is that it actually shows more conservative bias at the Ivies. Hobbes at the top, Samuel Huntington well clear of Marx, and the debunked tragedy of the commons.

After eavesdropping on threads about where one should start on Star Wars for the first time, I will offer the answer: A New Hope. This is based on the authority of sitting on the floor of the movie theater in 1978 in 5 inch shorts and tube socks. I will not be taking questions.

Kansas city

"Trump’s order questioned why immigrant students without legal status can attend a public college with in-state tuition but out-of-state students cannot." Because they don't... Live in the state...

“We are not all here” sign at the @nashvillesc game ⚽️ as fans stay home out of fear of ICE raids

"The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology."

I want to live in a country filled with many Rümeysa Öztürks and not one Stephen Miller.

Gone just when we may need him as much as ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Can we submit NEH proposals to the Stockholm city planning office, please?

Mayday is for celebrating the power we can have in numbers if we align our efforts and take control of our work. This is needed now more than ever as a handful of oligarchs race to make life more miserable for almost everybody else. Our needs will outweigh their egos.

My people have been loyal to Greyhound all my life for a reason

wtf is this s

Yes! Next!

Free stencils at the rock show

The "business model" has made US universities weak. For years it has been pushed as a strategy for surviving privatization while posing no threat to it. Now we see what was at stake.

Public protest is more crucial than ever in an age of gaslighting media environments. We all live in the bubble of our own algorithm, so we need to make those immersed in fascism at least drive past crowds that dissent from their reality

They found musk on 4chan being a literal, unabashed nazi. What's the opposite of breaking news?

Homegrown is here. ICE took US citizen Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez in Florida. His mom showed his birth certificate to a judge who refused to protect him because of an "ICE hold." Heard by word of mouth from two sources, look for coverage

The "take him anyway" kid is in CECOT. They're filling quotas. We have to find a way to make individual agents liable.

All this noise about whether the government *can disappear and traffic people at will, but it's illegitimate to even want to do so.