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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

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.”

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

Tell me you don’t understand the art of translation without telling me you don’t understand the art of translation PART 2 (i HATE THIS.)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Yay!!!! Congratulations, @melkatrey.bsky.social !!!!

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

It is absolutely hilarious to me that my institution is not screaming from the rooftops that Mamdani is an alum. Just <crickets>

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

In spite of the headline, there is the pesky legal matter that neither billionaires or anybody else can “give” money to “pay troops” or anything else. However, a great compromise would be for billionaires to pay more money into the general treasury through “taxes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

The White House demolition is getting me because Trump has been destroying things in a way we can’t really see right away (e.g., firing people, ending grants), but the White House demolition is obvious in a visceral way that lets me access a new level of my despair and fury over everything else.

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Of course he's not following the rules, but it's dangerous to get to resigned to and cynical about it

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

I'm sorry but as an eighteenth-centuryist, lol. Jane Austen would be cancelled on campus if we'd read her letters? Truly a take only possible from someone who doesn't know the mountains of heinous dirt we have on almost all major writers of the period.

Can I tempt you for a little history snack? Come find out about George III and how food played a role in his construction of masculinity. Spoiler: his masculinity was about so much more than the meat we associate with modern manliness. (He loved spinach and eggs.)

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

A Facebook group called #LincolnSquare Mamas organized a #NoKings protest for kids. They expected ~20 people, but we all wrapped around the block (see pic). Little kids with their homemade signs chanting "No ICE! Be nice!" @thatguywasfly.bsky.social & I went with our niblings & their parents.

I appreciate how short this is, lol. Really emphasizes that this was not a tough call.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Why not listen to this podcast of a previous conversation about #YayArchives @rshc.bsky.social in preparation for the 28 October event? #SkyStorians

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️

When existing institutions have been delegitimated and there’s no agreed way to adjudicate differences, then either you have a failed state or you have a new beginning. A glorious revolution, if you can keep it.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief: Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

the person who published this is about to run CBS

This is how you journalism

Hey Bluesky: We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Is there a decent overview of #histmed in the US since the Civil War? Because if there is I don't know about it. Help?

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching

Durba Mitra got denied tenure???? WTAF??? What else was she supposed to do, Harvard?

If anyone is curious why New Hampshire isn’t in, I would recommend reading up their bear problem newrepublic.com/article/1596...

Maine Governor Janet Mills has issued a standing order that serves as a prescription allowing anyone to get a COVID vaccine at a pharmacy or clinic. The Maine Bureau of Insurance also issued a bulletin reminding insurers that they must fully cover the vaccine under state law.