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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 3h

the burning hotel is my body rn

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 3h

this morning at the tire shop I couldn't remember which tire needed to be patched 🫠

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 18h

lol

Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 19h

fucking awful, i'm so sorry for them

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 19h

what!

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 21h

only two preps, but yeah idk

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 21h

what should I eat for dinner (too tired to cook)

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 22h

I taught 16 80-minute seminars this week

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 2d

1000 percent

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 2d

Also important to know that I don't usually walk C at this hour, so I really have no idea how M saw us.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 2d

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

Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

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

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 4d

you're not wrong !

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

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...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7d

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

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7d

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed.

Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 6d

they parked outside a daycare on my block yesterday

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 6d

Where are you @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

no to all of this, brutalizing peaceful protestors, terrroizing nerighbors, arresting electeds and press, taruamtizing babies NO

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's Southwest Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. The woman who was shot "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," promp...

www.wbez.org

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 6d

Where the fuck is @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 9d

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...

Academic Workers Will Defend Free Inquiry

Who will defend the humanities? This summer, we witnessed a dramatic challenge for the humanities and arts at the University of Chicago. This challenge demanded faculty intervention. Since taking powe...

chicagomaroon.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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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:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 11d

amazing! it's a lot of curricular redesign work for us in the humanities too, but it makes me hopeful about the future of education

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