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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 4h

he’s good at insistent sitting I guess

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 5h

1000 percent

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 2d

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 · 6h

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 · 2d

you're not wrong !

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

they parked outside a daycare on my block yesterday

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 4d

Where are you @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

Where the fuck is @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 8d

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:

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...

www.courtlistener.com

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 9d

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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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 9d

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!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

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

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 10d

gonna be saying “the rug pulls the room together” for the next month, sorry in advance

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 11d

pleased to overshare this tremendous news

Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 12d

I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.

Book contract language for Brian Glavey's Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 12d

[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future

if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social

(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)

Lyric Logic | Columbia University Press

Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 16d

ty

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 16d

starting to think I don't know what "crashing out" means, is that crashing out

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 16d

a lot has been written about Jameson in the year since his passing, but no one has pointed out one of the all-time best footnotes (in The Political Unconscious) where he gives permission to all the dumdums who don't care about Marxian interpretation (central to the book's armature) to skip 35 pages

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 18d

been there! sorry the vaccine is making you feel worse. hope you get some real rest 🩵

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