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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 6h

As you fight ICE in your neighborhoods, always look for potentially positive outcomes to counterbalance your anger and despair. For me this continues to be meeting more neighbors, talking to more neighbors, and finding that others close by have also been fighting in ways I was unaware of.

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MP Broache @mbroache.bsky.social · 4h

If you get called for jury duty, you have to do it

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12h

Pre-order The Public Scholar here. Pay zero shipping from @bookshop.org.

I tried to write it real good for you!

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The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook

A Practical Handbook

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 4h

@wearehighered.bsky.social

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 14h

Trump fired a bunch of Immigration Judges + Board of Immigration Appeals members so that he could stack those orgs with loyalists. Our NSF funded research confirms the work background of IJs and BIA members predict their rate of asylum denial. See also our description of the immigration bureaucracy.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4h

Sigh.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

Literal

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 4h

"To bend would also dishonor the legacy of those who did not bend. You got to stand, even when people say sit down."

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4h

Never been to a Golden Corral. I only grew up with a Sizzler Steakhouse in Hawaii. Is it like that? Because I have good childhood memories of Sizzler, which was my family's fancy special occasion restaurant.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 14h

Trump fired a bunch of Immigration Judges + Board of Immigration Appeals members so that he could stack those orgs with loyalists. Our NSF funded research confirms the work background of IJs and BIA members predict their rate of asylum denial. See also our description of the immigration bureaucracy.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 14h

Advertising for my friend who is not on social media and still uses a flip phone. He spent years doing ethnographic interviews.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

New book: It's an ethnography of white evangelicals in a union in Bethlehem, PA, and Black evangelicals in a number of churches in Moncure, NC. Ken notes that while his subjects view God as an authority, so too did they consider their union and labor contracts too. cc @davidmislin.bsky.social

Cover of Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work by Ken Estey, published by Palgrave with a picture of Bethlehem Steel

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 14h

Covid destroyed a lot of businesses. A Soho bakery called Once Upon a Tart was one of them. Sad they're gone, grateful I have their cookbook for their excellent buttermilk currant scones. Here's a close copy of their recipe: www.runningfoodie.com/2009/10/once...

A bunch of currant scones cooling on a wire rack

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

Met lotsa historians on here which was important as an interdisciplinary scholar

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 13h

For ease to deliciousness ratio this was excellent. Nobu Masuhisa’s sake sugar miso black cod. I broiled for 8 minutes, didn’t flip. Easy peasy www.thekitchn.com/recipe-nobu-...

Two pieces of dish in a blue and white shallow bowl

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 7h

Kids, pay attention in history and political science classes!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

Met lotsa historians on here which was important as an interdisciplinary scholar

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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nosé @lightblanket.bsky.social · 6d

We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

The cookbook has many more variations that I enjoy

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8h

I would settle for the McDougle “she’s trying her best” grant.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

Is there a MacArthur "Ain't No Genius" prize? Because I'd be competitive. 🤨

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

Is there a MacArthur "Ain't No Genius" prize? Because I'd be competitive. 🤨

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9h

DOLLY SPEAKS OUT

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Dolly Parton Wants Everyone to Quit All That Worrying After Health Scare: 'I Ain't Dead Yet!'

Dolly Parton shared a positive update addressing her current health status after rumors circulated online that the country icon was sick.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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