Lisa Beutler

We just tried to get a blue line at Chicago. There was a train-full worth of people waiting on the platform and a completely full train pulled up. We are taking a bus now, which is also full of people headed to #NoKings

Crowd trying to get on cta train for no kings protest.

People waiting for cta train in chicago. Tee shirts read’ immigrants make America great’

So many people heading to the #NoKings protest in Chicago that it’s standing room only on the train. In fact, it’s so packed we can’t get on this one.

My favorite part is the Freddie Freeman reaction shot 😂

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

Or people bouncing up to you in inflatable frog costumes 😂

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

What an… interesting ethos. 😂

I texted @brianbeutler.bsky.social after reading this that it is great (it is!) but that induced a feeling of great foreboding and a wee bit of a panic attack. Brian told me that was the point. Rude.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

Letter Regarding Compact MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ask at your hotel! Sometimes people cancel last minute and leave tix there! At least as of when we went a few years back it was paper tickets and we lucked out! Also Gran Cafe Bib-Rambla for churros is 100% worth the hype.

We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Truly Kafka-esque and imagine this situation multiplied by hundreds of thousands or millions placed in this uncertainty?

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

That framing is quite a choice.

Yes to what Kyle said (though I have not been to River Roast yet). Pizzamici, Publican (or Publican Quality Meats) also excellent. So much good food here.

If you care about children’s public health, download this image and pin it to your profile.

This is a snapshot of our best knowledge of vaccine safety. It may be years before it’s accurate again.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Don't Take Hostages We're not shutting down the government, they are.

This point has gotten lost despite my efforts, so lets home in on it directly. A shutdown fight where Dems ignore Trump's abuses of power to take a stand on safe but extraneous issues is like every other shutdown fight we've seen. Taking a stand to rein in Trump makes it something entirely new.

Continues to be a dangerous hellscape, I see 🙄

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

Big thanks to everyone else on the team for seeing revisions through after Hayley graduated, to constructive reviewers, and to the helpful staff at JCI.

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

'Intolerable': SSA chief data officer and whistleblower resigns in blistering email Charles Borges involuntary resignation comes just days after publicly calling out a critical agency data vulnerability.

NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:

Mostly not. Though I’ve gotten better/more realistic at knowing how long each thing takes so I know further in advance how stressed I’ll be and how screwed I am.

Agree with this. Make them fight for every inch. Worth reading this thread.

Distinguished gentleman!

SO precious 😊

I hope not, for their sake! Beautiful pups!