Lisa Beutler

Beautiful work! Congrats to all!

The one tidbit of unambiguously good news I heard about study section today is that it is moving back to zoom from teams.

Opinion | Cancer Patients Like Me Are Casualties of MAHA’s Hypocrisy

So proud of my dear friend Sam for writing this. So furious he has to go through it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

ICE Abduction Inside Daycare: Press Conference YouTube video by U.S. Representative Mike Quigley

This morning, ICE unlawfully kidnapped a day care worker in front of parents and children.

We’re demanding accountability for every way that DHS is violating our rights, breaking the law, and acting with impunity. We must resist.

WATCH.

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.

#ice #chicago

Along with everything else, Trump admitting the shutdown led to a bloodbath for Republicans should at an absolute minimum lead Dem Senators to shelve their apparent plan to prematurely cave. He's admitting he and the GOP are in a weak position, Dems. Exploit that!

25 Thoughts About The 2025 Elections Fighting is winning, and now would be a crazy time to pull punches.

21 more at the link… www.offmessage.net/p/25-thought...

Go blue.

Is this ‘the compact’ or is this something else? Not clear to me from anything I’ve seen so far

Your dryness is its own reward

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

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