Sarah Osment

you're not wrong !

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

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...

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

they parked outside a daycare on my block yesterday

Where are you @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Where the fuck is @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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...

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

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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...

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:

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

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

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!

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...

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

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

pleased to overshare this tremendous news

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

[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)

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

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

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

it's so funny to argue about what flag the grandma choking on tear gas outside an ICE facility should have been carrying

Support the journalists taking pepper balls in the face

For folks asking, Pastor (Reverend? Sorry, we keep messing this one up, lol) Black is okay. He's still OTG right now, checking on others in the dark, after taking multiple volleys of pepper balls to the face and being repeatedly brutalized by ICE:

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

go bills?

now I have to explain to my dog who Jimmy Kimmel is

yesterday two neighborhood children I'd never met asked to pet my dog, and then a few seconds later asked if I could bring them more dogs to pet. "I think I saw one down there. we'll stay in this spot waiting for you."

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

in the meantime, adult mac and cheese

the more melon garlic soup the merrier