Eleanor R. Carter

extremely belated, but YES!!!

Like many other women, I have been called a fucking bitch.

We know what it means, and how often it comes with violence.

My heart is incandescent.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

RIP Sister Jean, Loyola’s beloved icon.

@peoplesfabric.com is so good on so many Chicago topics. A vital part of our information ecosystem and was just exercising First Amendment rights to document government activity and the protests against it (the latter of which also used to be protected by 1A)

Preparing for the worst, hoping for the best:

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

This photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social, wow.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in Pilsen, we shall fight on the Lakefront Trail, we shall fight them with giardiniera and footwork, we shall defend our city, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on Lower Lower Wacker, we shall fight in the Jewel; we shall never fucking surrender.

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT “Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

Thank you for this!! Anecdotally, every environment I’ve worked in (both before I went to grad school, and now, as a student) has had a clear generational split — coworkers in their 30s and above use AI, but most of the younger folks in their twenties are deeply uncomfortable with it.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

People have asked for our take on this article that suggests the U.S. prison population could drop by 60% over the coming years.

Here it is: The math checks out. But the assumptions about the future depend on the choices policymakers make today. 🧵

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

56,397 People Now Detained by ICE, Possibly Highest in History Largest growth in detention numbers comes from people with no criminal histories, who now make up a third of ICE detention amid dangerous overcrowding and lucrative contracts for private contractors.

56,397 People Now Detained by ICE, Possibly Highest in History

Largest growth comes from people with no criminal histories, who now make up a third of ICE detention amid dangerous overcrowding and lucrative contracts for private contractors.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/55654-peop...

One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.

@fatherscottcarter.bsky.social

Nom Wah Tea Parlor in NYC’s Chinatown has an amazing 100-year history & always hits! And Caffe Reggio is so classic too - especially after dinner for a slice of cake and an espresso.

Not food, but the Met Cloisters up in Inwood is a fantastic escape for wandering around.

This is so cool!!

Does the Pope like Wilco?

@fatherscottcarter.bsky.social

The Alcatraz chapter, right? Soo good. And the intro too...!

Wu Hen Kamaal Williams · Album · 2020 · 10 songs

This morning’s pick for writing/editing background music, highly recommended:

Happy birthday, & congratulations!!

2025 budgets of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services COMBINED was $691million, or $2.03 / capita

a staggering .018% of europe’s smallest, poorest allocation (greece at $111 / capita).

AND THIS IS PRE DOGE

Blueberry breakfast bread on a cutting board

blueberry breakfast bread, lavender turbinado, elon is stealing from you, rise up

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

Thank you so much for coming , Logan - you, Robert, & Cam were so fantastic!!

Moderated a panel today w/ @robertloerzel.bsky.social & @camrodriguez.bsky.social about the intersections of public history and journalism. The world can feel like it’s unraveling but these convos give me inspiration and focus. Thanks to Loyola history grad student association for making space ✨

Did you get to see it on 70mm? I saw it at the Music Box last night, felt so lucky!

For Giving Tuesday, I encourage folks to support local nonprofit news: Chalkbeat Chicago, WBEZ, Block Club, South Side Weekly, the Reader and the Triibe.