*18th cent. Borat voice* “my wiiiiife”

Everything you ever wanted to know about Illinois property taxes, Jerry Reinsdorf, and Sean Penn all in one interview. Great insights from Sean Dinces. Hope he gets a spot at Zanies next podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Me trying to get the Warnock emails to stop

That time of year where I re-discover just how many different PDFs of “On Agency” are saved on my computer

Still feeling inspired by #AHA23 tribute to Michael Gomez’s Exchanging our Country Marks. A truly moving commemoration of the legends whose shoulders our work stands on, as well as the power of scholarship to bring people and ideas together in community

Access to power over Access to abortions, Buy-backs over Basic human rights, Corporations over Carework…

Happy pub day to Malcolm Harris's PALO ALTO (Little, Brown and Co), which more than lives up to the hype. I'd read Malcolm Harris write about anyone's hometown, but we're fortunate he has turned his pen on the place that shaped him and has, to a startling degree, shaped us all.

Congrats @tbmorrone Dan Howlett Michael Larmann @emmamoesswilde @NederveltRm Benjamin Park Hampton Smith Ariel Wilks CC Borzilleri @Crystalme123 Julian Hartman @JahnkeJoanne Matt Kautz Isaac Lee @knitwhitted on receiving NewEngland Regional Fellowship Consortium support this year!

Juking the Stats: Why the NBA Finals Won’t Be a Godsend for the Economies of Denver or Miami - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2023/06/09/juk…

August 2024 can’t come soon enough!! pennpress.org/9781512824490/…

Chicago’s sports team owners are asking for public stadium subsidies. Joe Engleman speaks with Sean Dinces, historian and author of Bulls Market: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality why this is bad news. chicagoreader.com/news-politics/…

President Biden now has only five weeks left to grant my pardon request. It’s time to seriously raise the volume. Please call the White House at 292-456-1111 and demand action to protect the Amazon peoples of Ecuador and the freedom to advocate in this country. 👊🙏❤️

The precedent set today should upset every American who believes in our democratic form of government. It appears that from now on no major legislation can be passed without the approval of the wealthiest person in this country. That’s not democracy, that’s oligarchy.

🚨Breaking: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital: “Now the occupation army is burning all the operating departments in the hospital while we are still here. The Army evacuated the entire medical staff and the displaced people and arrested a number of the

Drop Site News is calling on the US Department of State to demand immediate information about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s whereabouts and to take action for his release. Please sign the petition urging the U.S. government to secure Dr. Abu Safiya’s safe return. actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the…

My heart is stirring. How do we begin to process the heartbreak? How do we reconcile the staggering loss, the unimaginable pain, and the deep scars that will persist long after the ceasefire is over? It didn’t need to take this long. 1/6

It's very hard to understand what American Historical Association considers to be in the remit of its organization, since they issued this statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine: historians.org/news/aha-state…

AHA vetoes resolution on scholasticide in Gaza. Rather than putting the resolution to a vote of the entire organization, they chose to disillusion a generation of their most active members. Drawbridges raised once again to protect the shrinking kingdom. historians.org/news/business-…

new analysis at POLITICO: when you look at the real economic numbers -- which show high underemployment and a skyrocketing cost of living -- so-called popular "vibes" were much closer to the mark than official data politico.com/news/magazine/…