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Anna Kornbluh
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nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 5
elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
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Power 100
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snow icing them out www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, official...
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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condeunion.bsky.social
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Stand with Condé Nast Union. Sign our petition. Stand with Condé Nast Union  We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Use the link in bio to add your name.
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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gipperfish.bsky.social
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
poker night dinner menu concepts?
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
at last an almost perfect, still lacking, sign
thanks aranye fradenburg joy
in this house we believe lacan
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
first snowy day? perfect time to do your homework for theory club! interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
Serfs Up
Is too-late capitalism evolving a new mode of production? A new mode of accumulation? Or just a new political and ideological dispensation of the main forces and relations that have defined moderni…
interccect.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.

www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At 'The Bean' For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, Little Village!"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
great conference great keynote GREAT CITY of c19 greatness especially
aktange.bsky.social Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 9h
If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
Conference
“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…
midwestvictorian.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
🚨 Our book Environmental Sociology Now is available for preorder.

You can order through UC Press now and get 30% off the book with code UCPSAVE30. Instructors will also be able to request an exam copy of the book beginning in early January.

www.ucpress.edu/books/enviro...
Environmental Sociology Now by Jordan Fox, Ian Carrillo, J. P. Sapinski, Diana Stuart - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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texasaaup.bsky.social
🔔 NEW: “The Texas State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) has issued a formal appeal urging the Texas State University System Board Regents to abide by its own rules and reverse the summary dismissal of tenured history professor Dr. Thomas Alter.”
AAUP-TXST Calls on Texas State University System Regents to Defend Academic Freedom and Due Process
A Union of Professionals
www.texasaft.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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pghguild.com
BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
his chief of staff and directors:
pat_sounders@durbin.senate.gov
emily_hampsten@durbin.senate.gov
maddie_carlos@durbin.senate.gov
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d
illinois!durbin is 202-224-2152; "experiencing high call volumes" but keep trying and in the meantime send an email pronto

www.durbin.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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melanienewport.bsky.social
for University Press Week, I hope you'll check out our series Chicago Visions and Revisions, a growing peer-reviewed trade series full of great books about Chicago that you can cuddle up and read while it snows press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
Book Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
The book series Chicago Visions and Revisions published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
new special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly

FILMING CAPITAL

read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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maureenf.bsky.social
called it blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
it’s coming down, it’s blowing graupel
Chicago snow is hard to photograph
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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aupresses.bsky.social
Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
University Press Week logo, November 10-14, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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corinneblalock.bsky.social
Does suddenly having a real progressive mayor make you wish you knew a little more about how city gov actually works??

You're in luck!

Join us Nov 19th as we talk to @sandynurse.bsky.social & @ngusdorf.bsky.social abt the levers of local power!!!

lpeproject.org/events/local...
Local Power: How to Make NYC More Equal
Building on our recent event, LPE NYC Night School is examining how we can make real, lasting change in NYC. How do we contend with the outsized power of finance and real estate and build a world…
lpeproject.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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willcanoesick.bsky.social
Let them eat plane tickets
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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dynarski.bsky.social
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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drewmckevitt.bsky.social
Very glad to see that the organization that put me on a blacklist and got me death threats is now partnering with a gun manufacturer
punkademic.bsky.social Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 1d
This is officially the most American thing I’ve ever seen
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM