Eleanor R. Carter
@eleanorcarter.bsky.social
PhD student in U.S. + public history at Loyola University Chicago. Writing about the hist of ideas surrounding environment, incarceration, & memory. Oregonian, slow ultrarunner, music + beer enjoyer, enthusiast.
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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."
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
RIP Sister Jean, Loyola’s beloved icon.
October 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
RIP Sister Jean, Loyola’s beloved icon.
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
@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)
September 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@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)
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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.
September 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
slate.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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.
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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...
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...
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.
www.theatlantic.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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...
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...
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.
austinkocher.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.
June 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
Does the Pope like Wilco?
May 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Does the Pope like Wilco?
This morning’s pick for writing/editing background music, highly recommended:
Wu Hen
Kamaal Williams · Album · 2020 · 10 songs
open.spotify.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This morning’s pick for writing/editing background music, highly recommended:
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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
a staggering .018% of europe’s smallest, poorest allocation (greece at $111 / capita).
AND THIS IS PRE DOGE
policy people!
apropos the minuscule budget for NEH, whose theft is nonetheless devastating:
looking for sources (academic, perhaps journalistic) that array data for internationally comparing state funding for media, arts, and culture
grateful for links, citations, names, graphs!
apropos the minuscule budget for NEH, whose theft is nonetheless devastating:
looking for sources (academic, perhaps journalistic) that array data for internationally comparing state funding for media, arts, and culture
grateful for links, citations, names, graphs!
April 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
a staggering .018% of europe’s smallest, poorest allocation (greece at $111 / capita).
AND THIS IS PRE DOGE
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
blueberry breakfast bread, lavender turbinado, elon is stealing from you, rise up
March 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
blueberry breakfast bread, lavender turbinado, elon is stealing from you, rise up
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
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 ✨
February 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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 ✨
Reposted by Eleanor R. Carter
For Giving Tuesday, I encourage folks to support local nonprofit news: Chalkbeat Chicago, WBEZ, Block Club, South Side Weekly, the Reader and the Triibe.
December 3, 2024 at 8:04 PM
For Giving Tuesday, I encourage folks to support local nonprofit news: Chalkbeat Chicago, WBEZ, Block Club, South Side Weekly, the Reader and the Triibe.