Martha Bayne
@marthabayne.bsky.social
Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
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Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
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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
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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also! WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS (or any of the books in the MUSIC MATTERS series as well as all UTP books!) is on sale at the University of Texas Press' website for 40% off (50% off ebooks) with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Why Patti Smith Matters
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural rev...
utpress.utexas.edu
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
also! WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS (or any of the books in the MUSIC MATTERS series as well as all UTP books!) is on sale at the University of Texas Press' website for 40% off (50% off ebooks) with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
This post is really only half about Sinead, but look at that pretty book cover
What Will It Take?
Notes from the occupation and, also, holiday book promo!
marthabayne.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This post is really only half about Sinead, but look at that pretty book cover
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Just in time for University Press Week, it's our own q&a with @millerscave.bsky.social! University presses: not just for scholars anymore. #teamup @illinoispress.bsky.social
Q&A with the author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW - Illinois Press Blog
Rob Miller, author of The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide [...]Read More
www.press.uillinois.edu
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Just in time for University Press Week, it's our own q&a with @millerscave.bsky.social! University presses: not just for scholars anymore. #teamup @illinoispress.bsky.social
Does shoveling snow count as PT for my shoulder?
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Does shoveling snow count as PT for my shoulder?
I guess I was a week early with this, so I'm reupping it on this, the first day of #universitypressweek. Get to know what we're looking for for the regional trade list at @illinoispress.bsky.social!
I've spent the week having a bunch of very fun getting-to-know you meetings with prospective authors, so I thought I'd share a bit of info about what I do & what I'm looking for. To start: I'm an acquisitions editor at @illinoispress.bsky.social, in charge of what's called our "regional trade list."
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I guess I was a week early with this, so I'm reupping it on this, the first day of #universitypressweek. Get to know what we're looking for for the regional trade list at @illinoispress.bsky.social!
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To Hell with these swine. They are irredeemable. 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 4:08 PM
To Hell with these swine. They are irredeemable. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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Federal agents pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Cicero chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Federal agents pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Cicero chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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-...
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-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
"The video DHS posted of the raid starts with dimly lit scenes and lyrics from a cover of the Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: “Load up on guns, bring your friends.”
I hope Frances Bean sues the fuck out of these losers
I hope Frances Bean sues the fuck out of these losers
Watch how government propaganda techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," professor Nick Cul...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"The video DHS posted of the raid starts with dimly lit scenes and lyrics from a cover of the Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: “Load up on guns, bring your friends.”
I hope Frances Bean sues the fuck out of these losers
I hope Frances Bean sues the fuck out of these losers
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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-...
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-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
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It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.
To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.
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Sitting in traffic in his car.
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sitting in traffic in his car.
NOTHING THEY SAY IS CREDIBLE. Ask the people on the ground.
Literally yesterday a judge repeatedly called DHS's version of other events that lead to the injunction against them using chemical weapons unreliable/not credible. To publish their claims without even basic, let alone thorough fact checking is egregious at this point.
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
NOTHING THEY SAY IS CREDIBLE. Ask the people on the ground.
Have now seen two stories from major local broadcast outlets in Chicago repeating a claim by DHS that shots were fired and paint cans/bricks were thrown today in Little Village, with the only "evidence" being a post from the agency on a nazi website. This is more than irresponsible.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Little Village and the Southwest Side of Chicago deserves peace.
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Little Village and the Southwest Side of Chicago deserves peace.
@southsideweekly.bsky.social is doing the work
After ICE Raid, Vendors Push for Safety at Swap-O-Rama
A chaotic federal raid left vendors at the longtime South Side flea market shaken. Now they’re demanding stronger protections.
southsideweekly.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@southsideweekly.bsky.social is doing the work
Waukegan was terrorized yesterday by these trigger happy goons. I was in Chicsgo all day but they hit all over town, including abducting several workers from the little grocery across the street from my house.
Waukegan alderman says federal agents pulled guns on him: ‘There were four barrels pointed at me’
As soon as he felt he felt he was safe, Martinez said his first call was to Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Waukegan was terrorized yesterday by these trigger happy goons. I was in Chicsgo all day but they hit all over town, including abducting several workers from the little grocery across the street from my house.
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You know how the "free speech" party really only allows certain types of speech? They're the same when it comes to religion.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You know how the "free speech" party really only allows certain types of speech? They're the same when it comes to religion.
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ICE is a terrorist organization
Border Patrol Boss Tells Agents In LA 'It's Our F--king City' In Newly Released Video
The video, taken June 7, was made public this week in a Chicago court case. In it, the border patrol boss also says "arrest as many people that touch you as you want to" — and later confirmed the stat...
blockclubchicago.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
ICE is a terrorist organization