Jonathan Foiles
@jfoiles.bsky.social
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist | Lecturer
UChicagoCrown | Assoc. Clinical Faculty Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis | Books via Belt Publishing | he/him
UChicagoCrown | Assoc. Clinical Faculty Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis | Books via Belt Publishing | he/him
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Jonathan Foiles
@jfoiles.bsky.social
· Oct 17
My next book comes out December 3rd! Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age searches for hope in the midst of our contemporary struggles and draws upon both my own experiences of anxiety and my work as a therapist.
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There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.
September 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.
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The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
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Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
September 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
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With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.
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It's really hard not to earnest post right now about how much we love this city and how infuriating it is to see it under threat at the whims of a senile, racist lunatic
August 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It's really hard not to earnest post right now about how much we love this city and how infuriating it is to see it under threat at the whims of a senile, racist lunatic
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June 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
(RNS) — In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,' the pr...
religionnews.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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New from me: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...
www.wsj.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
New from me: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
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April 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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There’s no way this is ethical.
'I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality,' VA therapists ordered to tell veterans
Mental health therapists at Veterans Affairs should begin sessions with patients saying they are in a shared office space, a memo obtained by NPR says. Trump's back-to-office orders start Monday for V...
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April 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
There’s no way this is ethical.
The cruelty of these people is astounding.
so, a trans teacher is getting death threats because she’s being bullied by a sitting member of congress on Xitter
and this has been happening for days
and not a single mainstream news outlet has even covered it
and this has been happening for days
and not a single mainstream news outlet has even covered it
A Trans Teacher Is Getting Death Threats After Rep. Nancy Mace Mocked Her on X
“I had such a glow-up on HRT that I am now an enemy of the state,” the teacher joked darkly in a TikTok video.
www.them.us
March 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The cruelty of these people is astounding.
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can't wait to vote Durbin out of office
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
can't wait to vote Durbin out of office
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I'd hoped to hold back for the book my story of the time Chuck Schumer enthused to me about torture as good policy ("torture warrants" for "sterilized needles underneath the fingernails"), but maybe now's the time. Wonder if he would deny it. #FuckChuck
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I'd hoped to hold back for the book my story of the time Chuck Schumer enthused to me about torture as good policy ("torture warrants" for "sterilized needles underneath the fingernails"), but maybe now's the time. Wonder if he would deny it. #FuckChuck
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The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
Really grateful to have my work mentioned in this great op-ed on Canada’s mental health crisis.
"One of the most groundbreaking works on mental health in the past decade is This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America by Jonathan Foiles." Dang! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/car... @jfoiles.bsky.social
Canada’s mental health crisis is crippling productivity – Here’s what we can do about it
Addressing mental health is not only a moral imperative but a strategy for improving productivity
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Really grateful to have my work mentioned in this great op-ed on Canada’s mental health crisis.
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A single protester demonstrated outside the Gold Coast Tesla dealership today as part of the national #teslatakedown action late this morning. Not pictured: a dozen CPD bike cops, and a few more warming up in a CPD van nearby.
February 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
A single protester demonstrated outside the Gold Coast Tesla dealership today as part of the national #teslatakedown action late this morning. Not pictured: a dozen CPD bike cops, and a few more warming up in a CPD van nearby.
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
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Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
Pope Francis’s Stunning Rebuke of JD Vance Exposes MAGA’s Dark Soul
The vice president took a stab at theology to defend the administration’s rank cruelty. Then a higher authority weighed in.
newrepublic.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
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Pope Francis dropping his statement in JD Vance’s direction
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Pope Francis dropping his statement in JD Vance’s direction
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icymi: cook county sheriff tom dart quietly worked with freakonomics’ steven levitt on an algorithm that used shotspotter + police data to “match” people on electronic monitors to new crimes—even as their own research found the monitors were prone to false alerts.
Cook County’s web of surveillance for electronic monitoring
Sheriff Tom Dart worked with the University of Chicago’s Steven Levitt to create a program that could “match” people on EM to reported crimes.
chicagoreader.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
icymi: cook county sheriff tom dart quietly worked with freakonomics’ steven levitt on an algorithm that used shotspotter + police data to “match” people on electronic monitors to new crimes—even as their own research found the monitors were prone to false alerts.
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If it's hitting UIUC already, it's crushing other places.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
February 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If it's hitting UIUC already, it's crushing other places.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
@econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.
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this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
The wholesale rejection of any ethics has really been getting to me. Someone I deeply respect referred to these as “evil days” and I find myself gravitating more to those sort of formulations.
I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses.
They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.
They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.
February 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The wholesale rejection of any ethics has really been getting to me. Someone I deeply respect referred to these as “evil days” and I find myself gravitating more to those sort of formulations.