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1/🚨Our new report, “Tracing Online Hate Against Zohran Mamdani”, exposes the massive scale of hate, disinformation, and coordinated narrative attacks targeting mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during the 2025 New York City Mayoral Race.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
1/🚨Our new report, “Tracing Online Hate Against Zohran Mamdani”, exposes the massive scale of hate, disinformation, and coordinated narrative attacks targeting mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during the 2025 New York City Mayoral Race.
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On the Sun-Times TikTok today, talking about the Obama Presidential Center.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
On the Sun-Times TikTok today, talking about the Obama Presidential Center.
"Was there part of you that dared to hope you might one day resume your old life, taking the stairs to the sixth floor with your six-foot-tall stride, sleeping under the candy-striped sheets in your twin bed, losing yourself once more in the sweet oblivion of painting by the afternoon light..."
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"Was there part of you that dared to hope you might one day resume your old life, taking the stairs to the sixth floor with your six-foot-tall stride, sleeping under the candy-striped sheets in your twin bed, losing yourself once more in the sweet oblivion of painting by the afternoon light..."
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This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
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You ever heard of Julie Dash? Some of you undoubtedly have,but quite a few I'd imagine not.
Julie Dash is the first Black woman (ever) to have a full-length film with a theatrical release in the United States.
In 1991.
There's a book as well.
Julie Dash turns 73 years old today
Julie Dash is the first Black woman (ever) to have a full-length film with a theatrical release in the United States.
In 1991.
There's a book as well.
Julie Dash turns 73 years old today
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
You ever heard of Julie Dash? Some of you undoubtedly have,but quite a few I'd imagine not.
Julie Dash is the first Black woman (ever) to have a full-length film with a theatrical release in the United States.
In 1991.
There's a book as well.
Julie Dash turns 73 years old today
Julie Dash is the first Black woman (ever) to have a full-length film with a theatrical release in the United States.
In 1991.
There's a book as well.
Julie Dash turns 73 years old today
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But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
I am admittedly naïve but elementary school me knew that when my cartoons were interrupted by the Oliver North hearings, things were bad.
What is the current version of that, but for a syndicate of pedophiles operating in business, government, and higher ed being revealed in public so blatantly?
What is the current version of that, but for a syndicate of pedophiles operating in business, government, and higher ed being revealed in public so blatantly?
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I am admittedly naïve but elementary school me knew that when my cartoons were interrupted by the Oliver North hearings, things were bad.
What is the current version of that, but for a syndicate of pedophiles operating in business, government, and higher ed being revealed in public so blatantly?
What is the current version of that, but for a syndicate of pedophiles operating in business, government, and higher ed being revealed in public so blatantly?
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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So many terrible things in these communications but the terrible spelling and punctuation is salt in the wound.
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So many terrible things in these communications but the terrible spelling and punctuation is salt in the wound.
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*in chicago* alone
3300 people. the federal government has disappeared over 20 people a day for almost half a year
Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest.
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
*in chicago* alone
"... perhaps you are the spectral rabbit running towards the melancholy moon, which is art, which is poetry..."
The best Nick Cave setting is the one where he's overjoyed in sharing melancholy and hope in grand moments of despair.
www.theredhandfiles.com/eighteen-poe...
The best Nick Cave setting is the one where he's overjoyed in sharing melancholy and hope in grand moments of despair.
www.theredhandfiles.com/eighteen-poe...
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #343 - I’m eighteen and I don’t know what to do with my life. Do you think this poem is any good?I’m a tree made of bonesReaching up to the skyWith my crooked wo...
Dear Lilly, Thank you for sharing your poem. When I read it I experienced a variety of feelings. I thought the first verse was good, but i...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"... perhaps you are the spectral rabbit running towards the melancholy moon, which is art, which is poetry..."
The best Nick Cave setting is the one where he's overjoyed in sharing melancholy and hope in grand moments of despair.
www.theredhandfiles.com/eighteen-poe...
The best Nick Cave setting is the one where he's overjoyed in sharing melancholy and hope in grand moments of despair.
www.theredhandfiles.com/eighteen-poe...
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As I continue to sort and sift through the @penamerica.bsky.social data on school book bans, I’m taken aback on how many titles are ones that I found value in as an adolescent.
I’m almost 56, so it’s been a while, but here are some of those books that’ve been restricted/banned recently.
1/5
I’m almost 56, so it’s been a while, but here are some of those books that’ve been restricted/banned recently.
1/5
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
As I continue to sort and sift through the @penamerica.bsky.social data on school book bans, I’m taken aback on how many titles are ones that I found value in as an adolescent.
I’m almost 56, so it’s been a while, but here are some of those books that’ve been restricted/banned recently.
1/5
I’m almost 56, so it’s been a while, but here are some of those books that’ve been restricted/banned recently.
1/5
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Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
Library Diversity Residency Program – General Information – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
"I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help."
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I Want You to Understand Chicago
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help."
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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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 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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-...
A baker's dozen of 5 y.o. & 3 daycare workers boarded the bus at my stop, en route to a field trip in the rain.
It's these little things that keep me afloat.
It's these little things that keep me afloat.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A baker's dozen of 5 y.o. & 3 daycare workers boarded the bus at my stop, en route to a field trip in the rain.
It's these little things that keep me afloat.
It's these little things that keep me afloat.
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Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
Now. Go. Watch and listen.
Just stunning.
Just stunning.
I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
m.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Now. Go. Watch and listen.
Just stunning.
Just stunning.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
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She a taco girlie???? How many she need?
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
She a taco girlie???? How many she need?
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I like how the Schlesinger research guide points to zines by topic and shows some zine cover. guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_... I've never gotten around to making a research guide at the Barnard Zine Library, but maybe I should. Our website predates CMSs, so it's less neatly organized
Research Guides: Zines at Schlesinger Library : Home
Research Guides: Zines at Schlesinger Library : Home
guides.library.harvard.edu
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I like how the Schlesinger research guide points to zines by topic and shows some zine cover. guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_... I've never gotten around to making a research guide at the Barnard Zine Library, but maybe I should. Our website predates CMSs, so it's less neatly organized