Paul Elitzik
@pelitz.bsky.social
Paul Elitzik
He/Him. Assoc. Prof. Adj., Ret'd., School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Taught media, social movements, advised student newspaper. Before, book publisher, grad work in Classics and Philosophy and Vietnam war activism (no degree in last).
He/Him. Assoc. Prof. Adj., Ret'd., School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Taught media, social movements, advised student newspaper. Before, book publisher, grad work in Classics and Philosophy and Vietnam war activism (no degree in last).
Inside Chicago's growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: 'Small acts have huge consequences' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Inside Chicago's growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: 'Small acts have huge consequences' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Mamdani's speech about being Muslim viewed 25 million times, according to the Times.
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FULL REMARKS: Mamdani delivers tearful speech on Muslim faith, slams Cuomo
YouTube video by ABC News
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October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mamdani's speech about being Muslim viewed 25 million times, according to the Times.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaQ...
Peter Beinart on how Mamdani responded to a wave of anti-Muslim bigotry. "he's responded in a truly extraordinary way by giving a speech a couple of days ago that I think is one of the most remarkable speeches that I've ever heard by an American politician."
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Mamdani’s Extraordinary Speech About Being Muslim
A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.
peterbeinart.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Peter Beinart on how Mamdani responded to a wave of anti-Muslim bigotry. "he's responded in a truly extraordinary way by giving a speech a couple of days ago that I think is one of the most remarkable speeches that I've ever heard by an American politician."
peterbeinart.substack.com/p/mamdanis-e...
peterbeinart.substack.com/p/mamdanis-e...
Powerful writing by Masha Gessen, profiling Francesca Albanese and her documentation of Israeli genocide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
Opinion | Her Optimism Has Won Her Some of the Most Powerful Enemies in the World
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Powerful writing by Masha Gessen, profiling Francesca Albanese and her documentation of Israeli genocide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
Zohran's speech in rally with Bernie Sanders. "If anyone tells you that after you cast your vote, you have done your job, tell them it is just the beginning."
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Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale”
At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep org...
jacobin.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Zohran's speech in rally with Bernie Sanders. "If anyone tells you that after you cast your vote, you have done your job, tell them it is just the beginning."
jacobin.com/2025/09/mamd...
jacobin.com/2025/09/mamd...
Who is being excused, who blamed? Two headlines, two frames:
Chicago Sun-Times: “Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd”
Chicago Tribune: “Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising”
Chicago Sun-Times: “Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd”
Chicago Tribune: “Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising”
October 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Who is being excused, who blamed? Two headlines, two frames:
Chicago Sun-Times: “Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd”
Chicago Tribune: “Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising”
Chicago Sun-Times: “Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd”
Chicago Tribune: “Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising”
Not what you will expect ot hear about why free speech matters. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
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October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Not what you will expect ot hear about why free speech matters. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Chicago” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS in Chicago · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Here in Chicago we know how to rise up, fight back, and support each other. It is more important than ever that we do that together on October 18t...
www.mobilize.us
October 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Crisis in Gaza 'did not start two years ago,' leading local Palestinian activist says chicago.suntimes.com/war-in-gaza/...
Crisis in Gaza 'did not start two years ago,' leading local Palestinian activist says
Hatem Abudayyeh of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network reflects on the two years that have elapsed since Hamas' attacks on Israel led to devastation in Gaza.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Crisis in Gaza 'did not start two years ago,' leading local Palestinian activist says chicago.suntimes.com/war-in-gaza/...
If Elizabeth Warren and Zohran Mamdani are the hard left, who are the soft left? www.ft.com/content/a0ad...
The rise of America’s hard left
Economic populists offer an alternative to the authoritarian right, but they have to balance the righteous with the practical
www.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If Elizabeth Warren and Zohran Mamdani are the hard left, who are the soft left? www.ft.com/content/a0ad...
They should have indicted a ham sandwich instead. Grand juries are especially hard on felonious ham. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Prosecutors Reduce Felony Charge Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
They should have indicted a ham sandwich instead. Grand juries are especially hard on felonious ham. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
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Excellent proposals. Trump will have to summon the energy to climb out of Putin’s pocket, though.
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Trump’s Summit With Putin Need Not Be an Echo of Appeasement
"After failing to secure a ceasefire, the time has come for Trump to impose the severe consequences against Putin he threatened."
time.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Excellent proposals. Trump will have to summon the energy to climb out of Putin’s pocket, though.
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"At a time when Illinois’ wealthiest 5% are getting handed $8 billion in tax cuts from President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget provided $10 billion in tax breaks and other incentives at the state level to tech corporations and the ultra-rich."
Stacy Davis Gates: Chicago families deserve to go back to fully funded schools
Our schools have been cut to the bone and constantly asked to do more with less. But this isn’t just underinvestment. It is also extraction.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"At a time when Illinois’ wealthiest 5% are getting handed $8 billion in tax cuts from President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget provided $10 billion in tax breaks and other incentives at the state level to tech corporations and the ultra-rich."
Zohran Mamdani's Wu Tang name, per the Wu Tang generator: "Zohran Mamdani from this day forward
you will also be known as Annoyin� Madman." A
bsolutely. www.youtube.com/shorts/-lR52...
you will also be known as Annoyin� Madman." A
bsolutely. www.youtube.com/shorts/-lR52...
WU TANG FOREVER 👐🏽Last week, @jamaalbowmanny invited Zohran to the @wutangclan @runthejewels
YouTube video by Zohran k mamdani
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August 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Zohran Mamdani's Wu Tang name, per the Wu Tang generator: "Zohran Mamdani from this day forward
you will also be known as Annoyin� Madman." A
bsolutely. www.youtube.com/shorts/-lR52...
you will also be known as Annoyin� Madman." A
bsolutely. www.youtube.com/shorts/-lR52...
NY Times' subhead: The Social Security Administration circulated an imprecise email about the provisions in the new law." Times article: "misleading," "imprecise." Guardian headline:
‘"Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’.
‘"Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’.
July 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NY Times' subhead: The Social Security Administration circulated an imprecise email about the provisions in the new law." Times article: "misleading," "imprecise." Guardian headline:
‘"Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’.
‘"Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’.
Question for NYT: Why are big cities blocked by states from raising taxes to fund social needs? Not just NY! Who benefits? Explain, please. "Free Buses and Billions in New Taxes. Can Mamdani Achieve His Plans?" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/n...
Free Buses and Billions in New Taxes. Can Mamdani Achieve His Plans?
www.nytimes.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Question for NYT: Why are big cities blocked by states from raising taxes to fund social needs? Not just NY! Who benefits? Explain, please. "Free Buses and Billions in New Taxes. Can Mamdani Achieve His Plans?" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/n...
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Mass deportation "remains both the administration’s signature political issue and the lens through which Trump officials appear to see the world: rights for some and a show of force for others." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o... via @daralind.bsky.social
Opinion | When Rights Erode for Some of Us, Something Corrodes in All of Us
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Mass deportation "remains both the administration’s signature political issue and the lens through which Trump officials appear to see the world: rights for some and a show of force for others." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o... via @daralind.bsky.social
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Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research
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Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research
A Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u...
apnews.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research
apnews.com/article/canc...
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"Recent polling shows that nearly one-third of Jewish Americans agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza ... 2020 Pew Research survey found that only 45% of Jewish Americans consider “caring about Israel” essential to their Jewish identity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert
We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Recent polling shows that nearly one-third of Jewish Americans agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza ... 2020 Pew Research survey found that only 45% of Jewish Americans consider “caring about Israel” essential to their Jewish identity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
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Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’
Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism
www.ft.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
Times frames the mayoral race as a battle over resumes, not a battle over policies and whom they benefit. Nothing on Cuomo's donors. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/n...
Can Mamdani Persuade New York to Elect Its Youngest Mayor in a Century?
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Times frames the mayoral race as a battle over resumes, not a battle over policies and whom they benefit. Nothing on Cuomo's donors. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/n...
An analysis of “power” in city council by @JakeSheridan_that doesn’t mention donors, as if the contest was just “independents” against Johnson – but on whom are the independents dependent? FIRE (Finance Insurance Real Estate) are the heavy donors. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/c...
Not your grandparents’ City Council: Chicago aldermen less aligned with 5th floor
The Chicago City Council, long derided as a mayoral puppet, is increasingly operating independent of the wishes of the mayor’s office.
www.chicagotribune.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
An analysis of “power” in city council by @JakeSheridan_that doesn’t mention donors, as if the contest was just “independents” against Johnson – but on whom are the independents dependent? FIRE (Finance Insurance Real Estate) are the heavy donors. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/c...
What is the meaning of agents refusing to identify themselves or their agencies? So we will get used to a regime of secret police without accountability? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Chris Hayes: Trump's 'secret police': Masked agents' sweeping immigration raids raise concern
It’s so striking, in scene after scene, to see regular people asking masked agents “Who are you?” and “What are you doing?”
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June 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What is the meaning of agents refusing to identify themselves or their agencies? So we will get used to a regime of secret police without accountability? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Three UIC faculty members are calling to reinstate full funding for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Three excellent UIC programs affected. chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...
Worker safety in jeopardy with federal cuts
Three UIC faculty members are calling to reinstate full funding for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Also, the pitfalls of technology, dogs overtaking Old Orchard mall and th...
chicago.suntimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Three UIC faculty members are calling to reinstate full funding for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Three excellent UIC programs affected. chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...