You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

"Nothing like this has ever happened!"

"Yes, it has! You're wrong!"

These exchanges usually yield nothing useful. What is this like? How is it similar? How is it different? How have folks resisted under related conditions? What struggles are linked in the present? What actions make sense now?

And again this morning.

Opinion Guest Essay Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump? April 14, 2026

they are. next question!

My eldest picked her college last week and I’m thrilled at her choice (I think Cornell College and one course at a time is genius and it made me who I am as a thinker and writer and activist). BUT I’m not very happy about how we decided and I want to share some higher ed segregation thoughts (1/x?)

In a sick, violent way, they have more faith in the possibility of a new world than a lot of people on the other side. They are willing to reimagine all of it. Many of us cannot imagine getting rid of payday loans and they’re like eff it, let’s see if the Pope’s still got the juice.

It feels very weird for me to be like "yay Pope." On the other hand it feels natural to root for a guy from Chicago being intentionally irritating to Trump.

And hes gonna sign it and we're gonna change the lives of thousands of contingent faculty and the education of tens of thousands of students

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

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I have long maintained that all engineering or technology related students should be required to watch this movie.

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."

Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.

...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

I think some people interpreted "the ai con" narrowly as saying these tools don't have their advertised capabilities

when clearly the larger con is the pretense that it's about tools and not power

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements

A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’

Thread.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Meanwhile my university has bought licenses for CoPilot.
Is a technology that "is for entertainment purposes only, which can make mistakes, which may not work as intended and cannot be relied on for important advice and has to be used at our own risk" so essential?

"Unlike his posture toward the Smithsonian, Trump has not publicly commented on the USHMM’s content or publicly called for any modifications"

Rather, 2 former employees "believed the museum was altering its content preemptively, so as to not draw unwanted negative attention from the Trump admin"

After UChicago Trauma Center Reopened, Nearby Shooting Deaths Fell Nearly 4 Percent: Study Shooting victims arrived for treatment about 10 minutes sooner and traveled about 3 miles fewer to receive care after the center's 2018 relaunch, according to a study published this week in the journa...

People should read this in the context of the MULTI-YEAR campaign led mostly by young Black people in Chicago to INSIST that U Chicago open a level 1 trauma center on the Southside.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/a...

‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

‘There are no places for us to just be free’ • The TRiiBE Black teenagers spoke to The TRiiBE about teen trends, how they’re treated in the Loop, and what solutions could fill the gap in youth-oriented spaces.

NEW — We’re teaming up with our friends at @southsideweekly.bsky.social on a series of stories about teen “trends” in Chicago.

In this piece, TRiiBE reporter Tonia Hill interviews Black teens about how they’re treated in the Loop and solutions.

thetriibe.com/2025/05/ther...

Minneapolis is indeed a verb, we help strangers out of the ditch, we never take the last slice of pie, and we defy fascists ✨

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship.

For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Interesting how society has always associated cooking with women and yet, 94% of Michelin star restaurants have run by male chefs. I guess what it's really "a woman's job" is the unpaid part of it.