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Anna Kornbluh

@annakornbluh.bsky.social

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 5

elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
artreview.com/power-100/

Power 100

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 8h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4h

also gotta go team lacan and: joyce

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4h

give the people dumbpolls @jay.bsky.team this question cannot be answered publicly! our lit profs will do violence to each other.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h

Frog Roberts

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10h

Great antifa movies:
Frog Day Afternoon
Reservoir Frogs
The Frog of War

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6h

What we should be asking is why somebody like Thiel, whose fortune was subsidized by massive public investments at University of Illinois, & humanities granting organizations at Stanford, wants to dismantle that educational infrastructure now that he’s rich.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h

(been trying to figure this out and …. is it The Muppet Movie (1979 version)?)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h

so fab! did you make?

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 6h

please contact the president of Texas State University, Kelly Damphousse, and urge him to respect academic freedom and the first amendment and restore Professor Tom Alter to teaching.

[email protected], 512-245-2121.

aaup-texas.org/blog?blog=y

Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors

AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty and staff to promote economic security and quality education.

aaup-texas.org

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 6h

Freud’s essential essay Constructions in Psychoanalysis is in that volume (same year as Moses); Eisenman is a theoretically engaged architect and that particular building is a college of design, art, architecture, and planning; that moment in arg is about deliberately architecting mediations

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9h

tomorrow evening slotted for putting up decorations for the best holiday!

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 10h

Video shows feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park this afternoon as they reportedly detain one person.

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 10h

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Are you affiliated with UPenn (faculty, staff, student, alumni, or parent/guardian of a student)?

If so, please consider signing the petition calling on President Jameson to categorically reject the Compact for "Excellence in Higher Education."

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion

Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...

actionnetwork.org

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h

"the classroom has political relevance in creating opportunity for experience not conditioned by what Jäger calls “hyperpolitics.” Hold open this one last precious space of focused attention of careful deliberation of understanding before criticizing."

adamkotsko.substack.com/p/pedagogy-i...

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 11h

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h

chicago! join InterCcECT for our next session, a conversation about debt, comedy, and university finance with very special guests the debt collective! AND novelist kasha cauley!!

we're reading The Payback alongside Lend & Rule

interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

What’s Funny About Student Debt?

For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…

interccect.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h

it had some leaks, but the no right angles thing was really fun at the time!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago friends! I'm thrilled to be joining Eve L. Ewing this Tuesday night (Oct 14) at the National Public Housing Museum to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Hosted by Build Coffee & Books + NPHM.

Tickets here:

There Is No Place for Us with Brian Goldstone and Eve L. Ewing - National Public Housing Museum

A conversation with author Brian Goldstone, whose deeply reported new book plunges readers into the lives of families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

nphm.org

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

Join us TODAY to make No Kings posters @raygunsite.com from 2-4pm✨🪧🎨

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Join me and Demi Palecek this Sunday at @raygunsite.com for a sign-making event in Andersonville on October 12, just before No Kings Day!

We'll provide crafting supplies, food, and drinks—just bring your favorite tagline to make some posters with us!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15h

relevant! bsky.app/profile/anna...

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

this is quite good, the two different rhetorical modes of a polarized, degraded symbolic.

we need a @thelouvreof.bsky.social for shitposts.

best examples on bsky this year so far?

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 16h

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 17h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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