John Halloran
@profhalloran.bsky.social
By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; PhD/JD. By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport. 24/7: evidently on Macron’s hit list; epistemic humility; tepid legality; personal account.
I’m not equipped to be a suburban mall dad.
What am I supposed to be doing with my hands as I stand here awkwardly?
What am I supposed to be doing with my hands as I stand here awkwardly?
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m not equipped to be a suburban mall dad.
What am I supposed to be doing with my hands as I stand here awkwardly?
What am I supposed to be doing with my hands as I stand here awkwardly?
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Anyway, there's a way in which the government signals the kind of citizen they want you to be by the way that they treat you...
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Anyway, there's a way in which the government signals the kind of citizen they want you to be by the way that they treat you...
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
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Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
www.academia.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
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ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
Is this something?
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Is this something?
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every year i say it: homemade cranberry sauce is the biggest reward to effort ratio item on a thanksgiving table and too many people ignore it
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
every year i say it: homemade cranberry sauce is the biggest reward to effort ratio item on a thanksgiving table and too many people ignore it
“There’s so much magic we have known / On this sapphire we call home / With my coat and my hat / I say goodbye to all of that / Maybe things will be better, maybe things will be better, maybe things will be better in Chicago…”
A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives @robertloerzel.bsky.social reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.
Maybe Things Will Be Better in Chicago
A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives us reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“There’s so much magic we have known / On this sapphire we call home / With my coat and my hat / I say goodbye to all of that / Maybe things will be better, maybe things will be better, maybe things will be better in Chicago…”
Turkey pardoning is always in bad taste. And it's always sort of a fever dream.
So I see that we've really leaned into both of those things this year.
So I see that we've really leaned into both of those things this year.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Turkey pardoning is always in bad taste. And it's always sort of a fever dream.
So I see that we've really leaned into both of those things this year.
So I see that we've really leaned into both of those things this year.
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The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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How I dress when I travel by air:
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
How I dress when I travel by air:
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The #1 lame duck Dark Brandon thing that I want is an aggressive decrease in the capacity of the state to detain/deport immigrants. The #2 lame duck Dark Brandon thing I want to see is an immediate push to normalize statuses for folks in various immigration queues—break out the rubber stamps.
Lame duck Dark Brandon could be epic, guys.
July 22, 2024 at 2:20 AM
The #1 lame duck Dark Brandon thing that I want is an aggressive decrease in the capacity of the state to detain/deport immigrants. The #2 lame duck Dark Brandon thing I want to see is an immediate push to normalize statuses for folks in various immigration queues—break out the rubber stamps.
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I am going to die mad that there wasn’t a no-stone-left-unturned effort from 2021–2024 to normalize immigration statuses and clear backlogs.
May 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I am going to die mad that there wasn’t a no-stone-left-unturned effort from 2021–2024 to normalize immigration statuses and clear backlogs.
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This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
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With the goal of reaching new ppl w/biodiversity action, we're expanding the Native Plant Project to bars. We're calling it Biodiversity Beers.
In collab w/artists Marian Bailey, @hanfranstudio.bsky.social, & @the666cat.bsky.social, we're making pint glasses that encourage planting of native 🌱
In collab w/artists Marian Bailey, @hanfranstudio.bsky.social, & @the666cat.bsky.social, we're making pint glasses that encourage planting of native 🌱
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
With the goal of reaching new ppl w/biodiversity action, we're expanding the Native Plant Project to bars. We're calling it Biodiversity Beers.
In collab w/artists Marian Bailey, @hanfranstudio.bsky.social, & @the666cat.bsky.social, we're making pint glasses that encourage planting of native 🌱
In collab w/artists Marian Bailey, @hanfranstudio.bsky.social, & @the666cat.bsky.social, we're making pint glasses that encourage planting of native 🌱
How I dress when I travel by air:
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
How I dress when I travel by air:
Dunno, man, maybe make air travel marginally less shitty and folks will behave better?
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dunno, man, maybe make air travel marginally less shitty and folks will behave better?
Chicago movies ranked:
1. Candyman
2. Candyman
3. Candyman
1. Candyman
2. Candyman
3. Candyman
Chicago movies ranked:
1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared
Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared
Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Chicago movies ranked:
1. Candyman
2. Candyman
3. Candyman
1. Candyman
2. Candyman
3. Candyman
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A Wash Post review found instances of parents arrested near campuses in at least 10 states so far this year. Actions near campuses—which include shooting a man, releasing tear gas and engaging in a car chase—have prompted lockdowns. @justinemcdaniel.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
In cities targeted by ICE, empty desks and school disruptions follow
One in 5 students in Charlotte missed school after a recent ICE crackdown began. It’s the latest city where schools felt the impact of Trump’s deportation effort.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A Wash Post review found instances of parents arrested near campuses in at least 10 states so far this year. Actions near campuses—which include shooting a man, releasing tear gas and engaging in a car chase—have prompted lockdowns. @justinemcdaniel.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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One of the weird things about 2025 is that I legitimately don’t know whether or not we’re at war with Venezuela right now.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One of the weird things about 2025 is that I legitimately don’t know whether or not we’re at war with Venezuela right now.