melanie newport

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UConn historian + author of This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, a history of jailing in Chicago. series editor at Chicago Visions and Revisions, mother of a toddler. melanienewport.com. personal account.

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This doesn't fall under my usual Yore parameters but @adampknave.com‬'s cat Pants has reminded me that this year is the 20th anniversary of this magical gem: youtu.be/SaA_cs4WZHM?...

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An apt visual metaphor as CUNY Ph.D. student Jawanza Williams is wrestled over the threshold of City Hall and tossed out by a police officer. The photo highlights who gets govt resources and who suffers in unnecessary austerity. Williams & Peoples Plan NYC want to stop the boondoggle. #StopCopCity

Last week Jawanza James Williams and comrades from @PeoplesPlanNYC visited City Hall to spread the word about NYC's version of #CopCity. They demanded a people's budget for social services, CUNY, and public libraries. They were all thrown out. link: x.com/Jawanza/stat...

nursed a decades long fear of this mountain but following usgsvolcanoes on instagram helped me to heal

Move over, Yellowstone. This is the US volcano that troubles scientists the most: cnn.it/4bj8ium

Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano keeping scientists up at night | CNNcnn.it Scientists fear Washington’s Mount Rainier could trigger a swift debris flow caused by melting snow and ice. An event could endanger nearby populated areas.

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MONDAY MOOD…

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fellow SSRI girlies stay safe and hydrated during this! heat!

buying a 2lb bag of cocoa pebbles was an inspired act of bro summer

some native plants from my chaotic yard

I feel a lot of tenderness for the people who post pictures of their wilted plants on facebook gardening groups during a heat wave. “what’s going on??” is so earnest and pure.

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Look, summers are not what they used to be. And they're getting worse. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/summ... by @andreatweather.bsky.social on Scientific American

Summers Are Hotter than Ever and Are Only Going to Get Worsewww.scientificamerican.com The face of summer is transforming, as people today face more frequent, longer-lasting and hotter heat waves than they did several decades ago

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Within minutes of the Board of Trustees vote, the university had expunged the entire University Senate website, deleting decades of meeting minutes, faculty evaluations of the president, and more. Truly reprehensible.

Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.

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📻 Senior reporter Carlos Ballesteros will be on WBEZ's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons at noon today talking about his investigation into deaths at the Cook County Jail last year. Listen live at 91.5 FM or WBEZ.org www.injusticewatch.org/project/jail...

Cook County Jail deaths highlight lapses in supervisionwww.injusticewatch.org Last year was the deadliest at the jail in decades. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart blames drugs being smuggled in.

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the vet decided to play dress up with my cat as he’s coming out of sedation this morning and sent me some pics

bro summer

It's his summer to shine

this never gets old

ooo! I have a trucker hat, I already lift weights, and I told my spouse I could eat hot dogs every day this summer. this is for me!

everyone please join me in my pursuit of BRO SUMMER defector.com/bro-summer-w...

Bro Summer Waits For Us All | Defectordefector.com A couple of years ago I learned a little bit of science that immediately evolved into a cautionary tale. Years after its peak popularity, many men on the very staff of this website had begun dabbing i...

the quotes from the sheriff’s office in this are sooooo deeply sketchy

18 people died at the Cook County Jail last year, the deadliest in decades. A new Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision or medical care at play in at least half the deaths. www.injusticewatch.org/project/jail...

Cook County Jail deaths highlight lapses in supervisionwww.injusticewatch.org Last year was the deadliest at the jail in decades. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart blames drugs being smuggled in.

I have been down a 1970s and 1980s historiography rabbit hole and I think that’s why the news isn’t hitting. after being immersed in their concerns, nothing seems real

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www.chicagohistory.org/memorial-day...

Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 - Chicago History Museumwww.chicagohistory.org In this blog post, CHM curatorial fellow Elizabeth Barahona recounts the police violence against Republic Steel organizers in what came to be known at the “Memorial Day Massacre” with a focus … Learn ...

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"enjoy grad school and don't let it bum you out when you don't get a job" is not the correct response to all this, but it's a good clue to the dynamics that we still won't really talk about: that class background/family resources matter, and that grad funding disparities between universities matter.

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cut personnel, reduce course offerings ----> "enrollments are way down; no one takes history courses any more" ----> cut more personnel, cut more course offerings, eliminate history major -----> "sorry, but students just aren't majoring in history any more" -----> cut more personnel, cut more cou

History enrollments falling far slower than departments shrink (meaning much of the enrollment loss is lack of teachers!): historians.org/research-and... 7/

An Uncertain Trend: The AHA’s 2022 Survey of History Undergraduate Enrollmentshistorians.org Our newest data on undergraduate enrollments raises new questions.

Saturday morning glamour shots with Hercules

self-reporting: Lionel Richie came on last night and I said “now THIS is music!”

Hercules rolling gleefully in poo next to a very happy silky willow bush

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Also, here ya go.

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VIOLET KNIGHT (my niece)

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sometimes i sits and thinks and sometimes i just sits

my family keeps sending these while I am trying to give a test

what have they done to my boy

here is what I have been up to. Observing and witnessing the UConn encampment at Dove Tower has been the honor of my life. I will probably never recover from the fear I felt for our students this past week. www.wtnh.com/news/connect...

shifting back over to this place and hoping to return to a mundane shitposting state of mind eventually. I want peace, I want justice, and I need a place to rest. I have missed this crew.

UConn police arrest protesters refusing to vacate encampmentswww.wtnh.com University of Connecticut Police have begun moving in on pro-Palestinian protesters Tuesday morning who are refusing to vacate unauthorized encampments.

shifting back over to this place and hoping to return to a mundane shitposting state of mind eventually. I want peace, I want justice, and I need a place to rest. I have missed this crew.