@sorenspicknall.bsky.social as promised!

Add your own experience to the Folded Map Project!

Thanks to the MCA for the amazing Cage score

Big thanks to the whole Newberry Library team.

See it online at publications.newberry.org/mapping-outside-the-lines

Mapping Outside the Lines is open! Explore how maps work with classics like portolan charts and Antonio García Cubas and contemporary artists like Tonika Johnson, Ed Fairburn, and Ibrahim Miranda Ramos. Marvel at a fold-out river and listen to our rendition of a John Cage score.

*Many more neighbors were affected, but you won't get tallies on those numbers from the media because they don't get free ambulance rides and a PR team to issue statements on their behalf

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

This too is book history's provenance work

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

I've taught a range of map-related classes since 2009. We almost always started with Pedro Lasch's Latino/a América, which was such an evocative way to convey the politics + poetics of cartography, and the importance of cartographic *materiality* — how maps carry traces of their own journeys

Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.

supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney

NEW: In what appears to be one of the largest expansions of surveillance in IL history, we found hundreds of new Flock license plate readers—all paid for by AG Kwame Raoul's office in the last 3 years.

Issues with Flock Safety's data sharing practices are mounting. Will our sanctuary status hold?

And then this.

As always, everywhere, "tough on crime" policies require no ACTUAL data to back them up, just breezy correlations, bc they are seen as the natural, obvious solution.

I doubt making low-level things tougher has led to a big increase in safety. But I can't compete w gut instinct.

I mean, it's the Platonic ideal:

Some of the people in line to apply for other companies are being handed these pamphlets.

Hotel security here less than thrilled.

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

This bill was never only about eviscerating social services or enriching oligarchs, bad as that is. It’s also about using state power to build a private police force for the fascists—and spreading fear and destroying solidarity. Being brave and building solidarity is a big part of how we fight back.

Our guide to public records for Chicago tenants is now available online! In this series of videos, senior reporter Maya Dukmasova walks you through how to use free government databases to learn about any property’s building code violations and ownership. www.injusticewatch.org/knowyourbuilding

I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and, as I keep saying, an NEH this year to finish up. I’m furious about the gutting of that institution, which makes so much knowledge possible. I hope this book eventually lives up to that honor.

All of the talk about "peaceful protest" makes me think of all the times I have been part of a protest where the police cracked someone over the head and then charged that person with assault. They will call you violent. You can't control that or other people.