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sam blickhan

@snblickhan.bsky.social

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She/her. Chicago. People, tech, museums, research. Zooniverse.org Co-Director & #DH lead at Adler Planetarium. PhD. CW Handbook: https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/ Lapsed musicologist/medievalist. Fiber artist. Musician: https://umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com

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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · Nov 10

Welcome new folks! I post about #DH R&D, crowdsourcing, platform maintenance, #UX design, people power. Also fiber arts, crafting & data physicalization via #DHmakes. Will often post 📸 of my dog Bowie. Sometimes music, sometimes mine. I RT for the people, incl shitposts when they make me laugh.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

#DHmakes klaxon!

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

I will add that if some talented illustrator wanted to create a line art/woodcut version of the ICE-Wizard Frog standoff & share it with me, I could probably be convinced to print news broadsides early-modern style @skeuomorphpress.org

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

Oh I am on it. Printing this template out and bringing my loom to afternoon craft time at the library to get started.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

Does this creature have a soul

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

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

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A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

A protester tackled and arrested for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 5d

Pritzker’s office phone line is open if anyone wants to register their opinion about this: (312) 814-2121

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

State troopers just grabbed another protester.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

"Be loud for America" but not like THAT I guess.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

This is what the state of Illinois sent to greet protesters at Broadview.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 5d

It's important to note that penning people in to "free speech zones" & rolling out state/local cops in riot gear is a move that always ends with them being heavy-handed/escalating situations with protesters, but allows the state to change the narrative to "bad" protesters deserving harm.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

We’ve been shoved around by state cops with batons. They’ve already arrested one person for being in the street.

A protester questions a cop about whether he wants to be here.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 7d

Gift link: essential and sadly brave writing for dark times from Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.

youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 9d

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 9d

This isn’t making our communities safer; it’s a performative show of force and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It needs to end. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...

Armed Border Patrol Agents Disrupt Peaceful Downtown Day: 'It's Horrifying'

The federal troops were seen in Millennium Park, on the Magnificent Mile and in the Gold Coast — days after patrolling the Chicago River in a boat. "This is another brazen provocation from the Trump a...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11d

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11d

i got you, added a couple points

frame - negation - kirby meme

Top is a rectangle with a jagged line in the middle.
The left side is labeled "Frame" "F is happening!"
inside it says "we're sending in troops to stop the crime/antifa"

The right side is labeled "Negation" "F is not true!"
inside it says "but crime is down, the city is peaceful, antifa isn't a real organization, they're not legally allowed to do that"

Below is a large image of Kirby, a round pink blob with eyes with a small version of the Frame F shape flying into his mouth. To the right is a large pink rectangle labeled "Kirby" "K is happening, that's why they're saying F"

inside it says "normalizing presence of troops prepares for autocratic escalation including interfering with elections"

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

A deeply important read.

They’re kidnapping people off the street cartel-style

I've become accustomed to being lied to every day by now. About Israel and immigrants and trans people to name but a few. But there has been a superlative concentration of lies this past week. A novel...

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · 19d

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...

And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library

View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.

www.bl.uk

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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 20d

An immigration agent shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses. https://bit.ly/3IbeDjf

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by witnesses.

bit.ly

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 22d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 22d

This is Bowie’s preferred method of getting out of something he doesn’t want to do… hoping the day gets better!

A brown dog laying on his back with paws in the air, with a blue leash attached to a grey harness. The photo shows a pair of legs and feet standing next to the dog, as if a person, the photographer, is waiting for this tantrum to end.

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Claudia (they/she) @claudiaeberger.bsky.social · 28d

Possible grant op for #DHmakes folks! www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-f...

Craft Research Fund Grant | Center for Craft

Grants up to $15,000 awarded to support projects that encourage, expand, and support scholarly craft research in the United States.

www.centerforcraft.org

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