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Dave Weimer

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Newberry Library; abolition; maps; other things

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/03/2026
SCOOP: One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.
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Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
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Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Leventhal Center is excited to share that we're hiring a new Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography! If you’re passionate about digging deep into maps and their stories, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by Monday, March 30, for full consideration: buff.ly/1I0bHuI
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Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The 2026 Disability History Association Publication Awards are now open! Please visit our website to find nomination details. www.dishist.org #dishist
Promotional graphic for the Disability History Association announcing that 2026 awards nominations are now open, featuring a screenshot of the dishist.org website and text inviting nominations for books, chapters, or articles.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"What about the rapists?" is something abolitionists get asked a lot. Click here to explore brief answers to this question, as well as questions that you can ask in return.
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What About The Rapists? — Interrupting Criminalization
When prison industrial complex abolitionists tell people that they want to abolish police and prisons, they invariably ask, “what about the rapists?” Explore brief answers to this question, as well as...
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Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
thanks to @hyperallergic.com for the shout out in the latest Required Reading: "As with too many art forms, several now-classic books by male authors would not have been possible without the women who typed and often edited them." hyperallergic.com/required-rea...
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Required Reading
This week: movie poster art, the typist behind Henry James’s novels, Gisèle Pelicot’s new memoir, indie rock in “Heated Rivalry,” and are we in an arts and crafts renaissance?
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 21/02/2026
Revisiting David Foster Wallace's 'Big Red Son' today, @raxkingisdead.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com a smashing essay as you can imagine flaminghydra.com/issue-507/
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An English class
A David Foster Wallace classic remembered by Rax King
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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
You busy April 9-10? There's going to be an amazing conference at Rutgers celebrating the (beta) rollout of the Black Bibliography Project database. Here's the agenda: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul... Registration can be found here: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/networ...
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
At long last, I was united with "A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity" during its last day on view at the Newberry. So glad I got to see it after many years wishing I could. mcachicago.org/collection/i...
A photo a four and a half foot tall, three and a half foot wide map of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs with more than 100 straight lines drawn across it in varying colors of felt-tip pen. Next to it is a small framed portion of a book of descriptions of where each line starts and ends, each one classified as a waltz or quickstep. Below that is an informational plaque which is unreadable in the photo.A close view of the map, which is a standard 1970s commercial street map of the region with ZIP codes outlined and labeled, shows many of the straight lines drawn across the geography join at shared points, which seem to be relatively random rather than mapped to specific meaningful landmarks.
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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical). This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!
The title page of volume one of The Gospel of John embossed in moon type. The same moon title page, but a screenshot of a 3D scan of the page that is blue with scanner guide markers placed randomly on the page. The same 3D scan but now white with the extra details around the page deleted and cleaned up as a 3D model. The same title page in moon, but now a 3D printed physical object printed with purple filament. There are printed supports on the front, right side, and base still attached.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I'm so thrilled to be welcoming @mapcenter.com for this month's free Community Zoom Call. On Sunday, February 1st we'll be talking about the intersection of comics and cartography and teaching YOU to map your own unconventional environs. All the details are here: www.patreon.com/posts/maps-f...
Patreon Community Zoom: Let's Make Maps with cartographer Andrew Middleton of The Map Center. Sunday, February 1st, 11am-1pm Pacific.
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thanks to Tribune critic Lori Waxman for this review of our exhibition "Mapping Outside the Lines," highlighting the exhibit’s investigation of the political, epistemological, and navigational implications of lines and the maps that contain them. Open through February 14. @chicagotribune.com
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third. This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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a man wearing glasses and a plaid sweater is talking to a woman
Alt: Stringer Bell looking pointedly at someone and then walking away
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I wrote this essay because I wanted as many people as possible to understand that what Paine did in Common Sense was recognize the urgency of his historical moment, and that he matched that moment with words. That is why it resonates now. What words will we find for our moment?
Picture of my essay in the NY Times Book Review about Common Sense, linked in the next comment
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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It’s feeling very real!!! Publication date: June 16, 2026. @pennpress.bsky.social
This is a white book cover with an older American flag in the top half. The stars are replaced by the ASL alphabet. Below, the text reads: “BEFORE DISABILITY: A History of American Citizenship. Sari Altschuler”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025
as i've been saying for weeks, he has broken 50% and this is going to be important his ability to control the narrative after tonight
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
More unemployment and poverty will likely lead to more violence. More police will not stop this.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
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Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 18/10/2025
here’s a current chopper view of the chicago protests. the crowd moved north from grant park up michigan avenue; chicago pd has blocked the bridge across the river to trump tower and are routing everyone west down wacker drive
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"The teachers union is stepping up by helping students+families understand protections they have under the union contract for which we fought, as well as the rights we all have under the Constitution. Teaching not just our nation’s history, but also how to make it." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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The only war in Chicago is the one the president is waging against us | Opinion
Since Trump declared war on Chicago, teachers have worked to protect and help students and their families from being taken by ICE.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2025
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@jamellebouie.net has won the 2025 Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy. And I'm thrilled to add that he is joining the panel for the AHA's annual op-ed workshop at #AHA26. (Free to attend, but preregistration is required.) 🗃️
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139th Annual Meeting (January 8-11, 2026): Op-Ed Workshop
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Abolish Ice @wfwhuman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
ICE out terrorizing Rogers Park and Edgewater in Chicago this morning. Lotsa watchers in the streets too!
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Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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.
Doors into the gallery covered in contour lines next to a large bird made from a map. Colored lines on the floor leading into the gallery with maps on the walls
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2025
*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
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 06/10/2025
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. trib.al/9Sxu9IN
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
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. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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
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“If You Do Something Social, You Have to Do It Local”: Pedro Lasch on Art, Protest, and Migration - Public Books
“From the very beginning, I knew I was part of a social movement for undocumented immigrants’ rights.”
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2025
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/08/2025
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?
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Eyes on the heartland
A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on p...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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.
The situation has partly reversed in the past few years. The defund movement is considered a failure, and many of its old backers have distanced themselves from it. Police departments have stopped shrinking. Some departments have even increased recruitment and staffing levels. Local officials brought back tougher policing strategies, and some states, including California and Oregon, have rolled back laws that reduced penalties on low-level offenses. This shift is likely helping suppress crime.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I mean, it's the Platonic ideal:
But reformers should move carefully and avoid undermining the policies that prevent disorder. but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice;
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/08/2025
Some of the people in line to apply for other companies are being handed these pamphlets. Hotel security here less than thrilled.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/08/2025
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.
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