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Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We're determined to share some good news in the midst of what's coming out of DC today. If you're attending ALA in Chicago this weekend, portal manager @jbrodefrank.bsky.social is presenting on Monday, June 29, Our America, Our Stories: Collecting and Preserving Immigrant Histories cdmcd.co/6vnDGy

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo apologizes for the Doctrine of Discovery, which sanctioned colonialism & slavery, to talk about AI. Here, I thought I went off the rails in Data Empire, where I insist the Doctrine of Discovery is critical to the history of data’s power www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Da Pope is da best - signed a Jewish Chicagoan

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“What a cute wallpaper” - coworker complimenting my holiday manicure. Me having to decide if my professional persona wants to admit these are based on the little debbie Christmas tree.

White woman’s left hand showing off a manicure with white background, red squiggle lines and green sprinkles.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Chicago kids always had to worry about snow on Halloween but it’s despicable they have to worry about ICE. Asking federal agents not to tear gas children, dystopian. Having those agents refuse to show restraint and humanity, disgusting.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If anyone asks what I’m dressing up as for Halloween this year I’m just gonna take their water, make up a lie, and leave. I’m ChatGPT bitches.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Took less than an hour at a middle school history fair to pivot my talking points to “over 60” instead of using “67” as a stat because apparently 6 & 7 in close proximity is hilarious.

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant. Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.” to.wttw.com/3Kvoilz

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Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes Handcuffed by Federal Agents While Asking About Patient’s ICE Warrant at Hospital

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was detained by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health, as tensions continue to rise between local residents and officials and immigration agents conducting enforcement...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

And the Supreme Court said it’s fine for them to target people based on how they look. Truly a despicable, deplorable, devastating, dictatorial time in US history.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I personally didn't enter librarianship because I wanted to direct people to use surveillance tech owned by private equity firms but sometimes I wonder about my peers

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It’s been almost two months since museum senior officials walked into the Abakanowicz Research Center, the hub of the city’s archival holdings, and announced that every staff member would be reduced to part-time hours, leaving them without health insurance and a significant portion of their incomes.

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Chicago History Museum cuts hinder research, exploration

The timing couldn't have been worse. The Trump administration has slashed museum budgets, the Smithsonian is being reviewed to align with Donald Trump's vision of America and the school year just star...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

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An Executive Unbound: The Obama Administration's Unilateral Actions

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

When they’re sending the military in to your city, banning vaccines, and so much more, but your out of office is on and you’re recharging for action a thousand miles away with the most beautiful train ride thanks to @amtrak.com.

The interior of a train car featuring the seat back tray which holds a water bottle, paint palette, and watercolor notebook with a seascape painted. To the right the landscape is visible through a window.

A watercolor painting in a travel notebook that depicts part of the pacific coast highway, ocean, and coast of California.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Chicago has not asked for federal troops. We do not need federal troops. We need the funds we’ve paid in federal taxes to be distributed back to the state as congressionally budgeted. No one, mayor, governor or citizen has asked for this deployment and the people of Chicago will be harmed by it.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

She heard me tell the dog sitter she’s older now and needs slower walks and puppy potty pads for accidents. Apparently that was shit we were supposed to keep within the family.

Small white dog lays on a pillow on a grey couch. The dog’s mouth is open and agape.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson: "We believe you don't solve crime by sending in the military." "We are being targeted because of who we are as a city."

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Pritzker exhorts the news media to "tell it like it is:" "Donald Trump wants to use the U.S. Military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points." "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Surprising no one, the list of “unAmerican” content is that which highlights/discusses white privilege, Latino culture, Black culture, and COVID history and LGBTQ+ history. Absolute bullshit. White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

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White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 19/08/2025

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My 35lb freeloader threw a temper tantrum when I wouldn’t give her more French fries (yes I’m weak so she got some), so I painted her portrait to show how her adorably silly she is.

Watercolor painting of a white fluffy dog. The dog has an open mouth and looks upset.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Me: on our first vacation in years worried how the dogs doing without us. The dog: absolutely throwing her charms at the dog sitter, her people completely forgotten

White dog smiles lovingly as person while resting their head in said persons hand.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/07/2025

one day, everyone will have been against this

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/07/2025

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

“The rapid, chaotic, and cruel approach to arresting and locking people up is literally deadly and causing a human rights crisis that will plague this state and the entire country for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

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The Halo-Halo Librarian 🇵🇭🇺🇲👩🏽‍💻📚 @infoandhalohalo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

And yes...that includes me. No one is safe until everyone is safe.

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Apparently I didn’t capture her good side. Everybody’s a critic.

A small white dog huffs at a postcard with a watercolor painting of the white dog on it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

In honor of today's Supreme Court decision

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I taught college classes of my own for seven years. There wasn't a single class I taught that was majority history majors, and most of them had NO history majors. But they were always full and they were always valuable to those students.

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Lacey Wilson Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers @law6pubhist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It really is amazing the far reaching friendships one can have just by intentionally liking following and supporting museum unions.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

There isn't enough data to make a pattern, so it defaults to either making shit up or redirecting to phrases and names that are more common. If you use an LLM to research Black history in CA, you'll miss the people doing that work. Even a Google search will get you better results.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 16/06/2025

Chicago! ICE is kidnapping people out of their immigration hearings daily-- start your day by showing up for our communities! ICE watch starts daily at 8am outside 55 E Monroe and 50 E Adams

a graphic that invites people to join autonomous chicagoans outside immigration court to interrupt ICE kidnappings of people from their immigration hearings. Show up daily from 8am on at 50 E Adams and 55 East Monroe

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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank @jbrodefrank.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The most American I’ve ever felt. @ryancordell.org thanks for the perfect sign to join faculty union members in protest.

White protest sign says “no tyrants! & no kings!” Includes an 18th century woodcarved plate stamp of a printing press that reads “the tyrants for. The people’s friend”

Daley Plaza in Chicago. Filled with crowds of people and protest signs.

McDonald’s McNuggets and fries on a table. Poster reading “no tyrants” on a seat.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

LEARN BASIC RESEARCH SKILLS EVERYBODY

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT. Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ? Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends. It's not a search engine.

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Powerful point at #ACH2025 that cutting NEH is just one more part of the complete erosion of a public good and institutions. And when we do this, the powerful and already rich and prestigious take full control and consolidate all the resources. And the broader public… and democracy loses.

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Jojo Karlin @jojokarlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Closeup #jojodoodles DH + Libraries SIG @ach.bsky.social featuring @claudiaeberger.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @gworthey.bsky.social @micahbateman.bsky.social @jbrodefrank.bsky.social and Pam’s amazing highway flood dumpster fire image. #dhmakes

Closeup of notes from DH in Libraries ACH SIG— including portraits of Claudia Berger, Pam Lach, Glen Worthey, Jessica BrodeFrank, and Micah Bateman

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the #ACH2025 #DHandLibs SIG meeting. We had a wonderful conversation and welcomed our new co-chairs, @jbrodefrank.bsky.social and @micahbateman.bsky.social. Missed the session? Reach out to me or @claudiaeberger.bsky.social and we'll get you plugged in!

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Maybe anxiously doomscrolling isn’t the best thing to do the night before #ACH2025 starts. But at least I know I’ll be in good company for the rest of the week, as our #DigitalHumanities community comes together to create a space of care & solidarity. Looking forward to seeing y’all in a few hours 🫶

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 10/06/2025

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

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