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...
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/
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...
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...
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.
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!
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.
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? 😊
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...
Patreon Community Zoom: Let's Make Maps with cartographer Andrew Middleton of The Map Center. Sunday, February 1st, 11am-1pm Pacific.
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...
And yet, we have come to rely on law enforcement so completely that it is now impossible for some people to imagine a world without it, despite witnessing in real time the victims of police violence. We have no other mechanism in place to hold white supremacists accountable other than an institution that is, itself, a product of white supremacy.
Posting from my book because it's true.
In fact most of the proposals I see tossed around appear designed to make immigration arrests more seamless and less upsetting, rather than actually reduce the number of people arrested and sent to jail.
Because many people on here are talking about making demands, it might be worth thinking about the goal. Body cameras, unmasking, and making it easier to sue will not reduce the number of people arrested and condemned to jail to die, suffer and/or be deported.
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."
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
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.
There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
So now we know this federal agent was trained to do exactly what he did. I hope this helps inform people's response.
Picture of my essay in the NY Times Book Review about Common Sense, linked in the next comment
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?
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”
It’s feeling very real!!!
Publication date: June 16, 2026.
@pennpress.bsky.social
There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.
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
Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
More unemployment and poverty will likely lead to more violence. More police will not stop this.
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
"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...
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
@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.) 🗃️
ICE out terrorizing Rogers Park and Edgewater in Chicago this morning. Lotsa watchers in the streets too!
