it's nice to file FOIAs together because really the FOIA isn't the point

how do you do fellow Chicago commuters, I made a site tracking and mapping the city's crash data. Look up the traffic-related serious wrecks and deaths near you: crashcount.org/chicago/

the dog is in charge now

Thank you to @zineclubchicago.bsky.social for inviting Wild Ramp to the Southwest Side Zine Library! Check out our zines and all sorts of great Chicago zines at 5055 S Archer St!

many of the classrooms at Haugan Elementary are programmed such that kids with disabilities are violated we will go back and see if kids were made whole but dollars to donuts they were not and that's a huge part of what could have been included in this story and isn't

always fun to send an email in to a set of officials and then have officials respond with "call me" well you see, i am in a group called The FOIA Bakery

the CPS board meeting started if you're interested in following along or going back to it later some board members tried to move the votes on charter renewals to be sooner in the agenda but it failed so we've got the agenda as was posted

Donate to Chicago kid’s gathering for wholesome fun to CTT (Catch That Train)! Especially with Summer coming! cash.app/$CharlieAC Check out the IG and enjoy these videos like I do! www.instagram.com/reel/DY5AkQZ...

today is the chicago public schools board meeting, it will start at 3:30 p.m. this afternoon this meeting will handle many of the board's charter school renewals so i expect public comment to be mostly charter public school parents and Haugan demands to take space from North River are heating up

I play a game with a friend. If I go for an adventure and happen upon a CPS high school, I send clues about the building to see if he can guess the school. today, I sent him this photo and said the whole building is made of this

the Chicago Police Department started using 911 as its centralized phone line in 1976, as an anti-Black technological tool manufacturing reasons to deploy police response with force onto Black communities in Chicago

We invite everyone in Chicago to study and make ways for emergency support. The Chicago's Urban League created a survival hot line with a principle of believing Black Chicagoans who experienced police brutality. The collection is kept at UIC's library.

marigolds are the best

"She and I, after sharing our experiences, began to trade stories with other women who knew and had organized with this man." it's our stories that keep us safe and i know that when i finally say something about a man out loud, i am never doing it alone i have stories stacked from others

one time i went to lunch at uncle mike's with one of the co-leaders because they thought i needed a workshop on threat modeling there was no real pedagogy to it and no understanding of my interactions with the carceral state and so when i lightly mentioned some of my own lived experiences...

it would be great if lucy parsons labs paid me for my work

there is another local nonprofit who harbors abusive white men while they talk about the surveillance state in the process of them defending the abusers they wanted to keep, they told me all about how they had surveilled my network usage the principle they showed out for was defending abusers

eid mubarak 🌟

a surveillance state is not something that i want to live in and the web of surveillance is vast and rhizomatic a lot of women already know this and we know how to use a whisper network, i have no intention of sharing how that works

One of the great things about being an architecture nerd is learning things from other architecture nerds. A while ago I heard @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social and @tudoraf.bsky.social talking about Batchelder tiles. I had never heard of them.

a really common question that arises when i'm taking a look at material conditions at a school is how often are the police called this question is the tip of the iceberg leading to many dimensions of how close we allow police to young people today's meander takes us to the police allocation study

today's art prints included making "ghost prints" and building a new hingeboard so we can run 4 screens simultaneously this summer one screen is in English, one screen is in Spanish and i would be open to two other languages for the other screens i am taking suggestions and help

it's the time of year when principals are trying to use student fees as a way to withhold diplomas chicago principals, get it together!

the rhetorical position that people have already taken up is that you can't respond to something when there is no call, that's why they want shotspotter to return it will be a double whammy we get sharper police and citywide shotspotter built upon a demand of men who said shotspotter didn't "work"

this case involved the police arresting two guys who were sitting in their car having a conversation with friends on the corner the cops were patrolling because they crawl the south and west sides and they claimed to have found a gun in the car we decided it was planted

i wonder how this would have impacted Adam Toledo

tomorrow, there will be art and i got 4 new boards to make hingeboards so we can screen print in the park yayayayayay 🎊

there's a lot of weird discourse on bouncy houses and thoughts on those of us who got free things because we needed them as kids this place is something else sometimes

the men behind the no alpr campaign are men i have worked with in the past and based on my experiences they don't know how to construct a demand and they don't know how to listen to women they also base their ideas on theoretical woman and her action rather than having any idea of how we stay safe

congratulations Ellen Rosenfeld and Angel Gutierrez for winning your chicago public schools board election seats they are the only candidates to run unopposed

first harvest 🍓

i love the casual everyday beauty in the midwest

Been dealing with these excuses not to plant trees for years. Trees ARE a part of city infrastructure. Prioritizing "stuff" over human health-smh. We can plan better. Article: "This perspective illuminates the unintended health and social consequences of risk-averse infrastructure policies..."

marigolds do such beautiful work

this is how i feel about the groups whipping sentiment about no alprs, it will predictably lead to regulation ethical policing doesn't exist, calls for safeguards and regulation entrench policing the demand isn't no alprs build from there in the form of a positive demand, what is safety

in the space of no automatic license plate readers for any reason and automatic enforcement is better transit overall, so all of us can take it and a recognition that we will still need school buses to transport students with disabilities door to door and those students need to be safe

one thing that strikes me as i navigate the usual tension of young people who are harmed and the technology used in society we can get rid of the technology systems that aid policing but unless we are actively dismantling policing in this country there will be an active divide amongst people who

i really wish there were alt text on the photos and the scenes depict heavy police presence in chicago when presented with teenagers the city of chicago pulls out all the racism it can when the summer starts we can be sure that Alderman Hopkins will move to foreclose on young people

"I will not let you move through this city and be forgotten." -Hanif Abdurraqib on Coach Bruce Howard

"any will us too much will when you are not supposed to have a will of your own." so many times have i learned that women with melanin are not meant to have any will at all, how many have tried to subordinate us

"assembling a willfulness archive is another way of addressing one of the oldest political questions: that of sovereignty."

what are some of your best fiction suggestions, i am overloaded on non-fiction and essays

vitamin d achievement unlocked 🏆 a new book started and materials foraging ongoing for screenprinting in the park 🪿

i am not a fan of the low flying chicago police department helicopters along the beaches today

the beach is bustling but the park behind it is tranquility

for example, i can see the person who i am interested in on this email log has a large amount of correspondence with the chicago public schools FOIA office it seemed that way while i was going through the log but it's nice to get a quick visual check on what's up

i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)

today's theme, always look up

always look up, but maybe you all can help me with what the statue actually is it looks like a lion head with an eagle body which is not exactly a griffin, but what is it?

Today the US banned legal permanent residents from African countries from re-entering the US on the grounds of the Ebola epidemic. It’s a steeply vertical slippery slope, in which they are now eroding the green card, will go after naturalized citizens and ending birthright citizenship.