Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow. I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography. #gigeconomy #opentowork

Lenders seized control of the property owner's buildings, including this one, in September because she *wasn't even paying for insurance on them*: www.multifamilydive.com/news/trinity...

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

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.

This story is shocking & horrible on every level, one of them being that there were (& are?!?) rent-paying human beings living in that building. I took this picture on September 14th, because so many windows had been shattered & unboarded for months at that point.

This is a quick shot of the building I took on September 1 of this year. The two picture windows are shattered with huge shards of glass visible if you zoom in. I took the photo because I had been noticing things like this for weeks. This is not meant to exculpate ICE in any way.

-and ultimately, outside of "vote harder", there is literally nothing we can do right now to bring legal and moral accountability for this to those that deserve it, from Trump to the building's landlord. It's shocking. Read all the articles. Get angry if you weren't already. The war is here.

-the absolute fascist insanity of 300 armed agents, some descending from HELICOPTERS, at 1am -the fact that they rounded up everyone in the building, busted down doors, detained everyone, held them for hours -that there was no warrant for this

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important: -simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago -prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

Hot damn these covers whip ass livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/TH...

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Time to go to work in the shit factory!

listen, i know this isn’t the most dignified way to memorialize Jane Goodall, but i do want to point out that without her work, we would not have this masterpiece

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Javier Bardem Declared UNESCO World-Class Hunk https://theonion.com/javier-bardem-declared-unesco-world-class-hunk/

Gaming-Only journalists and analysts are pretty accurately calling this EA acquisition what it is: a doomed idea that will cause untold human misery and kill the company and probably bury all its IPs Tech/Gaming Journalists keep trying to find a silver lining. Huh. Curious. Strange. Odd. Quirky.

like mfers these are the people who fought AGAINST the civil rights movement! the literally same people! what the fuck did you fucking expect how is it nine months into trump's SECOND TERM and we are STILL on this 'soon he will pivot into respectable presidenting' bullshit, where have you BEEN

"i didn't know it would be this bad just because the party that let covid run free, did january 6, crashed the world economy, let new orleans drown, invaded iraq and afghanistan, let aids run wild, toppled every liberal govt in central america, and did watergate and the vietnam war was in power!"

anyways the most annoying thing about the surprised white pundits is this is what EVERY republican president ALWAYS does every one of them in my lifetime cut taxes on the rich, slashed services for the poor, and killed a million ppl at home or abroad reagan bush bush trump, it's not some mystery

We reflexively prevent people from living in desirable areas, while simultaneously letting the rich hollow out those areas, while also refusing to invest in other areas to make them desirable. Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this my city is dying

How come every time someone proposes a multi-unit building we have to hear about the nimby crusade against it for ten years but when some rich asshole wants to erase 8 homes for one mansion it’s crickets until the demolition fence is up

No, no, build UP, stupid!

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

“wurlitzer” is the perfect name for a company that made Contraptions

The military cares about climate change because they understand it's setting the ground for more conflicts, and because their bases are underwater. Seems like having your bases underwater might affect military readiness.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Normalizing and sanitizing this man has been a crime.

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If you're making burritos at home don't ever hit the tortilla with a utensil to knock more beans or other food off the utensil onto the shell. It damages the shell and makes it more likely to tear in that spot when you roll it.

is this anything?

I easily know fifteen or twenty of the first guy

one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad

Visiting my parents in SE Missouri and I believe it is necessary for the future existence of humanity that we're going to have to ban television

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

Genuinely how much of this is Russian (or wherever) troll farms polluting the comments section and how much of it is "I saw a homeless person" being synonymous with Escape from New York in these people's minds? Or a secret third thing?

he's got the nuclear codes! those are real things that actually exist! he retweeted a fake ai video of himself announcing that he was rolling out magic medbeds across america!

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it *incredibly* disturbing that the president of the US is very clearly losing his goddamned mind, but most of the media steadfastly refuse to even mention it.

To be very clear, the actual war against Christianity is the people who use the cross as a means to carry out the most heinous acts against the same people Christ would have left the flock to comfort

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

this? this is a *real* coherent ideology

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

GUYS every time we guess the date of the rapture God reschedules it. Shut up!!!! You’re messing up recess for everyone!!! 🕯️

Any vote to fund the government is a vote to fund everything he is doing with it, every crime he is committing, every assault on the Constitution. The only relevant choice congressional Democrats face is if they want to be party to that or if Republicans have to go it alone and own the consequences.