The amazing folks at Cultural Heritage Advocacy and Action Coalition (CHAACo) created a guide for various ways to "counter the harmful narratives" in our work/outreach. www.chaaco.org/resource-hub...

Things can go downhill real fast.

Atlanta teacher killed in car crash after ICE chases after undocumented immigrant with no criminal history. Local police say there was no reason for ICE to start a dangerous car Chase www.fox10tv.com/2026/02/16/t...

I could probably dominate the skeleton if not for too much boobs.

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This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Ah, town and gown beefs since 1300. Good thing we've learned our lesson. 🙃

I'm choosing to interpret this as statement about the island's poor infrastructure due to colonialism and exploitation.

Cool! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ grant application process has taken a political turn under Trump. “It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story,” said a Republican who led the agency from 2019 to 2024. “And that’s wrong.”

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

The archivist (my good friend), who gathered all the city council tapes, processed the collection, fought an uphill battle to get buy-in just to apply for the digitization grant (therefore making all this possible), will obviously not get credit. Three cheers for the unsung heroes and hidden labor!

New Chi skyline on press. Especially pleased with a Bean made of parentheses. #letterpress

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

"Tarantino is married? I thought he just liked feet" - my sister, splicing in an aside during an otherwise serious convo

Calling them “protests” is lazy, inaccurate and plays into the false narrative that’s being used to justify further escalation by the federal government. 3/3

HEYO

Getting more real

Is today when he finally became presidential?

Given the continued escalation by the federal forces occupying Minneapolis-St. Paul, we’re going to continue diverting all GFM donations to help people on the ground. $2,549 raised and counting. I’m also collecting material donations through tomorrow! gofund.me/0b3af2ca7

One unintended consequence of this admin's refocus of the military is there's no 2026 cat and dog calendar from the Portland US Army Corps of Engineers. It's honestly devastating. www.nwp.usace.army.mil

Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.

Throwback to the city commissioning art to promote vaccines in 2021. 7-color print, all metal & wood type. More info & process here: www.starshaped.com/postersprint...

I just heard someone say we're only a week into the new year. I've canceled them for spouting offensive lies.

blogged it defector.com/how-hard-is-...

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota: Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

In Sept, ICE killed another person in a car and lied about it. www.reuters.com/world/us/pol...

Me reading a professional listserv: whoa liquor as a conservation issue tell me more! Probably everyone else reading it: an artist's signature is important provenance tell me more!

Applications now open for Web Archiving School fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Apply here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

Poor Mamdani. Still basking in a glow thinking about free buses and then trump's like "we stole another country's president and are dropping him in Brooklyn."

Democrat leaders on this platform want you to believe they are the party of resistance while supporting genocide, rubber stamping Trump's nominees, folding on trans rights, using far-right rhetoric about migrants, working with mass surveillance companies, getting mad they weren't in on a coup.

1. THIS IS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, it's sensors that have been around for decades. 2. Good job, Phoenix airport.

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending": 1. Action Against Hunger 2. ActionAid 3. Alianza por la Solidaridad 4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine 5. CARE 6. DanChurchAid 7. Danish Refugee Council 8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion (cont)

This has very different meaning depending if you print or hunt.

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"Let's see if anyone died." - my mom reading the newspaper, gleefully turning to the obits

Northwestern claimed its deal with the Trump administration placed “no restrictions” on its trans community. But students worry it’s set to exclude trans students across multiple programs and facilities, possibly violating state law. — Reported by @ryaninevanston.bsky.social

Rogers Park resistance to ICE (along with LA, NYC, Maryland) in international news again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You know you've had successful library preservation workshop when people want to look closer at your saved pest traps before heading to lunch.

This entire weekend

Northwestern University law profs argue that NU's "deal" with the Trump admin violates the First Amendment and federal antidiscrimination law. Moreover, the grant freeze Trump imposed on NU was unlawful and should have been challenged in court. www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates?fbcl...

Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress

Tips on cradling precious archival books at home if you don't own fancy foam wedges! (Katie is my archives guru)

It's my time to shine! My lo-fi solution is to use towels or similar and roll up. Another towel can be put down to protect the spine. @bakerdphd.bsky.social

This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

Very grateful for all the tips and products surrounding pencil smells I didn't know existed! Now do New Box of Crayons smell.

It smells like a newly sharpened pencil on this train and I want to ask my seatmate if it's a fragrance I can buy is that weird.

BAHAAHAHAHA I'M DYING* "Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Mr. Rubio said. *or threw my phone at the wall www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Oh ok "but no works of art were affected" just papers. Have fun with your "art" when there's no provenance documentation.