Jen maps and knits

Everyday people have been far more resilient than individuals and institutions with enormous resources at their disposal. Maybe it’s because, after decades of having everything stolen, Americans have less to lose. We know what losing is like, and what it’s like when losing is called winning, and when theft is called business.

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

THIS is how you do it

Look For The Helpers: How Chicagoans Are Supporting Their Neighbors Amid ICE Raids As President Donald Trump deploys federal agents in the city and suburbs, locals are finding ways big and small to help each other. Here's how you can help, too.

Block Club Chicago offers an extensive list of ways that you can support immigrant neighbors and families through rapid response and mutual aid.

#knitting since it is Spooky season, here is a throwback to ¡Anticraft! Back in the stitch n bitch 00's knitting days, this was one of a few alternatives craft pattern sites I enjoyed.

theanticraft.com/archive.htm

Cigna stop sending me LLM services without identifying them as such challenge

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

My favorite horta is called vleeta. It's so yummy!!

Front cover of a newspaper called "The Friday Paper". The cover image is a drawing of the central Johannesburg skyline showing skycrapers and beanth the skyscapers are horizontal layers of pastel-coloured rock.

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.

You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship “There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

Eman talked about why she was taking the risks involved with attending these protests here.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

An escaped miniature Scottish Highland bull is roaming eastern Connecticut Lefty, a miniature Scottish Highland bull, escaped from his home in North Franklin and has spent the past week roaming the woods and fields near Norwich.

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS #nutmegsky www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

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 is a clever concept - I love the fact that the 'd' is dropping down to land at the end of 'ground' in the final line. Bloody brilliant!

#BookSky 💙📚

I grew up in rural Nebraska with electricity from Nebraska REA, but hadn't known it's beginnings

Maps of the Disappearing — Olia Fedorova

Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes

I didn't read the story, I am reposting this to complain that when your state actually has a city called Texas City, you should not use that descriptor in the headline. Just tell us what fucking city.

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, why are they tryin' to cut ya down??

Always remember: pay enough attention to what's happening in the world so that you can get scared. Only the scared can be brave, and everything is better when you're brave.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

A secluded summer Climate change is directly making our quality of life worse.

"In addition to being an existential threat to our future, climate change is preventing us from enjoying the simple pleasures of the present. We're seeing the impact on our ecosystem, physical and mental health."

In this week's Microtones, @stinadale.bsky.social reflects on the confined summer.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

😍 love these!!

Selling Zohran | Defector On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...

about two months ago, i reached out to @boringstein.bsky.social to ask if they'd be open to talking about the incredible videos they were making for Zohran Mamdani's election campaign

it turned into a much bigger story than i expected

Beaker on the cover of Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.

album covers but with muppets: thread

Today marks the anniversary of the first IWW Little Red Songbook, published in 1909 to inspire workers with songs like “Solidarity Forever” by Joe Hill. A labor history classic. Get a copy of the 19th Edition here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Trump's takeover of Washington law enforcement begins as National Guard troops arrive Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration to assist with law enforcement have begun arriving in Washington, D.C.

Mayor Bowser on Trump’s takeover—“How we got here or what we think about the circumstances—right now we have more police, and we want to make sure we use them”—is such a perfect summary of how such an embrace of policing is exactly how we got here, while refusing to consider that.

You Must Protect Anyone Chased by the Fascists "We have to define the politics of opposition."

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.