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Dr. Jessica BrodeFrank
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She/her. Asst Professor & Digital Librarian @ UIC. PM @ Chicago Collections Consortium. Libraries, Archives, Museums girlie. Digital Humanities researcher. Chicago obsessed, food driven, constantly watching something. Chronically ill, powered by spite.
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Chicago kids always had to worry about snow on Halloween but it’s despicable they have to worry about ICE. Asking federal agents not to tear gas children, dystopian. Having those agents refuse to show restraint and humanity, disgusting.
Q: “Governor Pritzker has asked for Operation Midway Blitz to be on pause for the holiday weekend. Are you willing to do that?”

Noem: “No, we're absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe. The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful.”
If anyone asks what I’m dressing up as for Halloween this year I’m just gonna take their water, make up a lie, and leave. I’m ChatGPT bitches.
Took less than an hour at a middle school history fair to pivot my talking points to “over 60” instead of using “67” as a stat because apparently 6 & 7 in close proximity is hilarious.
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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.
"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."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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And the Supreme Court said it’s fine for them to target people based on how they look. Truly a despicable, deplorable, devastating, dictatorial time in US history.
wbez.org WBEZ @wbez.org · Sep 29
U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’
U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation," Gov. JB Pritzker said.
trib.al
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I personally didn't enter librarianship because I wanted to direct people to use surveillance tech owned by private equity firms but sometimes I wonder about my peers
It’s been almost two months since museum senior officials walked into the Abakanowicz Research Center, the hub of the city’s archival holdings, and announced that every staff member would be reduced to part-time hours, leaving them without health insurance and a significant portion of their incomes.
Chicago History Museum cuts hinder research, exploration
The timing couldn't have been worse. The Trump administration has slashed museum budgets, the Smithsonian is being reviewed to align with Donald Trump's vision of America and the school year just star...
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A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.
When they’re sending the military in to your city, banning vaccines, and so much more, but your out of office is on and you’re recharging for action a thousand miles away with the most beautiful train ride thanks to @amtrak.com.
Chicago has not asked for federal troops. We do not need federal troops. We need the funds we’ve paid in federal taxes to be distributed back to the state as congressionally budgeted. No one, mayor, governor or citizen has asked for this deployment and the people of Chicago will be harmed by it.
She heard me tell the dog sitter she’s older now and needs slower walks and puppy potty pads for accidents. Apparently that was shit we were supposed to keep within the family.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"We believe you don't solve crime by sending in the military."

"We are being targeted because of who we are as a city."
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Pritzker exhorts the news media to "tell it like it is:"

"Donald Trump wants to use the U.S. Military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points."

"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."
Surprising no one, the list of “unAmerican” content is that which highlights/discusses white privilege, Latino culture, Black culture, and COVID history and LGBTQ+ history. Absolute bullshit.

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...
White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable
www.nytimes.com
A cream soda will do in a pinch.
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The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”
She’s either a Japanese spitz or an American Eskimo. She’s big for a spitz but small for an American Eskimo so anyone’s guess.
My 35lb freeloader threw a temper tantrum when I wouldn’t give her more French fries (yes I’m weak so she got some), so I painted her portrait to show how her adorably silly she is.
Me: on our first vacation in years worried how the dogs doing without us.

The dog: absolutely throwing her charms at the dog sitter, her people completely forgotten
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one day, everyone will have been against this
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Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are st
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“The rapid, chaotic, and cruel approach to arresting and locking people up is literally deadly and causing a human rights crisis that will plague this state and the entire country for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
www.theguardian.com