Geomantic
@geomantic8.bsky.social
TeachOSM, OpenStreetMap, GWU Geography
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Today’s Tesla Takedown/Take Down the Regime protest in Arlington VA was kind of a big production, with an anti-trillionaire theme (as though we didn’t already have billionaires to worry about)…\1
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Today’s Tesla Takedown/Take Down the Regime protest in Arlington VA was kind of a big production, with an anti-trillionaire theme (as though we didn’t already have billionaires to worry about)…\1
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I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death.
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death.
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'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record | Common Dreams
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
www.commondreams.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...
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Also, if you’re a Dem who can’t see that Epstein IS about affordability, u need a new job. A bunch of very rich people have rigged the system to make sure they stay rich and don’t have to play by the rules the rest of us do — tax law, antitrust law, and even laws against sex trafficking children.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Also, if you’re a Dem who can’t see that Epstein IS about affordability, u need a new job. A bunch of very rich people have rigged the system to make sure they stay rich and don’t have to play by the rules the rest of us do — tax law, antitrust law, and even laws against sex trafficking children.
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
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November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
POP(SICLE) PSYCHOLOGY | Gin and Tacos
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November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
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Lmao being the transpo secretary and saying this is wild shit I love it
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Lmao being the transpo secretary and saying this is wild shit I love it
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“People don't really understand when, in a situation where the Democrats were seen to be winning the politics of the shutdown, when Donald Trump was flailing — why would you end this now?” - @ddayen.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“People don't really understand when, in a situation where the Democrats were seen to be winning the politics of the shutdown, when Donald Trump was flailing — why would you end this now?” - @ddayen.bsky.social.
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They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
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Being good at making money doesn’t mean you’re good at anything else. It definitely doesn’t mean your opinions on anything else are important. It most likely just means you’re ruthless, which is the primary trait of most rich people.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Being good at making money doesn’t mean you’re good at anything else. It definitely doesn’t mean your opinions on anything else are important. It most likely just means you’re ruthless, which is the primary trait of most rich people.
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I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
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Franz Marc, Playing Dogs, c. 1912 #franzmarc
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Franz Marc, Playing Dogs, c. 1912 #franzmarc
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Small building
Wharton, TX
Wharton, TX
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Small building
Wharton, TX
Wharton, TX
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Each state for the State Face font is projected using a relevant state plane projection, and the U.S. (lowercase z) is projected using Texas Centric Albers Equal Area. The source shapefiles are adapted from Natural Earth data.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Each state for the State Face font is projected using a relevant state plane projection, and the U.S. (lowercase z) is projected using Texas Centric Albers Equal Area. The source shapefiles are adapted from Natural Earth data.
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New to me so sharing -- for those of you who didn't know, there's a font available that gives you tiny US state shapes that can be used as design elements.
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
StateFace
propublica.github.io
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New to me so sharing -- for those of you who didn't know, there's a font available that gives you tiny US state shapes that can be used as design elements.
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
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I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
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Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
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Totally cool and normal when your "colleagues" talk about your position like this over a "disagreement" (they want you to actually grow a spine and fight while you simply refuse to)
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Totally cool and normal when your "colleagues" talk about your position like this over a "disagreement" (they want you to actually grow a spine and fight while you simply refuse to)
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Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.
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Democrats put health care subsidies in the foreground while No Kings measures to restore power of the purse stayed in the background. They then got nothing on health care, while of course letting the background stuff go, except for some short-term RIF prohibtions designed to get Kaine's vote.
Sen. @kaine.senate.gov, I'm a constituent and just called your office, but of course it's closed, so let me message you instead. Do NOT support the CR-Minibus because it does not protect Congress's power of the purse. Without such provisions, the WH will continue to ignore Congress with impunity.
What's in the CR Deal for Congress?
With a vote as early as tonight, we quickly ran the numbers
firstbranchforecast.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Democrats put health care subsidies in the foreground while No Kings measures to restore power of the purse stayed in the background. They then got nothing on health care, while of course letting the background stuff go, except for some short-term RIF prohibtions designed to get Kaine's vote.
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So here's where we are, Sunday morning:
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
So here's where we are, Sunday morning:
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
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The Republicans are going all the way to the Supreme Court to starve hungry children but please tell me again how the shutdown is the fault of the Democrats.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Republicans are going all the way to the Supreme Court to starve hungry children but please tell me again how the shutdown is the fault of the Democrats.
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Understanding the nuance of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 4 dimensional chess…
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Understanding the nuance of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 4 dimensional chess…