Michael Corey

@mikejcorey

Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice. Previously: Star Tribune, Reveal. Racial covenants, public history, mapping, data journalism. Team St. Paul.

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Michael Corey@mikejcorey· 1d

Draft only! This is for a table-top map. To be clear in the end this shaded relief is actually Natural Earth. I figured out how to do it custom, but the tile layer I was using wasn't performant.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· 9d

Let's play "spot the above-the-scroll story about how a progressive Democrat absolutely stomped her centrist opponent." Nope, sorry, the one where it talks about "the limits of the left" in a different fricking state doesn't count.

A screenshot of the Minnesota Star Tribune's home page, showing a large story with the headline "Minnesota Republicans put electability before Trump" has a large photo of a smiling Lisa Demuth shaking hands with an unidentified man. A story lower down is headlined "A stunning upset in Wisconsin shows the limits of the left."

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 27

Oh, wow, thanks for clearing that up...

"After Politico asked the White House about the reporting, the press office arranged interviews with three additional senior administration officials on the condition of anonymity who are regularly on the calls. Highlighted: They disputed that Miller yells at Lyons directly, with one saying the deputy chief of staff is 'passionate' and another saying he asks 'very pointed questions in a very assertive tone.'"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 26

Here's an excerpt I just found from the Klan's MN paper in 1923 about how history should be taught, which also seems straight outta this administration (Warning, racist content)

"America was settled, founded and started by several groups of men, all of well nigh unmixed Nordic blood. These groups coming from the British Isles, Scandinavia, Maritime Germany, Holland, and from among the French Huguenots, mingled and fused so completely, that by the time of the Revolutionary war, they were a homogenous people of Anglo-Saxon culture." ...

"The homogenous group that fought and won the Revolutionary war was white in color, Anglo-Saxon in culture, Christian in religion, and intensely Protestant by conviction. The number of individuals who participated in that war who did not conform to the above description was so small as to be negligible, and its influence was even smaller proportionately than its numbers. A trifling number of Catholics fought in that war. It is also true that a few negroes were killed in the disturbances incident thereto, and of that war, as he profits by every event of human woe. But never was a war which the Jew profited by financing fought by a people more uniform in culture and kind." ...

"Absolutely without the most insignificant assistance, or leadership from any other group, they created America, its culture, industry, inventions, its national life, and everything in it that is worth while."

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 26

We try, random piece of mail, we try.

White piece of paper with words "Official Document, Do Not Compromise Integrity, Handle With Care"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 11

And if you think the digital world makes physical libraries obsolete: Where the fuck do you think they got the old books to scan?

"Goose chasing guy" meme, with text: "Where do you think scanned books come from? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 5

I think it means she's just dubbing VHS tapes for each of Trump's planes...

A photo of a DVD cover labeled "The Shield: The Complete Series" with a bald, light-skinned man staring directly at the camera.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Feb 12

Drake hotline bling meme: "Activist judges / Deadhead judges"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Feb 12

These judges are out of control and must be stopped. 🤣

Screenshot of ruling with highlighted text: "as Bob Dylan famously said, 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.'

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Feb 8

The perfect Star Tribune headline doesn't exis...

Screenshot of news website: "Opinion: Maybe a little both sides-ism is exactly what we need right now"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Jan 19

Newspaper clipping: WHY DO THEY WEAR MASKS?

"When an organization can't face the people without masks, have no use for it." This bit of advice, relative to the Ku Klux Klan, recently came in a letter to this office. Behold, how great a matter a fiery cross kindleth! How a piece of white cotton can blind some people's eyes! Truly the god of Romanism has blinded the unbelieving minds of many Protestants so as to shut out the glorious sunshine of Christianity and patriotism.

If the Klan organization had been of human origin, it would have ceased to exist long ago; but somehow it is thriving mightily on the milk of persecution and making bold strides up and down our great country, even in frigid Alaska. Like the Hebrews of Moses' time, the more they are afflicted the more they multiply and grow.

"Masks!' It might as well be said that the Allies should not have held private conferences, covered their big guns and officers headquarters with underbrush, camouflaged their ships, lived in dugouts, or fought in trenches, they were afraid of the enemy and ashamed their cause; their should have done everything in the open and above board.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Jan 16

You can't just make up statements like this, particularly without attribution. I want to know who this expert is who is both an expert in ICE's current procedures and training regimens AND this unnamed doctor's training. And what does this add? If ICE is trained to deny medical care, that's not OK.

"Neither the purported doctor nor the agent in the exchange has been identified. [HIGHLIGHTED] But experts in emergency response said both were likely acting within their training [END HIGHLIGHT], and they couldn't determine whether bystander aid might have changed the outcome. Good was taken to HCMC in Minneapolis after she was shot in the head while trying to flee the federal agents and pronounced dead at the hospital, according to Minneapolis police accounts and video of the scene.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Nov 17

Don't let AI do history for you, exhibit 1,000... And a perfect illustration of how these things are designed to sound much more authoritative than they should. It's not random, that's a choice!

A screenshot of Google search results, at the top showing an AI Overview that says there is no record of a "St. Paul Southern Electric Railway," with the first search result below the AI summary being a link to an article about that definitely real railway.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Sep 23

The editor of St. Paul's KKK paper, "The Call of the North," has thoughts about those things your kids are learning in public schools, Aug. 31, 1923.

A news clipping: "TEXTBOOKS. Do you realize that there are books used in the public schools of America that are instruments of propaganda of a most un-American kind? Our boys and girls are taught things that tend to destroy all sparks of love for our great institutions, principles, ideals and traditions. Investigate the textbooks used in your school."

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Sep 22

We deserve this... theonion.com/throwback-an...

A black-and-white cartoon showing a man with pointed teeth and a t-shirt labeled "SISQOS" leaning against a window labeled "DANCE CLUB." He says: 'YES ... HA HA HA ... YES!'

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Sep 9

Peak cringe boosterism and wishful thinking to boot.

An online news headline: "BREAKING 12 MINUTES AGO Live: Downtown Minneapolis abuzz with Target and other workers called back to the office"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Aug 29

Fuck you, dude.

"Rep. Tom Emmer is calling for Minnesota to repeal its transgender refuge law following the deadly Annunciation Catholic Church shooting."

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Aug 27

When I was still at the Strib there was a lot of talk of reforming how police stories are covered. But apparently tweeting the scanner is still fair game. Look, I want details ASAP too, but there's nothing to distinguish this from spammy crime apps.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Aug 15

Should I drop public history and give my life to "thermal spray?"

A screenshot from an email, reading: "SEMI: Symposium on Emerging Materials and Innovations in Thermal Spray, Melbourne, Australia, December 1-3, 2025, Save the Date!"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Jul 17

Today is not like when I was a kid.

A screenshot of a newspaper headline reading "Eden Prairie wants residents to name the city's new THC gummy"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· May 31

Look what my friend @alletson.bsky.social has been up to!

A photo of a comic book cover with a red background. A dark-skinned, muscular man faces away from the viewer, looking back and pointing at the back of his leather jacket, where "Terrific" is embroidered.

The cover of a DC comic book entitled "Mr. Terrific Year One." A dark-skinned man with a black mask covering the front of his face seems to juggle 3 ball-shaped objects suspended in midair, each with an orange "T" emblazoned on them.

A close-up of the credits on the comic book cover: "Al Letson, Valentine De Landro, Marissa Louise"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· May 21

Fixed this homer headline...

A marked-up newspaper headline. The original reads: "Target's executive signals newfound urgency on fixing problems" The end of the text is crossed out and replaced so that the edited headline reads "Target's executive shakeup signals things are going quite badly"

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Apr 25

OK so maybe concave_hull was not a good choice here...

A map of an urban area overlaid with crazy mishmash of jagged pink boundaries criss-crossing each other chaotically, along with unintelligibly small labels. Useless. All is folly.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 21

Doing initial processing on 8.7 million pages of Contra Costa County records to find suspected racial covenants. Currently running at 35 pages per second.

Michael Corey@mikejcorey· Mar 14

I got into the board room, the police presence is more than a bit much. The whole 6-story building is mostly empty, but they weren't letting more than a few people in because they're "at capacity."