And also at least read the Wikipedia entry on Gleichschaltung. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...
Author of The Telegraph in America (JHUP 2012). Now working on a digital/public history of urban renewal in New York State and beyond. Check out some of our (Ann Pfau, Stacy Sewell, and me) work at https://considerthesourceny.org/access/topic/urban-renewal
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And also at least read the Wikipedia entry on Gleichschaltung. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...
I assume Pritzker could mobilize the IL NG and have them blockade Great Lakes?
Happy Labor Day to all unions except for cop unions, which I would argue are not real unions but crime syndicates
The vaccine works! Thanks Judith @1789jam.bsky.social for the post.
Read this, read it again, breath the words into your lungs, and then go live them. This is our mission. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Yeah, it's long, but read this.
Looks deserted. Did everyone flee?
"Man came up to me, big tall guy, long black cloak, hood, tears in his eyes, holding a scythe. He said sir.."
For three months running, we have been calling attention to the corporate complicity of Avelo Airlines as the floundering carrier tries to stay financially viable with blood money from ICE. Simply put, the Trump deportation machine cannot effectively function without corporations like Avelo.
"I have never wished harm upon a man, but I have read many an obituary with great satisfaction. "
The presidential candidate who runs on the slogan "THERE WILL BE TRIALS!" has my vote.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
This *and* e-bikes
When a grand jury declines to indict a case, it’s called a “no bill.” Here’s why that matters so much right now. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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No Kings, No Occupations — Toward a Democratic Opposition Politics talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-ki...
Needs "Come And Take It" also.
OMG, I would buy this album.
"One of the throughlines in the history of technology is that big, new infrastructural technologies often make more uncompensated labor. People may have to do more things to essentially shepherd those technologies along and make sure that they don’t break down..." www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...
Urbanists and historians--can anyone recommend a good history of squatting in NYC (or elsewhere?) Thanks in advance.
I wrote about the ways different concentration camp systems have ended and how to stop the massive expansion of detention happening in the U.S. right now.
will never not repost this or his one about walking to the post office
Did a seismograph sign the letter?
Led by Colonel Mustard.
I want these! How can I get them?
As long as it doesn't violate the Genoa Convention
CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon. ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk] CHIEF: Both of ‘em. ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]
YOU CANNOT SEND THE MILITARY TO A CITY. CRIME RATE IS IRRELEVANT.
He might be a repita offender
Waste and abuse: "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes" "50% of municipal budgets "NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year "White nationalists pervade law enforcement "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police 10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
Not the most important point here, but "West End?" Obviously crafted by someone with a deep knowledge of DC neighborhoods
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
I did this — writers, heads up.
"Please, no provolone," he insisted cheesily.
Rrriiiight
Alright transit urbanists. Do not even effing start me on the clusterfuck that is getting from JFK to Manhattan. Greatest transit system in the country, my ass.
I might also add that some ethnicities are just more prone to criminal behavior. I hear he is an Italian mix.
This is no laughing matter. These attacks can be breadly
That's fair. Maybe we're in a simulation and they're just fucking with us
Do I have it right, that our Reichstag fire is Big Balls getting carjacked by two 15 year olds? Is this timeline really that stupid?
Yessss. Spin Doctors are an underrated jam band. And I adore Blues Traveler.
Obviously I need to scroll down to see the entire thread... or get the AI summary
Or Afghan Whigs
You have to make sure the quantum frequency is just right
Angry mimes kidnapped me and dragged me to the Hirshhorn
How many score were in the gang?
Chicago was going to build it but decided to build O'Hare instead.
Fifty-one years ago today.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Instantly falling asleep inside a moving vehicle
Starting to think NYC is the city with the real inferiority complex
He's going to give Alaska back
"Live Love Laugh " also too
Hence the thousand yard stare
Yeah. But at least Illinois just outlawed AI therapists
Hell, I still have the thousand yard stare from fighting on the "they is not a singular pronoun " hill. Not sure if I can still go on.
We used to be a proper country
I blame Buckley for creating this model of intellectual--big words and convoluted sentences with zero actual meaning
Is... is this one sentence?
Naturally
Your feed is just a pipeline for bad puns
Wurst case scenario
Cubs 2016. Tipped us into this timeline
I asked ChatGPT what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what it said to me: Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours to see Que sera, sera STICK YOUR HAND IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
Agreed. And I was very happy with the whole publishing process. Thanks!
I just sent JHU Press a message that I want to opt out. My telegraph book came out in 2012 with them. I don't want my work to be used to train AI. I want nothing at all to do with AI in any way.
This really showcases the headline writer's range.
OMG. I had been sitting next to John Turturro on Amtrak. I fell asleep as soon as I took the aisle seat and had no idea who I was sitting next to until he asked me to let him out at rhinecliff
Humans have to do the labor so that the machines have time for leisure activities like art and writing
“I was looking forward to taking a short walk and catching up with friends at the Interfaith Center, when I was suddenly surrounded and grabbed by a swarm of masked individuals, who handcuffed me and shoved me into an unmarked car.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
Eh. Irregardless.
So they *did* make it back to the Alpha Quadrant!
We have certain things in common, Neelix... #StarTrek #Sisko197 #NeelixFiles
What if it was just a fluke?
A wurst kase scenario
His nemesis is Bratman.
New at The Watch: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...
The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz.
It takes real moxie to do this kind of history.
One of my favorite bookstores! Man with the Golden Arm House on Mango Street
This image will join a whole bunch of urban renewal digital assets and inventories of local urban renewal agency records on the NY Heritage site: nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
I found this sales brochure for a demolition company in the Gloversville (NY) Urban Renewal Agency records.
Urban renewal demolition, maybe in Oakland as well
good headline
Postwar urban planning in a nutshell--let's demolish buildings for urban renewal for the sole purpose of saving drivers a few seconds. Gloversville, NY.
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." -Saint Thomas Aquinas
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
I'm more and more convinced that the real political divide is between people with and without empathy. Do you care about people you've never met or not. And for fuck's sake reread Matthew 25.
America: [1776-?] Some great ideas marred by poor direction and unlikable characters. Greed, bigotry, and gratuitous violence. ★★☆☆☆
Yes. That "loophole" in the 13th amendment wide enough you could drive a coffle through.
Here's part of USAID's Flickr feed. Posting it for, oh, no reason. www.flickr.com/photos/usaid... www.flickr.com/photos/usaid...
This is convict leasing.
Happy belated Bobby Bonilla Day to all those who celebrate!
Cages!!! Video inside Alligator Alcatraz. 👇🏼Migrants with NO criminal record will be held here and for anyone saying anything about Obama was sued over detention conditions BUT was also 72 hour hold. This is LONG TERM and looks like 9 bunk beds in each cell.
The Chicago Daily News reporting from Germany two days before the Enabling Act of 1933, which granted Hitler the power to rule by decree
And here it is: alphahistory.com/nazigermany/...