trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
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trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
More here: theconversation.com/almost-zion-...
Grand Island, NY — 200 years ago today After buying most of this 27-mile island on the US-Canada border, Mordecai Manuel Noah inaugurates “Ararat” as a city of refuge and permanent homeland for Jews from across the globe. The effort was widely mocked and failed soon afterwards.
legend has it this was his tinder photo
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
indeed — quite a poetic ending for him, actually
Oconomowoc Lake, WI — 150 years ago today Increase Allen Lapham dies of a heart attack while fishing. Among many other accomplishments, Lapham wrote dozens of books cataloging Wisconsin’s natural and man-made features and founded the forerunner to the National Weather Service.
on the same bimah where I had my bar mitzvah! Thank you for sharing that about the ark — I didn’t know that. I wonder if any of the torahs are from back on Walnut street?
Source for original image and caption: web.uwm.edu/lib-omeka-ga... Source for video: Isaac Rowlett Media
Today the building is home to the Greater Galilee Baptist Church
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 100 years ago today
another angle of the same incident source: The Georgia Bulletin (of the Archdiocese of Atlanta), September 1967
additional context about the role of Archibishop Cousins during Milwaukee’s open housing marches
Milwaukee, 58 years ago today “Several hundred white youths march from the city's South Side to the home of Milwaukee Archbishop William Cousins. Several carried a stretcher with a dummy representing Fr. James Groppi, leader of open housing marches in the city.” — @gettyimages.com
10/10 recommend this book on LaFollette for anyone curious to learn more about the progressive movement in Wisconsin and beyond uncpress.org/978080786102...
Now that President Trump has approved the disaster declaration for August’s flooding in Milwaukee County, residents can apply for individual assistance directly with FEMA. Please share this information with anyone you know whose home was damaged from the flooding. HT @davidcrowleywi.bsky.social
Good catch — thank you!
Milwaukee, 100 years ago today Addressing a crowd of hundreds of people in his first visit to Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin President Glenn Frank warns that western civilization may be on the brink of collapse.
Milwaukee, 57 years ago today Demonstrators await presidential candidate George Wallace’s arrival at the Schroeder Hotel (now Hilton City Center) A proud segregationist, Wallace enjoyed visiting Milwaukee due to his warm reception among white residents on the city’s south side
Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
Thanks, Joe!
September, 1939
Milwaukee, 2025
Milwaukee, 2025 Part of the western wall of the Milwaukee County Courthouse (1931)
I’m so sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing this, Kris.
Milwaukee, 70 years ago “Hank Aaron standing in front of his locker with misspelled name in the Milwaukee Braves locker room” batting .314, 27 homers & over 90 rbi & playing in the All Star game they still mispelled his name 🤔 📸 by Phillip Harrington in Look magazine
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RIP to Milwaukee’s former poet laureate Susan Firer rereading her tonight & have to share her poem she used as the title of her collection: “Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People” to all who knew her: may her memory be a blessing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025 Named for the silver dollars workers would bring home after a day at the factories in the Menomonee Valley in the 1800s, Silver City has been a diverse neighborhood of Menominee, Potawatomi, Polish, Mexican, Rohingya, & Afghan inhabitants over time.
Yeah they really were. The Westown location was a serious upgrade. I kinda wish they had spared the synagogue that was on the parcel of the third courthouse though.
disappointing! They really should’ve stepped up their game
two rare historic photos of Milwaukee from the brief windows when… 1. both Milwaukee’s first and second courthouses stood (1870, the latter under construction), and 2. when the second and third both stood (1934, both circled in red) the 3rd courthouse still stands today
I’m sure they’ll have great stories to bring back about visiting and investing in the US www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The greatest loss of human life on open water in the known history of the Great Lakes. Gale was involved but the schooner Augusta rammed the Lady Elgin. This horrific sinking resulted in sailing ships being required to have running lights 🌊🌊
Lake Michigan, 165 years ago today 300 perish in the sinking of the Lady Elgin steamship. The majority were Irish Americans from Milwaukee on their way home from Chicago. It was the greatest loss of life on open water in the history of the Great Lakes. cc @lakemichigan13.bsky.social
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025
Your president is a disaster.
many such cases, unfortunately I’m looking forward to us building back more of these neighborhoods in the coming decades
no right answers so far — could you be today’s winner?
Milwaukee — 105 years ago today vs. today Looking west on Center Street from N 17th st in the North Division neighborhood. Aerial photos from similar time periods show the damage wrought by a century of anti-urban policymaking at the local, state and federal levels.
Thank you! This city is gorgeous 😍
Deconstruction
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setting aside our two-century-long rivalry for a moment, this Milwaukeean stands with Chicago the orange tyrant and his goons don’t stand a chance against the grit and power of this mighty city a few 📸s from my latest visit to the City of Big Shoulders
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Where am I, Milwaukee?
that resonates
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025
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oof
What do you think we’ll call this era when he’s gone?
what a shot!
Love you, MKE.
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and built as a photography studio in 1905! lovely building with a lot of potential www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Prop...
let their apologies be as loud as their disrespect. milwaukee is amazing.
we can get there, and honestly I’m more hopeful than ever these days because it was a fiscal crisis that necessitated their transition from prohibitively expensive car-centric urban planning to where they are now and we’re on the same path in Milwaukee
This is the kind gaslighting by politicians we’re seeing more of lately. If it WERE about “building a city that makes sense for everyone” then actual EVIDENCE supports building MORE safe infrastructure that would provide MORE choices. Instead he’s lying to try to make people resent people on bikes.
“now show the North Side”
Milwaukee, 2050
it’s going to take longer than I think many of us wish it would, but I know we can get there looking forward to seeing more of your photos/videos and hearing your insights from your trip I spent a summer in Copenhagen on a human rights fellowship living with a family and found it transformational
mark my words: this will be Milwaukee one day too…
that sounds like quite an adventure!
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
shoutout to Robin Onisch, who was a MIAD student at the time, for the design of that one
did you know Milwaukee used to have not just one but a whole fleet of bookmobiles back in the day??
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Milwaukee, 1951 looking east along Wisconsin Ave from 6th street source: Wisconsin Historical Society
Mitchell Park, Milwaukee — 52 years ago today
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
flashback to when antifa marched on the streets of Milwaukee in 1946
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
can’t make this shit up…read it for yourself here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
defunding weather satellites because they could contribute to climate anxiety is like driving with a blindfold to reduce one’s fear of driving
You’re welcome!
just pre-ordered and looking forward to reading it!
Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/in-t...
On this Labor Day, never forget the sacrifice the 8/8/8 activists made. (From my upcoming book, IN THE ROOM AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD)
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
good day to remember one of Milwaukee’s many positive impacts on our world
reading this now and I strongly recommend it the stakes are very high for the 2030 census and we need to be preparing
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Milwaukee, 80 years ago “Workers and soldiers marched together in Milwaukee's first Labor Day parade in many years, sponsored by the CIO, to demonstrate the common interest of all of the American people: jobs, security, peace.” — Wisconsin Historical Society
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Milwaukee in 1966 vs. 1967 Every time more Americans gain rights there’s always a violent backlash by fragile white guys who get triggered by it. We will defeat them this time, too, and our children will look back on those who resisted this white nationalist wave as heroes.
Thank you! Have this one but it was in the other room when I took this. I need to redo this photo with the full collection and in a different way so the titles are all visible
Milwaukee, 2025
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Thank you!
Raphael Lemkin is rolling in his grave
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Milwaukee, 72 years ago today “A tugboat guides the W. V. Richardson through open bridges on the Milwaukee River. The Buffalo bridge is in the far background, then the Clybourn St bridge, with the Michigan St bridge ahead.” — Milwaukee Public Library
Yes I’m lacking in the fiction department and will happily take recommendations!
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