Kathleen Sullivan

I learned so much about the internecine meme wars from this book www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars...

Wonderful news, @jamellebouie.net. Congratulations!

This one starts out strong, and then keeps going. Love this!

The Local Politics of Public Health — Urban Affairs Review A podcast miniseries featuring the authors of the UAR symposium on the relationship between local politics and public health.

🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms!
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I can't stop thinking about this article @marissaesque.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Autocrats like Trump "rule by law" There's an important difference between the "rule of law" and "rule by law"

I posted this last night, actually, on this very thing. It's the difference between democratic "rule of law" and autocratic "rule by law": jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/autocrats-...

This is the sort of thing that South Carolina did after the Civil War. To boost its white population, SC recruited immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.000...

This here's a seminal meme

Vital City | Dirtier Politics, Cleaner Streets? Lessons about corruption from the history of garbage

The history of garbage pickup in big cities suggests that corruption actually has some utility. Dumpster dive with us: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/les...

A CRS report offers a handy primer if you don't want to dust off your Antifederalist Papers crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

Remember when the Antifederalists expressed fears that a standing army would turn against the people? The Federalists assured them not to worry because the "whole power of raising armies was lodged in the Legislature." avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

"ours"(!)

Jerold Auerbach, "Progressives at Sea," in a 1961 issue of Labor History should address this. I've got an article about this in the next issue of Federal History Journal

Florence Kelley, of the Consumers League, was quite active in promoting safety at sea in support of this bill. She writes about it in an essay, "Women and Social Legislation"

Hi Tully, based on my study of U.S. sailor mobilization: The Titanic disaster was invoked to support efforts toward "safety at sea," included in La Follette's bill that became the labor-friendly Seamen's Act of 1915.

I've got something! I'll reply to Tully

That is an excellent idea! Thank you for the suggestion (and the push)

No, we've never been been asked. We'd always be game to talk with him

What a find! Same old story, new resources

@patriciastrach.bsky.social

You're the best, Eileen! Props to those designers, indeed. The visuals were so instructive, and the interactive graphics were so engaging

Thank you, Ashley!

A student of mine is presenting a poster at MPSA, but I won't be there. Does anyone know of student events at MPSA that I could connect her with? polisky

A cat curled up on a bookshelf

Are we doing cats of polisky?

Trash Talk : History and Politics of Trash with Patricia Strach and Kathleen Sullivan Listen to this episode from Shortcast over Coffee on Spotify. Slipping on a banana peel is a cliché, a vintage vaudeville gag. But its origins weren’t just slapstick comedy. Before it became a come...

Patricia Strach and I enjoyed the chance to explain how our studies of families led us to research garbage collection. It's all polisci

Seriously, I was *just* thinking about this. Departments of public safety used to encompass law enforcement and health, with so much in between. From Columbus, 1898:

I used it for the first time this summer. It's so much better than discussion boards! Will use again

Thrilled to see The Politics of Trash reviewed in Journal of the American Planning Association. It sees early 20thc patterns appear in midcentury waste management planning. And says we have “a knack for storytelling and archival research.” JAPAplanning polisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@profmusgrave.bsky.social could you please add me to the polisky list? Thanks!

Thank you very much, @clancyny.bsky.social. Glad to be here, and always happy to talk trash!