Doug Sackman

he chafed at being told to pick up his garbage in high school. there were janitors for that

i haven't travelled internationally since 47, but it's unAmerican that he has made me worry about my first amendment rights and getting back now

Bizarre DHS Social-Media Strategy: Something to White Home About Contempt, cruelty, and weaponized sentimentality.

of a piece with their use of 1488. www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-dh...

...Mother Earth...

Sounds interesting. The first part of the description sounds like what Robert Lee has done tracing the literal dollars and cents cost paid to Indigenous nations after, and long after, the money was exchanged with Napoleon.

manufacturing consent in our medium-message times,

and the need to push back

Keys to the kingdom, but Trump can't read his teleprompter properly to say "kingdom come" in his brass ring speech yesterday

"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

The Battle of Wounded Nuts.

"His Place in History is Settled."

bsky.app/profile/patr...

When they say "enemy within" that's fascism.

from "a government of the people, by the people, for the people"

to one

"against the people, against the people, against the people"

what's the definition of treason again?

"defense" is too pacifist; and "secretary" too girly. he wants to be known as

The Manservant of War

evangelical psychopath says what?

Hegseth today: "Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

Or listen to Arlo Guthrie's original version of this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NzF...

Lead in gas is my metaphor/analogy, but asbestos is perfect

The Battle of Wounded Nuts

Like this guy? bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Coal did make the world go round...in 1870.

(see, for example, Joyce Caplin, Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit)

Remember to forget the Alamo, with Trouillot, Silencing the Past (and Sayles, Lone Star).

Also: Memory is both constructed and contested. Try to show both in process: the construction site (who's working and with what tools) and the arena of battle (who's fighting, and with what and where).

"the Xerox 914 beats on ceaselessly,"

but it doesn't cover many other histories per se doing this. she is essentially setting up a social history and cultural history approach to place

This is dated, but Dolores Hayden, “The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space”, which is the first part of her book The Power of Place, & also published elsewhere as a chapter (I think I have a pdf if you want to email me, not sure it has the notes). It's a good interdisciplinary intro to place

keystone cops

Throw no one under the bus.

Everyone deserves a seat, with dignity.

Haitians.

Trans kids and adults.

Everyone.

Thanks Ta-Nehisi Coates.

and they should be impeached. but more realistically, dems need to place at least 6 non-corrupt justices on the bench

front corner of "powell's books" in portland

"My dearest Elizabeth,

...our scout has located a huge antifa armory, occupying a full city block, with millions of magazines of ammo stocked floor to ceiling..."

& a great new paint job too. i'm sorry to admit i've gone to the dark side of frames, but i still have the steel custom frame i had in reed days—from ron cooper, which i got from a bike racer in 1985, and rode it everywhere in portland, down the coast, and in europe. it needs a rehab & new paint.