Isaac Rowlett

thanks for boosting the signal, Amy!

Yup

yeah the sad truth is there is no such thing as a climate haven

let’s each do our part

Exactly. Sadly, I’m guessing it will take much more death and destruction though for enough folks to realize this to meaningfully change policy.

There are no more havens. We broke them all. Insane.

Show this to the next person who tells you that Wisconsin is a “climate haven.”

We’ve seen increased precipitation rates for decades, and this flooding is just a sign of what’s to come.

Now’s the time to prepare for the wetter, warmer, & more unpredictable weather.

Це моє місто 🥰

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025

I think many (most?) people in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee would be surprised to learn that it’s like 99.9% chill like this & .1% like what they hear about on AM radio or tv news

I wish more people outside of Milwaukee knew that this is what it looks like on North 42nd street between North & Center

Sure is! We have a bunch of fun events arranged throughout the season from 2300-2800 block where we have the streets blocked off and stuff

Sherman Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025

Answer: Riverwest (specifically the side of Sunrise Foods on Weil & Locust)

Winner: @steve42.bsky.social

Thanks for playing!

I really have no clue to be honest. I’m hoping the coalitions come into better focus in the next 6-9 months but right now things seem so up in the air and Dems are so fractured that I’m really not sure.

Photo of a surrealist painting of a person a bike riding a ray of sunshine above and upside down from a row of houses in a city

Where am I, Milwaukee?

Amen

A cartoon on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal on 8/7/1925 showing a tree labeled “crime” trying to grab Uncle Sam and the root system of the tree labeled with things like “maudlin sympathy for crooks” and “easy purchasing of arms.” The caption reads “The Life of the Tree Depends on Its Roots”

Milwaukee, 100 years ago today

And now the census

yes please!

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Black and white photo of the ruins of a multistory building with a dome on top

Black and white photo of Hiroshima in the 1940s before the Us dropped a nuclear bomb on it

Black and white photo of the ruins of Hiroshima after the US dropped a nuclear bomb on it

Hiroshima, Japan — 80 years ago today at 8:15am

The United States drops a nuclear bomb (“little boy”) on the densely populated city of 225,000 civilians.

62% of the residents (140,000) died from the blast or its effects by the end of 1945.

Treaty Councils, from Prairie du Chien to Madeline Island During August 1825, thousands of Indians representing all the Wisconsin tribes gathered in Prairie du Chien. Territorial governors William Clark of Missouri and Lewis Cass of Michigan facilitated discussions that produced a general treaty of peace among all the tribes. Henry Schoolcraft left a long accounte of this seminal event in chapter 23 of his memoirs (see below), and painter J.O. Lewis captured the scene and dozens of Indian leaders in color (all included here?). Although it granted no land to the United States, the Prairie du Chien treaty of 1825 opened the door for talks with individual tribes that were intended to do just that. Between 1829 and 1833 the first four of these transferred U.S. title to all lands south of the Fox-Wisconsin waterway, and in five more councils over the next fifteen years the tribes cede nearly all the rest of Wisconsin to the U.S. government. In a single generation, under the pressure of overwhelming military force, people who had lived here for centuries or millennia lost their rights to their native lands.. More than seventy treaties were negotiated with Wisconsin Indians between 1804 and 1854. Though compensation was always granted for ceded territory, it was often minimal as white negotiators took advantage of their Indian counterparts. "We are ignorant of the way you measure land," says a Menominee chief in one of the documents given here. "We do not know what you mean by the acres you speak of. What is it?" U.S. negotiators could be equally ignorant: they negotiated and signed more than one treaty with Indians who lacked authority to speak for their nation. In addition to ignorance, factors such as misplaced benevolence, romantic paternalism, simple racism, malice, and plain human greed all played roles in the legal dispossession of Wisconsin's first peoples.

"A stain on humanity, which will endure for generations."

*58

Wow…thank you for sharing this. It’s clear from this and other stories I’ve heard over the years how impactful the unrest was on so many people who witnessed it.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 68 years ago today

“Police respond to reports of a sniper at the intersection of N. Hopkins and W. Chambers Streets. Starting July 30th, there had several days of rioting and unrest.” —Milwaukee Public Library

Women dressed in
Handmaid regalia follow
GOP Congressman Rep. Mike Flood NEBRASKA (R)

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Painting of a gathering of US officials and tribal leaders with a large American flag raised in the center of the gathering

Painting of a Native American Chief with caption reading “named “KED-O-KUCK” OR THIS WATCHING TOX The present Chief of the Sauk tribe and Successor to Black Hawk.”

Painting of a group of Native American leaders with caption reading “THE PIPE DANCE and of the Chippeway tribe. THE TOMAHAWK DAYUE”

Painting of a Native American leader with caption reading “Lahmin X Baral Lith o KAA-NUN-DER-WAAGUINSD-ZDD or the BERRY PICKER A famous Chippewa Chief Paintedal the Iresty of Pravia du Chun 1825 hyJ O Lewi.”

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin — 200 years ago today

Leaders of all of Wisconsin’s tribes and American territorial governors sign a treaty that paves the way for the US government to — under threat of military force — dispossess almost all tribes of their land within a generation