Patrick Collier

Sunday after Thanksgiving. Singing for my supper (of gin).

Spotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️

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Everyday life in Middletown - YouTube Find out more about the Everyday Life in Middletown project here: https://bsudsl.org/edlmiddletown/. Cover image: A photo submitted to the Everyday Life in M...

For those that weren't able to make our webinar with @patcollier.bsky.social and Jim Connolly, you can now catch up on YouTube!

Learn more about the Everyday Life in Middletown archive as well as how the writers in archive write about comprehend crisis

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!

Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"

We'll be talking about our Everyday Life in Middletown book with some amazing English scholars, including the brilliant Ben Highmore, tomorrow at 9 a.m. EDT (2 GDT). Free, but register at the link. Hope to see you there!
universityofsussex.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thoughts and prayers, from a heart-sprung Phillies fan.

The wannabe dictator and his cabal think they’re a tidal wave, crashing to wash everything away. But they’re just rough waves on the shore — noise and foam. The real tide is us steady and rising.

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities

"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."

Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE dete...

Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.

Join us on Oct. 7 for our next seminar on modern America, "Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown."" Authors @patcollier.bsky.social & James J. Connolly, with comments by @thomassdavis.bsky.social. Register: www.masshist.org/eve...

So pleased to be presenting our work to the excellent scholars at and around Mass Observation & with Ben Highmore, whom we so admire, hosting.
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Everyday Life in Middletown is inspired by the book 'Middletown: A Study of a Midwestern City' and Mass Observation. In this event, Project Director Patrick Collier and Director James Connolly will discuss the project with Ben Highmore

Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...

"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― David Graeber

Pleased to be engaging with accomplished scholars about my work, with Jim Connolly, about "Middletown" (i.e. Muncie, Indiana). Tuesday Oct. 7 at 5 p.m.
You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link.
www.masshist.org/events/crisi...

Then and Now
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

A DC crowd within sight of the White House calls for Free DC, not using the National Guard for a political ploy

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Disgraceful.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Not only not weird: a productive exercise with a long history in therapy.

Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly A visit to one distribution site shows how a system designed to squeeze out the U.N. and Hamas continues to draw hungry Palestinians into deadly encounters.

Just to be clear, this ain't the liberal media reporting:
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

awesome, Matt: congrats!!

Also, feel free to smash that preorder button.

cover art for Oprah magazine honoring Breonna Taylor, a young woman, 26 years old, with beautiful, expressive brown eyes - she was shot and killed in 2020 when police forced entry into her home

Portrait of
Breonna Taylor🕯

Alexis Franklin
artist

The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.

Free the Spokane 9

Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent

This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

At our Everyday Life in Middletown archive, volunteer writers post one-day diaries of specified days, recording their activities, thoughts, and feelings. A new diary set is up on the archive, along with this blog post offering an overview.
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...

This was a nice distraction this week. My top 10.

so sorry to hear that and glad H. is ok. That title is too good not to make it into fiction.