We’re doing this. It’s long past time.

My review of Bruce Harkness's book, Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019, has now been published in the most recent issue of Polish American Studies. This author's link, good for 3 months, will take you to the review. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...

Happy #CulinaryArtsMonth! To celebrate the culture behind cooking, check out Polish American Studies 81.1, a special issue on Polish American foodways 🥟https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/issue/81/1

In Polish American Studies Vol. 82, No. 1, Martin J. Hershock discusses Detroit's Federal Screw Works Strike of 1938, in which Polonia's working-class women played a major but unrecognized role. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...

Check out Polish American Studies for scholarship related to all aspects of the history and culture of Poles in the Western Hemisphere. Accepting submissions from all humanities/social sciences disciplines, with 70 volumes already published. www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...

Polish American Studies 82.2 is available online! Article contributors include Anna Podciborska, Marek Skurski, Silvia Dapía ( @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ), David J. Jackson, and Izabella Kimak (whose article is OPEN ACCESS!). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas

✨🆓 In honor of the #AHA26 conference, this article from Polish American Studies 75.1 is free to access through March 31, 2026! "The Other Diaspora: Measuring Assimilation Among Polish Gay Men in Chicago" by Hubert Izienicki scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti... cc: @historians.org

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

BREAKING: ICE to Be Deployed with DOJ Election Monitors in Latino Communities — Here’s What They’re Not Telling You open.substack.com/pub/levremem...

SEEKING co-authors to help comb IPN archives in Poland and Piłsudski archives in the US. The topic is an understudied 20th-Century Polish-American leader, with primary research well developed. (Part 1)

SEEKING co-authors to help comb IPN archives in Poland and Piłsudski archives in the US. The topic is an understudied 20th-Century Polish-American leader, with primary research well developed. (Part 1)

This should be illegal. It's outrageous that the government would do something like this!

Trump turned the DOJ into the Dept of Revenge while Peter Thiel is building phase 2, a Christo-Fascist-Oligarchy. Gee wiz, I just thought they would stop illegals from eating my pet. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A couple of days ago my post mentioned the murder--most likely a hit job--of Communist activist Thomas X. Dombrowski of Detroit/Hamtramck. Here is more on that 1956 murder.

In 1940, Hamtramck's Communist newspaper Good Neighbor/Dobry Sąsiad accused the "Underworld" of running Hamtramck, and argues for the Communist Party to be allowed on the ballot.

George Kristalsky ran for City Council as a Communist several times, including 1940. Here he is with Thomas X. Dombrowski, well-known Detroit & Hamtramck Communist Party activist. Dombrowski was murdered in New York in 1956. Clipping from the Hamtramck Communist Party newspaper, Good Neighbor.

1940 Hamtramck election campaign wishful thinking: "The citizens cannot be bought nor fooled with a smokescreen of noise, evasions and lies."

Leading up to the 1940s primary election, candidate Joseph Lewandowski continues his mass meeting blitz, this time sponsored by the Ladies' "Lewandowski for Mayor" Club.

Multiple candidates in the 1940 election, including mayoral candidate Lewandowski, held events at 8944 Jos. Campau, an address that doesn't seem to exist anymore. It may have been a UAW headquarters when Leo Krzycki spoke there in 1936, while serving as Chairman of the Socialist Party of America.

In his 1940 campaign for Hamtramck mayor, Joseph Lewandowski held multiple "mass meetings." The one on February 24th was at the Polish Army Veterans Association (PAVA) hall at 2238 Holbrook, now Pleasantrees cannabis dispensary.

Joseph Lewandowski's 1940 mayoral campaign focused on the ever-present issue of city finances, including (you guessed it) parking meters.

Dujring Hamtramck's 1940 municipal election, the equivalent of modern day campaign social media accounts were short-lived newspapers devoted to one candidate or another, like the mayoral hopeful Frank Matulewicz's Hamtramck Worker, its name reflecting his focus on labor and union issues.

Deep fakes in the 1940 Hamtramck mayoral campaign

Hamtramck 1940: Mayoral candidate Matulowicz seems to have a pretty good platform.

1940 city election: mayoral candidate Matulewicz accused mayor Kanar of colluding with state Republicans. In exchange for Kanar's support of Republicans in the presidential election, existing charges of corruption against city officials would be put on hold.

Here's a fun one from the 1940s campaign, when Barney Nowicki testified in court to paying Mayor Kanar a $1,500 bribe for his appointment as Hamtramck's "first Polish police chief." From mayoral candidate Frank Matulewicz's campaign newspaper, The Hamtramck Worker/Robotnik Hamtramicki.

Here it is an election year in Hamtramck & I completely forgot I've got a pile of stuff from the 1940 campaigns. So here's one to start, from Frank Matulewicz's unsuccessful run against Walter Kanar for mayor.

Things get crazier and crazier in Hamtramck. Here's the latest. www.metrotimes.com/news/suspend...

Mayor says he wants an FBI investigation. Normally, I'd agree. But do YOU trust Trump's FBI to investigate, among other things, allegations of plans to buy a Trump pardon by Trump supporters & the city of, as Trump says, "the best mayor in the world" who is also nominated to be an ambassador?

Hamtramck is in disarray. I say this as someone who has seen the best & worst of the city over the decades. I've seen the memo alleging misconduct by Police Chief Altaheri, & despite leaving out a few important details, this is it in a nutshell. arabamericannews.com/2025/05/23/h...

Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #11 Detroit Free Press 6 March 1932

Homicidal Narcissism - Fascism & Fear of the Feminine open.substack.com/pub/denisesi...

This is some scary shit—and everyone needs to pay attention because it could affect any one of us. Rachel Maddow & NPR just blew the lid off Musk’s DOGE team. A whistleblower at the NLRB says they accessed data without authorization and breached security. The potential motive is pretty shocking. 🧵

Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #10 Detroit Free Press 1931

Family fears for safety of Venezuelan makeup artist deported to Salvadoran megaprison www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #9 Detroit Free Press 4 July 1931

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Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #8: When women lost their citizenship for marrying non-citizens Detroit Free Press 14 November 1925

Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #7 Detroit Free Press 19 February 1953

There is no Justification for this. NONE!

Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

Make no mistake, the so-called “Save Act” is yet another attack in the never ending Republican war against women.

Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #6: Detroit Free Press 12 March 1952

MAGA, Trump voters, Non-voters: Is this what you thought he meant when he said he was going to deport criminal illegal immigrants? Welcome to Nazi American. Your 1939 dream come true. #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue