Last walk to the curb. Last morning coffee with "the paper". 🥲

The Trump admin has tried to chill dissent, weaken the media, & muzzle universities, law firms, corporations. Its attacks on free speech are incessant & chilling. Read my @freepress.bsky.social report documenting Trump & his year of targeting speech that isn't his: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

I ran across enough of these nonexistent articles in student references lists this semester that I was compelled to spend extra time double checking sources for each paper @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Hello Bluesky! I am now serving as the Communication Chair for @aejmcpjig.bsky.social, and as the year is coming to a close I encourage you to give us a follow here and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/aejm... !

I feel this in my bones… THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype. We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing. I have a lot to say open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

This: “I’m offended that he finds the affordability crisis a hoax. He’s probably never paid an electricity bill or shopped for groceries in his life” @nytimes.com Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

At #NCA2025 to present in both a session and short course on my first book chapter, which apparently arrived to my home shortly after I left for the airport today! 🙃

I voted for Slotkin even though I’m not always a fan of her policies or approach. But I’m not mad at this at all

Same. Maybe because it’s so familiar to us? So “schoolyard bully?“ We’ve all known this guy/boy but in those cases there have been some -albeit modest- norms, systems, & structures that constrain and punish this behavior. But here: there are none because we’ve decided that for him there are none.

A resident who met with the mayor prior to the passage of Proposal N was quoted by the @freep.com back in July in celebration of the 8,000th demo, “My grandson was in my lap when we had that meeting at my house. He's 6 now. He plays in the lots that I now own.” All of those lots need to be tested.

It’s a scream-constantly kind of week.

Found this heartbreaking note on the snack board outside my office at Penn State. @johnfetterman.com, I hope you feel like crap for selling Pennsylvanians like this person out for absolutely nothing. Because that's what Democrats got: nothing but a meaningless promise about healthcare.

what’s happening at my alma mater open.substack.com/pub/collegew...

DTE looks to fast-track OpenAI facility, while environmental advocates raise alarms over utilities’ plans to build more gas plants to meet massive energy needs of data centers: planetdetroit.org/2025/11/dte-...

Fewer people participate in local elections, so every vote really does matter! I was voter #3 in my precinct this morning #electionday

"Spending on data centers, which are filled with the company’s chips, accounted for 92 percent of the country’s gross domestic product growth in the first half of the year" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/t...

Good, clear messaging from @danpfeiffer.bsky.social this morning “To Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, forcing poor children to go hungry is preferable to negotiating with Democrats over lowering health care costs for millions of Americans.” open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

"No matter how deep our political differences, the Constitution must be followed. Skirting the law is bad enough, but it’s so much worse that they did it in the name of stopping bills that would have helped thousands of their constituents make ends meet.” www.freep.com/story/news/p...

One of the primary goals of university is teaching critical thinking skills. Nowhere is critical thinking more needed than "in the age of AI." So it doesn't matter what your kids study as long as they're developing their critical thinking skills.

Macomb County, MI #NoKings

A thread worth reading. Protests have meaning. They have a purpose. They are contagious.

Let’s do this today, Michigan! Over 100 events across the state! I’m headed over to Macomb County, where I grew up, to join a #nokings protest in McClain’s district ❌👑

More great data center reporting by @brianallnutt.bsky.social and @planetdetroit.org that I'm not really seeing elsewhere in metro Detroit. I especially love the "Civic next steps: How you can get involved" section (end of the article)

🍁 🍂 love me some neighborhood walks

Earned some new letters after my name today!

But folks enforcing immigration and tariff policies are still getting paid Johnson: “Moms and kids now lose WIC nutrition. Veterans lose health care and suicide prevention programs. FEMA has shortfalls during hurricane season. Soldiers and TSA agents go UNPAID.” www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

This is fantastic!

Political participation at local public meetings matters! @planetdetroit.org @brianallnutt.bsky.social planetdetroit.org/2025/09/data...

Food for thought on First Amendment Day... "The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." —Justice Anthony Kennedy

hey so this is insane

What are we doing

💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Well this was buried amidst other news… courtesy of @danpfeiffer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.

If you’re not already subscribed, I suggest you do yourself a favor and sign up for @outliermedia.org ‘s newsletters. They’re concise and accessibly written, a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Detroit outliermedia.org/newsletters/

“‘I did a favor for Kristi ― for Kristi Whitmer. A good favor I think, with the China Carp’” 🤦‍♀️ @freep.com 'Kristi' Whitmer? Trump misidentifies Michigan governor during Oval Office ceremony www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Michiganders: if you haven’t signed a petition for ranked choice voting yet, find a place to do so! rankmivote.org/where-do-I-s...

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

Let’s all remember to do our research in the next election that includes races for public universities’ Boards of Governors/Trustees

Action happening tomorrow: www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...

We’ve built an exceptional urbanism and city-building community here on Bluesky. The best on any social media platform in my opinion. Thank you, please share this, and please help this keep growing every way you can. #UrbanistShoutOut #UrbanismOnBluesky

Kicked off another busy @aejmc.bsky.social conference day bright and early this morning by joining a women and non-binary group ride (organized by @sfbike.org) through Golden Gate Park and along the beach. Beautiful!

Subtle activism at the STL airport, I like it #booksky #readbannedbooks

Finished this morning: of the coolest puzzles I’ve checked out from my library @ferndalelibrary.bsky.social

Just cited this article in a column for the forthcoming @aejmc.bsky.social Community Journalism Interest Group (COMJIG) summer newsletter. It’s well worth the read!

More of this, please! “‘The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to,’ said Secretary Bellows, pointing out that Article I of the Constitution places the states in charge of our elections, not the federal government.”

Would be interested to hear this discussed on @dailydetroit.bsky.social www.metrotimes.com/news/duggans...

Today should’ve been Emmett Till’s 84th birthday. There’s a thought in many American’s minds that our history of racial oppression was long ago. That’s simply not true. There are people who will vote in our next election that were born before Emmett Till. Think about that.

Meta is trying to sidestep a new EU rule requiring online political ads to reveal if they're paid for by political groups and whether personal data was used for targeting. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...