A throwback - crossing time and space from the New York City East Village to the Japanese high street. Apparently this is now a t-shirt and urbanism account.

Even from an American Exceptionalism point of view, it's so sad to expend so much effort, blood, sweat, warfare, imperialism, espionage, etc. over more than two centuries for global domination only to be reduced to this.

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

I'm wearing an ode to public transportation. Hiroden in Hiroshima.

Bernie Sanders says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, becoming the first sitting U.S. senator to do so after nearly two years of Israel's brutal assault on the Palestinian territory that has killed tens of thousands of people.

UN independent commission: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. "...Genocidal intent was the only reasonable inference." www.bbc.com/news/article...

"What is radical planning history?" The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark! Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, designed by Kenzo Tange and completed in 1955 #japan #urbanlandscape

Moon over the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima earlier this evening #japan #urbanlandscape

Skate park, bike parking, bus station, Saturday evening in Hiroshima #japan #urbanlandscape

Skate park, bike parking, bus station, Saturday evening in Hiroshima #japan #urbanlandscape

Moon over the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima earlier this evening #japan #urbanlandscape

It is unbearable that the world lets this happen on our watch. Shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

Jewish colleagues at UCLA say no to Trump's $1 billion demand. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Zohran and a Casio on the cover of Time. I love it.

Jacob Lawrence, The railroad stations were at times so over-packed with people leaving that special guards had to be called in to keep order, 1940-41 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134655

New article! "Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory." Is the city good or bad for climate? You'd think we'd know! I dive into critical urban theory in a time of planetary boundaries and global environmental change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

re: #climateurbanism et al.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

New article! "Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory." Is the city good or bad for climate? You'd think we'd know! I dive into critical urban theory in a time of planetary boundaries and global environmental change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

An Israeli strike near a hospital in Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists. Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas.

🔴El periodista Anas al Sharif, de 28 años, uno de los rostros gazatíes más emblemáticos de la cadena de televisión Al Jazeera, y otros tres reporteros palestinos murieron en un bombardeo israelí. El ataque tenía como blanco a los periodistas social.elpais.com/niftz13

Everyone needs to see this. The home of 2 million people turned to dust. While the world looks away. Or cheers on. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

80 years ago the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki-still the only uses of nuclear weapons in war-killing hundreds of thousands of people and bringing decades of pain and misery to countless others. We still haven't learned enough from this inhumanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...

80 years ago the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki-still the only uses of nuclear weapons in war-killing hundreds of thousands of people and bringing decades of pain and misery to countless others. We still haven't learned enough from this inhumanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Both the lead story and lead opinion piece on the NYTimes website is about starvation in Gaza because of Israel's siege and attacks. I want to believe the tide is turning, but this will be a longtime stain on humanity's history. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...

Malls are back! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The UN's top court in a landmark climate decision says a 'clean, healthy and sustainable environment' is a human right.

Bombing and decimating a people under siege, and then shooting them when they are starving and seeking food. Absolutely deplorable. Casual war crimes while we all look on. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

No one's talking about the fact that they were at a fucking Coldplay concert. Lol fitting really.

Cutting public funds for broadcasting will hurt everyone, but particularly rural residents. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

😶 gen x when gen z thinks they invented the vacant stare

Read all the words, not just the headlines.

Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay. That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

I visited Altadena yesterday, six months after the Eaton fire. Much waste and debris cleanup has been completed by the EPA and Army Corps. It's quiet with the humming and shuddering of the odd excavator here and there. I felt mainly sadness and a kind of desolation.

I don't actually listen to much k-pop but I love it anyway because it just seems like the global triumph of hip-hop culture and the developmental state together.

Genocide scholar Omer Bartov reiterates: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Now that I know chatgpt overuses em dashes I've found myself holding back in my own writing. Damn it.

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William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:

Camp Mystic cabins were literally in the floodway of the Guadalupe, not only in a floodplain or flood risk area. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In her unparalleled new report, Francesca Albanese comprehensively indicts economic complicities with "the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as a genocidal machine." You must read the whole report. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Don't normalize egregious acts! Don't elevate property above people! Hard to believe the lead LA Times web story is about ICE leaving cars and other belongings behind after kidnapping people and how local authorities and community members are finding ways to return these items to family members.

Fuck these fascists. www.latimes.com/california/s...