ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Save 50% on #NewBook "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage," by Delia Duong Ba Wendel, which contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory such as those that followed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. #AfricanStudies buff.ly/ofrhNdL

The classicists are starting to realize that the ballroom is going to be a very bad, clumsy, overscaled building, columns or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

Nobody has wanted to acknowledge this but since 2018 tuition in real US$ has been falling. Plus, available aid has been increasing. Trump is ending that streak. Cuts in research and foreign students are gouging budgets, putting the burden on US students. hechingerreport.org/after-years-...

Angola prison used to be a plantation owned by one of the most notorious slave traders in US history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...

Another study backs my argument last night that Cruz and Cornyn are voting to raise electricity prices for Texans with their attack on clean energy.

This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

We have seriously lost our way as a country. www.nola.com/news/politic...

Two brothers, ages 8 and 10, stared nervously into news cameras, speaking with quiet determination to a group of onlookers much older than themselves. “We need our dad back home,” the 8-year-old said. ICE took custody of their father, Kerlin Moreno-Orellana, that morning.

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

In the days of grief after his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form. The Mississippi father thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April. Now he’s in a Louisiana prison, facing deportation over the 10-year-old mistake.

with Nottoway plantation burning on Thursday, resharing this piece I published in @placesjournal.bsky.social a few years ago on it and the larger ecosystem of tourism, petrochemicals, and incarceration in the Lower Mississippi River Valley placesjournal.org/article/muse...

with Nottoway plantation burning on Thursday, resharing this piece I published in @placesjournal.bsky.social a few years ago on it and the larger ecosystem of tourism, petrochemicals, and incarceration in the Lower Mississippi River Valley placesjournal.org/article/muse...

Super excited about how the Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops are shaping up! First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social. Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org

We are so thrilled to welcome Mabel O. Wilson to the National Gallery to deliver the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Join us in person or online. www.nga.gov/research/cas...

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

"Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture" has gotten the most attention from design people, understandably, but Trump's revocation of EO 11246 will have a far bigger impact on our built environment. EO 11246 set DNA for every effort thereafter to end discrimination in construction hiring. 1/

I have attempted a Starter Pack for historians of architecture and the like! All caveats apply: blurriness of fields’ boundaries, clumsy search function, etc. But I did my best! If I inadvertently omitted you or you’d like to be added (or removed, for that matter), lemme know! go.bsky.app/PoxVCXB

Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 ! Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop... Deadline: >>Feb 21<< 👍

Think about what role each list should play. Background to your dissertation research? Basis of a future lecture course? Grounding in a second subfield/discipline? Construct the list around the goal, set appropriate work (short historiographical essays, course syllabus, etc.), and read for the task.

ok trying this: pleased to share the first bit of my dissertation! “Insurgent tooling and the collective making of slave revolts”

Platform Space is here now. Send me your article ideas, we would love to publish your research.

Just published an article in ATR: Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History Free eprints!

📣 My book Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Public Interior is out and thanks to the good people at @uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel.

Let’s try this social media thing again