now that i’ve been a teacher for a good few years i’d like to tell anyone who’s in any kind of class rn: they don’t give a shit if you get it wrong, whatever it is. truly. they aren’t lying when they say they only want you to give it a try

Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing. We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

hi sheldon, really generous offer but I’m going to stick with the recriminations

“Bigotry and racial injustice, it turns out, were baked into the American highway from the start.” Thomas J. Campanella mentions @emlieb.bsky.social's new book, ROAD TO NOWHERE, in a recent @nytopinion.nytimes.com essay about the Bronx River Parkway.

Wilmington and Philadelphia! I’ll be talking ROAD TO NOWHERE with Nina David on Wednesday November 12 at 6 pm. New location: Huxley&Hiro Prose Parlor, 601 N Market Street in Wilmington. See you there!

Democrats whenever some dumb fool Democrat decides to open their dumb fool mouth to say something both dumb and foolish.

We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts. And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more. Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️

Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today. The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties. The people don't want any of this.

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

This may well destroy any chance they had at drawing to 50/51 next year in the Senate. Why would anyone send money or waste a weekend knocking doors or, you know, vote, to achieve the same result they’d get by not doing any of those things?

Pay Attention #SeattleCityCouncil #puppets #Amen youtube.com/shorts/AAuz2NISG9w

[less than a week after dems sweep elections] chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?

Road to Nowhere @ People’s Book in Takoma Park today at 2 pm! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/road-t...

In just a few hours, I’ll be chatting with writer and historian @emlieb.bsky.social about her book, “Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/emily-...

Baltimore! Come to the Pratt Library today at 3 to talk Road to Nowhere with the amazing Lisa Snowden and me: calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/emily-...

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

"The birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @emlieb.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Tomorrow at 12 ET! Tune in to the AFRO for a great REREADING THE NEWS conversation about the Road to Nowhere with Baltimore filmmaker Sean Yoes and me. www.instagram.com/afrocharitie...

Mustn't trouble the cars!

Our America is beautiful and theirs is so ugly

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Dick Cheney was a FATHER. He was a HUSBAND. What kind of monster would cackle ablut how he's being flayed alive by demons in a replica of an Abu Ghraib torture cell for all eternity while the angels sing and rejoice above just because he "violated the geneva convention" and "killed a million people"

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.” Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

Going to a museum conference tomorrow and it's nice that whatever career I end up in, it's collapsing.

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Hello, East Coast and Seattle friends! Come by starting next week to talk highways, maps, what happens when a city tries to destroy itself—and how we can do better in the future.

It bears repeating: USDA has a $5 billion contingency reserve that it refuses to utilize to continue SNAP benefits. This was the USDA's *own plan* at the start of the shutdown—now quietly deleted from its website. This is as blatant an example of "hunger is a policy choice" as you will ever see.

when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity

ROAD TO NOWHERE is out in one week! Find it at a bookstore near you (and request it at your local library).

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

VOTE FOR WILSON! We cannot risk a close race! We must show the city power brokers that we repudiate the politics of nihilism Harrell & Nelson represent! Mail in or ballot THIS WEEKEND! Or drop it off in a box starting next week

“We need to start talking about the rights of young people themselves”

Fuck these people for being cowards

As Doug points out on this pod: Dense walkable cities are the antidote to fascism. The route to fascism lies in empathy free living where you live in your unwalkable suburban bubble, road rage against other people in cars, and only interact with people outside your family when buying something.

Look, the same companies whose lobbyists are trying to buy the election for Bruce Harrell are sending money to Trump for his ballroom. www.seattletimes.com/business/sea...

How about a press conference made up of Democratic leadership near the White House with the demolished East Wing in the background, talking about the government shutdown and Trump's warped priorities and demolition of public goods, including not just the East Wing but health care and so much else?

SPS Teachers need 10 years of experience and a doctorate to make a rookie cop's salary. It's laughable to call this is a progressive city.

When people admonish protesters to be “peaceful” what they’re doing is putting the onus for peace on the public, but the state is responsible for the peace. The people you should be admonishing to be peaceful are the cops.

A common excuse we hear for SDOT's refusal to install bus lanes on Denny is that WSDOT could be opposing them. However, @juliareedwa.bsky.social checked, and WSDOT is “unconcerned” about potential impacts to I-5 traffic. The state’s ready to talk bus lanes on Denny, lets get them built!

I'll be in conversation with Judy Richardson of SNCC tomorrow at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue!

In the Baltimore area? Emily Lieb will discuss her new book, Road to Nowhere, with @baltimorebeat.bsky.social editor-in-chief Lisa Snowden-McCray on Sat., Nov. 8 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library! buff.ly/d1q8qXU

TONIGHT!!

Congrats to my alma mater for doing something incredibly stupid, venal and depraved only once this year and not twice. Thanks for abandoning your most marginalized students to a bigoted mob only once this year and not twice. Whoopee

Tomorrow (Oct 16) at 7:00pm EDT, join @redemmas.org in welcoming @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social for a discussion of his new book, Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, in conversation with Judy Richardson. RSVP here: buff.ly/gsGH7ko

14-year-olds in DC: They need to be tried as adults! 30-year-olds praising Hitler while trying to make policy: Just a bunch of kids making edgy jokes. Give em a break!