Sweet, sweet summer…

New article alert! Comics-based research pub in GeoHumanities with my student/artist/friend, Sadie Holmes. @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @geohumsig.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2373...

Hannah Arendt writes about defactualization. Paint peels, a fact. “Vandals did it,” a story. Arrest enough tourists and the story performs itself into truth. The pool doesn’t matter. Whether facts still outrank his ego does…

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

About 30% of those killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, have been children, according to a United Nations inquiry on Tuesday, which found the “deliberate” targeting of kids to have furthered a genocide against Palestinians.

Broken oven so it’s grill week…

The older you get the more Springsteen’s Nebraska makes sense.

Oh how time flies…

Lucky fella!

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

kid’s career path from age 18 to 22 went Senate intern -> a16z congressional lobbyist -> founding derivatives exchange fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

Gave the youngest his first homemade pasta lesson

Neighborhood visitor

Book Review Forum — “Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings” by Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán — with contributions from @jamiepeck.bsky.social Danielle Purifoy @geogjosh.bsky.social Natasha Howard antipodeonline.org/2026/06/08/b... @nyupress.bsky.social

Youngest birthday so making some homemade chocolate cake with buttercream icing…perfect Sunday afternoon…

June 4, 1984: "Born in the USA" 7th studio album by Bruce Springsteen is released.

The debate about tariffs “has largely centered on two options: Either companies would pass on .. or ‘eat’ the tariffs .. Now we know that there was a third option: Pass on some of the costs and pay for the remainder by suppressing wages ..” @bobburgess.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Honored to discuss the work of my colleagues and me to examine the memorial politics & racial demographics of neighborhoods and streets named for the Confederacy. Listen to interview on Florida Frontiers #631 myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/ra... Our paper is available at: doi.org/10.1080/0887...

It's wild seeing some people getting angry at this post from James Talarico (he posted it to Twitter). This is such a normal thing for a candidate to say. It's fine.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The four richest Californians paid 0.07% of their wealth in income tax from 2019 to 2025. A trailblazing tax on billionaire wealth could change that, write two economists who advised on the measure.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’m skeptical.

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

We did it!

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

We need to flip four senate seats this November to overcome the Fetterman problem.

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Broad street run! Fun in Philly

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Homemade Chicken Marsala

Turned out…

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Great night for a salad

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

State College showing up

Crazy how a few days after Delta Airlines took away Congressional perks Congress moved to end the TSA shutdown…almost like treating gov’t officials as a special class is a bad idea…

Choices….

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Turned out…

Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

The only way to properly celebrate a central PA spring break.

Congratulations to Lorraine Dowler, Vice President-elect, and Joshua Inwood, National Councilor-elect, on their election to leadership roles in the American Association of Geographers!

> @covie93.bsky.social

Whose gov’t? Theirs or ours or both?