🚨 New on Substack: my post on the postwar history of Lewisham's Honor Oak Estate - a story of exclusion, regeneration and changing community; the childhood home of Ian Wright (pictured here with his inspirational teacher Sidney Pigden). municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-honor-...

Chicago's largest buildings are breaking emissions laws, costing the city nearly $35 million in uncollected fines! Buildings over 50,000 sqft are required to report their emissions, but thousands haven't, and have faced none of the penalties. Contact your alder to help at electrifychicago.net/act

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

Fifa showing FIFPro the finger by creating yet another of those pretend forums filled with "legends", bypassing the trade union which represents 65,000 professional players worldwide. FIFPro could bring the house of Gianni down if it put its mind to it. It won't.

🚨HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALERT🚨: A concerted effort is underway by art historians & preservationists to save historic Wilbur J. Cohen building & its priceless New Deal artworks, threatened for sale by Trump administration. Please read, sign linked petition & repost! www.change.org/p/save-the-w...

What the hell are we doing?

“In ‘Purge, Merge, and Surge,’ Moynihan details how the administration is creating a federal ‘omniforce’ accountable to Trump that he can use to ‘impose control over Democratic cities, instigate enough unrest to justify escalation, and tamp down any dissent.’” www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih...

I am delighted to finally see this volume that I, @lucaspoy.bsky.social , and fourteen other authors have been working on for a few years (without any external funding, it should be added), as a printed book. This is likely the first international anthology on the history of tenant organising.

Uh, congrats to Tsunami on their Grammy nomination!

“The Committee’s unfounded accusations, dependence on clearly compromised sources, and selective presentation of ‘evidence’ represent an unprecedented abuse of congressional power—designed not to find the truth, but to silence leadership that refuses to yield to political pressure.” — GMU-AAUP

Just showed these two pieces (and the Foster bronze flagpole and American flag with perpetual flutter also at 270 Park Ave) in my grad seminar yesterday...

#FloodlightFriday Booth Street, Congleton Town FC. Photo Credit: @daveproudlove.bsky.social

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

An airport people mover is, by @thetransitguy.com's analysis, the 11th busiest rail system in the US. "Cities like Miami, Denver, Portland, San Diego, and Las Vegas all see less transit ridership than Atlanta’s airport train." thetransitguy.substack.com/p/the-busies...

The nice thing about December 25 is that it's the anniversary of both the birth of Jesus and a really great party in Romania.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Can Ramaswamy's gubernatorial candidacy torpedo the Senate special election race? 🤔

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Fuck 'em up.

A similarly constructed example can be seen in Malvern, Worcestershire.

👇🎯 Popular Front-ism is the Actual Popularism

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" They fail to do this every time. It is the baseline thing parties must do in a democracy.

This is how I'm gonna sleep thinking of the millions sunk into Cuomo's campaign for absolutely nothing

My greatest regret today is that Dick Cheney didn’t live long enough to see a Democratic Socialist get elected mayor of the nation’s largest city.

I wish literary and intellectual culture in this country weren’t still so yoked to ailing corrupted institutions

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Obscene wealth accumulation for the few at the top. Grinding poverty for the many at the bottom. www.businessinsider.com/10-richest-p...

39 years ago today, news of the government's weapons for hostages deal with Iran broke, later to be known as the Iran-Contra scandal. President Ronald Reagan technically committed high treason by going around Congress to illegally sell arms to Iran in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

What is the muzzle velocity of a sandwich?

“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people in Chicago.” —Duncan Hosie

This is a very good explanation of the facts of the White House demo (bad) and what it may portend for DC architecture as a whole (even worse).

Too many corporate managements are lemmings, taking their cue from other corporate managements.

Romania have always gave a good account of themselves on the international stage. In 1994, they went one step further by stunning Argentina at the 1994 World Cup, with Gheorghe Hagi scoring the eventual winner.

"What has happened is that aesthetic production today has become integrated into commodity production generally." Fredric Jameson 1990

This year, Ohioans are voting on local leadership positions like mayor and school board members that make decisions that impact our daily lives. Get your personalized ballot by going to www.VOTE411.org where you can see candidate responses to our questions, too.

Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'

For the night owls and early birds: this is a war on the American Dream. My statement on ICE’s detention of two Upstate Medical University employees on Wednesday in Syracuse. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

Still true

I missed the part of the New Testament where Jesus says to starve the poor. Thankfully we have a government that brought Christianity back, correcting my misunderstanding.

close the law schools

Tobacco will kill 480,000 people in the US this year according to the CDC. That’s SIX times more than all US drug overdose deaths. Does that mean we’re going to drone strike the homes of tobacco executives in the US? Can other countries target them? Here’s the video of my debate on Al Jazeera:

"The merit of a degree is at stake not just at Ohio State but across Ohio."

Great football stands of the world: I'm not sure that this one, 'la tribune du Parc de Marville' (originally built for a hippodrome in 1910) is that well-known outside Seine St Denis. Red Star FC is now the primary user of those facilities (but still plays its home games at Stade Bauer).

The pergola designed by renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei (1917-2019) is another casualty of Trump's destruction of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. Trump's project is sweeping-away not just representations of women, but of Asian-Americans too.

Boris Iofan called. He'd like to know when he can expect his payment.

Fear and loathing in the staff break room.

3/3 Please leave me alone already, I’m dying: Martin Luther on his deathbed, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose day is today.

35 years ago today, Ride released their debut album “Nowhere” featuring singles "Vapour Trail" and "Kaleidoscope”