A devastating and tender piece by Mohammad Nahleh on the hideousness of Israel's war on Lebanon, on Iran, and on everything and everyone in the Middle East that won't bow down to its supermacist will.

another incredible text by Mohamad Nahleh - can't recommend his "purging of a wretched empire" enough averyreview.com/issues/71/pu...

I had to stop so many times while reading this to rewire my brain. Like (*spoilers*) here is the 1977 Army contest "Name That Bird," through which Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak is assimilated by his oppressors, his name inscribed in the Black Hawk helicopter, returned through the Arabic translation...

As a very proud UCP author, I'm delighted to support the peopIe who helped publish my book in their effort to unionize. Help them out by signing their petition here: We’re the UCP Workers Guild. Help our union get recognized! . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/were...

On the "pedestrian purgatory" of the pedway: "Limbo is a waiting room — a liminal space, of which the Pedway has plenty — but in Purgatory there is a job to do."

Love this, wish the reason for the commission were different

Urban historian Stathis G. Yeros will be in San Francisco next week to talk about his recent book, QUEERING URBANISM, from @ucpress.bsky.social. "Combining urban history, architectural critique, and queer and trans theories," the book traces a history of insurgent spaces in the fight for justice.

SALT LAKES is in the latest issue of @nybooks.com! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

This is enraging as a cyclist who depends on bike lanes for my family’s safety and the safety of everyone. More broadly, this is a worrying pattern: gaining trust with safe behavior and then becoming less safe over time.

It's Earth Day, which means you should preorder my new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions." cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

1901: Days of rioting after NYC removes Central Park benches during a heat wave. Private rocking chairs smashed. Rent-to-sit attendant chased off by a woman with a hat pin. Crowd tosses police officer into a pond. The people win funding for 5,000 new free benches. A usable past!

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

"The ships, the trucks, the loading docks: these are containers of immiserated labor, and so they are also containers of revolutionary potential," says @charmainechua.bsky.social.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working. A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

"Black sonic politics in Oakland, in nine sounds," a playlist. By Alex Werth (as told to Tommy Craggs): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/black-sonic-...

A @kimkelly.bsky.social byline is always an automatic click for me but this @orionmagazine.bsky.social piece on building solidarity across climate and labor is SO GOOD.

YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to change that earlier this year. For a brief few days, after recording the area with a drone, he literally put North Oaks on the map. Then it was gone again.

We’re back. Two weeks ago, a driver killed a 2 year-old child at 4th and Channel—the third pedestrian fatality of 2026. Since then, all SFMTA has done was repaint the existing crosswalks for a photo op. So the community took matters into our own hands.

it's a movement!

The mutual aid networks that keep people safe in South Minneapolis were forged across decades of organizing, uniting activists through expansive visions of community care. This work — of showing up for others, defending neighbors from violence + dispossession — lies at the heart of queer abolition.

The Long Fire at Lake and Minnehaha: Sexual Policing, Settler Colonialism, and the Minneapolis Uprising An Arcus/Places Prize Lecture from @myrlbeam.bsky.social, on building a queer abolitionist politics in South Minneapolis. 📅 February 25, 2026 6:00pm PT 📍 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley CED

I'm something of a supply chain risk myself

“This is my praise song for Farwell Canyon—that glorious Coyote-blessed and bewitched cathedral of salmon—for my enemy who is also my relative, and for the fish we love and share.” Unmissable Julian Brave Noisecat essay on rivers, memories & imagining otherwise. placesjournal.org/article/farw...

You’re laughing. The Mellon foundation is providing grants to gender and area studies programs and you’re laughing.

In the birthplace of Ghana’s cocoa industry, neighbors negotiate the expansion of a harvest path — and with it, an alternative model for development in the populous West African nation. A new essay in Places by Ghanaian architect and researcher Courage Dzidula Kpodo.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

whatever it may be, your movement needs poets (don't always look like Poets), not grifters, because every movement needs people who patiently examine, life long, how language pricks and punctures and grazes and warms and holds and pushes us toward what we don't know yet how to say--world in process

Really, truly an incredible feeling to read a review of your book that not only Gets It but has devastating reporting of its own — sordid tales of landlords chopping down trees "to reassert control, to unsettle tenants, and to make us leave" averyreview.com/issues/74/sh...

“These political parties, they’re like shipwrecks: metal structures, they’re dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Texas Department of Transportation is annexing properties along I-35 in Austin to make way for an expansion of the interstate. Here are some of the people and businesses being displaced:

People attributed ludicrous censoriousness to “political correctness” and wokeness but here’s the University of Alabama literally prohibiting student publications because their intended audiences are women and Black students - far more absurd and restrictive than any rules at the imaginary PCU

What is the point of this clause: "even suspected criminals"? Why is it in the sentence? @charliesavage.bsky.social @julianbarnes.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social

5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year. It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year. missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...

Estimates vary, but Muni is currently running between 80% and 90% of pre-pandemic service. We're seeing crowding and pass ups again. Muni needs to be able to respond as demand grows. Passing a measure that does not allow for growth is a bad plan. We'd have to go back to the ballot again in 2028.

Where will I go, now that I'm gone? youtu.be/_CuENt0vkpE?...

@rollovereasy.org Gooooooooooood morning from Dogpatch! Yesterday I met Emily Sneddon, creaton of Fran Sans, a tyoeface based on the destination display signs on the Muni Breda Light Rail Vehicles, which are, as of today, retired. emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-es...

sometimes the word community is used but the word workers would be more accurate

I think often about those pebbles around the stacks at the Poetry Foundation.

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

Careful out there folks! This article comes with risk of electric shock.

"Societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, the values we defend."

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

NEW: For years, the Phoenix nonprofit Keys to Change has run a mail room for thousands of homeless people. Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.

"The entire human commons is about to become a Superfund site." The most Gen X (complementary) article I have read in a while. Worth reading if you have the stomach for it. All I can say is that the crash needs more care workers and librarians. (But yes, technologists, please return to blogging.)