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Emily Lieb

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Historian, writer, killjoy. Tried nothing; all out of ideas. Preorder ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE (coming November 2025) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo255390347.html she/her emilylieb.com

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Emily Lieb @emlieb.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Flyer advertising a book tour in November 2025 for Emily Lieb’s ROAD TO NOWHERE

Emily Lieb @emlieb.bsky.social · 20h

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...

A newspaper ad for the AFRO’s REREADING THE NEWS program on Friday, November 7 at 12 pm ET, streaming on the AFRO’s Instagram account.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Mustn't trouble the cars!

khon2news.bsky.social @khon2news.bsky.social · 1d

How to be a good pedestrian; It's harder than you think: https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/how-to-be-a-good-pedestrian-its-harder-than-you-think/

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Charm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 2d

Our America is beautiful and theirs is so ugly

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

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"

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3d

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!

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)

www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 7d

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

• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI
software without their consent.
• Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching.
• If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning
outcomes.
• Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do

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Emily Lieb @emlieb.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10d

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.

Trump administration says it won't tap emergency funds to pay food aid

The move means 42 million people will miss SNAP benefits in November unless Congress acts.

www.politico.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10d

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

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10d

Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled

A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

www.npr.org

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Emily Lieb @emlieb.bsky.social · 10d

It’s Orvy-approved.

A black dog sniffing a copy of ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE.

Emily Lieb @emlieb.bsky.social · 10d

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

A pile of copies of the book ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE by Emily Lieb.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12d

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

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Paul Chapman @poulchapman.bsky.social · 13d

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

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 13d

NEW // Wilson Maintains Lead over Harrell, Two New Polls Indicate

Story by Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/24/w...

Wilson Maintains Lead over Harrell, Two New Polls Indicate » The Urbanist

# Progressive challenger Katie Wilson continues to have the edge in the highly competitive Seattle mayoral race, despite a large fundraising advantage for corporate-backed incumbent Bruce Harrell. Two...

www.theurbanist.org

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 13d

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

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13d

"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...

Don’t Just “Protect” Trans Youth, Actually Support Them

A right-wing “parents’ rights” movement is sweeping the country, and its ramifications for young people and LGBTQ people have already proven disastrous. So why are so many on the left repeating their ...

www.currentaffairs.org

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13d

Fuck these people for being cowards

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 14d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 13d

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.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17d

The message consultants all say that when you discuss urbanism you're definitely never supposed to bad-mouth cars, lest you turn off thin-skinned suburbanites. But fuck it, I'm not running for office, the world is burning, & YOLO, so: cars fucking suck!

Yes, you weenies: a war on cars

Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon join me to discuss their new book and why a future with fewer cars is a happier one.

www.volts.wtf

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 14d

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...

These Seattle area companies are helping pay for Trump's White House ballroom

Three companies headquartered in the Seattle area appeared on the White House list of donors to President Donald Trump's ballroom project.

www.seattletimes.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 14d

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?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 16d

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.

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 19d

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.

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 19d

Los Angeles, CA -

Absolute chaos resulting from LAPD charge using batons, horse mounted units, “less lethal” projectiles. Protesters going in every direction. LAPD themselves don’t seem to know where protesters or press are supposed to be.

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 20d

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!

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 20d

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

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21d

Tomorrow (October 18th) at 3:00 pm EDT, please join @politicsprose.bsky.social in welcoming @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social, who will be in conversation with Judy Richardson regarding his new book, Police Against the Movement.

Learn more about this free, in-person event here: buff.ly/u0EEqZr

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

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