Emily Lieb
@emlieb.bsky.social
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
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Preorder ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE (coming November 2025)
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Emily Lieb
@emlieb.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Syllabus-writing friends! If you’re interested in assigning all or part of ROAD TO NOWHERE in your history/urban studies/whatever classes, let me know! I’m working on a discussion/teachers’ guide to share and I would be delighted to zoom into your classes and chat with students. Spread the word!!
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Willing to re-think the inner-city freeways yet? It was intentionally a drastic solution to a profound systemic problem.
Sure your downtown has problems. But at least you’re not getting ready to demolish your iconic City Hall for a billionaire‘s stadium-casino complex.
New from me: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
New from me: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Eclipse of Dallas
The city’s core is losing its central role in the region.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Willing to re-think the inner-city freeways yet? It was intentionally a drastic solution to a profound systemic problem.
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They are not, they never will be, that's not the point of them, get your head out of your ass before your childlike simplicity kills more people than it is already bound to kill.
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM
They are not, they never will be, that's not the point of them, get your head out of your ass before your childlike simplicity kills more people than it is already bound to kill.
Thanks to @theplanninglady.bsky.social and Jennifer Hiatt for a great conversation on the Booked on Planning podcast, out today! Find out why fictional detectives are a great guide to urban history (but not to their own plots—looking at you, Philip Marlowe). www.bookedonplanning.com/podcast/epis...
Episodes | Booked on Planning
Listen to a new episode every two weeks where we talk with the authors of planning and urban design books about transportation, design, sustainability, energy, and more.
www.bookedonplanning.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Thanks to @theplanninglady.bsky.social and Jennifer Hiatt for a great conversation on the Booked on Planning podcast, out today! Find out why fictional detectives are a great guide to urban history (but not to their own plots—looking at you, Philip Marlowe). www.bookedonplanning.com/podcast/epis...
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I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!
January 27, 2026 at 5:05 AM
I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!
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Absolutley heartbreaking that parents of a man gunned down by federal agents have to put out a statement because the president and his cowardly minions are defaming their son. We’re way past sick.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Absolutley heartbreaking that parents of a man gunned down by federal agents have to put out a statement because the president and his cowardly minions are defaming their son. We’re way past sick.
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There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.
January 22, 2026 at 3:36 AM
There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.
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If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.
January 22, 2026 at 1:24 AM
If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.
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It really does feel like they're actively trying to lose. They have their finger on something but it sure ain't the pulse of the public.
ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 AM
It really does feel like they're actively trying to lose. They have their finger on something but it sure ain't the pulse of the public.
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just wanted to give praise to my Minnesota homies tonight. long live your strength and long live your solidarity.
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
just wanted to give praise to my Minnesota homies tonight. long live your strength and long live your solidarity.
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These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
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House Democrats present a new measure for dealing with ICE.
January 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
House Democrats present a new measure for dealing with ICE.
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OTD in 1940 Horace Julian Bond was born. Social activist, co-founder of SNCC, legislator and professor, Bond shared in this 1975 letter—on the eve of its bicentennial—his hopes for the future of democracy in the United States.
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
OTD in 1940 Horace Julian Bond was born. Social activist, co-founder of SNCC, legislator and professor, Bond shared in this 1975 letter—on the eve of its bicentennial—his hopes for the future of democracy in the United States.
Syllabus-writing friends! If you’re interested in assigning all or part of ROAD TO NOWHERE in your history/urban studies/whatever classes, let me know! I’m working on a discussion/teachers’ guide to share and I would be delighted to zoom into your classes and chat with students. Spread the word!!
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Syllabus-writing friends! If you’re interested in assigning all or part of ROAD TO NOWHERE in your history/urban studies/whatever classes, let me know! I’m working on a discussion/teachers’ guide to share and I would be delighted to zoom into your classes and chat with students. Spread the word!!
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“New” funding
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
January 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
“New” funding
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
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We really don't have to live like this.
January 13, 2026 at 3:27 AM
We really don't have to live like this.
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this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
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hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
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The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
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It's a media app, not a damn segregated lunch counter. You are not a freedom fighter, Brenda.
January 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
It's a media app, not a damn segregated lunch counter. You are not a freedom fighter, Brenda.
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"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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wow really helpful, thank you new york times
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month