Emily Lieb
emlieb.bsky.social
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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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
Thank you! I’m glad you are enjoying it!!
February 4, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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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
This one just happens to be sitting one foot away from me, casually jingling his collar every 30 seconds, so I don’t forget what is supposed to happen 15 minutes from now (dinner)
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Honestly Stella d’oro breadsticks probably WILL turn Charlie into a soup lover, they slap
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
*OR why an expressway map is enough to wreck a neighborhood, good grief
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
—how Baltimore’s power brokers robbed a Black homeowners’ community three times in three decades, and why it matters.
January 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Topics include:
—how segregated schools made segregated neighborhoods
—racist blockbusting/real-estate speculation
—how interstate highways got built, or didn’t, and why
—why Balt’s efforts to un-do urban renewal were such a disaster, why an expressway map is enough to wreck a neighborhood
AND
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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“New” funding
“Meaningful” reforms

We love weasel words don’t we folks.
January 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM