I can't believe the stuff that Chuck abides.

Sometimes, there's a man. Well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.

But he's not it.

"Heute Grönland, Morgen Die Welt!“

Don't @ me about Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, or specific areas of Washington, Portland, or Seattle. I'm aware.
But a hundred years ago, American cities were centralized, walkable, serviced by streetcars and interurban rail, and full of brick or stone buildings that were not overpoweringly tall.

The answer? The car (and the mythologizing of the car).

Ultimately, Europe built cars to fit its cities, while America tore down its cities to fit its cars.

Ah! Thank you for the context.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

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Very cool.

I deleted the original post and reposted it because it was full of typos.

But, yeah… 😔

I don’t have a legal education and cannot comment on the legality of ICE’s modus operandi. But the optics —and the ethos of the broader endeavor— are abhorrent and are a stain on the reputation and moral health of the United States.

Ein jom tow scheni für Weihnachten?

I knew a historian of American labor in the Gilded Age and Prog. Era who decided to work on the the U.S. and Holocaust. I knew a historian of 19th-century France who decided to work on 20th-century American Jews. How did they do it? How did they transition into new scholarly communities? 🤷‍♂️

Here's an interesting scholarly article:
Maoz Azaryahu, "Renaming the Past: Changes in 'City Text' in Germany and Austria, 1945-1947," in _History and Memory_,
vol. 2, no. 2 (winter 1990): pp. 32-53.

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