@milophd
A pluviophile, melomaniac, gardener, karaoke fiend, & academic, punching above his weight in any ring and on any street. Atlantan by labor; New Yorker by birth. Coauthor of Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America (Princeton University Press, 2025).
Yeah, it’s late but it’s also Spring Break. Time to workout. Turn. It. Up!!!
🗣️ “Crank up your speakers
Your woofas and your tweeters
Turn up your receivers
We bangin off the meter
Crank up your speakers
Your woofas and your tweeters
Turn up your receivers
We bangin for the people”
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“…countries and cities still have the nerve to claim wider roads and highways will improve congestion (they won’t, they’ll induce more driving/traffic) and reduce emissions/pollution (they’ll do the opposite – we’ll have more cars in the same or worse congestion emitting a lot more).”
#UrbanTruth
Movie poster for the film 24 Hour Party People
Manchester remains on my list of UK cities to visit, partly inspired by y one of my favorite films.
Whatever happened to the "domestic threat" posed by "Black Identity Extremists"? 🤔
Trump is spending $1 billion a day waging war on Iran. Meanwhile...
Trump's sons are investing in a drone company that could soon receive Pentagon contracts.
And of course Trump's Big Oil donors stand to gain windfall profits as the price of oil skyrockets.
War is a racket.
TIL: A Mancunian is a native or resident of Manchester, England.
“I knew that I wasn’t going to get the same recognition, have the same opportunity,” he said in an interview. “But I tried, because it’s something I wanted to do, to take advantage of as many possibilities as I could.” 🫶🏾✊🏾👊🏾
“…bouncing sunlight to the night side of the planet to power solar farms after sunset, provide lighting for rescue workers and illuminate city streets, among other things.”
Acceding to and monetizing madness… when will it end?
As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:
🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano
✏️ by @newrepublic.com
here's more context for this clip 👆 it doesn't make what Trump said about 6 year old girls any less weird
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Peter Broelman in Canberra Times
Thank you for the link. None of my CDC or other federal folks, at least in Atlanta, had an answer for me when I asked them about it. Perhaps it’s still too new/vague as a symbol. Maybe now it’ll spread a bit more! And a spoon generally is more useful than a fork. 👍🏾
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What is the meaning of the spoon?
While waiting in an Alpharetta, GA, parking lot yesterday an annoying little plane kept circling overhead. We finally looked up and read its banner: “THANK YOU TRUMP ♥️ FROM IRANIAN PEOPLE!” Reminder that some got plenty money, time, and fuel to waste on propaganda.
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
This is pretty fucked up
The leader of the protest was pardoned J6er Jake Lang.
Fox ran older footage but labeled it as happening Saturday.
“… clearing out the bad guys.” #maninthemirror
Disgraceful.
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
@murphycartoons.bsky.social
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
It’s a good movie. The acting is great, especially Reinsve. There is one scene where she’s acting within acting and it was amazing. But the pacing was just a bit slow for me. I fell asleep multiple times and rewound it including to see the ending. Hahaha!
Obama: Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.
