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Over on Bluesky, STLRainbow shared an image of the 1875 Compton and Dry Maps featuring the near northside of St. Louis. A typical St. Louis block in this image is ~2 acres. Take this block bounded by Carr, Biddle, 10th, and 11th. To the right of Biddle Street (unmarked), you can see the Shrine of
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The United States can’t endure the Trump Regime. I fear that the hour is too late. I think the country is lost. I have hope the West Coast may forge a new path into the future. I can’t begin to imagine the cost. It was always an empire’s fate.
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The moment is spiraling. Each fascist uptick is becoming more and more of a blur. I think that Andor’s revolutionary thinker Nemik captured it well: “It’s so confusing isn’t it? So much going on, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it
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As a teacher, I’m a mandatory reporter. If I have a student facing abuse from a parent at home, I have both a moral and legal obligation to report that in the best interest of the student. Imagine if I said to myself instead, “Well I don’t know if that’s the best way of handling
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The rise of fascism is torture by a thousand cuts. Some so light that they only whiten the skin. Others so deep they scar the soul. Every cut is followed by another, and another, and another. It is pain for the sake of pain. But also to numb. And to collect power. A repetitive abuse
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It is often enough said that Seattle is a North/South city. The street grid is built to move people up and down the map, but not over and across it. For Southeast Seattle, pedestrians and cyclists live this truth to an even greater degree. While the city has invested in healthy streets and protected bike
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I hear it a lot these days from friends who are largely checked out. They say they aren’t very politically minded or they they simply favor common sense ideas. To say nothing of the political centrality of common sense envisioned by the likes of Thomas Paine, the whole idea of an apolitical common sense is,
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A couple years ago now, my grandmother died from old age. In her last few years of life, she had ever-worsening dementia. Her memory faded in and out through the months and years until she was a shell of her former self. Today, I think we have a sort of American Dementia. Dementia is a
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The river is many things at once. It is young as it is old. It’s as calm as it is violent. It flows as it dams. It bends around some stones, and it crashes over others. It is shallow and deep. Why do we insist it be one thing when it is many? Any attempt
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The story of Sparta’s 300 is one of the Western World’s most famous histories. It speaks to courage and camaraderie, duty and execution. But have you heard of Gli Arditi del Popolo (The People’s Braves)? During WWI, Italy was bogged down in brutal trench warfare and sought a way to change the tempo of the
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Tony Chiado 