The third-busiest domestic air route is Atlanta to Orlando. If high-speed rail connected the two, it could link them in 3 hours via Jacksonville, shorter than current TSA wait times. Just saying.
if you feel frozen politically, read his historical fiction book "God's Bits of Wood" about the 5 month railroad strike in Senegal in 1947.
it's one of his novels he never had the opportunity to make into film, and one of my favorite books of all time.
For the third time over the past two years, I'm teaching a course at UChicago on liberatory violence. I've uploaded the syllabus here.
https://t.co/N0xm19HZ7o
love telling absolute strangers my favourite magnolia facts: not only did magnolias exist alongside dinosaurs, they existed BEFORE BEES! they used to be pollinated by beetles because bees simply did not exist yet!!!
The Minneapolis police officer that shot and killed 22-year-old Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in 2022 is now a leader within the Minneapolis Police Department’s new Health & Wellness Division.
The most iconic line from this book is: We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
there are modeling studies that show us that we’d have less virus in the air if like 70% of us masked 30% of the time rather than the 5-10% of us that mask 100% of the time
Remember, in the United States the authorities can compel you to use biometrics to unlock your device, but a pattern or a pin technically counts as testifying against yourself.
In "Raising the Bottom," Alix Chapman offers a performance ethnography of New Orleans bounce music which examines how black queer performers amplify community power, pleasure, and solidarity. Read the intro for free now: https://t.co/YxxoEtqMOh