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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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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Syllabus-writing friends! If you’re interested in assigning all or part of ROAD TO NOWHERE in your history/urban studies/whatever classes, let me know! I’m working on a discussion/teachers’ guide to share and I would be delighted to zoom into your classes and chat with students. Spread the word!!
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It really does feel like they're actively trying to lose. They have their finger on something but it sure ain't the pulse of the public.
ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 AM
It really does feel like they're actively trying to lose. They have their finger on something but it sure ain't the pulse of the public.
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just wanted to give praise to my Minnesota homies tonight. long live your strength and long live your solidarity.
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
just wanted to give praise to my Minnesota homies tonight. long live your strength and long live your solidarity.
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These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
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House Democrats present a new measure for dealing with ICE.
January 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
House Democrats present a new measure for dealing with ICE.
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OTD in 1940 Horace Julian Bond was born. Social activist, co-founder of SNCC, legislator and professor, Bond shared in this 1975 letter—on the eve of its bicentennial—his hopes for the future of democracy in the United States.
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
OTD in 1940 Horace Julian Bond was born. Social activist, co-founder of SNCC, legislator and professor, Bond shared in this 1975 letter—on the eve of its bicentennial—his hopes for the future of democracy in the United States.
Syllabus-writing friends! If you’re interested in assigning all or part of ROAD TO NOWHERE in your history/urban studies/whatever classes, let me know! I’m working on a discussion/teachers’ guide to share and I would be delighted to zoom into your classes and chat with students. Spread the word!!
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Syllabus-writing friends! If you’re interested in assigning all or part of ROAD TO NOWHERE in your history/urban studies/whatever classes, let me know! I’m working on a discussion/teachers’ guide to share and I would be delighted to zoom into your classes and chat with students. Spread the word!!
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“New” funding
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
January 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
“New” funding
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
“Meaningful” reforms
We love weasel words don’t we folks.
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We really don't have to live like this.
January 13, 2026 at 3:27 AM
We really don't have to live like this.
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this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
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hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
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The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
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It's a media app, not a damn segregated lunch counter. You are not a freedom fighter, Brenda.
January 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
It's a media app, not a damn segregated lunch counter. You are not a freedom fighter, Brenda.
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"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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wow really helpful, thank you new york times
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
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You never see these freaks happy. There is a sort of libidinal joy they perform, mostly for each other, but it comes only from of the immiseration of their enemies. No victory brings relief, just a temporary reprieve of grievance. I do not believe the machinery which drives us and them are the same.
January 8, 2026 at 4:22 AM
You never see these freaks happy. There is a sort of libidinal joy they perform, mostly for each other, but it comes only from of the immiseration of their enemies. No victory brings relief, just a temporary reprieve of grievance. I do not believe the machinery which drives us and them are the same.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
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Loved Babs that beautiful soul. And this book by @emlieb.bsky.social that The Banner just reviewed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Road to Nowhere
Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore’s Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, ...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Loved Babs that beautiful soul. And this book by @emlieb.bsky.social that The Banner just reviewed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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the 6% is the WaPo editorial board
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
the 6% is the WaPo editorial board
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"There was no emergency or misconduct requiring an officer in a doorway. Just a deliberate administrative decision, filtered through the lens of a nonsensical perspective that burying a half-century of music and counterculture is somehow good for its students and the community it served."
The Rock and Roll Capital Killed Its College Radio Station for 24/7 Jazz and the Students Are Fighting Back
The white ON AIR light was still glowing when the cops walked in. A tiny bulb in a dirty old studio, shining on as if it had no idea its world was about to chan
www.spin.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
"There was no emergency or misconduct requiring an officer in a doorway. Just a deliberate administrative decision, filtered through the lens of a nonsensical perspective that burying a half-century of music and counterculture is somehow good for its students and the community it served."
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How are voters meant to understand how serious things are if in lieu of shouting fire AND going into building with hoses, you're simply posting fire safety suggestions on social media?
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
January 4, 2026 at 1:25 AM
How are voters meant to understand how serious things are if in lieu of shouting fire AND going into building with hoses, you're simply posting fire safety suggestions on social media?
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
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NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
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Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela