Patrick Collier
@patcollier.bsky.social
Associate Dean (I know...), professor, writer, trying to put my best love out into the world
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Spotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️
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Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Spotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️
Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com
Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com
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For those that weren't able to make our webinar with @patcollier.bsky.social and Jim Connolly, you can now catch up on YouTube!
Learn more about the Everyday Life in Middletown archive as well as how the writers in archive write about comprehend crisis
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Learn more about the Everyday Life in Middletown archive as well as how the writers in archive write about comprehend crisis
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Everyday life in Middletown - YouTube
Find out more about the Everyday Life in Middletown project here: https://bsudsl.org/edlmiddletown/. Cover image: A photo submitted to the Everyday Life in M...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
For those that weren't able to make our webinar with @patcollier.bsky.social and Jim Connolly, you can now catch up on YouTube!
Learn more about the Everyday Life in Middletown archive as well as how the writers in archive write about comprehend crisis
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Learn more about the Everyday Life in Middletown archive as well as how the writers in archive write about comprehend crisis
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!
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Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"
October 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"
We'll be talking about our Everyday Life in Middletown book with some amazing English scholars, including the brilliant Ben Highmore, tomorrow at 9 a.m. EDT (2 GDT). Free, but register at the link. Hope to see you there!
universityofsussex.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
universityofsussex.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We'll be talking about our Everyday Life in Middletown book with some amazing English scholars, including the brilliant Ben Highmore, tomorrow at 9 a.m. EDT (2 GDT). Free, but register at the link. Hope to see you there!
universityofsussex.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
universityofsussex.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The wannabe dictator and his cabal think they’re a tidal wave, crashing to wash everything away. But they’re just rough waves on the shore — noise and foam. The real tide is us steady and rising.
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The wannabe dictator and his cabal think they’re a tidal wave, crashing to wash everything away. But they’re just rough waves on the shore — noise and foam. The real tide is us steady and rising.
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"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."
Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism
Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."
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Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.
Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown
Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE dete...
www.democracynow.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.
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Join us on Oct. 7 for our next seminar on modern America, "Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown."" Authors @patcollier.bsky.social & James J. Connolly, with comments by @thomassdavis.bsky.social. Register: www.masshist.org/eve...
October 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Join us on Oct. 7 for our next seminar on modern America, "Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown."" Authors @patcollier.bsky.social & James J. Connolly, with comments by @thomassdavis.bsky.social. Register: www.masshist.org/eve...
So pleased to be presenting our work to the excellent scholars at and around Mass Observation & with Ben Highmore, whom we so admire, hosting.
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Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...
September 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So pleased to be presenting our work to the excellent scholars at and around Mass Observation & with Ben Highmore, whom we so admire, hosting.
bsky.app/profile/mass...
bsky.app/profile/mass...
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Everyday Life in Middletown is inspired by the book 'Middletown: A Study of a Midwestern City' and Mass Observation. In this event, Project Director Patrick Collier and Director James Connolly will discuss the project with Ben Highmore
September 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Everyday Life in Middletown is inspired by the book 'Middletown: A Study of a Midwestern City' and Mass Observation. In this event, Project Director Patrick Collier and Director James Connolly will discuss the project with Ben Highmore
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Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...
September 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...
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"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― David Graeber
― David Graeber
September 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― David Graeber
― David Graeber
Pleased to be engaging with accomplished scholars about my work, with Jim Connolly, about "Middletown" (i.e. Muncie, Indiana). Tuesday Oct. 7 at 5 p.m.
You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link.
www.masshist.org/events/crisi...
You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link.
www.masshist.org/events/crisi...
Massachusetts Historical Society: Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown”
www.masshist.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Pleased to be engaging with accomplished scholars about my work, with Jim Connolly, about "Middletown" (i.e. Muncie, Indiana). Tuesday Oct. 7 at 5 p.m.
You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link.
www.masshist.org/events/crisi...
You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link.
www.masshist.org/events/crisi...
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Then and Now
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Then and Now
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.
September 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.
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A DC crowd within sight of the White House calls for Free DC, not using the National Guard for a political ploy
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A DC crowd within sight of the White House calls for Free DC, not using the National Guard for a political ploy
Disgraceful.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Disgraceful.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Just to be clear, this ain't the liberal media reporting:
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly
A visit to one distribution site shows how a system designed to squeeze out the U.N. and Hamas continues to draw hungry Palestinians into deadly encounters.
www.wsj.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just to be clear, this ain't the liberal media reporting:
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Also, feel free to smash that preorder button.
The New Old Style now has a page on the @univnebpress.bsky.social website! Stay tuned for updates.
The New Old Style - Nebraska Press
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu
July 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Also, feel free to smash that preorder button.
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Portrait of
Breonna Taylor🕯
Alexis Franklin
artist
Breonna Taylor🕯
Alexis Franklin
artist
July 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Portrait of
Breonna Taylor🕯
Alexis Franklin
artist
Breonna Taylor🕯
Alexis Franklin
artist
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Free the Spokane 9
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch
Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.
www.inquirer.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Free the Spokane 9
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
At our Everyday Life in Middletown archive, volunteer writers post one-day diaries of specified days, recording their activities, thoughts, and feelings. A new diary set is up on the archive, along with this blog post offering an overview.
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...
June 4 Diaries Are Live Now! - Everyday Life in Middletown
It’s coming up on a decade since we hatched the idea of Everyday Life in Middletown—an archive of one-day diaries and other accounts, written by…
bsudsl.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
At our Everyday Life in Middletown archive, volunteer writers post one-day diaries of specified days, recording their activities, thoughts, and feelings. A new diary set is up on the archive, along with this blog post offering an overview.
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...
This was a nice distraction this week. My top 10.
June 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This was a nice distraction this week. My top 10.