Elizabeth Greenspan
@lizgreenspan.bsky.social
writer | in process: cultural history of cities & '70s, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi (W.W. Norton; Pushkin Press) | board member @ Blue Stoop | Philadelphia https://elizabethgreenspan.com/
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Disney Hall is great. Some of his small projects are perhaps even greater.
If you really want to understand Frank Gehry's genius, look past the titanium showpieces, @cmonstah.bsky.social writes. She explores the remodeling projects through which Gehry made the mundane into the extraordinary:
Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest
If you really want to understand the late architect’s transformative genius, look past the titanium showpieces that made him a household name.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Disney Hall is great. Some of his small projects are perhaps even greater.
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A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
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Sabrina Carpenter is now the president
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sabrina Carpenter is now the president
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Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
We need a @cmonstah.bsky.social cultural analysis stat!
This is all deeply shameful and stupid, but on the upside, the trophy seems to be modeled on some weirdo’s fantasy of sprouting extra hands for greater testicular access.
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We need a @cmonstah.bsky.social cultural analysis stat!
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Great work from the inquirer explaining this complex situation. Glad for council standing up for the Philadelphians most in need of help.
Gift link share.inquirer.com/znkFul
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December 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Great work from the inquirer explaining this complex situation. Glad for council standing up for the Philadelphians most in need of help.
Gift link share.inquirer.com/znkFul
Gift link share.inquirer.com/znkFul
Science + humanities really are in it together. Always have been.
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Science + humanities really are in it together. Always have been.
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The fight against authoritarianism has many fronts. At Unbreaking, we choose to work against information overload and for collective understanding. On our Immigration timeline, we track major and representative events from across the US—now filterable by legal case:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The fight against authoritarianism has many fronts. At Unbreaking, we choose to work against information overload and for collective understanding. On our Immigration timeline, we track major and representative events from across the US—now filterable by legal case:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
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Feds suspect arson: "Two days before an apartment complex once hailed as a shining example of Philadelphia’s urban renewal went up in flames, its owner, embattled city landlord Phil Pulley, transferred the vacant property to a New York investment firm."
www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...
www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...
Landlord Phil Pulley transferred ownership of West Philly apartments days before suspected arson, records show
Property records show the notorious landlord signed a deed transfer two days before the June 2025 fire. The new owners are now demolishing the building.
www.inquirer.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Feds suspect arson: "Two days before an apartment complex once hailed as a shining example of Philadelphia’s urban renewal went up in flames, its owner, embattled city landlord Phil Pulley, transferred the vacant property to a New York investment firm."
www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...
www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...
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The 1975 Boldt decision changed the world -- or fixed it, to some extent -- and its power reverberates today.
Robert Sullivan (@robtsullivan.bsky.social) on Native American tribal sovereignty and stewardship of the earth
The Third Sovereign | Robert Sullivan
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
www.nybooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The 1975 Boldt decision changed the world -- or fixed it, to some extent -- and its power reverberates today.
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Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
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🎉 Happy book birthday to Ravishing by @eshanisurya.bsky.social from @groveatlantic.bsky.social!
Eshani Surya's debut highlights the dark side of the beauty industry and how far will we go in exchange for beauty, love, and acceptance.
Eshani Surya's debut highlights the dark side of the beauty industry and how far will we go in exchange for beauty, love, and acceptance.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🎉 Happy book birthday to Ravishing by @eshanisurya.bsky.social from @groveatlantic.bsky.social!
Eshani Surya's debut highlights the dark side of the beauty industry and how far will we go in exchange for beauty, love, and acceptance.
Eshani Surya's debut highlights the dark side of the beauty industry and how far will we go in exchange for beauty, love, and acceptance.
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It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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Change in Headline
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Change in Headline
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A necessary discussion of a disturbing trend.
And it's refreshing to see Bernini used to illustrate an article on contemporary American politics!
And it's refreshing to see Bernini used to illustrate an article on contemporary American politics!
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A necessary discussion of a disturbing trend.
And it's refreshing to see Bernini used to illustrate an article on contemporary American politics!
And it's refreshing to see Bernini used to illustrate an article on contemporary American politics!
I ruined the workplace by listening rather than interjecting. It was bad.
I ruined the workplace by not saying “no” enough. I will change!!
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I ruined the workplace by listening rather than interjecting. It was bad.
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
nbcnews.to
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
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watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people
this is my story about how they did it
this is my story about how they did it
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people
this is my story about how they did it
this is my story about how they did it
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Autumn Sunshine (2015)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Autumn Sunshine (2015)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
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"Holliday...was running a marathon recently, some kids were holding a sign at 6.7-miles...she yelled “six, seven” to their delight. “For a brief moment” she says, “in our lonely, isolated, algorithm-driven world, I connected with those kids on something we shared" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning | Matthew Cantor
Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Holliday...was running a marathon recently, some kids were holding a sign at 6.7-miles...she yelled “six, seven” to their delight. “For a brief moment” she says, “in our lonely, isolated, algorithm-driven world, I connected with those kids on something we shared" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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there's lots to learn from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's communications skills as a mayoral candidate. edifies a lot - multicultural, multilingual, clarity of messages, directness, storytelling, timeliness, repetition, repetition, repetition, connecting the dots, these explainer-type short-form vids
Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.
Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
there's lots to learn from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's communications skills as a mayoral candidate. edifies a lot - multicultural, multilingual, clarity of messages, directness, storytelling, timeliness, repetition, repetition, repetition, connecting the dots, these explainer-type short-form vids