AW Stiles

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South Philly transplant to Chicago now Raleigh. All junk drawer & other posts solely my own. Nonprofits, Bikes, Rowhomes. Workers Rights. Mutual Aid. Visit our Little Free Library just Southeast of Downtown Raleigh

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Ahem

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jul 7

Looking forward to digging into this, with a forward by @kimkelly.bsky.social

Book cover of American Made:Stories of Work from the WPA

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jul 5

Ben Franklin's Pen Names:
Abigail Twitterfield
Alice Addertongue
Anthony Afterwit
Betty Diligent
Busy Body
Dr. Fatsides
Hugo Grim
Rusticus

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jun 23

Here's the alt text version

The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jun 23

Carnac the Magnificent:
A copy of only Yellowstone spinoffs
Two Feastable bars
Measles

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jun 20

Cassie the pirate dog outside and George the cat inside both flopped over sunning themselves

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jun 19

Current goals, though step vans retail at least $27k used

The Patti Wagon bookmobile serving the community of Widow's Bay.

AW Stiles@awstiles· May 29

Yum.

From Ian Kershaw's WW2 history "In the west, Allied troops pushed through Westphalia, taking Munster and Hamm"

AW Stiles@awstiles· May 24

Contrast Fallon’s “head empty, no thoughts” presentation with someone like Dick Cavett. Back in 1969, on what was, at the time, the most popular show in the country, there’s a 17-minute segment with James Baldwin on the possibility of Black liberation in America. There’s a moment where Baldwin talks of the American system wanting him, as a Black man, to be an accomplice to his own murder. The camera cuts back to Cavett, who has been listening intently. “I don’t understand that last sentence,” says Cavett, which leads into a discussion of the work and activism of Stokely Carmichael. What’s shocking is not just the content but the space and time given to ideas—to the intellectual and cultural problems of the world outside the studio walls.

AW Stiles@awstiles· May 21

God how I love and miss Philly! Can't wait to see Kurt down here in NC in July but boy would I have loved to walk over to the Triangle for this.

May 28th Triangle Tavern South Philly

Post promoting Kurt Vile' s album release w a pic of a vegan cheesesteak

"Kurt would like to be good to Philadelphia. Get a free vegan cheesesteak on the day his record comes out"

AW Stiles@awstiles· May 17

findmypolitics.com A little surprised as I thought I was skewing too centrist while I was answering all 50 questions. Huh.

A chart of my political leanings showing I'm
Progressive Left
85% left wing on Economics
80% Libertarian (?!) on Social Issues
65% Pro Liberty on Civil Liberty
45% Globalist on Governance
30% high trust (?) on System Trust

AW Stiles@awstiles· May 5

53 year old? Fifty Three year old!?? This is assault Benito.

Bad Bunny at the Met Gala as, in his words, a 53 year old. God damnit

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 17

French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier’s pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines.

Hunted by the secret field police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the Germans imprisoned them and tried them in a court martial, sentencing them to death for their actions. They ultimately survived, but even in jail they continued to fight the Nazis by reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope.

Better remembered today by their pseudonyms, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call “degenerate art.” In addition, Lucy was half Jewish, and they had communist affiliations in Paris, where they attended political rallies with Surrealists and socialized with artists like Gertrude Stein.

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 16

Always enlightening the stickers on installers trucks that come into your home

A photo of a trailer door with the "punisher" and "make my day" stickers

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 15

"Get me the Straits of Vermouth tout suite"

Photo of Dean Martin with a gigantic snifter of whiskey

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 11

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch in a Philadelphia Eagles hat and a sweet Phillies jersey.

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 8

Basically this

Homer Simpson being told by Marge that while he was out earning one dollar, he lost $40 skipping work

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 5

Happy day from the International African American Museum in Charleston

In Praise of a Sto' Front Church by Fletcher Williams III

Photo of a made object with a brown wooden cross in the center of a white wooden diamond

AW Stiles@awstiles· Apr 1

Starting off this ridiculous day with a nice pic of our pirate queen Cassie

Photo of our one eyed shepherd mix Cassie. Have a good day free of nonsense y'all.

AW Stiles@awstiles· Mar 27

I'm not the most artful or creative (and thankfully I have an in-house design professor aka my partner) but I'm honestly really excited to be handing out zines tomorrow during Raleigh's No Kings protest.

A protest poster that says Free Zines with little pockets made by my partner that have We Protested Now What, Pauli Murray, and How to Report ICE zines. Bordered in rainbow duct tape.

AW Stiles@awstiles· Mar 16

AW Stiles@awstiles· Mar 14

Re-reading Harris' Fatherland & boy "Higher, longer, bigger, wider, more expensive . . . Even in victory, thought March, Germany has a parvenu’s inferiority complex. Nothing stands on its own. Everything has to be compared with what the foreigners have . . ."

Construction of the Arch of Triumph was commenced in 1946 and work was completed in time for the Day of National Reawakening in 1950. The inspiration for the design came from the Führer and is based upon original drawings made by him during the Years of Struggle.’
The passengers on the tour bus – at least those who could understand – digested this information. They raised themselves out of their seats or leaned into the aisle to get a better view. Xavier March, half-way down the bus, lifted his son on to his lap. Their guide, a middle-aged woman clad in the dark green of the Reich Tourist Ministry, stood at the front, feet planted wide apart, back to the windscreen. Her voice over the address system was thick with cold.
‘The Arch is constructed of granite and has a capacity of two million, three hundred and sixty-five thousand, six hundred and eighty-five cubic metres.’ She sneezed. ‘The Arc de Triomphe in Paris will fit into it forty-nine times.’
For a moment, the Arch loomed over them. Then, suddenly, they were passing through it – an immense, stone-ribbed tunnel, longer than a football pitch, higher than a fifteen-storey building, with the vaulted, shadowed roof of a cathedral. The headlights and tail-lights of eight lanes of traffic danced in the afternoon gloom.
‘The Arch has a height of one hundred and eighteen metres. It is one hundred and sixty-eight metres wide and has a depth of one hundred and nineteen metres. On the inner walls are carved the names of the three million soldiers who fell in defence of the Fatherland in the wars of 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1946

an American couple with a little girl Pili’s age; some German settlers, from Ostland or the Ukraine, in Berlin for the Führertag. March looked away as they passed the Roll of the Fallen. Somewhere on it were the names of his father and both his grandfathers. He kept his eyes on the guide. When she thought no one was looking, she turned away and quickly wiped her nose on her sleeve. The coach reemerged into the drizzle.
‘Leaving the Arch we enter the central section of the Avenue of Victory. The Avenue was designed by Reich Minister Albert Speer and was completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three metres wide and five-point-six kilometres in length. It is both wider, and two and a half times longer, than the Champs Elysées in Paris.’
Higher, longer, bigger, wider, more expensive . . . Even in victory, thought March, Germany has a parvenu’s inferiority complex. Nothing stands on its own. Everything has to be compared with what the foreigners have . . .
‘The view from this point northwards along the Avenue of Victory is considered one of the wonders of the world.’
‘One of the wonders of the world,’ repeated Pili in a whisper.
And it was, even on a day like this. Dense with traffic, the Avenue stretched before them, flanked on either side by the glass and granite walls of Speer’s new buildings: ministries, offices, big stores, cinemas, apartment blocks. At the far end of this river of light, rising as grey as a battleship through the spray, was the Great Hall of the Reich, its dome half hidden in the low cloud.
There were appreciative murmurs from the settlers. ‘It’s like a mountain,’ said the woman sitting behind March. She was with her husband and four boys. They had probably been planning this trip all winter. A Tourist Ministry brochure and a dream of April in Berlin: comforts to warm them in the snowbound, moonless nights of Minsk or Kiev, a thousand kilometres from home. How had they got here? A package tour organised by Strength-Through-Joy, perhaps: two…

AW Stiles@awstiles· Feb 28

AIPAC tracker showing Valerie Foushee has received money from Israeli lobbying groups.

AW Stiles@awstiles· Feb 15

Loved all the stickers and signs I saw walking around Philly during my little weekend visit.

Two signs on a pole by Philadelphia City Hall. Bottom sign says Let Fascists Know They Are Not Welcome In Philly

An ad for an online personal trainer named Logan

A sticker covered trash can on passyunk avenue

AW Stiles@awstiles· Feb 14

Always good to be back in my adopted hometown. Philly keep it up.

Plaque at Philadelphia City Hall about public sector collective bargaining

AW Stiles@awstiles· Feb 2

This is who runs this account

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jan 28

Saw this at UNC Rex today and it made me smile

Picture of a minivan with a sticker of a mouse with the caption "Born To Dilly Dally Forced to Fight Fascists"

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jan 28

Thom Tillis is fine with a guy who took a $50k bribe being in charge of immigration enforcement, per his email to me.

Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate hearing from you.

The recent death of Alex Pretti after an officer-involved shooting on the sidelines of a U.S. Customs and Border and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis is tragic. Mr. Pretti was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was present in a supporting role during the operation. This incident has understandably raised serious questions and concerns.

As a strong supporter of law enforcement, I believe when officers use force in the course of their duties, these situations must be approached with seriousness and restraint. Such incidents carry lasting consequences for everyone involved and warrant full and thorough investigation to ensure accountability and fairness. Too often, judgments are made before all the facts are known, which undermines due process and the integrity of law enforcement.

I have made clear my concerns regarding the current leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, and I am glad that President Donald Trump has decided to place Tom Homan, a career professional, in charge of the ongoing limited operations in Minneapolis. From my understanding, after conversations between President Trump as well as the Mayor of Minneapolis and Governor of Minnesota, the federal presence in Minneapolis will soon be reduced.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over these issues, please know that I am actively monitoring this situation and associated investigations closely.

Again, thank you for taking the time to contact me. Please do not hesitate to contact me again about other important issues.

Sincerely,

Thom Tillis
U.S. Senator

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jan 27

Double hall today, They Can't Take Us All from @dansinker.com and my bff sticker club from @munjomunjo.bsky.social ! Was already having a great day since my sweet @besswww.bsky.social has her last chemo treatment today and the mail is icing on the cake.

Front cover of Dan Sinker's They Can't Take Us All

AW Stiles@awstiles· Jan 20