John Stehlin
@jstehlin
Urban/economic geographer focused on the political economy of urban sustainability and transportation, Department of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College
I've been working on this for a while and if it were to be my sole contribution to the culture I would be happy
"if you want a picture of the American present, imagine a car hitting a person trying to cross a street -- for ever"
across multiple fronts, the World Cup is becoming a showcase of just how broken American society is. Image via: www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/...
in this context, for faculty to be evenly divided between the party that broadly aligns with their worldviews and interests as educators and a party that is openly hostile to the idea of knowledge and expertise could be considered a massive failure of judgment.
less flippantly, I wish more people would just look at basic data like this. in media and popular culture Blackness has been so thoroughly identified with big cities in the North and West and "backward" whiteness with the South that this map would fry the brain of the average non-Southern American.
appears as though he took a lifetime dose of Not Being Allowed Near a School, why do they always look this way?
then why does your headline imply it’s just a difference of opinion you fucking cowards
I know these sad little cowards are immune to knowledge, but in Massachusetts, it is thermodynamically impossible to create even a single winning Republican district, to the extent that they only even ran in two of them. yet 1.25 million people voted for Trump, so it can't be that unsafe.
architects, for the first time in their careers, after looking at this "floorplan"
AAG 2026 Call for Papers/Panelists: "Urban Politics from Bidenomics to MAGA Urbanism" organized by myself and @alanwiig.bsky.social. Please send abstracts and/or expressions of panel interest to us by October 24, and share widely!
adding a second dial that says “war crimes” and daring anyone in media to care
AI slop in the physical realm hits different especially when it’s famous car mechanic Albert Einstein staring into the middle distance and muttering
Ross you are substantially older than me and even I remember when your political allies in the Christian and white supremacist countercultures were murdering doctors and blowing up federal buildings