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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 1d

New: a few thoughts on “urban crisis.”

Part of a great collection on the topic in Dialogues.

Urban crisis: Everywhere and nowhere, all at once - Timothy Weaver, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Urban crisis: Everywhere and nowhere, all at once - Timothy Weaver, 2025

A decade ago, I published an article that explored the evolution and uses and abuses of the “urban crisis,” offering a genealogy of the concept. Since that time...

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 5d

Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025

What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 5d

This is what I thought when I recently heard an educator talk about how cool it is was that you could ask AI why Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 6d

It’s so obviously, so palpably fake. Everyone can see through it, especially Trump who I’m sure knows he is a complete tool, as with Rubio and all the rest who supplicate themselves on a monthly (weekly?) basis.

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 6d

I had the same thought 🤮😂

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not sure the cringeometer can bear the strain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not sure the cringeometer can bear the strain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

What’s wrong is that anyone has to pay for emergency care.

We can fund such care by everyone paying taxes on a progressive basis that would be used to fund it. It would be cheaper to have a single payer system than the extraordinary combination of high costs and poor outcomes that we have now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Refusing to seat a duly elected member of the US House of Representatives. Yet another example of the GOP’s refusal to follow basic democratic procedures.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 7d

The Constitutional crisis you've been waiting for is here.

The right moment to speak up—that moment of clarity you've been waiting for—that's here too.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

The president and his cabinet now issue flagrantly illegal orders on a routine basis. We can only hope that they, and their quisling enablers, will one day be held to account. I fear things will continue to get worse before they get better, sadly.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

“Shooting tin cans with a sawed-off shot gun”

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

They would absolutely love that!

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

😂 they’re 13/14 so still have plenty to learn! They may reach out directly if ok.

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to the legendary @barryglendenning.bsky.social for offering feedback on my son’s podcast! What a gent.

Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Tim and hats off to the Gator. First up, Ben + these lads have spoken more sense in 10 min 34sec than Guardian Football Weekly has in 20 years!

Well done them! They are coming for us and we are seriously running scared 👏

I love it but some (unsolicited) advice ... if you don't mind.

Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 8d

As devoted follower of @footballweekly.bsky.social (and long-suffering Man Utd fan), my son, Ben, has started a sports podcast with his great student newspaper, The Gator. Check it out, @maxrushden.bsky.social and @barryglendenning.bsky.social

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks so much for the reply, @barryglendenning.bsky.social and for the great questions and invaluable feedback. The kids will be thrilled and will refine their product accordingly!

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 8d

As devoted follower of @footballweekly.bsky.social (and long-suffering Man Utd fan), my son, Ben, has started a sports podcast with his great student newspaper, The Gator. Check it out, @maxrushden.bsky.social and @barryglendenning.bsky.social

bmgator.org/46475/multim...

On the Ball: Jacob Williams’ Soccer Stardom

The hosts also discuss

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 14d

This is a great opportunity for students interested in a PhD in political science in the US!

We help break down opaque parts of the application process and provide students with individualized feedback. I recommend interested students apply, especially those not coming from elite R1 universities

Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social · 15d

We will (again) be organizing PS-Prep this year.
I especially encourage (and hope to speak with) students from outside the US to apply, to understand an applicational system that is different, voluminous and complicated.
I will also encourage students early in their degree to ...

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 14d

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 15d

Miller: “Am I the only one here who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”

What a nice chap.

Stephen Miller: Donald Trump’s ‘prime minister’ executes his plan to reshape America

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Stephen Miller: Donald Trump’s ‘prime minister’ executes his plan to reshape America

Washington’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat slashes immigration and threatens his political enemies

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15d

I just can't get over the lack of shame--the unabashed confidence. Can you imagine what those Generals are thinking being lectured to by someone so inexperienced and incompetent?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 18d

Marie Gottschalk has a new book coming out with @princetonupress.bsky.social. It is going to be an absolute banger.

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Crime and No Punishment

How concentrated economic and political power in America protects elites and fosters violence of all kinds

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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 20d

🎺🎺🎺 NEW on UAR Remixed! Parts 1 + 2 of our miniseries on the 76ers failed arena project. Featuring interviews with local activists, urban design experts, and scholars of stadium and arena financing. Parts 3+4 next week, subscribe today!

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Series: The Collapse of Philadelphia’s Arena Megaproject — Urban Affairs Review

Join us for an exploration of the failed Philadelphia 76ers Arena Proposal in Center City. First proposed in 2022 with promises to revitalize the faltering Market East corridor, the arena generated tr...

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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 20d

Turns out that neoliberalism is still a thing.

Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 20d

Hands up if you know of any vice presidents with the initials JDV who once compared Trump to Hitler?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."

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Urban Research & Practice @journalurp.bsky.social · 25d

The new issue (Vol. 18, Issue 4) of #JournalURP is out now. It features articles and reviews by Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, Jernej Tiran, Valerio della Sala, and many others.
Read more here: tandfonline.com/toc/rurp20/1...
#urbanresearchandpractice

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