Pierce Nettling
@pnettling.bsky.social
Researcher and reader of the urban life. Formerly known as an academic focused on tenants on that other site.
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Pierce Nettling
@pnettling.bsky.social
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Dispatches from the Threshold | Columbia University Press
Dispatches from the Threshold is an emergent archive of the burgeoning movement for housing justice in North America and beyond. Housing insecurity turned ca... | CUP
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I am excited to announce that a long-time coming book where I have a co-authored chapter, Dispatches from The Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis by Fernwood Press in Canada and CUP in the US, has a book cover! March 2025 launch. cup.columbia.edu/book/dispatc...
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With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.
A new Springfield, IL public statute just dropped.
here to remind you all that we already have a Joe Rogan of the left and it's (time traveling) Abraham Lincoln
August 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A new Springfield, IL public statute just dropped.
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"No somos criminales..." In our latest @therealnews.com report from Southern California, I spoke w/ immigrant day laborers outside a Home Depot right next to the IHOP where Narciso Barranco was beaten & abducted by masked agents. I just learned that ICE swarmed that same Home Depot on Friday.
!["We’re not criminals, and we’ve been here for years now, some fifteen or twenty years, trying to make a living. We always pay our taxes, just to have them do these terrible things to us. I think that he [Narciso Barranco] was older, which is why they took him down. He wasn’t doing anything, he wasn’t stealing anything, he wasn’t doing anything wrong at all, he was just doing his job. So why do other people, those who commit greater offenses—the corrupt ones, some working for this very government—why aren’t they paying attention to what’s happening among themselves? They only focus on the poor, the people who are fighting to make a living, trying to earn enough to feed our families. Those of us living here aren’t criminals. Sometimes the police drive by when we’re waiting for work, and if we were criminals, they would’ve taken us away by now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:whkwshl6hbdotj7h4xqsxuid/bafkreigabqmbkng6sdnkhudg4xaszumbrikmsbiga5cxz2i6insclrtqhy@jpeg)
August 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"No somos criminales..." In our latest @therealnews.com report from Southern California, I spoke w/ immigrant day laborers outside a Home Depot right next to the IHOP where Narciso Barranco was beaten & abducted by masked agents. I just learned that ICE swarmed that same Home Depot on Friday.
Wild to me, but probably normal to global touring musicians. This weekend is a double header for the Osheaga (Montreal) and Lollapalooza (Chicago) music acts. Browse both schedules, and a lot of bands will be at both. Solidarity to their tour staff in planning and operating this movement of sound.
August 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Wild to me, but probably normal to global touring musicians. This weekend is a double header for the Osheaga (Montreal) and Lollapalooza (Chicago) music acts. Browse both schedules, and a lot of bands will be at both. Solidarity to their tour staff in planning and operating this movement of sound.
The White Sox are not a bad team this year. They are, instead, simply unlucky. About 10-12 games this year that they have lost were ones where a break didn't go their way. Second, their run differential is not obscenely bad--better than Baltimore, for example, a sub .500 team.
June 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The White Sox are not a bad team this year. They are, instead, simply unlucky. About 10-12 games this year that they have lost were ones where a break didn't go their way. Second, their run differential is not obscenely bad--better than Baltimore, for example, a sub .500 team.
No one:
Me: St Louis cuisine food truck
Me: St Louis cuisine food truck
June 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
No one:
Me: St Louis cuisine food truck
Me: St Louis cuisine food truck
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CTA, Metra and Pace said Monday they would soon be planning cuts in their 2026 budgets, after state legislators missed their first big deadline to fund public transit Saturday.
Public transit funding bill missed a big deadline. What happens next?
Now it's unclear if lawmakers will approve the $770 million needed to cover the transit agencies’ budget holes in 2026 when federal pandemic aid runs out. But the feared 40% “doomsday” service cuts…
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June 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
CTA, Metra and Pace said Monday they would soon be planning cuts in their 2026 budgets, after state legislators missed their first big deadline to fund public transit Saturday.
It is going to be hard to plan any trip to Mad Max Chicago in 2026. No one can afford the horse and buggy.
June 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It is going to be hard to plan any trip to Mad Max Chicago in 2026. No one can afford the horse and buggy.
Meanwhile, the G7 Central Bankers are currently in the Rockies and have signaled forever unity with the US against China.
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Trump recommends 50% tariff on the European Union, starting June 1
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is recommending a straight 50% tariff on goods from the European Union starting on June 1, saying the EU has been hard to deal with on trade.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Meanwhile, the G7 Central Bankers are currently in the Rockies and have signaled forever unity with the US against China.
Carbondale's new train station has more seats for people to sit than Moynihan at Penn. What a legacy for Cuomo. I really hope this is a new era for Southern Illinois.
"The City of Carbondale announced that Amtrak is now fully operational at the new Southern Illinois Multimodal Station (SIMMS)"
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Amtrak now fully operational at Southern Illinois Multimodal Station in Carbondale
CARBONDALE, Ill. (WSIL) -- The City of Carbondale announced that Amtrak is now fully operational at the new Southern Illinois Multimodal Station (SIMMS) located at 401 South Illinois Avenue.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Carbondale's new train station has more seats for people to sit than Moynihan at Penn. What a legacy for Cuomo. I really hope this is a new era for Southern Illinois.
The profound melancholy of visibly becoming more proficient in reading a second language from a linguistic space you will never again experience or require.
May 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The profound melancholy of visibly becoming more proficient in reading a second language from a linguistic space you will never again experience or require.
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Volunteer opportunity this morning, please share!!!
From Action STL:
Saturday Volunteer Assignments
We will focus on the Penrose, O'Fallon and College Hill neighborhood in North city.
Date: 5/17/2026
Time:10am-3pm
Location: O'Fallon Park Rec Complex, located at 4343 W. Florissant Ave, 63115
From Action STL:
Saturday Volunteer Assignments
We will focus on the Penrose, O'Fallon and College Hill neighborhood in North city.
Date: 5/17/2026
Time:10am-3pm
Location: O'Fallon Park Rec Complex, located at 4343 W. Florissant Ave, 63115
May 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Volunteer opportunity this morning, please share!!!
From Action STL:
Saturday Volunteer Assignments
We will focus on the Penrose, O'Fallon and College Hill neighborhood in North city.
Date: 5/17/2026
Time:10am-3pm
Location: O'Fallon Park Rec Complex, located at 4343 W. Florissant Ave, 63115
From Action STL:
Saturday Volunteer Assignments
We will focus on the Penrose, O'Fallon and College Hill neighborhood in North city.
Date: 5/17/2026
Time:10am-3pm
Location: O'Fallon Park Rec Complex, located at 4343 W. Florissant Ave, 63115
I am unable to process what happened yesterday in St Louis.
May 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am unable to process what happened yesterday in St Louis.
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NEW: Four people are confirmed dead and others are injured after severe thunderstorms and a tornado hit the St. Louis region Friday.
4 dead after storms and likely tornado rip through St. Louis
A Friday afternoon storm left a wake of damage from Clayton to north St. Louis.
www.stlpr.org
May 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
NEW: Four people are confirmed dead and others are injured after severe thunderstorms and a tornado hit the St. Louis region Friday.
Now that the secret White Sox fans are out and about, there is no possible way the south Loop stadium gets built, or the team moves to Nashville. None.
May 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Now that the secret White Sox fans are out and about, there is no possible way the south Loop stadium gets built, or the team moves to Nashville. None.
I'm not sure the world is ready for Midwesterners.
May 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm not sure the world is ready for Midwesterners.
If the Leafs win the cup, the Yes vote in Alberta will be higher than 1980.
May 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If the Leafs win the cup, the Yes vote in Alberta will be higher than 1980.
I love going to May Day events where speakers correctly denounce regulationist geographical theory as words of the oppressor.
May 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I love going to May Day events where speakers correctly denounce regulationist geographical theory as words of the oppressor.
The settler state has lost its mind.
April 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The settler state has lost its mind.
Is the Lemp brewery being torn down completely, or is there a spot teardown due to the slumlord? I keep seeing photos on Facebook.
April 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Is the Lemp brewery being torn down completely, or is there a spot teardown due to the slumlord? I keep seeing photos on Facebook.
So the new name for Tower Grove South is now Tower Grove Heights? That sounds like a suburb. If the marketing problem is the "south" part, real estate might be better off referring to it as Oak Hill again. But of course, Tower Grove Oak Hill Park Heights.
March 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So the new name for Tower Grove South is now Tower Grove Heights? That sounds like a suburb. If the marketing problem is the "south" part, real estate might be better off referring to it as Oak Hill again. But of course, Tower Grove Oak Hill Park Heights.
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The desire to feel connected to one’s city can leave individuals searching for something that they felt they missed in their early education.
St. Louisan Erica Threnn turned a pandemic pastime into a mission to share the city’s history through social media:
St. Louisan Erica Threnn turned a pandemic pastime into a mission to share the city’s history through social media:
St. Louisan uses social media to share history for ‘people with short attention spans’
The desire to feel connected to one’s city can leave individuals searching for something that they felt they missed in their early education. St. Louisan Erica Threnn turned a pandemic pastime into a ...
www.stlpr.org
March 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The desire to feel connected to one’s city can leave individuals searching for something that they felt they missed in their early education.
St. Louisan Erica Threnn turned a pandemic pastime into a mission to share the city’s history through social media:
St. Louisan Erica Threnn turned a pandemic pastime into a mission to share the city’s history through social media:
It is becoming clear that I need to watch Canadian Bacon. I think it is now clearly the film of our time. Maybe it should be watched in all Canadian schools as well. Maybe have CBC put it on air?
March 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It is becoming clear that I need to watch Canadian Bacon. I think it is now clearly the film of our time. Maybe it should be watched in all Canadian schools as well. Maybe have CBC put it on air?