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Bryan E Norwood

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Architectural historian. US and Atlantic World in the long nineteenth century cup.columbia.edu/book/professing-ar…

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE shot Venezuelan DoorDash delivery guy. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm teaching Race, Law and US Society, which is on this list and has been deemed "too narrow." Some readings: US Constitution, Federalist Papers, Notes on the State of Virginia, Cherokee Nation Cases, Scott v. Stanford, Brown v Board... so US legal history... too narrow? Or just too about race?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 23/01/2026
More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Save 50% on #NewBook "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage," by Delia Duong Ba Wendel, which contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory such as those that followed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. #AfricanStudies buff.ly/ofrhNdL
Cover of Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty by Delia Duong Ba Wendel. The cover features a bluish-tinted photograph of Rwandans gathered in a rural field. Some of the people are standing, while others are seated on the ground. One woman leans against a metal barrel. There is a thicket of trees in the background of the photo.
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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The classicists are starting to realize that the ballroom is going to be a very bad, clumsy, overscaled building, columns or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Nobody has wanted to acknowledge this but since 2018 tuition in real US$ has been falling. Plus, available aid has been increasing. Trump is ending that streak. Cuts in research and foreign students are gouging budgets, putting the burden on US students. hechingerreport.org/after-years-...
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The good news? College tuition has been going down. The bad news? It’s about to rise again
College students nationwide are facing increases in tuition this fall of as much as 10 percent, along with new fees and rising costs for dorms and dining plans, after a stretch when tuition had been f...
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Angola prison used to be a plantation owned by one of the most notorious slave traders in US history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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ICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center in Notorious Louisiana Prison
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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...
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Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
Another study backs my argument last night that Cruz and Cornyn are voting to raise electricity prices for Texans with their attack on clean energy.
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PRESS RELEASE: Renewables and Storage Will Save Texans $115 Billion Over the Next 15 Years  - Texas Energy Buyers Alliance
Austin, Texas (February 10, 2025) — A Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA) report released today shows that if the Texas Legislature passes laws that slow or
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 25/06/2025
We have seriously lost our way as a country. www.nola.com/news/politic...
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Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Two brothers, ages 8 and 10, stared nervously into news cameras, speaking with quiet determination to a group of onlookers much older than themselves. “We need our dad back home,” the 8-year-old said. ICE took custody of their father, Kerlin Moreno-Orellana, that morning.
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Children Beg for Father’s Release After ICE Detains Jackson Man
Activists are calling on immigration officials to release Kerlin Moreno-Orellana from ICE custody after his arrest for illegal dumping.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
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Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)
If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he's engendered. Musk's sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character - a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he's seen for the rest of his public life
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22/05/2025
In the days of grief after his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form. The Mississippi father thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April. Now he’s in a Louisiana prison, facing deportation over the 10-year-old mistake.
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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
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Bryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
with Nottoway plantation burning on Thursday, resharing this piece I published in @placesjournal.bsky.social a few years ago on it and the larger ecosystem of tourism, petrochemicals, and incarceration in the Lower Mississippi River Valley placesjournal.org/article/muse...
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Plantation Whiteness and Racial Capitalism on the Lower Mississippi River
Restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing legacies of racial capitalism along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
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Bryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
with Nottoway plantation burning on Thursday, resharing this piece I published in @placesjournal.bsky.social a few years ago on it and the larger ecosystem of tourism, petrochemicals, and incarceration in the Lower Mississippi River Valley placesjournal.org/article/muse...
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Plantation Whiteness and Racial Capitalism on the Lower Mississippi River
Restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing legacies of racial capitalism along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
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Chelsea Spencer @chelseaspencer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Super excited about how the Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops are shaping up! First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social. Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org
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2025 Workshops Schedule — Costs of Architecture
The Costs of Architecture Network is a new forum for scholars to discuss works in progress that address questions related to costs in the history of architecture and the built environment.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We are so thrilled to welcome Mabel O. Wilson to the National Gallery to deliver the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Join us in person or online. www.nga.gov/research/cas...
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America’s Architecture of Freedom and Unfreedom
National Gallery of Art
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/01/2025
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture" has gotten the most attention from design people, understandably, but Trump's revocation of EO 11246 will have a far bigger impact on our built environment. EO 11246 set DNA for every effort thereafter to end discrimination in construction hiring. 1/
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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I have attempted a Starter Pack for historians of architecture and the like! All caveats apply: blurriness of fields’ boundaries, clumsy search function, etc. But I did my best! If I inadvertently omitted you or you’d like to be added (or removed, for that matter), lemme know! go.bsky.app/PoxVCXB
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Chelsea Spencer @chelseaspencer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 ! Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop... Deadline: >>Feb 21<< 👍
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Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops • Call for Abstracts
THE COSTS OF ARCHITECTURE NETWORK SUMMER 2025 WORKSHOPS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline: February 21, 2025 The Costs of Architecture Network is pleased to announce a call for paper abstracts for a series ...
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Think about what role each list should play. Background to your dissertation research? Basis of a future lecture course? Grounding in a second subfield/discipline? Construct the list around the goal, set appropriate work (short historiographical essays, course syllabus, etc.), and read for the task.
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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
commonplace.online/article/how-...
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How to Read a Book: The X-Ray Method for Achieving a Sustainable “Book-Life Balance” - Commonplace
This is why you need a plan: to read attentively but efficiently, and sustainably, without surrendering your book-life balance.
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Hampton Smith @hampton-smith.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
ok trying this: pleased to share the first bit of my dissertation! “Insurgent tooling and the collective making of slave revolts”
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Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts
Hampton Smith Sometime in the spring of 1800, enslaved tobacco cutters in Henrico County, Virginia, brought their scythes to one of Brookfield plantation’s blacksmiths, Solomon Prosser, for sharpening...
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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Platform Space is here now. Send me your article ideas, we would love to publish your research.
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Bryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just published an article in ATR: Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History Free eprints!
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Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Elaborating on the techniques that the Black Studies scholar Cedric Robinson uses to write the histories of racial capitalism, this essay outlines a way to approach longue durée architectural histo...
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Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
📣 My book Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Public Interior is out and thanks to the good people at @uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel.
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Bryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Let’s try this social media thing again
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