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@profpetercole.bsky.social
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Historian of labor, race, and (dock)workers. Unionist. Vegan. None of us are free until all of us are free. Ubuntu

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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 21h
couldn't be happier Dennis Hastert is dead! In case you forgot, he raped teenaged boys when he was a high school wrestling coach then paid hush $ for years until caught. Meanwhile he helped impeach Bill Clinton for having an affair--Gingrich was cheating on his dying wife at the same time. To hell!
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 21h
Just another day for the Chicago Police. Off-Duty Police Officer Shoots 2 Men After Confrontation In Little Village, then drove away before stopping & shooting in their direction once more. I'm sure he was extra careful when firing his gun randomly on the street! blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/04/o...
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Off-Duty Police Officer Shoots 2 Men After Confrontation In Little Village Sunday, Authorities Say
The officer shot two men after being hit in the face, then drove away before stopping and shooting in their direction once more, police said.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
USA: This city just passed a resolution to boycott Starbucks in unity with unionized baristas www.al.com/life/2026/10...
al.com
This city just passed a resolution to boycott Starbucks in unity with unionized baristas
This is the first city to announce a boycott in solidarity with the Starbucks Workers United union.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 04/10/2026
“We’re going to work together, we’re going to fight together and we’re to win together in November!” IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social joined the @dropkickmurphys.com on stage at the Power to the People Festival to talk about the power of our solidarity. America’s unions are in this fight ✊
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dropkick Murphys—organized labor’s favorite band—just brought out IUPAT President Jimmy Williams at Power to the People Fest. Big cheer for unions!
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland @etoddbreland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Come out on Saturday to hear @profpetercole.bsky.social talk history & monuments! Looking forward to this conversation!
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 02/10/2026
Jobs aren’t growing. Wages are flat. And shit’s still too expensive. By every measurement, Trump’s economy isn’t working for working families.
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Labor market slowed in September, final monthly jobs report before midterms shows
The unemployment rate rose to 4.2%.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
how many ways are trump/maga directly contributing to extinction (being a Christian to steward the earth be damned)? Here 3 iconic species--FL panther, NA right whale, monarch butterfly--that might go extinct b/c of trump's evisceration of Endangered Species Act theconversation.com/3-iconic-ani...
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3 iconic animals show the value of the US Endangered Species Act – and the harm in stripping it away
The stories of a whale, a panther and a butterfly help explain why new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act could be catastrophic for species’ survival.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
trump vance rubio say they're all about protecting Jews from discrimination and yet...here we have a Hasidic Jew, who's Israeli but works/lives in the US, being deported for Protesting Against Israeli Flag / Zionism. Even Hasidic Jews apparently can be anti-Semitic! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
nytimes.com
A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west-…
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The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill
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semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (again) and hands the GOP senators' butts to them.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“On paper, the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has been in effect for almost a year. In reality, Israel has entrenched and expanded its control in the Palestinian territory — and its leaders say they have little intention of withdrawing any time soon.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (Gift Article)
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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John Lillig @jclillig2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looks like a great event this Sat. 10/3 3pm at the Nighthawk, 4744 N. Kimball with @profpetercole.bsky.social & @etoddbreland.bsky.social in conversation with @dannypostel.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, discussing the politics of public art with a focus on Chicago's monuments.
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John Lillig @jclillig2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@profpetercole.bsky.social & the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project took similar inspiration to install markers at the spots where 38 people were killed in the Red Summer of 1919.
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Home - Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project commemorates the 38 victims of the riot through public art markers installed in Chicago.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey Chicago! I'm stoked to talk about sh*ttty Chicago public art like the Balbo/Fascist monument, Confederate Mound, and Haymarket police monument. Please join us at the rad Nighthawk in Albany Park
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
in 2018 trump promised a factory in Wisconsin w/ 13k new jobs. IT NEVER HAPPENED! But worse: state + local gov't spent $1.2 BILLION for infrastructure. Now trump/gop gonna get wiped out in blue wave, they promise a factory in Iowa Don't believe trump / meeks-miller www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
nbcchicago.com
What happened to Foxconn? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all went
In 2018, President Donald Trump came to southeast Wisconsin to proclaim the coming of “the eighth wonder of the world.” But what actually happened?
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a reason he was nicknamed Mayor 1% He was mayor in Chicago, where I live, and he's all about power / $ for him and his rich buddies. He personally covered up the police murder of Laquan McDonald AFTER watching the video that proved dozens of police lied to cover up the murder. He's toxic
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Ireland beat Israel, but that doesn't even start to tell the history and controversy of Sunday's match, arguably one of the most contentious football matches of this century.
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The story behind Israel vs Ireland: Bowed heads, black armbands and a one-man boycott
The game went ahead, Ireland won - but that doesn't even start to tell the history and controversy of Sunday's match
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Heads up for labor history grad students! The wonderful @lawcha.bsky.social has multiple funded awards and programs for y'all! (1) Dissertation Proposal Workshop (2) Alice Kessler-Harris Dissertation Prospectus Award (3) Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation lawcha.org/grants-prizes/
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Grants & Prizes | LAWCHA
LAWCHA gives or is affiliated with many awards in labor history, including the Herbert G. Gutman Prize, the Taft Prize, and graduate student travel grants.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
27-09-1913 IRELAND: The SS Hare sails into Dublin with food supplies for the locked-out workers. It flies the colours of the National Transport Workers Federation.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘Wanted’ flyer-style wheatpastes now up in midtown Manhattan via the ‘Department of Class Solidarity’. The signage highlights that Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the U.S.-funded genocide of Palestinians. Comes ahead of Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
A photo of a string of poster-sized wheatpastes on a wall. Posters feature and portrait and side view photos of Netanyahu, similar to a mugshot, in black and white. Red text all caps says “WANTED” and proceeds as follows in white text on black background:

WANTED for GENOCIDE
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
NET WORTH: $13.9 MILLION
NATION: OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Conducting genocide in Gaza that has killed over 70,000 people, including over 20,000 children, funded by $217 billion in US military aid.
DOCS: DEPARTMENT OF CLASS SOLIDARITYcloseup of one wheatpaste as described in previous alt text
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/09/2026
DoorDash bribed Cuomo with $1M for his mayoral campaign. Mayor Mamdani rejected that cash and just made history with $131.5M settlement for DoorDash drivers screwed out of their wages — the largest worker settlement in US History. This is what leadership looks like. ❤️✊🏽
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The American gestapo aka ice assault US citizen and then just drove away
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
By killing the VRA, John Roberts has set the stage for Black voting power to be wiped out at every level of politics. Black people in affected districts will still technically have the right to vote, but no real ability to elect candidates they support and who represent their communities.
motherjones.com
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
First Amendment anyone? Even Trump appointed judges know which way the wind blows some of the time
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin! Leonard Cohen predicted Mamdani in NYC and, last weekend, Elif Eralp at the head of Die Linke in Berlin! youtu.be/JsvRcZiFj8g?...
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Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (Official Live in London 2008)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Three Palestinians killed in Gaza, settlers raze olive trees in West Bank village - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Three Palestinians killed in Gaza, settlers raze olive trees in West Bank village
<article data-history-node-id="448166" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-palestinians-killed-gaza-settlers-raze-olive-trees-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-palestinians-killed-gaza-settlers-raze-olive-trees-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Three Palestinians killed in Gaza, settlers raze olive trees in West Bank village</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A Palestinian was killed, and three others were injured, on late Tuesday night in Israeli shelling near al-Nafaq Street, east of Gaza City, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.</p> <p>Earlier, two Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli forces targeted a group of Palestinians near Muscat School in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood, northeast of Gaza City, according to Wafa.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Palestinian media outlets reported detentions and damage to Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank:</p> <p><strong>Olive trees razed: </strong>Israeli&nbsp;settlers on Tuesday night razed Palestinian-owned land planted with olive trees in the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus.</p> <p><strong>Palestinian arrested:&nbsp;</strong>Israeli forces 'abducted' a Palestinian,&nbsp;Qutaiba Imad Abu Arra, after storming his home in the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank, Quds News Network reported.&nbsp;<br> <br> <strong>Vehicle set on fire: </strong>In Hebron, near Qussa village, close to the city of Yatta, Israeli settlers set fire to a vehicle belonging to Palestinian workers following a pursuit, according to Al Jazeera.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Long after Trump is gone from office as the most despised, unpopular, and disastrous president in US history, the stink of Trump will remain forever on Republican politicians and appointees who backed him every step of the way, even when they try to claim they were independent.
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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22/09/2026
Why is the city insisting on a wage policy that exacerbates income inequality? The reasons are historical, and increasingly outdated. From me in @nydailynews.com (gift link).
nydailynews.com
Mamdani’s labor policy worsens inequality
Walking my kids to their first day of school brought the unwelcome news that PS 45, on Staten Island, is down to two crossing guards. We used to have (and still need) four. This is a system-wide probl...
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A worker was killed on the job at a meatpacking factory owned by Smithfield in Monmouth, IL. Management demanded workers continue their shifts as if nothing had happened. A great many refused and walked off the job. I trust @govpritzker.illinois.gov will investigate www.kwqc.com/2026/09/15/e...
kwqc.com
Employee: Dozens leave plant after worker dies at Smithfield Foods, officials say it was allowed
A worker died in an accident at Smithfield Foods in Monmouth Monday.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just like Mike Rogers in Michigan and Tommy Tuberville in Alabama, Roger Marshall is a Florida Man who doesn’t even live in the state he represents.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'll be presenting on "Problematic Monuments in Chicago’s Public Art Landscape,” for a series called Lectures on Tap at a Lincoln Park bar called Duffy's here in Chicago. Basically, folks pay to see a lecture and it's in a bar! This Wednesday night www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...
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Lectures on Tap - "Problematic Monuments in Chicago’s Public Art Landscape"
Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in Chicago bars.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mike Johnson called Brandon Herrera's language "detestable" but...he's also running a good campaign so who cares if he sees women sex toys & Jews as worthy of being murdered. Johnson claims to oppose antisemitism but ONLY when convenient. We all know that the GOP is a cesspool of antisemitism
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So, basically, the GOP / LDS in Utah HATE when women assert themselves in legal, judicial, and political ways. When GOP Mormon Women Speak out, Utah GOP literally changes laws to silence women. Basically, Atwood's dystopic Handmaid's Tale alive and well in Utah www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
nytimes.com
A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 12/09/2026
The Trump admin never passed a bill called the “Working Families Tax Cut.” They passed the Big Ugly Bill that gave a temporary “No Tax On Tips” until 2028 while giving billionaires a forever tax break and throwing millions of people off their health care.
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Republicans showcase their 'big beautiful bill' to voters, but the law's impact has been mixed
Working to keep the majority in Congress, Republicans are showcasing their chief legislative accomplishment in this midterm election.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Irish protestors tell Trump "rapists not welcome"
Irish protestors hold a sign calling Donald Trump a racist / rapist.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
All you need is three facts about AI: • It is already surpassing human abilities in important domains. • Leading companies continue to improve it rapidly. • And no one knows how to reliably keep its behavior in line with human goals.
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Anthropic staffers sound the alarm—again—on AI catatrophe
AI developers are issuing more and more frantic wake-up calls.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After skipping the NYC 9/11 service because they wouldn’t let him give a partisan political speech, and falling asleep again in the middle of the day at the Pentagon ceremony, Trump will be in Ireland this weekend promoting his own golf resort at our expense.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Republicans can’t even get Desantis to back their fake bribery scheme.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sounds like a crappy museum that George Lucas threw a billion at b/c he's (too) rich AF. What an ugly fucking building that speaks to Amerikkk$$$a. I'm sorry that Lucas was so interested in masturbating in public & SO glad this POS didn't end up in my city, Chicago www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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How the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Lost the Plot
With little in the way of organization or themes, George Lucas’s new museum of graphic illustration in Los Angeles leaves it to the public to decide what it all means.
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