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Thought this was a really interesting piece on gender and popular culture in the 1990s and aughts.

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Really good that our levels of distrust in the public sector are so low that half the population laps up plastic laced water instead of the perfectly good stuff that comes out of the tap

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See that, STRAIGHT into the content! Some great stuff here. @ryanreft.bsky.social's article will be of particular interest to SCOTUS watchers!

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"Ultimately, I decided to do both in this book—start out with the wide-angle view of LA County, then do deep dives into four suburbs: Pasadena, San Marino, South Gate, and Lakewood. I felt myself constantly zooming in and out, trying to learn from the local while also grasping the metropolitan."

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"[T]he narratives we’ve told ourselves about the interstates ignore and obscure the fissures they created and the uneven sacrifices placed on non-white communities ... And over the past three decades, some 6,300 families were displaced by the nation’s twenty-two largest highway expansion projects."

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Fifty years ago this week, Spiro Agnew resigned, despite all we know about Watergate and the administration's corruption, we still find the occasional nugget like this correspondence between David Border and noir author James Cain about Agnew and Nixon: tropicsofmeta.com/2022/04/21/w...

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