#usa library tour

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HI EVERYONE!

To promote the release of DeadEndia: The Divine Order, I am going on tour! I hope you can make it to one of these events!

MAY 2, 7pm Third Place Books, Seattle, USA MAY 3, 6pm Launch Event with Molly Knox Ostertag YALLWEST, Santa Monica Public Library, LA, USA (this event requires a Fierce Friday ticket) MAY 4 YALLWEST, Santa Monica Public Library, LA, USA MAY 11-12 TCAF, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, Canada MAY 24-26 London MCM Comic Con, London, UK JULY 5-7 London Film and Comic Con, London, UK AUG 17-18 Flame Con, New York, USA AUG 31-SEPT 1 Helsinki Comics Festival, Helsinki, Finland NOV 17-18 Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate, UK

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Kinkslump Linkdump

This is my dozenth linkdump! The world comes at you fast, and even though I'm writing 4-5 essays a week for this newsletter, many's the week that ends with more stray links than will fit in that format. Here's the previous ones:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

I managed to turn out five posts last week, despite being on tour with my latest novel, The Lost Cause, a hopeful solarpunk novel endorsed by Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben and Kim Stanley Robinson. The tour went great – the book's now a national bestseller on the USA Today list! Here's an essay I wrote explaining the structure of the feeling that the book is meant to convey:

https://www.torforgeblog.com/2023/11/14/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/

This is a climate emergency novel full of rising seas, terrible storms, wildfires and zoonotic plagues, and yet – it is a hopeful novel. What makes it hopeful? It depicts a future in which we are treating these phenomena with the gravitas and urgency they warrant, with our whole society's focus shifting to moving coastal cities inland, weatherizing and solarizing our housing, and creating permanent housing for internal refugees.

While it would be infinitely preferable to live in a world where none of that is necessary, that's not the world we have. This is an sf novel, not a fantasy novel, so all the climate harms we've locked in through decades of expensively procured inaction are present. But the difference between disaster and catastrophe is how and whether we address those harms. Sure, this is a world where superstorms wipe away whole cities and Miami is a drowned mangrove swamp, but it's also a world in which oil executives do not chair UN climate summits or complain that oil companies are being "unjustly vilified":

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/27/opec-says-oil-industry-unjustly-vilified-ahead-of-climate-talks-.html

I write a lot, and it's not just this newsletter. Writing transports me from my anxieties and aches. That's how I came to write nine books during lockdown ("when life gives you SARS, make sarsaparilla"). Lost Cause was one of three books I published in 2023.

I'm going to greet 2024 with another novel, The Bezzle, a sequel to 2023's Red Team Blues, about the hard-charging, high-tech forensic accountant Marty Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

The Bezzle is a story about the shitty technology adoption curve – the way that the worst technologies we have are first rolled out on the people least able to complain about them. After these bad technologies have their sharp edges sanded down on the bodies of prisoners, refugees and kids, they move up to blue collar workers and discount store shoppers, and so on, until we're all living under their thumb.

In The Bezzle, a dear friend of Marty finds himself serving a long sentence in a privatized California prison that flips from one private equity fund to the next, each with even worse, more extractive ways to use technology to bleed prisoners and their families dry. You can read the opening scenes in a just-published excerpt on Tor Books's site:

https://www.torforgeblog.com/2023/11/20/excerpt-reveal-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow/

The period immediately before a book's publication is always a tense one, as the first reviews trickle in. Library Journal's Marlene Harris is the first out of the gate, with a spectacular review:

https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-bezzle-1802415

Marty’s reminiscences range from obscure financial machinations to heaping helpings of social commentary but always move the underlying thriller story forward in a backwards heist tale that delivers a righteously satisfying ending to the surprise of both the reader and the villain. This novel, like his previous outing, rides on Marty’s voice. He has a jaundiced view of everything, but he tells it with such style and verve that readers are caught up and ride along on the surface until the shark beneath the water jumps out and bites the villain where it hurts.

I'm headed into Skyboat Media's studios on Monday with @wilwheaton to record the audiobook for this one, directed as ever by the amazing Gabrielle de Cuir. Keep your eyes peeled for a presale crowdfunder in January!

I am often asked how I decide when to present an idea through fiction and when to do so with nonfiction. The answer is a complicated one, and I got into it in some detail on Nature's Working Scientist podcast, in discussion with Paul Shrivastava:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03394-8

When it comes to politics, fiction and nonfiction are intensely complementary. Nonfiction can convey the data about a social phenomenon, but fiction can convey the meaning of the data. It's one thing to see a chart about inequality, and another to inhabit it through fiction. Marty Hench's narrative adventures are a way into the feeling of living in a corrupt oligarchy.

There are other ways into that feeling, of course. Take Barry Bowen's "Lifestyles of the Blessed & Famous: Preacher Homes Sold in 2023" for The Roys Report:

https://julieroys.com/lifestyles-blessed-famous-preacher-homes-sold-2023/?mc_cid=9678383b64

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then carefully staged realtor drone shots ganked from the Redfin listing for a "pastor"'s $3.5m mansion in Newport Beach is a full-on sermon about the corruption of the Hillsong megachurch:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Newport-Beach/503-30th-St-92663/home/12363926

Narratives and photos are all well and good, but there's always room for some data. The USA's weird breed of federalism and devolved power makes for some very interesting data. Writing for The American Prospect, Paul Starr rounds up several studies evaluating the "natural experiments" created by enacting very different policies in otherwise similar states:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-12-08-life-death-cost-conservative-power/

The data is in: conservativism kills. Living in a red state shortens your life expectancy. The redder the state, the worse it is. The bluer the state, the longer you're likely to live:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0009.12469

The exemplars here are Connecticut and Oklahoma, whose life expectancies were at par until they began to diverge in policies. Oklahoma got more conservative, Connecticut got more liberal. Today, the average Oklahoman will pop their clogs at 75.8, while a Connecticutensian can expect 80.7 years.

Different scholars have parsed out different policy outcomes. Giving Medicaid to children, for example, shows benefits for the next 50 years:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20171671

The big one, of course, is gun control. Here's the topline: "restrictive state gun policies reduce overall gun deaths." Water also wet:

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2023/11000/the_era_of_progress_on_gun_mortality__state_gun.3.aspx

Fact-free spiritual beliefs like "an armed society is a polite society" are key to conservative policymaking. Pesky progressives who confuse the issue with relevant facts are playing dirty, pointing out reality's unfair leftist bias.

But after 40 years of neoliberal deference to corporate power, the worm is turning. Somehow, a world on fire, filled with megapastors in megamansions who brief for lethal policies, has finally inspired a global vibe-shift (and not a moment too soon!). One of the most tangible expressions of that shift is the revival of antitrust, which has been in a coma since the Reagan administration.

All over the world – the EU, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and the USA – there are new competition enforcers challenging corporate power in ways that were unthinkable just a few years ago. If I'd written an enforcer like FTC chair Lina Khan in 2010, critics would have slammed me for wish-fulfillment too unrealistic for science fiction.

But today, Khan is taking big swings at corporate power, fighting against a calcified edifice of decades of bad, pro-monopoly precedent. The pro-monopoly press hate her, which is why the WSJ keeps publishing sweaty op-eds insisting that she is wasting her time and that monopolies are good, actually:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

But she is still out there, fighting for all of us. After a pro-monopoly judge stymied the FTC's bid to block the rotten Microsoft/Activision merger, Khan re-filed, appealing the decision:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/

Critics insist that she's on a foolish errand, but Khan is tackling the most promising face of a sheer cliff, and the plainly anticompetitive merger between one of the world's largest console makers (a convicted monopolist!) with one of the world's largest games publishers is the right place to start. If she can get her piton into one of the hairline cracks in that face, her arduous climb gains a solid anchor for the next stage of her assent.

Of course, Khan's highest-profile action is her case against Amazon, the omnipresent, dystopian poster-child for enshittification, a platform we can't avoid, but which is so haphazardly policed that the bestselling bitter lemon energy drink you order might be bottled piss harvested from its immiserated drivers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

In a world of murderous, community-destroying monopolies, Amazon stands out for the sheer number of ways it makes the world worse. Amazon maims its warehouse workers and kills its drivers with impossible quotas. It poisons Black and brown neighborhoods with truck exhaust from its giant depots. It destroys small businesses that sell on its platform. It was part of the studio cabal scheming to destroy actors and writers' livelihoods with unfair contracts and AI. Its audiobook monopoly stole at least $100m from independent authors. It makes goods and services more expensive at every retailer (not just Amazon), and price-gouges on its own storefront:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

Keeping that scam going requires a lot of skullduggery. A new set of leaked internal Amazon documents shed some light on how that inedible sausage gets made:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjbm9/amazon-brags-it-cultivated-california-mayor-with-donations-in-leaked-policy-document

Amazon's "Community Engagement Plan 2024" brags about buying off small-town mayors and astroturf groups in its bid to resist regulations that would limit warehouse delivery van emissions in communities of color (Amazon calls this "philanthropic work"). Coincidentally, that "philanthropy" targeted Perris, a town where residents voted for a warehouse tax to repair the roads that had been trashed by fleets of Amazon vans.

But the real focus of Amazon's "Community Engagement" is California's AB1000, a bill that will limit the construction of supersized, 100k+ sqft warehouses near daycare centers, schools or rec centers. Secondarily, Amazon is hoping to get California to make it easier to advertise alcohol around kids, to "unlock" California's liquor market.

This kind of shameless, mustache-twirling villainry can only go on so long before it meets resistance. One of the longest-running, hardest fought struggles against corporate malfeasance is the farmers' right ro repair fight against John Deere. Deere boobytraps its tractors so that after a farmer repairs a Deere tractor, they have to wait for days, and pay hundreds of dollars, for a Deere technician to come out to the farm and type an unlock code into the tractor's console:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

Despite multiple state right-to-repair initiatives and a pending rulemaking from the FTC, Deere is still fucking around. Now, they've found out. US District Court Judge Iain Johnson just handed Deere a scathing, 89-page memo rejecting the company's bid to kill a class action suit brought by its customers:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/deere-must-face-us-farmers-right-to-repair-lawsuits-judge-rules-2023-11-27/?ref=404media.co

The memo hearkens back to company founder John Deere, "an innovative farmer and blacksmith who—with his own hands—fundamentally changed the agricultural industry":

https://www.404media.co/a-massive-repair-lawsuit-against-john-deere-clears-a-major-hurdle/

Judge Johnson tells Deere's lawyers that the real John Deere "would be deeply disappointed in his namesake corporation," and calls out their lying. You love to see it.

This kind of thing is happening all over the world as policymakers, regulators and lawmakers take aim at corporate power. The Australian government just announced that it would force Apple to open up iOS to alternative browser engines:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/new-digital-competition-laws-for-australia/

This is obscure and technical, but that's why it's so exciting: rather than mumbling broad platitudes about competition and user choice, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's regulation targets a critical leverage point where a small change will deliver huge benefits:

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/consumers-and-small-businesses-to-benefit-from-proposed-new-regulation-of-digital-platforms

While there are many browsers in Apple's App Store, they're all just reskinned versions of Safari, all running on the same core engine, Webkit. Webkit is ancient, undermaintained and feature-poor. Crucially, Webkit does not implement the parts of the HTML5 standard needed for WebApps, which would allow app developers a safe channel to offer apps that don't go through Apple's App Store monopoly chokepoint:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax

Now, there's a big jump between announcing this kind of regulation and enacting it. As Mark Nottingham points out, Australia's had an "in principle" commitment to enact a privacy regulation for two successive governments, with no actual regulation in sight:

https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/111546662237364754

So we can't take these announcements as a sign to declare victory and stand down. The policymakers who announce these proposals deserve our accolades for the announcement and they require our constant vigilance until they make good on their promises.

That's the case in Ireland, where the Coimisiún na Meán has just published a fantastic regulatory proposal for recommendation systems, requiring recommenders to be turned off by default and that recommendations based on "political views, sexuality, religion, ethnicity or health" have to be switched off by default:

https://www.cnam.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Draft_Online_Safety_Code_Consultation_Document_Final.pdf

It's especially significant that this is coming out of Ireland, a corporate crime haven that has successfully lured the world's tech giants into flying its flag of convenience, with the guarantee of tax evasion and lax regulation:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

This rule won't enforce itself. It'll require constant vigilance and pressure. There's plenty of ways to do that on a part-time, voluntary basis, but if this kind of thing enflames you enough to make a career out of it, here's a tenure-track job for an infosec professor at Citizen Lab, fearless slayers of high-tech corporate ogres:

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Information-Security-ON/576463017/

That's all for this week's linkdump. It's time for me to go hole up in my office and wrap presents. When I do, I'll be tuning into the latest Merry Mixmas MP3 of Christmas mashups from DJ Riko:

http://www.djriko.com/dls/DJ%20Riko%20-%20Merry%20Mixmas%202023.mp3

Riko's Christmas mashups have been part of my holidays for more than two decades now. He's been making them for 22 years! That's a lot of great holiday mashups:

https://www.djriko.com/mixmases.htm

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/09/gallimaufry/#marty-hench-rides-again

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Blog Tour and Arc Review: The Lily of Ludgate Hill by Mimi Matthews

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Publication Date: January 16, 2024

Welcome to The Lily of Ludgate Hill book tour with Berkley Publishing Group. (This blog tour post is also posted on my Wordpress book blog Whimsical Dragonette.)

Synopsis:

Lady Anne Deveril doesn’t spook easily. A woman of lofty social standing known for her glacial beauty and starchy opinions, she’s the unofficial leader of her small group of equestriennes. Since her mother’s devastating plunge into mourning six years ago, Anne voluntarily renounced any fanciful notions of love and marriage. And yet, when fate puts Anne back into the entirely too enticing path of Mr. Felix Hartford, she’s tempted to run…right into his arms. No one understands why Lady Anne withdrew into the shadows of society, Hart least of all. The youthful torch he once held for her has long since cooled. Or so he keeps telling himself. But now Anne needs a favor to help a friend. Hart will play along with her little ruse—on the condition that Anne attend a holiday house party at his grandfather’s country estate. No more mourning clothes. No more barriers. Only the two of them, unrequited feelings at last laid bare. Finally free to gallop out on her own, Anne makes the tantalizing discovery that beneath the roguish exterior of her not-so-white knight is a man with hidden depths, scorching passions—and a tender heart.

Author Bio:

USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews writes both historical nonfiction and award-winning Victorian romances. Her novels have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, and Shelf Awareness, and her articles have been featured on the Victorian Web, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and in syndication at BUST Magazine. In her other life, Mimi is an attorney. She resides in California with her family, which includes a retired Andalusian dressage horse, a Sheltie, and two Siamese cats. Learn more online at www.mimimatthews.com.

Author Photo Credit: Vicki Hahn

Rating: ★★★★

*My Review, Favorite Quotes, and Non-Exclusive Extract below the cut.

My Review:

I loved this. It was exactly the sort of banter-filled stubborn hero and heroine who are gone for each other but refuse to admit it story that I love. It's easily the best of the Belles of London series. Anne and Hartford are perfect for each other but it takes them a while to admit it. The only problem I had with it was that it was *extremely* predictable. I knew exactly how it was going to go from the beginning and there was no deviating from that. I actually stopped about 75% of the way through and checked goodreads to make sure I hadn't already read it before. I hadn't. And yet I had predicted every. single. thing that happened. It was like deja vu but more so. The last quarter unfolded exactly as I expected it to. I don't know if the foreshadowing was just really intense or what but that did lessen my enjoyment of the story. Aside from that, however, everything else was exactly as I like in a historical romance. I am curious about the next one, as well, after meeting who will obviously be the new wheelchair-bound, artist hero. I have high hopes because neither of those is something we typically get in a romance hero. *Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley for providing an early copy for review.

Favorite Quotes:

"I wish I were more eccentric," Anne declared, rousing her spirits to the cause. "I might have traveled to Yorkshire weeks ago and saved Julia from her fate."

Non-Exclusive Excerpt:

The twin fragrances of pipe smoke and parchment met her nose. Lemon polish, too, though there was no sign that the maids had done any recent tidying up. The library was a place of spectacular clutter. Bookcases lined three of the walls; leather-bound volumes on botany, agriculture, and natural history were pulled out at all angles as if an absent-minded researcher had wandered from shelf to shelf withdrawing tomes at random only to change his mind midway through extracting them. The fourth wall was entirely covered in framed sketches of flowers and greenery. Some images were produced in pencil and others in delicately rendered watercolor. They were-along with the teetering stacks of botanical journals and drooping maps that spilled over the sides of the earl's carved mahogany desk-evidence of his prevailing passion. Lord March's love of exotic plants was legendary. He'd spent much of his life traveling the globe, from the wilds of America to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, bringing back rare seeds to nurture into bloom. A distracted fellow at the best of times, but a kind one, too, as far as Anne recalled. It had been a long time since she'd darkened his doorstep. A lifetime, it felt like. She tugged restlessly at her black kid-leather gloves as she paced the worn carpet in front of the library's cavernous marble fireplace. She'd never excelled at waiting for unpleasantness to arrive. Fortunately, she didn't have to wait long. "Hello, old thing." A familiar deep voice sounded from the library door. Anne spun around, her traitorous heart giving an involuntary leap in her breast. Mr. Felix Hartford stood in the entryway, one shoulder propped against the doorframe. Lord only knew how long he'd been observing her. She stiffened. After all these years, he still had the power to discompose her. Drat him. But she wouldn't permit her emotions to be thrown into chaos by his attractive face and figure. What cared she for his commanding height? His square-chiseled jaw? For the devilish glint in his sky-blue eyes? And devil he was. The very one she'd come here to see. "Hartford," she said. Her chin ticked up a notch in challenge. It was a reflex. There was no occasion on which they'd met during the course of the past several years that they hadn't engaged in verbal battle. This time, however, he made no attempt to engage her. He was dressed in plaid trousers and a loose-fitting black sack coat worn open to reveal the dark waistcoat beneath. A casual ensemble, made more so by the state of him. His clothes were vaguely rumpled, and so was his seal-brown hair. It fell over his brow, desperately in need of an application of pomade. There was an air of arrested preoccupation about him, as if he'd just returned from somewhere or was on his way to somewhere. As if he hadn't realized she was in the library and had come upon her quite by chance. An unnatural silence stretched between them, void of their typical barb-filled banter. Greetings dispensed with, Anne found herself at an unaccountable loss. More surprising still, so did Hartford. He remained frozen on the threshold, his usually humorous expression turned to stone on his handsome face. At length, he managed a smile. "I knew one day you'd walk through my door again. It only took you"-withdrawing his pocket watch from his waistcoat, he cast it a brief glance, brows lifting as if in astonishment at the time-"seven years to do it." She huffed. "It hasn't been seven years." "Six and half, then." Six years and five months, more like. It had been early December of 1855, during the Earl of March's holiday party. She'd been just shy of seventeen; young and naive and not formally out yet. Hartford had kissed her under a sprig of mistletoe in the gaslit servants' hallway outside the kitchens. And he'd proposed to her.

But Anne refused to think of the past. Never mind that, living in London, reminders of it were daily shoved under her nose. "You're not going to be difficult, are you?" she asked. "That depends." He strolled into the room. "To what do I owe your visit?" "Presumptuous, as always," she said. "For all you know, I'm here to see your grandfather." Hartford was the only child of the Earl of March's second son-the late (and much lamented) moralist Everett Hartford. Anne well remembered the man. He'd been as straitlaced and starchy as a vicar. Rather ironic, really, given his son's reputation for recklessness and irreverence. "My grandfather is in his greenhouse," Hartford said, "elbow deep in chicken manure. If it's him you've come to speak with, you're in for a long wait." She suppressed a grimace. There was no need for him to be crass. "Really, Hartford." "Really, my lady." He advanced into the room slowly, his genial expression doing little to mask the fact that he was a great towering male bearing down on her. "Why have you come?" Anne held her ground. She wasn't afraid of him. "I've come to ask a favor of you." His mouth curled up at one corner. "Better and better." He gestured to a stuffed settee upholstered in Gobelins tapestry. "Pray sit down."

Excerpted from The Lily of Ludgate Hill by Mimi Matthews Copyright © 2024 by Mimi Matthews. Excerpted by permission of Berkley. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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For the Property Tour show at Hole 44 in Berlin Germany, Awsten wears a vintage 1978 USA Space Shuttle Team All-Pro windbreaker (not available; pictured is President Jimmy Carter's windbreaker gifted to President Carter by the Kennedy Space Center, courtesy of the Carter Presidential Library). Awsten's windbreaker has the name "Faithe" embroidered on the front chest.

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Later during the show, he removed the jacket, wearing a 1996 vintage Dennis Rodman s/s tee shirt (no longer available).

📸 Twitter: eendofthewaterr

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Rishinomics or Reaganomics. What is next for Britain?

GROWING numbers of workers are being pulled into the red as the rising cost of essentials outpaces wage increases, Citizens Advice has warned.

The charity said the proportion of people in full-time employment it sees with “negative budgets” – having more money going out on essential costs than coming in – has risen from around 27 per cent in early 2019 to nearly 39 per cent by this year.

It added the self-employed have been particularly hard hit, with 58 per cent of those it has helped with debt having had a negative budget, compared with 39 per cent in 2019. Citizens Advice director of policy Matthew Upton said: “Most people expect that if you work hard, you should have enough money to get by."

“Yet our front-line advisers are seeing more and more people in work who can’t make ends meet. This is even after they’ve had specialist advice and done what they can to cut costs and maximise their income."

Following America's 1980's example

As USA Today reported back in 2013, Margaret Thatcher's first official visit to the United States was in 1967 when, as a young member of Parliament, she toured the country as part of a State Department exchange program. Thatcher first met Ronald Reagan one-on-one in April 1975 at the House of Commons in London. Reagan, then the governor of California, wrote a thank-you note to Thatcher, then the Conservative Party's opposition leader in Parliament.

The Ronald Reagan library identifies Thatcher as Reagan's most prolific correspondent among heads of state and notes that they exchanged hundreds of letters, messages and telephone calls. Both worked to dismantle government bureaucracies and deregulate key industries. At one meeting, Reagan and Thatcher had a sharp discussion about U.S. barriers to the denationalization of British Airways.

There's nothing "normal" about having a middle class, wrote Thom Hartmann in the Salon back in 2014. "Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it's a choice we need to make again in this generation, if we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the last generation's middle class."

"When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors, and they paid working people what would be, in today's dollars, about $50 an hour with benefits. Reagan began deregulating and cutting taxes on capitalism in 1981, and today, with more classical "raw capitalism," what we call "Reaganomics," or "supply side economics," our nation's largest employer is WalMart and they pay around $10 an hour."

But as Peter Lunenfeld also wrote back in 2014; "economists are waking up to the fact that when young Americans enter the workforce burdened with over a trillion dollars in cumulative debt, they become risk averse, unwilling to move, less able to make major purchases, and slower to become homeowners. Not coincidentally, they don’t feel safe enough to register any major protests against the society that’s done this to them."

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Touring the 1500s -

Top left  1525 Laura Pisani by Gabriele Cappellini (location ?). From tumblr.com/eirene; partially fixed.

Top right  Diane de France, princess of France and daughter king Henry II of Valois by François Clouet (location ?). From tumblr.com/roehenstart/695196156597256192/portrait-of-diane-de-france-princess-of-france; fixed spots, but not cracks w Pshop 2048X2894.

Second row left  Woman by ? Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon - Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France). From tumblr.com/blog/view/history-of-fashion 597X800 @72 208kj.

Second row right  1550s Laura Battiferri by Agnolo Bronzino (location ?). From tumblr.com/blog/view/papered-in-rose-toile 1370X1795 @72 677kj.

Third row  Woman by Florentine painter, possibly Jacopo Zucchi (Metropolitan Museum of Art). From tumblr.com/historical-fashion-devotee/700705910778216448/artthatgivesmefeelings-florentine-painter; fixed spots & cracks w Pshop 2015X2615 @72 1.5Mj.

Fourth row left  1545-1550 Lady, probably Philippine Welser, probably by Corneille de Lyon (Veste Coburg - Coburg, Bayern, Germany). From tumblr.com/blog/view/lenkaastrelenkaa fixed spots $ some cracks w Pshop 828X1200 @72 482kj.

Fourth row right  ca. 1565 French Princess by the school of François Clouet (Morgan Library & Museum - New York City, New York, USA). From tumblr.com/dashboard 1078X1445 @72 665kj.

Fifth row lef.  1570 Probably Camilla Martelli by Alessandro Allori (St. Louis Art Museum - St. Louis, Missouri, USA). From tumblr.com/pipouch/696978340783030272/alessandro-allori-portrait-dune-dame 1741X2048 @72 1.3Mj.

Fifth row right  Jungen Frau by Nicholas Hilliard (Bassenge - 1Dec22 auction Lot 6038). From their Web site 1070X2498 @144 7.6Mp.

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[Detroit Electric auto on promotional tour through mountains from Seattle to Mt. Rainier] / Cress-Dale Photo Co., Crary Bldg, Seattle.

CONTRIBUTOR NAMES: Cress-Dale Photo Co., photographer.

CREATED / PUBLISHED: [Seattlel: [Cress-Dale Photo Co., Crary Bldg], [1919]

SUBJECT HEADINGS: Anderson Electric Car Co.--Products--Washington (State)--1910-1920

Anderson Electric Car Co.--Public relations--Washington (State)--1910-1920

Electric automobiles--Washington (State)--1910-1920

Rainier, Mount (Wash.)--1910-1920

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We are currently mulling the idea of buying an electric car (emphatically it will not be a Tesla which simply trades one kind of toxic pollution for support of another), so I thought this LC photo was worth posting. Amazing how different the world would be if the oil cartel, and it was a cartel created after the monopoly of Standard Oil was slightly crushed by a 1911 court decision, had not prevailed and electric cars had become the norm. It was a technological possibility, but gasoline powered automobiles came to be the almost exclusive automotive form thanks to the near monopolies in energy sources and and slightly later the manufacture of vehicles. The consequence of monopoly capitalism at its worst!

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Last night I had a dream I was visiting USA with my mom, aunt,  and some other relatives. My aunt’s house, where we all stayed at, was somehow in USA even though she lived in Finland. One day we decided to visit the nearest big city. I remembered that the Smithson Library is in that city and wanted to visit because they have many of those 1990s Dorling Kingley dinosaur models on display, these ones:

And I also knew that the have many other dinosaur models and statues there. We decided that I will go alone to the library and my other relatives will walk around the town, they weren’t interested in dinosaurs. The Smithson Library was located inside a huge shopping mall, right next to the entrace. So I walk in and immediately see a familiar looking Iguanodon! But it was a lot smaller than I expected, like smaller that a regular cat.

Then a woman working at the library approached me. She said she can give me a tour of the library. I thought that sounds interesting! But there was a problem: I would have to pay $4 for that and when I looked at my wallet I noticed that I only had euros. I also had my debit card, but they took only cash. Then she said that she can give me the beginning of the tour, then I go to an ATM to get money, pay her, and then I get the rest of the tour. Ok, that sounds good!

She guided me in front of a large glass box that had a diorama with dinosaurs. Then began to tell me about the ankylosaur that was in the diorama and she pressed a button that turned on a spotlight that highlighted the dinosaur she was talking about. While she was talking, the ankylosaur, which I had thought was just a statue, moved towards me really fast and moved its head and opened its mouth. It was so close to the glass that I was a little afraid of it even though I knew it’s not a real animal. The same thing happaned with all of the other animals inside the glass box, when it was their turn they moved right in front of me super fast and moved their heads and opened their mouths while she was speaking.

And now it was time for me to pay for the tour so I exited the Smithson Library to find an ATM. I walked a long and very crowded aisle and I saw 3 or 4 machines that looked like ATMs but when I got closer I saw that they were some kind of gambling devices. I made a u-turn and began to walk to the door from which I had entered the shopping mall, thinking that maybe I can find an ATM in the streets.

But when I walked past the Smithson Library I noticed that all of their light were off, they had already closed for that day! I was just thinking I hope my relatives want to visit this city again tomorror or some other day, otherwise I have just wasted my only chance ever in my life of visiting that place, traveling to another continent is not cheap! I was just so disappointed.

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I got a chris Evans imagine Idea

Chris and Y/N meet for the first time in the supermarket. She is in the USA for the first time and doesn't know her way around so well yet... good that Chris is there and likes to help her. By the way Dodger also falls in love directly with Y/N

not being from the u.s. and meeting chris ✧ chris evans

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request: I got a chris Evans imagine Idea Chris and Y/N meet for the first time in the supermarket. She is in the USA for the first time and doesn't know her way around so well yet... good that Chris is there and likes to help her. By the way Dodger also falls in love directly with Y/N - anon

pairing: chris evans x fem!reader

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warnings?: fluff, not proofread

it was a complete accident, meeting chris. you were at a target, looking for things for your new home. you’d only recently moved to the united states, and you were still in need of a lot of the basic necessities. 

you were distracted by the large assortment of coffee makers, pushing your shopping cart down the aisle, when your cart ran straight into another’s. 

“oh, i’m so sorry!” you said, looking at the person you ran into. 

he was a tall man, a nasa hat on his head, shielding most of his face, a tight t-shirt showing off all his muscles. he said, “it’s no problem. i should’ve been paying more attention.”

oh, he had, perhaps, the hottest accent you’d ever heard. maybe it was just him, though. because no one else you had spoken to in boston turned you on with just the sound of their voice. 

“i should say the same, then,” you said. “but, hey, while i got you here, do you have any recommendations for a coffee maker?”

“my recommendation? go to dunks.”

“dunks?”

“yeah, dunkin’ donuts,” he said. “are you new here?”

“yeah, just moved to the states,” you said. 

“well, hey, if you’re up for it, you wanna go get some coffee and let me convince you that dunks is the only place to get coffee.”

“i would love that.”

and, well, that was the start of a most wonderful relationship. 

you quickly learned that the man you ran into was none other than chris evans. and he, as it turned out, was more than happy to be your tour guide. he showed you every place he loved in boston, all of the hidden gems and best local spots. 

he introduced you to his sweet dog, dodger. and oh, you loved that dog with all your heart and soul. you weren’t sure if you were a bigger fan of going on a “dunks run” with chris or going with chris as he took dodger on his daily walk. 

it was easy, falling in love with chris. and, so it seemed, he felt the same, because just a few short months after he ran into you, he officially asked you. 

and, well, the rest was history. 

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Hi Sea! Today is a good day - I deleted all Harry Styles music from my music library and I’m currently listening to my BTM focused (with 90s jams!) playlist on Spotify and coffee and my snuggly dog!

Just a bit bummed that I live in one of the non-big threes Canadian cities, and so there’s no chance Louis will come here on any tour. But I would travel for him - I once flew to Vancouver for a few days by myself for a Jonas Brothers concert…on my birthday! Also I love my city, so I’m not bumming about that!

Congratulations on the playlist!

I’m sorry, too, that tour has to be so USA-focused, because I feel like this isn’t a nice place for Louis or Louies. However, I do hope you get to see him in Vancouver. It’s a beautiful place. Last tour concert in Vancouver was so beautiful.

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Historical Landmarks and Heritage USA

Exploring historical landmarks and heritage sites in the United States can be a fascinating niche for YouTube content creators. Here are some ideas for content within this sub-niche

Virtual Tours of National Parks: Provide immersive virtual tours of iconic national parks in the United States, such as Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Acadia. Highlight the natural beauty, wildlife, and geological wonders of these protected areas.

Historic Sites and Monuments: Visit and document visits to famous historical landmarks and monuments across the country, such as the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Independence Hall, and the Alamo. Share insights into the history, significance, and architectural features of these sites.

Colonial Era and Revolutionary War Sites: Explore the East Coast's rich colonial history by visiting sites like Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement, and Boston's Freedom Trail. Discuss the events leading up to the American Revolution and the legacy of the Founding Fathers.

Civil War Battlefields and Museums: Tour Civil War battlefields, such as Gettysburg, Antietam, and Vicksburg, and discuss the strategies, key battles, and significant figures of the conflict. Visit Civil War museums and artifacts collections to delve deeper into this pivotal period in American history.

Industrial Revolution Landmarks: Visit industrial revolution landmarks and heritage sites, such as Lowell National Historical Park, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, and the Henry Ford Museum. Explore innovations in technology, transportation, and manufacturing that shaped American industry.

mmigration and Ellis Island: Document visits to Ellis Island and other immigration museums to explore the immigrant experience in America. Share stories of immigrants' journeys, cultural diversity, and contributions to the nation's growth and development.

Civil Rights Movement Sites: Visit sites associated with the Civil Rights Movement, including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, and the National Civil Rights Museum. Discuss the struggle for racial equality, landmark events, and the ongoing fight for social justice.

Presidential Libraries and Museums: Tour presidential libraries and museums dedicated to the lives and legacies of past U.S. presidents, such as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Historic Trails and Scenic Byways: Follow historic trails and scenic byways, such as the Lewis and Clark Trail, the Oregon Trail, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Share travel tips, scenic views, and insights into the people and events that shaped American history.

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Wallet-Friendly Wonders: 15 Free Things to Experience in Los Angeles

Free is the best way to live, especially in a costly city as Los Angeles. Check these free fun activities to do in Los Angeles when in the city, whether you are touring or permanently reside here. They are equally as enjoyable as high-priced venues or performances, and you will not require worrying about them going above your budget.

LA California’s 15 Free and Fun Things

Olvera Street

Southern California offers easy access to Mexican culture, especially on Olvera Street, known as "the birthplace of Los Angeles." This small block offers stalls, shops, and historical museums, as well as authentic Mexican food, mariachi bands, and traditional events. El Pueblo Historic Park is also nearby. If you are on the watch out for historical places to visit in USA, this is an excellent option.

Tour Greystone Mansion

An opulent structure in Beverly Hills, has been standing ever since 1928. Formerly made for an oil tycoon's son, it was transformed in 1971 into a public park. Today, the mansion & gardens are admired for corporate events, weddings, and photoshoots. Guests can discover the grounds for free, but pets & picnics are not permissible. The park could be closed for any reserved event.

LA Central Library

LA Central Library, located in downtown LA, is the city's main and largest public library. Its dazzling Art Deco facade and interior architecture, including the Zodiac Chandelier, delicate motifs, and a mural, make it a must-see. Visitors can also explore the Maguire Gardens, a space combining plants, hardscaping, and artwork. The library offers assorted books for reading.

Runyon Canyon Park

Runyon Canyon Park offers excellent hikes in LA, available all weekdays. With 160 acres, it offers stunning views and is popular with locals and celebrities. Prepare for restrooms and enjoy a grand perspective of Los Angeles from the top. In fact this is amid one of the favored Los Angeles attractions.

Lake Shrine

The Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Los Angeles provides a serene environment for relaxation and reflection, honoring five principal religions. Visitors can explore Meditation Gardens, Windmill Chapel, gift shop, and Sunday services. This is an apt place for some family activities in Los Angeles.

Hollywood Forever Cemetry

This is a full-service cemetery & funeral home that serves as a cultural event centre & a place of peace. It has since 1999 been on the National Register of Historic Places and provides free tours of the grounds or 2.5-hour guided tour for people interested in knowing more about the history of the city.

Griffith Park

Mount Hollywood offers an overhead view of Los Angeles, with several hiking trails taking around 20 minutes. The Griffith Observatory, free to enter, features informative exhibits and a planetarium. Griffith Park, covering over 4,200 acres, offers a day of exploration and picnic areas for breaks and rest. Drive up if possible to conserve energy.

La Brea Tar pits

This is an inimitable tourist attraction with abundant Ice Age fossils uncovered. As the lone actively excavated urban Ice Age fossil site worldwide, scientists have been working as early 1900s. The on-site museum houses tiny and massive bones and plant remains. The tar pits and Hancock Park are free to visit, with a mammoth family and a tar-bobbing mammoth family.

California Science Center

This is a free museum at West Coast, offering lasting exhibits and & a family-friendly experience. Guests can discover the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which had been in service from 1992-2011, & its permanent home in the centre. The space shuttle will go off display up to January 1, 2024, when it will be shifted to the Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center.

Getty Center

LA has free museums, including Getty Center, placed on a hill & accessible by tram. The center features modern architecture and art pieces from the Middle Ages to contemporary times. Visitors can enjoy a breathtaking view of LA and explore the large garden, including the cool sculptures in the Lower Terrace Garden. This is one amid the fun things to do in Los Angeles California.

The Board

A free museum at Downtown LA, it houses approximately 2,000 pieces of present-day art by about 200 artists, including pop art by Andy Warhol's and the largest collection by Cindy Sherman, with immersive exhibits & pre-reserved tickets. Hollywood Walk of Fame- an iconic Los Angeles landmark having 2,767 stars, had been built in 1961 & is added still. Visitors can enjoy iconic red stars, celebrities, street performers, and the TCL Chinese Theatre.

Santa Monica Pier

Santa Monica Pier, a National Historic Landmark, offers a relaxing beach experience with its wooden structure. The pier, over a century old, features Pacific Park, an oceanfront amusement park, and street performers. Visitors can enjoy the cool ocean breeze, waves, and salty water, while also enjoying the beautiful nature of Los Angeles.

Venice Beach

Venice Beach in LA is a popular American tourist destination, known for its free boardwalk and iconic busker Harry Perry. The 2 mile long boardwalk offers performances, workouts, and skateparks, while souvenir shops and food stands provide food options. For a free experience, stroll the boardwalk or beach, take a dip, sunbathe, or play beach sports. Enjoy the LA sun and people-watching while enjoying the free activities. The Venice Beach is amid the fun places to go in LA.

Counter Culture Coffee

North Carolina based specialty coffee roaster hosts Tasting at Ten at 10am every Friday, where the team shares their desired coffee stories.

Bottom Line Los Angeles offers numerous free experiences, including nature trails and iconic landmarks, making it an ideal destination for both locals and visitors.

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Most Beautiful Park in Detroit, MI

Detroit, MI is known for its brutal winters and crime, but it's also home to some beautiful parks. While many people might not think about visiting Detroit for a weekend getaway, there are plenty of reasons why you should! Come with us on a tour of the most beautiful parks in Detroit, MI.

Beacon Park

Beacon Park is a public park in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in the United Kingdom. The park was created in 1859 when the Museum Gardens were laid out adjacent to the newly built Free Museum and Library. The park has since been extended in stages and now forms 69 acres (28 ha) of open parkland in the city centre. The park is in the northwest of the city centre and to the west of the Cathedral Close across the road from the Garden of Remembrance.

The majority of the park was originally waterlogged marshland and a lake covered the area of what is now the Museum Gardens. The land was drained in the early 19th century and the Museum Gardens were raised with silt dredged from Minster Pool. The large northern area of the park once formed the land and gardens of Beacon House. This land was incorporated into the park when the owner of Beacon House, Colonel Swinfen Broun, donated the land after his death.

William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor

The park consists of the former city-owned St. Aubin Park and Marina and an adjacent reclaimed brownfield. The park area was taken over by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in 2004 as Tri-Centennial State Park to commemorate the founding of Fort Detroit in 1701. It was Michigan's first state park to be situated in an urban area. Phase I of the park's development, which included refurbishing the marina and construction of the light tower, opened on May 20, 2004. Construction of the 6-acre (2.4 ha) Phase II, or expansion, phase of the project began in summer 2008 and concluded in summer 2009. The Phase II project encompassed a parcel of post-industrial property adjacent to Rivard Plaza.On October 22, 2009, Tri-Centennial State Park was renamed in honor of Governor William G. Milliken. The Lowlands section of the park was officially opened to the public on December 3, 2009.

Robert C. Valade Park

Robert C. Valade Park is the newest park to open along the East Riverfront. It features an expansive, sandy beach with chairs and umbrellas, a children’s musical garden, colorful play scapes for kids to climb on, a community barbecue pavilion and Bob’s Barge, which is Detroit’s only floating bar each summer. The park is also home to The Shed, a 3,600-square-foot building that will be used for food, events and programming. This winter Valade Park will feature over-sized outdoor fire places, hot drinks, marshmallow roasters, the Sled Shed (featuring free sleds when it snows), synthetic ice curling, and more.

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