Was at the opening of Ask E. Jean last night at the International Film Center. This doc rocks. Highly recommend seeing this! Director Ivy Meeropol (pictured in a talk following the film, right) was present. www.askejeanfilm.com #askejean
@dalemaharidge.bsky.social
Journalist/author. Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Signal = WillSpecter1.75
YOUNGSTOWN-Back in the day this was a hangout for mobsters. Had fantastic wedding soup here on my recent visit to town. Also visited the spot where in 1983 Michael S. Williamson and I met Joey Naples, the capo for the Pittsburgh mob. That encounter involved two revolvers being aimed at us.
YOUNGSTOWN - Some bit of steel is still processed there now. A fraction of what was before 50,000 jobs were lost. But the memory of the big full-scale steel mills remains in murals.
MAY 2026--GHOST WORKER. Inside the ruins of a steel mill, Mahoning Valley.
Shitcoin. We need more good news like this these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support
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But of course they refuse. They are Vichy Republicans. Lapdogs. Hitler would have loved them!
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago🎯
Nobody except a few peeps see my Bluesky, but posting anyway. Fuck #boeing. Never fly on a Boeing plane again. Airborne coffins. NYT investigation shows the firm took shortcuts to duct tape old planes to compete with Airbus. They actually have cost-benefit tables Cheaper to have death payouts.
NEVER THOUGHT I'D MAKE MERIAM-WEBSTER--Guessing this is AI generated, but the venerable dictionary cites me defining the word "insidious." "… a measureless land thick with pine forest and kudzu, that insidious vine author James Dickey once called a form of vegetable cancer. — Dale Maharidge"
wow--thank you for using my words as your epigraph! As I note in my posts on socials, I'm honored.
Brad Meltzer@bradmeltzer.com · 8mo agoThanks @dalemaharidge.bsky.social. You impacted me.
EPIGRAPH--For the 2nd time to my knowledge, my words have been used as an epigraph. It appears a book publishing today--THE VIPER, by Brad Meltzer--has used this from Bringing Mulligan Home: “I don’t believe in closure. I don’t think we ever really get over anything.”
WE FOUND JESUS--Just came home from a 2,800-mile road trip through the South. Fun fact: In all those miles, we just saw two Trump signs/stickers. I drove a lot around the country in 2017 and 2018 and repeatedly witnessed uncountable numbers of Trump signs/stickers. Hmm. Maybe one can interpret.
SPRINGSTEEN'S GHOST OF TOM JOAD--It was released 30 years ago today. Some stories like this one are shouting out that #springsteen drew from Journey to Nowhere, the book I did with Michael S. Williamson. HARD.TO.BELIEVE that this much time has passed. Sigh. www.noise11.com/news/bruce-s...
Bruce Springsteen Marks 30 Years Of The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Bruce Springsteen celebrates 30 years of The Ghost Of Tom Joad, the intimate 1995 acoustic album that defined a new chapter in his storytelling legacy.
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Powerful essay from a hospital bed from Samuel Braslow, who was in my final class last spring at Columbia. "I can’t diet, detox or exercise my way out of cancer." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o... 3m
Opinion | I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life
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“Five life-changing things that shaped Bruce Springsteen”--Journey to Nowhere, the book I did with Michael S. Williamson, is included in the 5th thing in this BBC Radio podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/.../five-lif....
fuck nimbys www.latimes.com/california/s...
Newsom signs historic housing bill to bring density to transit hubs
Newsom signed Senate Bill 79 into law on Friday. The historic bill, which looks to add density to transit hubs across California, is one of the most ambitious state-imposed housing efforts in recent m...
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BUZZARD SWARM--Today a cloud of turkey vultures suddenly swirled overhead. There are 41 birds in the frame of this picture. Another 30 or so are out of frame. Never seen anything like this. One could interpret this as a sign of something, but I’m not sure I want to think too much about that.
Sweet! Choke #paulweiss and other #lawfirms such as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom #caving to #Trump. Hope you suffer millions/billions in losses. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Fallout Is Growing on Trump’s Deals With Law Firms
The deals are looking worse and worse — for Trump and the law firms.
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TOTALLY OFFGRID-Power profile for June. ZERO grid electric because of the batteries at night. Exported power every day. Total of 355KW. C02 reduction: 1,400 pounds. we live in a bleak era, who knows what the fools who are now running things will do. Here at this casa, we will never be without power.
ST. LOUIS, 1983--We hopped on a freight train that March with Don, who we documented as he headed west seeking work. I took the pic of Michael S. Williamson either moments before or after he made the image of Don, which appears in our 1985 book Journey To Nowhere.
GRADUATION DAY Columbia Journalism--The final graduation ceremony after 34 years of teaching. Next to me is Sam Freedman. It's fitting we "retire" at the same time. We both started at Columbia in 1991. Dean Jelani Cobb gave us a shout out at the end of the ceremony. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
THE LAST DAY--Waiting for students on Thursday at the Columbia Journalism School. My final class after 34 years.
