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Planned Walls
Measure ULA, HACLA, and what a billion dollars can buy
Jun 15
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Chad Shields
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The Buttons They Handed to Schoolchildren
On a passage from The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Jun 10
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Chad Shields
Fourteen to Zero
On pretextual stops (Council File 20-0875) and the structural ceiling of police reform in Los Angeles
Jun 4
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Chad Shields
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The Colonized Horizon - #3
Why do we dream in the language of capital?
Jun 1
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Chad Shields
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May 2026
From the Body to the Horizon
A note from inside the next essay
May 25
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Chad Shields
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The Body Politic - #2
On belonging, and the socialist city we have not yet learned to inhabit
May 22
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Chad Shields
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On a Sentence That Has Been Working on Me
Where Davis, Menakem, and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) converge
May 18
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Chad Shields
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In Relative Opacity - #1
A letter on the gap between the California we imagine and the city we actually live in, and on what it means to write from inside that gap.
May 15
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Chad Shields
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