Isaac Rowlett
Exploring Wisconsin’s past, present and future
Views = mine only
- this is not sustainable…a reckoning is coming
- Where am I, Milwaukee County?
- “Here's how President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts could affect Milwaukee” www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
- Answer: Best Place in the Pabst Brewery Complex Winner: Tie between @jregan.bsky.social & @gregjoslyn.bsky.social, both who answered at 3:45 on 5/10 — well done. Thanks for playing, folks!
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- Sherman Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin — one year ago today
- Milwaukee, 42 years ago today “Custer High School Band at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Bridge in front of War Memorial, May 12, 1983.” — Milwaukee Public Library Photo by George P. Koshollek
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- You’re welcome!
- Grant Boulevard, Sherman Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025
- Thank you to Better Streets MKE for organizing today’s Tour de Playgrounds in Tosa — we had a blast! Stay tuned for future critical mass events by signing up here: newsletter.betterstreetsmke.com/better-stree... Great to see you @brookebikesmke.bsky.social @mitchellhenke.com @nicholas.sideras.net
- Apologies for the confusion — this was organized by Bike Walk Tosa, not Better Streets MKE
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- My bad, sorry!
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- “Republicans slash mental health” would’ve also accurately described our current reality
- Where am I, Milwaukee?
- Irwinville, Georgia — 160 years ago today The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry unit helps capture the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, just a month after the 36th Wisconsin Infantry regiment helped General Ulysses S. Grant cornered Robert E. Lee in Appomattox Court House.
- Milwaukee, 2025
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- Congratulations!
- Good question. Anyone know?
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- Thank you!
- just think about what an honor it will be to have been fired by Trump once this awful administration is behind us
- the real streets of old Milwaukee: Moi Toy Ni’s beautiful Shanghai building on 2nd street featuring a restaurant, 460-seat movie theater, and other businesses. Built in 1912 and demolished in 1939. learn more about Toy’s impressive achievements here: shepherdexpress.com/culture/milw...
- *Moy Toy Ni
- One of the founders of Milwaukee’s pre-cities (now Weetown) Byron Kilbourn , donated the land in 1873 to be used to build a reservoir to hold drinking water. The reservoir was eventually decommissioned and filled in 2006. Here it is in 1979:
- *Westown lol
- Kilbourn Reservoir Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025
- firing the head of FEMA on the eve of hurricane season seems…imprudent
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- Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵
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- for me when I was young I took plenty of history courses and found them intellectually stimulating, but most of it just felt so abstract. Now I’ve got a few decades on this planet, I’ve gained a whole new appreciation for the power & relevance of so-called “history” and what it means for us today
- hypothesis: one day, when American cities have the high-speed, high-frequency, and high-quality public transit that people need, we’ll look back with awe at this strange period between the early 20th and mid-21st centuries as a strange and unfortunate aberration of excessive car dependency
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- fair point, but then how do we explain the rise of robust public transit systems across so many cities and towns in the US in the late 19th & early 20h centuries
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- One day, when Milwaukee has the high-speed, high-quality public transit that Milwaukeeans need and deserve, we’ll look back with awe at this strange period between the early 20th century and the mid-21st as a strange and unfortunate aberration
- really is. We’ve lost a lot of our city’s unique heritage. Fortunately, we’ve kept a lot of it too.
- demolished for a parking lot btw this is what we mean when we say “cars ruin cities” it doesn’t mean cars are inherently bad or not useful, it just means that they are a geometry problem in cities and urban car dependency hurts the health & wealth of our communities
- the real streets of old Milwaukee: Moi Toy Ni’s beautiful Shanghai building on 2nd street featuring a restaurant, 460-seat movie theater, and other businesses. Built in 1912 and demolished in 1939. learn more about Toy’s impressive achievements here: shepherdexpress.com/culture/milw...
- Proud of my fellow Jews who are stepping up to speak truth to power 🫡 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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- Nice! I was hoping folks would catch that
- Milwaukee, 2025
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- Yep!
- I’ve trained my kids to spot these signs in the wild when we’re biking, walking or driving around the city. We then pick them up and throw them away when we get home. Probably have snagged 100+ already…
- Public servant.
- at your service 🫡
- But have you tried calling the number? 😬🤔
- nope but if others want to troll or spam them then be my guest!
- Milwaukee, 2025
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- don’t be sad because it’s over; be happy because it happened
- The Sea of Ice, by Caspar David Friedrich, 1823-24
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- @isaacrowlett.bsky.social is this yours?
- I took the photo but it’s just of my screen showing the live feed from TMJ4
