# ![@jacob__titus Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::35932079.png) @jacob__titus Jacob Titus

Jacob Titus posts on X about south bend, belt, great lakes, in the the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [finance](/list/finance)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [musicians](/list/musicians)  [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) 

**Social topic influence**
[south bend](/topic/south-bend), [belt](/topic/belt), [great lakes](/topic/great-lakes), [in the](/topic/in-the), [bend](/topic/bend), [movies](/topic/movies), [the first](/topic/the-first), [the great](/topic/the-great), [west](/topic/west), [notre dame](/topic/notre-dame)

**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Good afternoon from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1717643700686172646)  2023-10-26T20:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A morning on Wheeling Island. From my new book Walking in Wheeling" now available for preorder at http://shop.westsb.com http://shop.westsb.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1861461129928810799)  2024-11-26T17:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Winter in South Bend Indiana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1869466166256931252)  2024-12-18T19:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Photographs I've made while walking in Wheeling West Virginia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1934726984959156536)  2025-06-16T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""South Bend has never became noted as a summer resort but the possibilities seem to be rather large if the matter should be taken up and pushed." Here are forty photographs from the days I spent in South Bend this summer http://westsb.com/summer http://westsb.com/summer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1968723537297830092)  2025-09-18T17:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Tomorrow night in South Bend @permitpending: BABY BAR http://bit.ly/4mCQeB3 http://bit.ly/4mCQeB3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1971230342385369552)  2025-09-25T15:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Notre Dame just unveiled these new The Bend jerseys inspired by the mural Helen John and I painted at Madison Oyster Bar. Nicely done @FightingIrish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1973807580238819354)  2025-10-02T17:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In one week Zach Bryan played the biggest ticketed show in American history wrote a song about ICE was criticized by the White House and conservative media and responded by posting a Wendell Berry poem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1975896134578274350)  2025-10-08T12:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Wheeling West Virginia Do not tell me youre from Real America unless you live in the Orange. https://t.co/9O9lYw5WnS Do not tell me youre from Real America unless you live in the Orange. https://t.co/9O9lYw5WnS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1977447484021457334)  2025-10-12T18:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"To purchase Jane Jacobs masterwork The Death and Life of Great American Cities at 10am on Sunday in South Bend a city of 100k people you must first drive [--] minutes to the suburban mall and sit in the vast empty parking until 11am when Barnes & Noble opens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1977380856441270352)  2025-10-12T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rustbeltkid1 Live near a big one here in South Benda "Magnolia" model. I just stand and stare in disbelief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1980371932152492549)  2025-10-20T20:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"They built a luxury apartment complex next to Notre Dame and named it The Foundry. Should be a criminal offense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1980400766226678104)  2025-10-20T22:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Resurrect the roof signs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981095356667744435)  2025-10-22T20:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's stifling. Asks for unsustainable effort from the "public characters" and dramatically raises the stakes of cooperation or dissension amongst them. Small cities are the new small town. Youd be surprised even in a city of 100-200k how small the number of people who do things are. A liberal estimate of the people involved in civic orgs charities and local politics might be a couple thousand. Small cities are the new small town. Youd be surprised even in a city of 100-200k how small the number of people who do things are. A liberal estimate of the people involved in civic orgs charities and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981098000635281713)  2025-10-22T20:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And yet offers a small world of opportunity for the creatively energized public character"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981098736332705872)  2025-10-22T20:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"3 steps to a better life [--]. Move to South Bend [--]. Buy a building (theyre cheap) [--]. Erect a roof sign (theyre legal) @jacob__titus Downtown roof signs were relegalized in South Bend's [----] zoning ordinance @jacob__titus Downtown roof signs were relegalized in South Bend's [----] zoning ordinance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981181081056661973)  2025-10-23T02:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Photographs I've made of life in South Bend Indiana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981338579813929417)  2025-10-23T12:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I gasped A fleet of chunky sweaters makes the winter bearable. https://t.co/s4cfsOgN5y A fleet of chunky sweaters makes the winter bearable. https://t.co/s4cfsOgN5y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981731328887243054)  2025-10-24T14:35Z [----] followers, 5.6M engagements


"In [----] the Oliver Chilled Plow Works erected the largest electric sign in the United States atop its new warehouse in South Bend. The sign measured [---] feet used [----] incandescent bulbs and was said to be legible from two miles away. [--] steps to a better life [--]. Move to South Bend [--]. Buy a building (theyre cheap) [--]. Erect a roof sign (theyre legal) [--] steps to a better life [--]. Move to South Bend [--]. Buy a building (theyre cheap) [--]. Erect a roof sign (theyre legal)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1981762946280636433)  2025-10-24T16:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@kittyfawkes13"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1982447604538528037)  2025-10-26T14:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm working on a second volume of Life in South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1983241782361240005)  2025-10-28T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Every morning I drive to work in a truck old enough to have only a few semiconductors. My act of solidarity in the trade war and my small protest against the supply chain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1983510564866269250)  2025-10-29T12:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@a11ienzz Appreciate it Well do another open house someday. Looks like that brick was from the neighbors part of the block. but I love the cataloging system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1983628757606002895)  2025-10-29T20:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1985488012399296541)  2025-11-03T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good morning from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1985725851468747246)  2025-11-04T15:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I have acquired a gallon of Watco Danish Oil and plan to spend [--] minutes per day touching up the studio floor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1985770738767265989)  2025-11-04T18:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"South Bend calling we gotta start collectively hanging out in cheaper cities smh we gotta start collectively hanging out in cheaper cities smh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1985797363621888009)  2025-11-04T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@JackCreevy3 Yes South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1986276834992930898)  2025-11-06T03:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ricgalbraith Thats beautiful. To write in a space like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1986410880439832988)  2025-11-06T12:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of the most beautiful blocks of homes in America. Wheeling West Virginia https://t.co/nk5xR8zvFy Wheeling West Virginia https://t.co/nk5xR8zvFy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1986855737159549050)  2025-11-07T17:58Z [----] followers, 129K engagements


"Wheeling West Virginia. From the Lenape word weelunk meaning place of the skull. Story goes that a skull was raised on a pole where the creek meets the river to keep outsiders from entering. Etymology of American place names is criminally underdiscussed. A low hanging fruit for culture and patriotism. Etymology of American place names is criminally underdiscussed. A low hanging fruit for culture and patriotism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987211113155694658)  2025-11-08T17:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Silver Dollar Saloon Butte - [----] . " The Woman in a Black Dress " [----] Mixed Media Taturo Kiuchi : (b.1966) . https://t.co/ojjcrS70P0 . " The Woman in a Black Dress " [----] Mixed Media Taturo Kiuchi : (b.1966) . https://t.co/ojjcrS70P0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987239487525568886)  2025-11-08T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@sha_zng a16z could never"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987247905720148307)  2025-11-08T19:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Lets (re)build a city. The best answer for a new greenfield city is Cairo Illinois: it sits at the intersection of the Mississippi Tennessee and Ohio rivers and is practically uninhabited. The best answer for an existing city is probably https://t.co/fegUW6ZOdO The best answer for a new greenfield city is Cairo Illinois: it sits at the intersection of the Mississippi Tennessee and Ohio rivers and is practically uninhabited. The best answer for an existing city is probably https://t.co/fegUW6ZOdO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987536876195205460)  2025-11-09T15:04Z [----] followers, 45.2K engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987653531881689292)  2025-11-09T22:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@chacaranda @YerbaMonster Thanks - Fujifilm X-Pro3 Classic Chrome JPEGs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987971900237349205)  2025-11-10T19:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LivingJew7804 South Bend Indiana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987984573721178400)  2025-11-10T20:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This land of cities beautiful yet unseen. @jacob__titus I swear america is the country with the most pretty cities never heard of s.bend @jacob__titus I swear america is the country with the most pretty cities never heard of s.bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1987989418607890482)  2025-11-10T21:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When the South Bend Tribunes printing press building opened in [----] the paper called it churchlike Slowly but surely its becoming one. A new film with @sbcitychurch on its transformation. Full - http://youtu.be/xnOluVGW8twsi=VtNT9fBXCN6-KPnR http://youtu.be/xnOluVGW8twsi=VtNT9fBXCN6-KPnR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1988280866880319695)  2025-11-11T16:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The George Cutter Company of South Bend was once the largest municipal street-light manufacturer in the United States. Their lamps lined cities across the country with warm light and cast ornamental detail. Beauty in the public way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1988622283208896697)  2025-11-12T14:57Z [----] followers, 14.7K engagements


"Good morning from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1988984449531548002)  2025-11-13T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ive been collecting these old storefront portraits for years. From the 1870s to 1930s they served as proof of legitimacy known by photographers as views or occupational portraits. Wide angle owners and family in the doorway street-level signage illustrating the scene. A quiet record of citizenship work and the dignity of standing in your own doorway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1990208764129980508)  2025-11-17T00:02Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements


"@BuffaloByGodDan I'm sorry to hear this Dan. Sending a prayer from South Bend. Keep singing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1990451229395395025)  2025-11-17T16:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Wheeling West Virginia - 2021"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1990463693654802550)  2025-11-17T16:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@the_gpc_ @JooBernardoCor1 South Bend Indiana - 2024"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1990509796248916208)  2025-11-17T19:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""Most cities in the Midwest havent done anything meaningful for [---] years We forgot how to build the non-hero buildings in such a way that it becomes the hero building. Sometimes a single well-kept storefront is all a city needs to remember itself. http://bit.ly/4nXbja3 http://bit.ly/4nXbja3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1990524855004078312)  2025-11-17T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"South Bend has this empty palace downtown. Id rest easy if I got to see Jimmy Stewart on its screen someday. My local theater sold out of multiple screenings of It's A Wonderful Life within minutes. Why don't more theaters show older movies I'm over superheroes and remakes but I would love to see Kubrick Orson Welles and George Cukor films on a big screen. My local theater sold out of multiple screenings of It's A Wonderful Life within minutes. Why don't more theaters show older movies I'm over superheroes and remakes but I would love to see Kubrick Orson Welles and George Cukor films on a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1990540446897225781)  2025-11-17T21:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"823 N Montana Butte - 2024"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1991121276505878779)  2025-11-19T12:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Most cities are stories about water I give you: peak civilization. The water fountain Fed by ancient aqueducts. https://t.co/HXfqjOCRvh I give you: peak civilization. The water fountain Fed by ancient aqueducts. https://t.co/HXfqjOCRvh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1991248695086497908)  2025-11-19T20:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's walkable if you walk it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1991551366138064907)  2025-11-20T16:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Once again the men of Indiana Limestone Company in the event that it actually becomes low cost to mass produce limestone buildings--and ornament them--what kind of designs would you like to see on the facades https://t.co/lsTS83J6US in the event that it actually becomes low cost to mass produce limestone buildings--and ornament them--what kind of designs would you like to see on the facades https://t.co/lsTS83J6US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1991600169880809750)  2025-11-20T20:10Z [----] followers, 34.9K engagements


"Notre Dame South Bend - [----] Love thee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1992382802978017371)  2025-11-23T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Growing up in South Bend knowing Id never attend Notre Dame but still being a devoted fan of its football is a peculiar thing for many locals. Ive been meaning to write about it for a long while. Maybe soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1992413276228186416)  2025-11-23T02:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1992776895231115354)  2025-11-24T02:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Bendix Corporation has been a source of fascination for me for years. Vincent Bendix started the business in [----] from a hotel room in Chicago after patenting an early starter drive for automobiles and by the 1920s had built it into a corporation headquartered in South Bend Indiana. Over the decades it sprawled into brakes aviation radios home appliances early computing and guidance systems from the Talos missile to the Invisible Crew blind-flying instruments that let WWII pilots fly without a horizon. It was always renaming merging multiplying. Bendix treated engineering and design as a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1993012018819797227)  2025-11-24T17:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"For shrinking Rust Belt cities in the urban-renewal era what stopped us from surveying empty buildings for their expected lifespan say [--] [--] [--] years if left vacant and letting that guide what we kept and what we cleared We wrecked countless structures that were only temporarily empty yet built to last"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1993062335682933071)  2025-11-24T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In the Midwest theres a tried-and-true path to local notoriety: move to a bigger city long enough for the papers back home to mention it. You dont need to find successyou just need to talk about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1993363113903616456)  2025-11-25T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Studebaker Building [--] South Bend - 2021"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1993766409290363377)  2025-11-26T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Thanksgiving 1893"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1994062816148394435)  2025-11-27T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Started Leisure: The Basis of Culture this week (via @lavitalenta) and was surprised to find the translation was published in South Bend in 1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1994809601032950219)  2025-11-29T16:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Half the town decides youve lost touch; the other half assumes Anna Wintour herself has you over every Thursday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1994866485542445495)  2025-11-29T20:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1995274140853391522)  2025-11-30T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Small cities only work when the old firms stay rooted. @dustintmixs new series looks at the family-owned companies that never left South Bend. The first episode is on MTIalmost a century old four generations in still on the same block designing friction welders for aerospace automotive and defense. https://smallcitysegment.substack.com/p/closely-held-manufacturing-technologies https://smallcitysegment.substack.com/p/closely-held-manufacturing-technologies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1995539944576610308)  2025-12-01T17:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Small cities only work when the old firms stay. @dustintmixs new series looks at the family-owned companies that never left South Bend. The first episode is on MTIalmost a century old four generations in still on the same block designing friction welders for aerospace automotive and defense. https://smallcitysegment.substack.com/p/closely-held-manufacturing-technologies https://smallcitysegment.substack.com/p/closely-held-manufacturing-technologies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1995540136692482132)  2025-12-01T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Bloch Brothers in Wheeling W. Va. once pulled off one of the sharpest ad campaigns in America. Starting in the 1890s they sent crews across the country offering farmers a little cash or free tobacco to paint their barns: Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco Treat Yourself to the Best. Farmers got a free paint job refreshed every few years; the company got roughly [-----] roadside billboardsmostly in the Midwest though Ive seen one as far west as the Palouse. A hundred years later the ads are still standing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1995600060751774178)  2025-12-01T21:05Z [----] followers, 44.2K engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1995639270095421826)  2025-12-01T23:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"How I feel speaking with ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1996275772261306654)  2025-12-03T17:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Charged $3 for soda water at a bar last night. This is the future Kalshi wants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1997739397094265221)  2025-12-07T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"December [--] [----] - the day things changed in South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1998402917997465785)  2025-12-09T14:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Great Plains Great Lakes Plains and Lakes Ours our Great https://t.co/3LAqtCPVHR Plains and Lakes Ours our Great https://t.co/3LAqtCPVHR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1998417506181218542)  2025-12-09T15:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love the way snow frames a city hiding everything but the color and texture of every vertical surface"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1998838370689061128)  2025-12-10T19:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"See the world from a Great Lake The Last of the Free Seas Heartland Hub https://t.co/BdoJe7VPEa The Last of the Free Seas Heartland Hub https://t.co/BdoJe7VPEa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/1998863562220122137)  2025-12-10T21:13Z [----] followers, 34.1K engagements


"Every generation experiences a Great Lakes awakening. It will not stop. https://t.co/fobisyllfM https://t.co/fobisyllfM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2000221773711790197)  2025-12-14T15:10Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements


"Good afternoon from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2000671140713250950)  2025-12-15T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Passenger rail once. If America were a proper country wed have a Midwest rail network as robust as this: https://t.co/VkiSsUguPm If America were a proper country wed have a Midwest rail network as robust as this: https://t.co/VkiSsUguPm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2001284243763380447)  2025-12-17T13:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The South Shore Line: Americas last interurban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2001322776712589724)  2025-12-17T16:05Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements


"@JATompkins Downtown South Bend at the east end of the line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2001336328726941955)  2025-12-17T16:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good morning from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2001664900108575109)  2025-12-18T14:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"BABY BAR South Bend Once upon an October http://westsb.com/baby http://westsb.com/baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2002107981731897686)  2025-12-19T20:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Bronson & Lafayette South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2003141746503643496)  2025-12-22T16:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Industry used to be part of the city. You could walk to work. It really is kind of amazing that after all these years of rust belt discourse when someone actually plops a massive industrial scale project in the rust belt it's seen as dystopian. And I mean maybe it is William Blake's "dark satanic mills" and all that. It really is kind of amazing that after all these years of rust belt discourse when someone actually plops a massive industrial scale project in the rust belt it's seen as dystopian. And I mean maybe it is William Blake's "dark satanic mills" and all that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2003285391215063262)  2025-12-23T02:03Z [----] followers, 89.6K engagements


"Me warming up to talk St. Louis in [----] let me seduce you with my knowledge on useless things let me seduce you with my knowledge on useless things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2005746095847281124)  2025-12-29T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My first overseas trip was at [--] to Mumbai. On the first night I stepped into what felt like a familiar dive bar and saw a small sign from home - a red Budweiser tap handle. And the world changed size"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2007504303037276576)  2026-01-03T17:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Every city needs someone drawing its old machines in front of its old buildings. Heres South Bend in four Studebakers by Curt Sochoki"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2008673516661690696)  2026-01-06T22:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Meanwhile in South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2008720125885829547)  2026-01-07T01:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Soy sauce forever. be kikkoman start a soy sauce company in the year [----] make soy sauce for [---] years keep making soy sauce for another [---] years in outer space people still want soy sauce https://t.co/vSE1zJPTb0 be kikkoman start a soy sauce company in the year [----] make soy sauce for [---] years keep making soy sauce for another [---] years in outer space people still want soy sauce https://t.co/vSE1zJPTb0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2008948476130783304)  2026-01-07T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Kikkoman factory postcards c. 1910s30s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2008970096145015264)  2026-01-07T18:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Great Lakes Commonwealth Elections here would go crazy https://t.co/ypPpUxKcCW Elections here would go crazy https://t.co/ypPpUxKcCW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2008993712257527912)  2026-01-07T20:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@rustbeltkid1 Main Street Bridge in Wheeling WV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2009383777429033464)  2026-01-08T21:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Winds of the Windy City. they nickname a city for you - Carl Sandburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010043868046340257)  2026-01-10T17:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good afternoon from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010076335096639992)  2026-01-10T19:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Buy land in this basin. I've said it before to almost anyone that will listen: if you expect several more degrees of global warming you should be buying land in the Wolds of East Yorkshire (the most northwesterly red dot here) where the stream of chalky earth that predominates in Champagne ends. https://t.co/TlVkzhyd3L I've said it before to almost anyone that will listen: if you expect several more degrees of global warming you should be buying land in the Wolds of East Yorkshire (the most northwesterly red dot here) where the stream of chalky earth that predominates in Champagne ends."  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010399193790128494)  2026-01-11T17:11Z [----] followers, 2.4M engagements


"Every generation experiences a Great Lakes awakening. It will not stop. republicans hate the proud and stalwart lands of the upper midwest. they hate that a single square mile of the great lakes region is ten thousand times more advanced peaceful beautiful and favored by god than the entirety of the american south. republicans hate the proud and stalwart lands of the upper midwest. they hate that a single square mile of the great lakes region is ten thousand times more advanced peaceful beautiful and favored by god than the entirety of the american south"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010410520889937937)  2026-01-11T17:56Z [----] followers, 193.5K engagements


"Great Lakes maximalism @jacob__titus I think the Boomers ran away from the area. They are sunshine people. However half of Millennials and most of Z will be Great Lakes maximalists. Better logistics. Cheaper land. History. It's a great area. @jacob__titus I think the Boomers ran away from the area. They are sunshine people. However half of Millennials and most of Z will be Great Lakes maximalists. Better logistics. Cheaper land. History. It's a great area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010417064629154084)  2026-01-11T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@3ff16y Born in Akron raised in South Bend. Dont make me post the bloodwork"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010449331384689127)  2026-01-11T20:30Z [----] followers, 30.2K engagements


"@W_A_N_G_H_AF Full or not it's under-owned. Help locals buy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010457499191939164)  2026-01-11T21:03Z [----] followers, 46.6K engagements


"@W_A_N_G_H_AF Not doing the heritage thing. I mean current residents - full stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010460906086629656)  2026-01-11T21:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BasedZillenial Hold it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010476072060465377)  2026-01-11T22:17Z [----] followers, 43.3K engagements


"@jaesmail Return on land might take [--] years but the story will be worth the wait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010493866705662016)  2026-01-11T23:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mackensp99 @auspiciousjayp Inside note secret. Do you think the world isnt aware of the Great Lakes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010523122697679020)  2026-01-12T01:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Garbagestyleman Born here still here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010538091564445827)  2026-01-12T02:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@HAMMRHASATWTR @mackensp99 @auspiciousjayp Im a photographer not Jerome Powell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2010549729378115832)  2026-01-12T03:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"W.R. Hinkle & Co. South Bend - 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011150607512723732)  2026-01-13T18:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Rust Belt not Midwest. nobody wants to admit it but buffalo and pittsburgh are both culturally midwestern nobody wants to admit it but buffalo and pittsburgh are both culturally midwestern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011525429971337319)  2026-01-14T19:46Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements


"Midwest cant name what Buffalo and Pittsburgh share with Milwaukee and Detroit. Rust Belt can: industry labor decline infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011530098093277650)  2026-01-14T20:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@KFILE @AndrewSolender Common take. Wrong label. Rust Belt not Midwest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011553990040043770)  2026-01-14T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Right of Assembly Detroit - 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011568410870915186)  2026-01-14T22:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Arthur S. Siegel photographing a UAW strike against Chrysler production speeds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011568413227815366)  2026-01-14T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011586931617124714)  2026-01-14T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love the Midwest but the term is often too broad for the way it gets used to categorize cities. Wed benefit from more precise names. Cities from Buffalo to Pittsburgh to Detroit to Milwaukee share an economic and civic history of industry labor and decline. Rust Belt names it and helps us find each other. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011904768374161451 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011904768374161451"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2011904768374161451)  2026-01-15T20:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mkegymdawg Rust Belt isnt primarily an insult its shorthand for a specific history. Great Lakes is geography: it leaves out Pittsburgh and the Ohio Valley and it includes parts of the Upper Midwest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2012245199217431036)  2026-01-16T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Its hard for a company town to become something else. It keeps looking for a new company. Many such cases. need rust belt city governments to be so serious for a single second https://t.co/uGTEVpx7VO need rust belt city governments to be so serious for a single second https://t.co/uGTEVpx7VO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2012287481777914312)  2026-01-16T22:14Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements


"Cincinnati built medieval waterworks. wdym theres a waterworks castle with an entire bridge in the back wdym theres a waterworks castle with an entire bridge in the back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2012662247953223989)  2026-01-17T23:04Z [----] followers, 62.6K engagements


"We need a constitutional convention to draw lines for Midwest Rust Belt Great Lakes Plains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2012922127758815288)  2026-01-18T16:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Unity fell across the Great Lakes. *Sighs deeply in Buffalonian* Go Bears *Sighs deeply in Buffalonian* Go Bears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2012923676904108523)  2026-01-18T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2013031309443051591)  2026-01-18T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Build a life on a Great Lake. Guys turn [--] and then magically want to buy a fixer-upper two-flat in north Lawndale with their girlfriend and have 3-4 kids Guys turn [--] and then magically want to buy a fixer-upper two-flat in north Lawndale with their girlfriend and have 3-4 kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2013358633426317704)  2026-01-19T21:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Im planning to spend more time in New York City this year. Who do I need to meet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2013613445841584232)  2026-01-20T14:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The American Skyscraper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014392620177412562)  2026-01-22T17:40Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements


"@nikitabier Rust Belt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014454190513295659)  2026-01-22T21:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Work all the time. Dive bar occasionally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014827674041037191)  2026-01-23T22:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The housing market is betting on your dating success. When I go on a conservative-leaning podcast and they ask me 'Do immigrants explain a lot of the rise in housing costs' and I'm like 'No their contribution is pretty small' they're always kind of shocked. A bigger contributor is the decline of partnering. Pic related: https://t.co/I9Bjoea4Dq When I go on a conservative-leaning podcast and they ask me 'Do immigrants explain a lot of the rise in housing costs' and I'm like 'No their contribution is pretty small' they're always kind of shocked. A bigger contributor is the decline of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2015073249944613201)  2026-01-24T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@XboxLiveGOP Yes Im optimistic about it. The building stock is special and theres a new generation of locals betting on its future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2015902903894966504)  2026-01-26T21:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"America once named things plainly: place trade surname. I cant stand these millennial tech companies with these 'cute' nonsense names like "granola" or "clay." if I had a company youd see me calling that shit the American Computing Corporation. National Electron. United Tabulation. thats a name with some chest hair I cant stand these millennial tech companies with these 'cute' nonsense names like "granola" or "clay." if I had a company youd see me calling that shit the American Computing Corporation. National Electron. United Tabulation. thats a name with some chest hair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019049691145543968)  2026-02-04T14:05Z [----] followers, 268K engagements


"As a kid driving through Cincinnati felt like passing something grand. Cincinnati's urban basin was built almost entirely within the [--] year period between 1840-80. As a result the [--] square mile dense basin of Cincinnati was almost entirely italianate architecture especially in Over-the-Rhine and the West End. I am thankful OTR was not fully lost. https://t.co/j3efs5dZXT Cincinnati's urban basin was built almost entirely within the [--] year period between 1840-80. As a result the [--] square mile dense basin of Cincinnati was almost entirely italianate architecture especially in Over-the-Rhine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2013654171442962473)  2026-01-20T16:45Z [----] followers, 85.1K engagements


"Detroit is telling a story people can repeat. Whats the St. Louis story in a sentence One way to narrow this question: why has Detroit's decline paused while St. Louis' decline proceeds full speed ahead Off the top of my head they have a lot of the same constraints and opportunities yet Detroit seems to he in much better shape. One way to narrow this question: why has Detroit's decline paused while St. Louis' decline proceeds full speed ahead Off the top of my head they have a lot of the same constraints and opportunities yet Detroit seems to he in much better shape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2013985190440210931)  2026-01-21T14:41Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements


"We built convention centers to bring people downtown and tore down what they came to see. South Bend before the Century Center. One thing that really drives perception of various rust belt cities way beyond what it should is peoples experiences visiting downtown. People have this sort of idea that downtown is the premier neighborhood and so whats going on there must be an indication of the health of the One thing that really drives perception of various rust belt cities way beyond what it should is peoples experiences visiting downtown. People have this sort of idea that downtown is the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014055103926354113)  2026-01-21T19:18Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements


"Seeing signs in Pilsen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014157158330376449)  2026-01-22T02:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Stripe Press mail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014445566713827824)  2026-01-22T21:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"How men think they look monitoring the situation. Check out this eagle-eyed traffic reporter We spotted this beauty perched over I-35W in Minneapolis 🦅 Want to see road conditions traffic impacts and some more wildlife Explore our cameras on https://t.co/yhtPwRf2sU today. https://t.co/qPU5OrEX2q Check out this eagle-eyed traffic reporter We spotted this beauty perched over I-35W in Minneapolis 🦅 Want to see road conditions traffic impacts and some more wildlife Explore our cameras on https://t.co/yhtPwRf2sU today. https://t.co/qPU5OrEX2q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014727794857533858)  2026-01-23T15:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sitting in my studio in a 132-year-old factory considering the heating bill coming due"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014740787859239392)  2026-01-23T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good afternoon from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014802759443214438)  2026-01-23T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In cities under 250k you can maintain a surprising number of friendships without knowing a phone number. I love going into town every day and running into my friends unplanned. I dont even have some of their phone numbers we just bump into each other often. Everywhere I go I see a friend. This is how life should be Thrust into the same place as those you love as if by fate. I love going into town every day and running into my friends unplanned. I dont even have some of their phone numbers we just bump into each other often. Everywhere I go I see a friend. This is how life should be Thrust"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2014842643688157546)  2026-01-23T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Investing in a citys sense of self helps it avoid the subsidy charade. From my friend Robert Ramsey during HQ2: Here in South Bend it serves as a good reminder: Amazon and the other tech giants should not nay deserve not come to South Bend. Their values are not our values pitching South Bend solely on jobs and entertainment will never work out. There are always brighter lights elsewhere. No tell young people that if theyre tired of not having the freedom to create and produce what they want if theyre tired of being lonely if theyre tired of wanting deep relationships and a community that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2015106338167083511)  2026-01-24T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Right of Assembly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2015158333905183055)  2026-01-24T20:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"To those who dislike the term Rust Belt: hows Musky Range Musky Range Map (1976) from In-Fisherman Magazine https://t.co/5z8sZCY7DH Musky Range Map (1976) from In-Fisherman Magazine https://t.co/5z8sZCY7DH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016151628475212104)  2026-01-27T14:09Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements


"Techno-triage wont save a city. Give serious stewards room to build and hold them accountable. Seek beauty. Detroit is proof that most cities are better off being autocratically ruled with an iron fist by a small committee of restructuring lawyers and accountants Detroit is proof that most cities are better off being autocratically ruled with an iron fist by a small committee of restructuring lawyers and accountants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016231771184968185)  2026-01-27T19:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Midwest is at least five Midwests per @petesaunders3: North Woods Lower Lakes Heartland Midland Valley Plains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016242407923208533)  2026-01-27T20:10Z [----] followers, 88.5K engagements


"@JTVerespej @charleskennick @petesaunders3 Id say Great Lakes is both green and yellow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016284143194173485)  2026-01-27T22:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DietLiteMusic @petesaunders3 Interesting. Why east/west Rust Belt typically treats it as one band"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016526050532987073)  2026-01-28T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The quiet vitality of a place pronounced dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016617125209575845)  2026-01-28T20:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Pueblo CO and Butte MT are the Rust Belts western outposts. why does pueblo have one of the largest slovene pops like the other cities it had a steel mill https://t.co/W8XGzsEGiO why does pueblo have one of the largest slovene pops like the other cities it had a steel mill https://t.co/W8XGzsEGiO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2016656377800786302)  2026-01-28T23:35Z [----] followers, 72.9K engagements


"Somehow Im paying the bills by spending time in old buildings and thinking about their future. Spent today in the 105-year-old South Bend Tribune documenting its last days of vacancy as construction begins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2017005857104380378)  2026-01-29T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I cant be the only person who good outfit think: post it foresee outfit guy arc complicated feelings post nothing carry on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2017013633889247506)  2026-01-29T23:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I could spend a lifetime in the Bethlehem Steel archive. The vast and rusty acreage of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. It staggers the mind to realize that this place helped build the modern America we see today. https://t.co/nSWqVqqEmN The vast and rusty acreage of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. It staggers the mind to realize that this place helped build the modern America we see today. https://t.co/nSWqVqqEmN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2017653032457044034)  2026-01-31T17:35Z [----] followers, 97.8K engagements


"@Nobodyisclose0 @nikitabier Industrial America & Rust Belt starterpack please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2018023134545252849)  2026-02-01T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Michigan Street Bridge South Bend - 2024"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2018398135823818850)  2026-02-02T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"EuroMiddle West road trip: Toledo Milan Paris Athens Planning a European road trip thoughts https://t.co/fL79S5deY8 Planning a European road trip thoughts https://t.co/fL79S5deY8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2018865592535756979)  2026-02-04T01:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Western Electric. Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Radio Corporation of America. Pullman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019097180426879256)  2026-02-04T17:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@friendly_gecko Detroit made it work: Ford General Motors Chrysler Packard Hudson Nash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019450879632347165)  2026-02-05T16:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"America once named things plainly: place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019506130951761967)  2026-02-05T20:19Z [----] followers, 41.6K engagements


"@GrayConnolly @peakeman That old mark is beautiful. Ill carry these kind words to their team. [---] years in the same place (so far)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019535032357163400)  2026-02-05T22:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@62_Continental @iowahawkblog Perfect. That CP mark hits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019538773046866192)  2026-02-05T22:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"New regional boundary theory my most controversial geography opinion is that eastern Colorado is part of the Midwest my most controversial geography opinion is that eastern Colorado is part of the Midwest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019786136537727179)  2026-02-06T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@jamesonhaslam The consummate trade name. I love this regional mark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019808279791329449)  2026-02-06T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Guardian377 Yes 100%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019811198624272386)  2026-02-06T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RainmakerCorp Im spreading the Rainmaker gospel here in the Midwest. Keep it up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019946887063970286)  2026-02-07T01:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"FYI there are cities in the Midwest that blow Detroit and Chicago out of the water but I'm gatekeeping them. fyi there are cities in California that blow LA and SF out of the water but i'm gatekeeping them. you do not have the California ball knowledge i have and frankly you don't deserve it fyi there are cities in California that blow LA and SF out of the water but i'm gatekeeping them. you do not have the California ball knowledge i have and frankly you don't deserve it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2020590081996906529)  2026-02-08T20:06Z [----] followers, 18.3K engagements


"Good morning from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2020870017806471321)  2026-02-09T14:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Design once looked like this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2020896805051830751)  2026-02-09T16:25Z [----] followers, 19.9K engagements


"@fml9Ds Date is Jan [--] [----] (negative marked A1407-1-21-22). The entry describes a train being loaded with tires for Poland. I dont see a specific location listed on the record"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2021250004799676824)  2026-02-10T15:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In [----] I went to New York City for the first time. Nothings been the same since One thing I love about traveling is that it breaks the illusion that your current life is the only possible one. One thing I love about traveling is that it breaks the illusion that your current life is the only possible one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2021262634109067280)  2026-02-10T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@HendrickStoops Thank you for doing that work. Public service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2021411473499750814)  2026-02-11T02:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Good morning from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2021609543847870548)  2026-02-11T15:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Seven years since Shortest Way Home. Lucky I got to make this photograph then and there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021952772589912448)  2026-02-12T14:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We drove my [--] two-tone Dodge Dakota around South Bend looking for the spot and landed on the west side. Western Ave in front of Chicos with St. Adalberts in the distance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021959789820137510)  2026-02-12T14:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Lafayette Blvd. South Bend 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021991935167410622)  2026-02-12T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Good evening from South Bend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022090878006046816)  2026-02-12T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Resurrect the roof signs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021293154952007928)  2026-02-10T18:40Z [----] followers, 42.3K engagements


"Joni Mitchell skating Lake Mendota WI Joel Bernstein 1976"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023086321036857652)  2026-02-15T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Imagine losing respect The Goodyear Blimp was at one time much more respected in our society The Goodyear Blimp was at one time much more respected in our society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2021371293489139901)  2026-02-10T23:50Z [----] followers, 56K engagements


"Most recent one that stopped me: the Eads Bridge survey. Worlds first steel-truss where the West begins. Sometimes you stumble upon a photograph collection that outmatches anything youve seen in an exhibition in both technique and narrative and its the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam Wikipedia page https://t.co/9nddTwZSu0 Sometimes you stumble upon a photograph collection that outmatches anything youve seen in an exhibition in both technique and narrative and its the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam Wikipedia page https://t.co/9nddTwZSu0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022340518735437862)  2026-02-13T16:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"White-collar America is about to learn what it feels like when the work leaves early. The Rust Belt has lived inside that gap for fifty years. Theres wisdom there. we automated all jobs- outside of manual labor violence and companionship- fifty or so years ago. we have become prisoners to our desks because is the only indicator that our time has real $ value. all fears of ai job loss come down to confronting that it has already occurred we automated all jobs- outside of manual labor violence and companionship- fifty or so years ago. we have become prisoners to our desks because is the only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022408842353742112)  2026-02-13T20:33Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements


"Otis Elevator. General Electric. International Harvester. American Radiator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019801846718591401)  2026-02-06T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Goodyear. Boeing. Oldsmobile. DuPont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2020173542084559056)  2026-02-07T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"America once named things plainly: surname"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2020172127622586834)  2026-02-07T16:25Z [----] followers, 26.6K engagements


"America once named things plainly: trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jacob__titus/status/2019795368314057067)  2026-02-06T15:28Z [----] followers, 85.5K engagements


"Braddock Pa. Out of the Furnace (2013) Movies used to be made by going to places with a camera Movies used to be made by going to places with a camera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023152570441912530)  2026-02-15T21:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Resurrect the roof signs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021293154952007928)  2026-02-10T18:40Z [----] followers, 42.3K engagements


"Can the data centers look like this michigan manufacturing manistee iron works manistee mi (1907) https://t.co/SxwtRWdnuQ michigan manufacturing manistee iron works manistee mi (1907) https://t.co/SxwtRWdnuQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023469382723400188)  2026-02-16T18:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"michigan manufacturing manistee iron works manistee mi (1907)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023451196371923388)  2026-02-16T17:35Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Some of you think Im joking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023514039880740936)  2026-02-16T21:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Flags of the Pennsylvania railroad nation-states. I pledge allegiance to the pennsylvania railroad and the to nation for which it stands I pledge allegiance to the pennsylvania railroad and the to nation for which it stands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023408177824616891)  2026-02-16T14:44Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements


"I pledge allegiance to the pennsylvania railroad and the to nation for which it stands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022788368673755180)  2026-02-14T21:41Z 21.7K followers, 24K engagements


"Lehigh Valley in service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023468821450027202)  2026-02-16T18:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The South Shore Line: Americas last interurban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2001322776712589724)  2025-12-17T16:05Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements


"America is a railroad story. https://t.co/0OF8rLj9U8 https://t.co/0OF8rLj9U8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023424081459339687)  2026-02-16T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Braddock Pa. Out of the Furnace (2013) Movies used to be made by going to places with a camera Movies used to be made by going to places with a camera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023152570441912530)  2026-02-15T21:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Movies used to be made by going to places with a camera THE SEARCHERS (1956) https://t.co/JWe8w2EXXF THE SEARCHERS (1956) https://t.co/JWe8w2EXXF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023099085969150077)  2026-02-15T18:16Z 22.2K followers, 2M engagements


"Go (Mid)west young man. Go (Mid)west young man. https://t.co/TUTkmjXO7I Go (Mid)west young man. https://t.co/TUTkmjXO7I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023098725066039571)  2026-02-15T18:14Z [----] followers, 15K engagements


"Go (Mid)west young man. I was just in Greenville SC. Great town but also half the size of Indy and thus with fewer amenities - yet 70% more expensive and with worse traffic. With the price runups in the Sunbelt the Midwest might end up as the last bastion of affordability. I was just in Greenville SC. Great town but also half the size of Indy and thus with fewer amenities - yet 70% more expensive and with worse traffic. With the price runups in the Sunbelt the Midwest might end up as the last bastion of affordability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022888618789081165)  2026-02-15T04:20Z 20.1K followers, 234.2K engagements


"Joni Mitchell skating Lake Mendota WI Joel Bernstein 1976"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023086321036857652)  2026-02-15T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"6407 Gratiot Ave. Detroit Camilo Jos Vergara"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022432870128849343)  2026-02-13T22:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"White-collar America is about to learn what it feels like when the work leaves early. The Rust Belt has lived inside that gap for fifty years. Theres wisdom there. we automated all jobs- outside of manual labor violence and companionship- fifty or so years ago. we have become prisoners to our desks because is the only indicator that our time has real $ value. all fears of ai job loss come down to confronting that it has already occurred we automated all jobs- outside of manual labor violence and companionship- fifty or so years ago. we have become prisoners to our desks because is the only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022408842353742112)  2026-02-13T20:33Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements

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