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Misha's right wing was broken (and healed improperly) while he was a baby in the wild. It unfortunately keeps him from being able to fly (the reason he was placed with us), but he loves to stand in the window and 'soar' on windy days! (He can go outside too but the window is more fun, apparently) 🪶

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Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️

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As the list of things I’m told old to bother with grows, I have more occasions to remember “DNP-Old” and respect the wisdom of it

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Kind of decision that invites ppl to tear down your institution

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NEW: Census Bureau says to protect the confidentiality of people's #2030Census responses, it plans to release neighborhood-level population counts with statistical noise, or data for fuzzing results, as it did for the 2020 tally, and state-level counts won't have noise www.census.gov/newsroom/blo...

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Now that’s government efficiency. DPW is full of ppl like this, 20-year veteran civil servants who just make things work

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🧵on the D.C. Council's proposed changes to @mayorbowser.bsky.social proposed 2026 budget. First up, @cmfrumin.bsky.social has found $6 million to keep all D.C. Public Library neighborhood branches open 61 hours a week. Bowser had proposed cutting those to 40 a week, citing staffing challenges.

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🚨🥵Given the heatwaves in the US and Europe we have a timely preprint: From Comfort to Survival: Indoor Heat Vulnerability During Extreme Events papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... There is extensive work on outdoor heat exposure, but a considerable gap on indoor heat risk. Our work tackles this.

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"Most of today’s superrich owe their wealth to their ownership stakes in companies that are de facto monopolies thanks to network effects," writes @pkrugman.bsky.social. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...

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Mahmoud Khalil has a press conference scheduled today for 5:30 p.m. ET on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (on the UWS near Columbia)

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Portrait of Erich Lederer, 1912 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25276

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25 years ago last night, Survivor's first alliance was born. What would competition reality TV have been without it?

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I love watching liberals try to justify opposing churches trying to use their land for housing. Just saw someone like “there’s a church trying to put in ‘transitional housing,’ they didn’t say transitional from what, this is why NIMBYs get a good name.” Like just be honest with yourself for once

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After outlets ran with “war” headlines, are they gonna walk that back

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it’s not surprising but still pretty telling and a bummer that AOC is the only member of the NY delegation to great Khalil upon his return. Both Pressley and Markey greeted Öztürk (and she is a constituent of both). Columbia is not even in AOC’s district!

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But you can call me Jon

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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

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I am v frustrated by pretending Dems aren’t also doing the kind of thing suggested. NoVA reps’ earliest Trump messaging was about VHA staffing disruptions in Fredericksburg, there were town halls with nurses calling in

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austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-asylum...

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Happy Juneteenth! I wrote an essay on the Emancipation Proclamation as a tangible medium of freedom, www.marquette.edu/haggerty-mus.... “The text of the Emancipation Proclamation is in some ways not there at all; what is left is what intended to be heard. You are free.”

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Chinese policymakers find themselves in the challenging position of trying to understand what the evolving relationship between the state and the business sector means for Asian interests, as the lines between the U.S. civilian and military apparatus are increasingly blurred. 😉

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You know congestion pricing is a success when you see ppl on here trying to distinguish road pricing (bad!) from congestion pricing (good!). A remarkable marketing victory

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This confuses me. I don’t know what the macroeconomic literature has to do with local budget questions. In any case it’s not only urbanists who don’t read the macroeconomic literature to help inform issues like these it is also literally the ppl who draft city and transit agency budgets lol

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“Hurry up and wait” followed by “no now actually hurry up”

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The first slide, man. “now we understand”

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Part of the reason Jinan, a city of over 8 million, has a large trolleybus and BRT system is that it built a metro extremely late. The first urban line was completed only 2021. Up to 2019 Jinan was one of the largest cities in the world without a metro system. Big Bogota energy. Pic posted by 畅行铁道.

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Culture of impunity

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