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Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
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greg byrne, nate oats, and kalen deboer should field questions about this at their next media availabilities. make the best-compensated and most visible employees of the institution submit their no-comment if they don't want to weigh in

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

The gist of all these people “coming to their senses” now is that they wanted to go about their daily lives while engaging in their licentious special interest without public censure but failed to comprehend that a coalition of the all societal resentment results in shredding society as a whole

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

I think we should be looking at the Cuomo endorsements by electeds, unions, and plutocrats in the same way as similar forces are cutting deals or holding their tongues with Trump - it’s anticipatory obedience.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

A+ work to certain of the New York City media outlets that participated in the multi-year subway crime panic that led us to this moment.

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

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submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

submitted 107 days ago • 310 comments

Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.

submitted 107 days ago • 266 comments

There’s a vote for the REI Board! If you’re an active member you can vote at vote.escvote.com/REI/ The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.

submitted 107 days ago • 32 comments

1. Short everything 2. Announce tariffs 3. Close out short positions 4. Buy the dip 5. Call off the tariffs 6. Sell the spike 7. Repeat Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?

submitted 107 days ago • 96 comments

Teaching Walden this week Me (to 17 year old son): “R, ‘most men lead lives of quiet desperation’” R: “Yep.”

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

less than eight years ago she said what Al Franken did goes beyond party, beyond friendship, and that what he did disqualifies him for public office

submitted 107 days ago • 25 comments

2 things can be true at the same time: 1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis 2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face

submitted 108 days ago • 18 comments

On thing Trump has long known and that he’s conveyed to his administration is that the legal system acts so slowly that it basically conveys impunity.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

“Than expected” is the key phrase here. It indicates the kinds of just so stories about public sector work that politicians and pundits have been telling for a generation, stories that bear little resemblance to the reality of public sector work.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Huge tariffs, likely to cause economic havoc in the United States are a “flex”? What kind of headline is this? Once again, it is a framing along the lines that the White House communications team would put out there.

submitted 108 days ago • 20 comments

He only comes back from scandal if he wins D on't R ank E ric or A ndrew for M ayor

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future." - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020 www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...

submitted 108 days ago • 233 comments

I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.

submitted 108 days ago • 13 comments

Andrew Cuomo's 20-page 'affordability plan' for New York City has precisely two pages on housing: Come for the taking credit for 421-a (no mention of letting it die), stay for extending the property tax cap to New York City homeowners -- drive.google.com/file/d/1HyUV...

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

Should have named it "Whiteboard"

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I'm writing a thing and it just struck me that this is almost the same trajectory that modern Republicans have followed in regard to global warming.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

REBNY seeking sectoral coalition in its recognition of mutual interest. University presidents could draw some lessons.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

this is everything wrong with NYC politics in a nutshell: the ostensibly-progressive “Working Families Party” is endorsing Chris Marte, a hardcore NIMBY who has sided with Trump against congestion pricing. truly pathetic

submitted 113 days ago • 13 comments