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Author of The Hollywood Brand: Movies & American Modernity. Professor of Immigration and Cultural History at NYCCT.
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

The EB 5 investors program has statutory requirements that the foreigner invest in a business in under-served areas and the US that will employ a certain # of US citizens or greencard holders for a # of years. The existing visa does not just hand you a greencard because you are rich. JFC.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 50 days ago • 37 comments

“.. They were called essential workers during the pandemic when our nation needed them ..” @nbcbayarea.com www.nbcbayarea.com/news/califor...

submitted 62 days ago • 96 comments

Colombia has accepted hundreds of deportation flights in the past years. It rejected two flights using military planes, but agreed to continue taking flights using normal ICE planes. In response, the Trump administration has done the equivalent of punching them in the face.

submitted 63 days ago • 124 comments

Moderating a panel of past History majors, telling our current students about the career paths they took — from politics and law to cultural work and consulting. Really impressive, and that’s with a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter missing due to being sick. History: Just Do It

submitted 117 days ago • 110 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 118 days ago • 2294 comments

I can't bring myself to be even a little mad about Biden pardoning Hunter. The values and norms he'd been trying to uphold were obliterated by American voters last month. Why sacrifice your son to a dead god?

submitted 118 days ago • 54 comments

I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!

submitted 143 days ago • 161 comments