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tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Just in case you had any doubt about the motivations of the current administration's anti-immigration policy...

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My ancestors rose against monarchy and won. It’s time that we revive that spirit.

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The drama over dropping charges against Eric Adams isn't placing enough attention on the biggest victims: Immigrants who do NYC's essential jobs, now terrorized their families will be ripped apart by Adams' crooked deal with Trump's deportation goons My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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1,260 CDC fellows and postdocs have been laid off. They are the future of epidemiology and public health in the United States. This ranks among the most stupid and short-sighted decisions of the last three weeks.

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Heads up: *paid* Gilder Lehrman internships! For grad, undergrad, and high school students. www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and...

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Tonight at the IPK: A screening of Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit with the film’s Senior Historical Advisor, @tomsugrue.bsky.social

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MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

submitted 15 days ago • 306 comments

Join the IPK on Wednesday, February 12th at 5:30 PM for a screening of Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit. The film’s Senior Historical Advisor, @tomsugrue.bsky.social, will sit down with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social for a brief discussion and a Q&A. ipk.nyu.edu/events/movie...

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All of you who are freaking out about this CBS/YouGov poll, note that in Feb. 2021, Biden had a 61% approval rating in the CBS/YouGov poll. In Feb. 2009, Obama had a 63% approval rating in CBS/NYT poll.

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Johns Hopkins is set to be crippled by the cuts at NIH. These cuts start tomorrow. Thread below.

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Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

submitted 18 days ago • 101 comments

I'm thrilled to announce the official launch of NYU Urban Studies. It's an exciting program. Visit our website to learn more as.nyu.edu/departments/...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Is congestion pricing in NYC working? Geek out with the data: www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com

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Trump's NSF is compiling a list of suspect words in scientific + social scientific research, among them "historically," "ethnicity," "female," "segregation" & "exclusion." We have to stand up to plans to censor scholarly research. The stakes are very high. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress. Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional. The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Join the IPK on Wednesday, February 12th at 5:30 PM for a screening of Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit. The film’s Senior Historical Advisor, @tomsugrue.bsky.social, will sit down with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social for a brief discussion and a Q&A. ipk.nyu.edu/events/movie...

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It was an honor to serve as an expert witness for the plaintiffs who challenged the Nassau County legislature's discriminatory redistricting map. I wrote three reports and testified in court--some of the most demanding and rigorous scholarly work I have done.

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Just in case you wondered, here's what the nation's leading white supremacist thinks about Trump's decision to revoke LBJ's EO 11246, ending enforcement of key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT "WOKE" Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors It has been in place for 60 years It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II And now it is gone

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Exactly correct headline: "Trump undercuts enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." @juddlegum.bsky.social interviews history prof Thomas Sugrue on Trump's sabotage of the protection of Americans' civil rights: popular.info/p/trump-unde...

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The rollback of civil rights intensifies. For almost six decades, Executive Order 11246 (signed by LBJ in 1965) forbade federal contractors and vendors to discriminate by race, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc. This morning, the president revoked it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

"Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture" has gotten the most attention from design people, understandably, but Trump's revocation of EO 11246 will have a far bigger impact on our built environment. EO 11246 set DNA for every effort thereafter to end discrimination in construction hiring. 1/

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RIP David Lynch. May he remembered for this contribution to urban dystopian film: this 1991 anti-litter advertisement for the NYC Sanitation Department.

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youtu.be/Pv9407Y24gA?...

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Please stop using “revisionist history” as a stand-in for falsehoods. Any worthwhile work of history uses untapped sources, novel methodologies and/or new connections across fields to improve, alter and, yes, revise our understanding of history. Truly revisionist history is a *good* thing.

submitted 42 days ago • 50 comments

Be the first to publish in the new journal @upejournal.bsky.social ! Please submit your paper here: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/upe Website's up: journals.sagepub.com/home/UPE journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Beautiful dog, great thread.

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What Trump was willing to ignore about Gaetz to reward loyalty is something to keep in mind when looking at the rest of his rogues gallery of a cabinet.

submitted 65 days ago • 29 comments

Holiday season is giving season. This year, I am supporting the prison justice organization, The Remedy Project (theremedyproj.org). You should too. They do amazing work helping incarcerated people.

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Portent of our future: La. Health Dep't forbidden to encourage vaccination. Can't issue press releases, conduct interviews, hold vaccination events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging vaccines. Can't post signs about vaccines available at clinics. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I have had various rescue dogs in my household for most of my life, including a US version of a caramelo. This is a great story about the mutts that have captured the heart of Brazil.

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This holiday season, consider supporting CUNY. Even if you didn’t go there.

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Public service announcement. As the holiday season begins, I will be supporting independent bookstores by buying my books from Bookshop. I highly recommend that you do too. bookshop.org

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I learn a lot each time I read @thomaszimmer.bsky.social, one of the most astute scholars of the American right. This piece on Russell Vought, Trump's nominee to lead OMB, describes a confluence of far-right ideology and institutional competence--potentially the most dangerous current of MAGAism.

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

“It’s deeply disturbing that Sheinbaum’s statement—which appears partly directed at Americans—represents a far more faithful effort to inform us about the reality of the cross-border situation than anything offered by our own incoming president.” newrepublic.com/article/1888...

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Why Trump's immigration policy will be bad for the country. One of many.

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Once again, @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social president Michael Roth takes the lead, preempting Trump admin. immigration policy by encouraging international students to return to campus by January 20, 2025. This is the kind of proactive leadership higher ed needs. wesleyanargus.com/2024/11/18/u...

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First it was Black Studies. Now it’s Sociology. It’s only a matter of time before it’s Climate Science, Evolution, Immunology, and Public Health. Also, it’s not just Florida. So no, this is not the time to rest and withdraw. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

My daughter @annasugrue.bsky.social and her organization, The Remedy Project, have reached more than 135,000 viewers with her video on conditions in the Red Onion State Prison in Virginia. In a dark moment, they are leading the prison justice movement through advocacy and action.

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

NYU's innovative new Urban Studies program launches in January '25. New BAs in Urban Studies & Anthropology, Urban Studies & History, Urban Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis, and Urban Studies & Sociology. Exciting courses: hands-on Urban Labs, GIS, and classes in cities worldwide. Stay tuned.

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I spent three hours today with an oral historian writing about the late Jim Shenton, one of my most important mentors at Columbia, a deeply humane person, and a truly great teacher. That brought me back to Eric Foner's excellent 2003 obituary of Shenton. Read it. www.historians.org/perspectives...

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

The cabinet nominations make it clear: we have elected President Loki.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Yes! @willbunch.bsky.social is a national treasure.

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That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

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