Especially rich coming from the guy who, if we were to debase countries down to their perceived ethnic base (we should not do this), comes from a country whose ruling majority derived from the most racist, inbred, Dutch hillbillies the world has ever seen.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

*Sees @chatterton.bsky.social is trending again on Bluesky* “Oh god, did he do it again?” *Checks The Atlantic* “Yup.”

Like the sentiment, but every time I think about Casablanca I think about how it’s actually a movie about Tangier, but “Casablanca” sounds sexier and now everyone has a romantic association with Morocco’s lamest city while Tangier is one of the coolest places I’ve ever visited.

Sadly this is not unique. I shudder to think of how many extremely talented female professors we have pushed out the door, or held tenure from, all to simply secure the positions of the most mediocre white male professors.

This is a significantly cooler thing that the mayor can just DO instead of attending “every flag raising ceremony in the city and saying New York is the _____ of America” like the last guy.

I am too often reminded of my favorite Pete Wells quote, which is now 11 years old, but is still 100% true.

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

This thread is great. And, similar to OP, I never really planned to try and understand any of this, but started observing immigration hearings last summer. I always knew it was unfair and broken, but it’s still so much worse than I thought.

Everyone deserves union protection in the workplace. EVERYONE. No exceptions.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Once again, self-interested lawyers, who know nothing about history, get to change longstanding, ancient facts simply because their narrow-minded, overly literal view of the world doesn’t require learning any history. Sure, it’s just about oat milk here, but they do this with everything. 🗃️

@mayor.nyc.gov’s first challenge was 20 consecutive days of the coldest weather ever after a blizzard. Now, he faces his second, perhaps even greater challenge: The Great Dog Poop Thaw of 2026.

Age verification? If you look up my email you’ll clearly see I’ve stated that I was born on January 1, 1900 on over 50 different Geocities forums.

Delgado, expectedly, is gone. However, as @bdlimm.bsky.social points out, this is the way 👇

Anthony Delgado has officially ended his campaign to unseat Kathy Hochul. It's honestly pretty disappointing that Delgado jumped into the right so early and fumbled this hard. Props to him for trying, I guess, but this is frustrating to anyone who actually wants to change stuff in this state. 🧵

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

Just as they haven’t remotely ramped down their efforts to terrorize Minnesota, ICE never stopped grabbing and disappearing people in Federal Plaza after all the press it got last summer and fall. I’ve seen this with my own eyes, none of this is all that surprising. 🧵/

Yes, we should tax and regulate marijuana. But we should do that because it's the smart thing to do, not because the Times Editorial Board still feels like it needs to fight a never-ending PR war about all the merits/problems with weed when that shouldn't even be the point. 🧵/

Still sad that my team lost, but a small piece of me is legitimately happy for these guys:

This feels like when I read the worst, most bleak and disheartening archival documents when I was studying in grad school, except this is happening right now, in this very country, and many of the people in charge either don’t care or are rooting for it. We have to be better.

That’s right. The Super Bowl halftime show was the best it’s been in a long long time partly due to… historians! You’re welcome America 🗃️

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Very normal response on Reddit to me saying I'm glad the City Council is making outdoor dining easier again.

We're just as confused as everyone else is about the Brooklyn Democratic Party's endorsement flip-flop today. But it does make the need for new Party leadership clearer than ever. Our full statement:

I wish I could ask Soon Yi Previn, is telling the world's most infamous pedophile that a 15-year old girl is responsible for Anthony Weiner molesting her a coping mechanism for her own experiences? Or is she just genuinely one of the worst people to ever live?

Crazy. ICE is already at the "Kidnapping legal citizen cops" phase, and yet I still expect every police department in the country to stand by and watch, if not help.

Reminder that this website is out of date. The Jeff Bezos section should now be TWICE as long. Point in case, this guy could easily continue to fund *A* newspaper at the minimum.

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

@yuhline.bsky.social should already be a congresswoman, but this is cool too. A lot of genuine candidates in a lot of races worth paying attention to on the near horizon.

Whistles are an extremely simple way to get people who are not involved, involved . Also, I don’t know, if I was being kidnapped by masked men and suddenly heard dozens of people blowing whistles signifying that they’re there to try and help, I would find SOME comfort in that /

“This city is a disgusting shithole and the only solution is 3,000 more cops.” It’s honestly so liberating to have a mayor that just keeps… doing cool nice things instead of THIS, which has been the modus operandi of NY politicians during most of my life here.

Only half joking, I did not realize politicians were allowed to actually just do stuff for people

The perfect cacophony of fuck ups, for both the most sinister and stupid reasons. Neither measles nor concentration camps had to be a part of the 21st century and here we are now on the cusp of yet another senselessly terrible chapter for future history books.

The musical equivalent of waiting until The Departed to give Scorsese an Oscar.

Both of the agents responsible for killing Alex Pretti were hired long before the current surge where “training” could be a culprit. The rot in Border Patrol and DHS at large runs very deep. There has to be a reckoning soon where we look at what we’ve created and how we got here /

Finding funding for higher education dependent on the charity economy is literally my job and this is 100% true. #Taxtherich

Epstein being the Forrest Gump of pedophile billionaires makes sense when you consider that he had enough money to do whatever he felt like, for decades without consequence, 24/7. *Every* billionaire could do the exact same thing if they felt like it. Each is a ticking time bomb.

Assuming this is similar to how everyone in Europe felt 500 years ago when they found out all their tithes went directly to Borgia orgies but in our case it’s our taxes going to a handful of pathetic men who liked to hurt children.

If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.

Erik Bottcher, Corey Johnson, Christine Quinn… that’s who’s run this district since 1999. While they weren’t terrible, the idea that we can get someone who actually shows up and fights for more than just their next job is huge. Even if you’re not a CD-3 resident, it’s worth helping in this one!

The world finally gave me something that I can't process. On the other hand, this proves that when I was on 4chan before /pol it WAS actually better and I don't just have nostalgia goggles since that was before Earth's most infamous pedophile got his tentacles in it. So that's... something?

Wow. Why is it always that the worst people are also the ones so adamantly opposed to fighting... bike lanes of all things? Could there be a connection? ...Nah.

There's a saying that "no one ever listens to historians." Every time I see someone ignore all the incredible work scholars like Andrea have done to articulate what atrocities are and how they actually come to happen, it's yet another reminder. 🗃️

I was here last night in a red @psc-cuny.org hat. People thanked me for being a nurse, please don’t do that. I was only in the cold for an hour, the @nynurses.bsky.social workers have been outside for weeks. That said, the union, and overall city solidarity coalescing like this is inspiring.

Yesterday this was a lot of unconfirmed rumors about ICE being all over the Lower East Side that ballooned and ballooned with no evidence. Again, a reminder, please learn how to responsibly spot these things and alert the right people. Knowing how to help leads to better results!

There is literally no reason for this other than to hurt people who are already vulnerable and treated terribly by most of society. Government to hurt and serve no one needs to go. Anyone lending any legitimacy to a policy that negatively affects trans people just straight up isn't a good person.

Warning to anyone concerned about ICE in NYC, or really anywhere else in the U.S. 🧵/ Recently, accounts on Instagram, Reddit, and other social media platforms have been blowing up with reports of sightings across the city, like in the image below. I want to point out that ICE IS IN NYC, but...