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Andrew Cuomo won precincts with over two-thirds car ownership by a large margin, Zohran Mamdani won parts of the city where fewer people own a car

New book from @ucpress.bsky.social: An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights by Scot Danforth www.ucpress.edu/books/an-ind...

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!

Smh

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Half of US states are now in recession, but the $27-trillion cybercrime industry is growing 15% per year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie. thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...

Sam Altman says, “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI, ever.” He may be right despite himself—not that AI is reaching “general intelligence” but that children are not attaining it. thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Half of US states are now in recession, but the $27-trillion cybercrime industry is growing 15% per year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The intersectional solution to the student debt and housing crises that we’ve all been waiting for???

The intersectional solution to the student debt and housing crises that we’ve all been waiting for???

Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)

Tenancy in common is promoted as a way to make housing more accessible. But so far it’s mostly been used to evade caps on condo conversions and evict rent-stabilized tenants. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/tic...

By 2029, it will only take 750 megawatts for facsimile Will Smith to cook a family-style spaghetti dinner for you and your loved ones. Carlton can join too, doing his delightful dance and causing only minor rolling blackouts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Sm...

Reading Barbara and Karen Fields’s RACECRAFT—it’s not only one of the best books I’ve read on racial ideology but also one of the best on ideology in general. If I was ever teaching a grad seminar, I’d assign this instead of Althusser.

“any time that any of us called a police officer… seven or more fully armed people entered to our cell, pointing weapons at our heads, dogs ready to attack us, dragging us to the floor” www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/m...

UK privatises water, lets financiers turn it into an asset class, extract billions, pollute our rivers and now Labour government may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water? incredible.

Tony Blair is working hand-in-glove with Larry Ellison to secure lucrative government contracts for Oracle and hand them the keys to the NHS’s vast store of health data. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @maybulman.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Israel has intercepted and bombed the Sumud flotilla www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Ezra Klein is so emblematic of a certain kind of man in media. Incurious while thinking he's open-minded, condescending while ignorant of his of ignorance. It's an intellectual exercise for him, as if that's a marker of his journalistic professionalism rather than an expression of his privilege.

The term “antifa” does reflect an actually existing world of activists, researchers, thinkers, and organizers at real risk of persecution. Denying their existence will only do further harm. theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

We're weeks away from millions of Americans facing an economic cataclysm created entirely by Trump and Republican lawmakers' refusal to simply renew existing health care tax credits - and the devastation will be particularly acute in Republican states. www.levernews.com/why-your-hea...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

RIP to Bluestockings the radical bookstore, volunteer-supported cafe, activist meeting ground, and community resource center that gave out Narcan kits. NYC will be a poorer place without it gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Not a great moment in American politics when the two poles are “je suis Charlie Kirk” and “je suis Jimmy Kimmel”

The FBI is planning to treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureau’s new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs). @kenklippenstein.bsky.social substack.com/@kenklippens...

Congress aiming to turn on the spigot for unaccountable private contractors at the border. What could go wrong? @katyaschwenk.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/09/defe...

hilariously blistering review of Charlie Wells’s new book on millennials, illustrating the perils of writing history by way of the Yahoo! News homepage. thebaffler.com/latest/mille...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies. Send me your book proposals!

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Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies. Send me your book proposals!

Stay tuned for more career-ending Mamdani scandals to be dramatically uncovered by the NYT: - didn’t signal before switching lanes on driving test - burped on first date - put mayo on fries - snuck into an R-rated movie

Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

"Pencils. Everybody loves drawing...writing with one. But where do they come from? Which side do you write with?"

Last week I asked to see the gold vault at my local Bank of America branch and they told me the gold bars were “out for cleaning.”

The administration is threatening endowments, research funding, indirects, and student visas Universities will hang student protestors out to dry in a second if it means saving any of those things

The message was not written for the Harvard community it was written *for the Trump administration*

This is not simply bending the knee - this is saying the threatened punishments are deserved

"We need to reorient our foreign policy to containing the threat from China!" *China immediately forms closer trade relationships with our two biggest allies in Asia* "Ah, well. Nevertheless."

It’s not a “mass grave,” it’s a mass grave.