The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

The Trump administration says it arrested 4,500 people in a mission targeting “the worst of the worst.” The reality is most of them were people with brown skin who were at the right place —their landscaping jobs, the hardware store, a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru— at the wrong time.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

The incredible organizing against Bovino and his thugs in Chicago by neighborhood folks and by groups like @icirr.bsky.social

Always feel bad for the dogs classified as “nonsporting” breeds. It’s not like they are always grumpy or something.

$40-70k speaking fee (which probably means it’s about $70k unless you give him really great monetizable exposure) Example #4578 of overpaid white mediocrity

"In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."

NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record. Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late). Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearljam, soundgarden or Alice In Chains (To be honest I am surprised REM and OutKast aren’t on this initial list)

GIS mapping & analysis are super. They have helped advance knowledge & methods in urban studies (& other fields) in many ways over the last 40+ years or so. But I am afraid there are way too many folks who use these tools poorly or uncritically. I see many bad, misleading maps on a weekly basis. 1/2

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

GIS mapping & analysis are super. They have helped advance knowledge & methods in urban studies (& other fields) in many ways over the last 40+ years or so. But I am afraid there are way too many folks who use these tools poorly or uncritically. I see many bad, misleading maps on a weekly basis. 1/2

I'm just now realizing that people haven't learned much about the Black Panther Party's history, which is super depressing

Rich people threaten to leave of you raise taxes, but most won't. There's a great book on this from Cristobal Young that breaks this down.

When you are an academic who knows nothing about housing but is willing to write a PR puff piece about how great the Mayor of Atlanta is doing on affordable housing. 🤮🤮🤮

So dumb. Universal health care won't work because there are bad actors (like Trump) who will subvert it. So, we can't propose good policy because bad actors might win elections and undue it. So government doing good things is impossible. So, just fold, and let the wolves (like me) run everything!

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Yes to both. I'm begging all of you to please wear masks when traveling. People were sneezing and coughing all over my flights on the way back, and we can all do better to look out for each other.

Need to come out of academic retirement to get a faculty gig as someone who specializes in "applied ethics" so I can go write puff pieces on topics that I know nothing about for the purpose of glorifying local politicians. Hell, I might as well open up a PR firm.

This is a really funny fact to cite because Dickens has implemented in Atlanta ZERO of the recommendations of this National task force he chaired.

When you are an academic who knows nothing about housing but is willing to write a PR puff piece about how great the Mayor of Atlanta is doing on affordable housing. 🤮🤮🤮

Christmas morning

Watching another banger for the umpteenth time... Meet John Doe ---- About corporate oligarchs covertly using a populist movement to gain political power...

The Detroit Lions offensive line went — quite rapidly — from being very good to having more wide-open holes than an Ezra Klein opinion piece.

This is the correct answer. And it’s got a housing shortage, a ravenous real estate investor/developer, and an effort to develop big housing coop basically. And a couple of hilarious little comedy side skits that are almost disconnected from the plot.

ATTN: @thelouvreof.bsky.social

The genocide will continue until morale improves.

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | Protest | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Watching Casablanca and this scene hits harder this year.

Merry Christmas from Sadie

Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS, and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected

emily oster is a perfect example of this. it’s why she rocketed to popularity as a non-expert during the pandemic

one serious answer? a lot of elites—including many liberals—absolutely lost their minds the one time our government asked them make the same mid-crisis sacrifices for the public good as everyone else. and they are happy to fund and publish damn near anything to prevent that from happening again

Merry Christmas from Sadie

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.

One of the best stretches of urban architecture…

I use Linked-In in part for the window (at least one window) it provides into the world of real estate investors & capital markets... And it is often not very pretty...

Of course it’s the business school that is working with administration to shove AI down the throats of faculty.

Ford is writing off nearly 20 billion dollars in losses on EV and battery factories. And pivoting to…. Batteries to power AI data centers @bentleyallan.bsky.social Why I say that trump’s US is crushing green industry and going all in bet on AI and fossil fuels.… techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/f...

This afternoon at @chicagotribune.com

It's unlikely Kavanaugh has a conscience, but he may not like the ridicule or the public shaming. Shame can work!

Well, it wasn't really that hard to be honest...

Kudos to @martylederman.bsky.social , who’s most responsible for this good result.

The yacht club crew remained loyal to Trump of course

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration’s request to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois at this time, over the dissenting votes of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...