In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone. This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.

Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤

@labeler.urbanism.plus listcommands

Excited to share my new article "The American Single Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History," which is part of this great special issue on the good life in the city, published open access with Global Environment.

Academia in 2025.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Same for books in humanities 👇

Great point on scientist "brain drain"

the classic burger king chicken sandwich — the long boy — is underrated in the fast food chicken sandwich game

The bond market:

I guess we have to pay attention to the bond market now, because global financial collapse (again)?

If you are in Pittsburgh for #aseh2025 join us Thursday for a discussion of "Beauty, Health and Permanence." An excellent line up! Keith Woodhouse, Sara Fingal, Elizabeth Browning, David Grinnell and Jon Klosinski, @paulsabin.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social yours truly. @aseh.bsky.social

Lets all say it together now kids: "deflationary spiral"

Waiting for the second thoughts of all the pundits who thought the Trump GOP was poised to become a worker-friendly party. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Imagine explaining this to anyone in 2004

Good to hear that there's some money available for researchers @eppobruins.bsky.social, because we just had a strike due to your government imposing budget cuts on us. It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.

Here’s the write up on it by the always great Inquirer

It's never going to end unless people, esp. faculty and leadership, step the frick up.

Finns vad jag vet inga planer just nu för en svensk utgåva men det går att beställa boken via akademibokhandeln i Sverige www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be making a point I've often thought about, which is that the founders did not have today's assault rifles in mind when they wrote the 2A.

I would encourage all historians, and anyone interested in how we can give proper voice to the marginalised, to read Thavolia Glymph's excellent AHA presidential address. It's open access! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

1. Humanities never had anywhere near as much to lose 2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow 3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold

"Hey bubba, lets see if we can tank the economy!"

for today's DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS, i talked with someone working in the DoD who highlighted that so much of what's being done now will not reduce fraud, or waste, or abuse, it will just mean we're going to spend more money for less productive work.

More of this please

📢 New publication on #socialinfrastructures against #housing #commodification in #Groningen is just out! We trace the narratives of urban artists building physical and discursive spaces outside the creative city imaginaries. #openaccess @frw-rug.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All my projects at Harvard Medical School are on hold, so all the people that work on them aren't being paid. Who needs a new treatment for cancer anyway?

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

1999 Russia. A much better historical analogy.

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

We are soft relaunching our podcast for the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. Starting with a great talk with Timothy Mitchell, who was in town last December for the Archipelago Lecture.

Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

So are we watching the end (or destruction) of the modern civil rights era, 1964-2025?

"Hegseth bashed the military justice system repeatedly for years on behalf of his mythical belief in the 'warfighter.' He has railed against the military justice system nearly constantly in books, on TV, and on podcasts."

“AOC responded by saying Homan has nothing on her and the Fourth Amendment provides a lawful basis for her efforts to make sure people know their rights. ‘This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/when-dhs-s...

Are they going to shut down National Parks? Nope. It's becoming crystal clear what the goal of D*GE is: To privatise most core government functions. NPS and other agencies will be outsourced to corporate America because because the work still needs to get done.

the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.