Good news, everyone! City's Issue 29.3-4 is out. Editorial: Spanglish city limits -Ulises Moreno-Tabarez Yes, it's fully in Spanglish; meant to spark up convo re: upcoming RGS panel on Urban Omissions: Untranslated Concepts and Debates in Urban Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Um, I think “assault” is the word you’re looking for, guys. Rampant euphemisms and are making the NYT a slog to read these days. Feels like they’re writing to avoid lawsuits and it’s just dull. #nyt

Interesting thing I just noticed from the '24 Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) data. Moscow was an alpha city in 2020 and now, with sanctions, barely has "sufficiency" status, ranking below Hartford, Conn. for global connectivity. Can't think of a steeper de-globalizing. #gawc #worldcities

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Gearing up to teach urban politics this Fall. Should we start by saying that everything the GOP says about cities is wrong?

Democratic protocol: when you see a spark, throw a wet blanket. Even if that means soaking your own candidate…

Will be missed…

So much of the coverage of the absurdly titled bill is about process and performance, but there needs to be more discussion about what this legislation actually does…

With malice toward some...

The Supreme Court's war on its own judiciary has just gone nuclear.

Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat is written by Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at @cunyslu.bsky.social. Purchase via Wiley Publishing: shorturl.at/BUQgW

“Oh, and centrist Democrats often urge leftier types to rally behind their nominees in general elections. I agree…But this deal has to be reciprocal. Mamdani will be the Democratic nominee, and anyone calling themselves a Democrat should support him.”

"Iran is a country which, in the eyes of a liberal establishment, is never fully sovereign because it has diverged from western interests. ... Its people have no right to expect a careful consideration of their future, or indeed the entire region’s."

The NYT's effective endorsement of acknowledged predator Andrew Cuomo was a sad business. Hard to see how a party can survive and eat its young at the same time. Mamdani and Lander promise a shake up, which the party desperately needs...

Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people. I believe people will win.

NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.

Why not erect more monuments to Du Bois?

Outright lies posted directly to social media mixed with misinformation spread through established channels by the White House as Donald Trump dramatically escalated federal intervention.

My take on the hard right fantasist Nick Land, for Interesting Times…

A little bit about my latest book…

“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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The attack on colleges escalates…

The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis. @blbalthaser.bsky.social reviews recent books by Peter Beinart, Marjorie N. Feld, Naomi Klein, Oren Kroll-Zeldin, and Geoffrey Levin:

Fascinating podcast on the reactionary extremists influencing business and government…

Located at the bustling intersection of Myrtle and Broadway sits an eclectic, chandelier-filled, lesbian co-op bar and cafe called Boyfriend. Opened by two childhood best friends Hena Mustafa and Mica Fisher, the co-op has been on their minds for years. Learn about their journey: bit.ly/4dg00q5

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To keep up with the dizzying array of executive orders, directives, firings and policy changes, the Guardian tracked the major developments of the second Trump administration’s first 100 days See our full tracker for each day below:

As President Donald Trump closes out the first 100 days of his second term, PolitiFact is live fact-checking his administration's reflections on the start of his presidency. www.politifact.com/article/2025...

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Chongqing, the world’s largest city – in pictures

As part of a legal settlement, Arizona election officials agreed to ask the Homeland Security Department to help verify citizenship of registered voters whose citizenship was unverified. They didn’t pledge to remove thousands from voter rolls. buff.ly/ed8YLTS

False narratives propelled President Donald Trump’s immigration policy during his first 100 days in office. His rhetoric about immigrants invading and driving up crime in the U.S. laid the groundwork for deportations and challenging constitutional norms. buff.ly/8U3JR6o

Read this headline. It is truly something I would have never expected to see in my life. www.science.org/content/arti...

I love how conspiracy theorists always freely admit to their own conspiracies. If the New York Times killed a story about how the lab leak was true based on back-channel slack chats with government operatives, these people would be calling for a congressional investigation.

Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

Our brave boys at ICE score a victory in the war on two-year-olds. #facism #ice

As you assess the DEAL we're striking with Korea, remember: We ALREADY have an active free trade agreement with Korea that provides tariff free trade in nearly everything. Expect this new agreement to... Provide for tariff free trade in nearly everything. Just like 6 weeks ago.

Hockmuth on #tarrifs

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

#BookReview forum: Properties of rent: Community, capital and politics in globalising Delhi introduced by Karen Coelho with reviews by Aditi Dey and Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay and an author response from Sushmita Pati buff.ly/XCVko5t

I have seen the future and it is the Netherlands, but New York's congestion pricing is an encouraging step if Duffy et al don't kill it.

congestion pricing is a policy miracle, many people are saying

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

HRW statement on Trump-Bukele concentration camp.