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Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...

NARRATOR (Motoring): What's your price for flight?

The Bulldogocracy!

This is my Thanksgivingest social media post of all time. Have a great one, everybody! 🦃

Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

Say what you will about Trump, he went from “Quiet, Piggy!” to embracing the halal cart guy in record time

An argument for learning more about typhus, smallpox, etc., during the American Revolution: “Remember the maladies!”

🎄 Just in time for the holidays, we're doing a departmental elf study today! 🧝 I'm not sure why this is necessary for our college's accreditation--I just do what they tell me.

I got my son to laugh at this oldie: A rabbit, a priest and an imam walk into a bar. The rabbit says, "I think I'm a typo."

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To paraphrase Dennis Hopper in "Speed," in 249 years we've gone from "I regret but I have one life to give for my country" to "Quiet, piggy!"

Something else just occurred to me, thinking about old movies: maybe those conference hotel room interviews were a throwback to a time when academic departments could afford palatial suites with a separate living area? And things contracted…

You know who else had a hotel room interview? The hapless wheelman in the original “Thomas Crown Affair”

This is the best dialogue exchange in “Clueless” by far, I love it forever. Josh: Which I'll bet serves your interests more than theirs. You know, If I ever saw you do anything that wasn't ninety percent selfish, I'd die of shock. Cher: Oh, that'd be reason enough for me.

If I…don’t watch the Ken Burns documentary, it’ll definitely annoy all the people who are going to ask me about it for the next few decades.

In light of the fact that the victims’ families are suing the Eastman family for gross negligence and fraud, does this read as an attempt to exonerate Edward Eastman in Olivia Nuzzi fashion with fancy maps instead of glamor shots? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m at the dentist’s office and the guy before me just tipped the hygienist. Neither here nor there I guess, just…new

I guess the billionaires were right!

Brooklyn College as Borderlands, Part MMCCCLVIII…

Mamdani will be the 7th NYC mayor since 1834 to have been born abroad

If you starve CUNY for years and do nothing for its students, we will eventually make you lose the same election twice

Good news for people who like nursing home deaths and workplace harassment: you’ll always have a home in Staten Island

Well? Where are my NYC results?

This ad made a small part of me hope that Mamdani loses today so that he’ll have time to give a guest lecture in my “History of New York City” class at Brooklyn College in the spring — but on balance I’d rather he be my mayor that a guest lecturer

"At a time when the federal government is targeting the communities of color and immigrant communities that CUNY serves, New Yorkers need a mayor who will be a champion for CUNY."  Vote  citylimits.org/opinion-why-...

The wizened old man surveyed the smoking ruins and shook his head. “You see it all around you,” he sighed. “Good loving gone bad.”

I was just saying at dinner last night that if I could have one wish for US politics, it would be to mandate that every American to spend one hour learning about the definition and history of marginal tax rates

Historian of the Boston Tea Party here: the best reason to dress in costume is to protest unjust tax policies, corrupt placemen, unresponsive governance, and monopoly power. (Though we can do so less racistly than the Bostonians of 1773.)

That’s fine as long as he didn’t pronounce it like they do in “2 Fast 2 Furious,” which would be disqualifying for me

I'm doing some "light grading," which I guess is like "light rail," "light industry," "light infantry," or "light treason."

Someone posted a picture of one of those fake 20 dollar bills with the wreckage of the East Wing and I wrote "putting the demo in democracy." Then I nerded out and discovered that while "democracy" is a Greek word (which I knew), "demolition" is Latin.

Never again Is what you swore The time before --Depeche Mode

Natalie Zemon Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mikhail Bakhtin, Chuck McCurdy, Jon Wiener, Naomi Klein, and, um, Benjamin Carp are all cited here. thelivingstonpost.com/guest-column...

Maybe I’m missing the point but I think he’s basically arguing that Brooklyn College history professors’ viewpoints are superior and you should listen to them

My boomer dad’s best friend once told me that growing up in the NYC outer boroughs, everyone knew two things about every family in the community—what the dad did during World War II, and what baseball team they rooted for. We used to be a whole nation of antifascists (mostly)

On a road trip, my son requested a Hall & Oates song and then speculated that he didn’t know any others. I predicted correctly (as I put on a playlist) that he’d know six more. Exactly correct.

Son played on piano tonight: Root Beer Rag, Hedwig’s Theme, Gymnopedie 3, Madrid, Graze the Roof, Take On Me, the LOTR theme, That’s All, Runaway, Dance Monkey, Viva La Vida, I’m Blue, and Bittersweet Symphony

It's that time of year!

Kipo was a great show (not only for this reason) 🐆💕

Well the Mets may have played themselves out of the season, but my son went 3-0 at Citi Field (he is 10-0 or 11-0 lifetime) and I went 4-0, and we do love being fans together (now he knows the true meaning!). If anyone wants to fund him for all available home games going forward... #LGM

Every time someone makes reference to the (wrong) “politics the right way” article I want to post this: youtu.be/30L8WMkNYBk?...

What’s also striking about this is that it seems like the US ought to be too big for this to work. I guess we have to hope that Madison is right that the bigness is what will save us. (Though Russia, China, and India are big, too)

Going up to 83 degrees today in NY—my mom remembers always needing a sweater on the first day of school.

(Sips tea.) 🧐 One must believe. #LGM

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/

In the Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams," what exactly is the logic behind putting the stress on the second syllable of "washes," something no English-speaking person would otherwise do?

NYC-area folks! Please come out to this "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally tomorrow at 6:00PM in Foley Square. My union helped organize this action, and we're hoping for a big turnout. Foley Square is just a couple of blocks away from the immigration courthouses where ICE is kidnapping our neighbors.

Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.

Let me preface this by saying it's not something I am considering at all, but--has anyone tried to use AI to index their books? It strikes me as bad (like, we shouldn't be displacing our fellow knowledge workers, in addition to all the other reasons AI is bad), but I'm still curious to hear