In between everything else in the world, I have a book coming out with @ucpress.bsky.social. Preorder is available now for The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution, a family saga of six Chinese American siblings and their spouses.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Just cancelled Hulu because I believe that free speech is at the very heart of what it means to be American. #BoycottDisneyABC

Didn’t know that #ABC execs were visiting my local school

Today! It’s been an honor to be part of this project!

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

Hey NYC people: As of today the governor’s override of federal guidance means you can officially get your new COVID vaccine. I’m getting mine at CVS right now

What a disgusting, vile, vicious little man he is.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

It's just amazing that every US institution/organization is destroying its long-term reputation to bend over backwards to appease a sick, self-serving, authoritarian who is at least 14 points underwater in every major approval poll.

First encounter with a #Cuomo canvasser at the GAP green market today. Said “I can’t defend that” when we pressed about the sexual harassment record and instead pivoted right to Islamophobia, claiming that if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wins, we’ll have another 9/11. Vile and typical Cuomo.

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

Got this fundraising text from Eric Adams’ campaign today. I asked that my cash be delivered in a Fritos bag, since I dislike sour cream and onion chips

If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.

Horrified but not surprised that so many media outlets are reporting the Border Patrol actions outside a “museum,” rather than the fact that it was the @jamuseum.bsky.social . That matters for so many reasons

Hey, @nytimes.com . Stop sanewashing Dear Leader. He is not basing this on “accounts” of anything. It is just an excuse to grab power.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

“It’s more than a trend. It’s a growing crisis of the press abdicating its responsibility to hold powerful people and institutions accountable” @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/american-c...

This is actually a significant & frightening step in the fascist flex. If you support someone targeted by Trump the DOJ will turn its investigatory muscle against you. Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

From the Gilded Age to WWII, collectors and museums in the U.S. transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain to possessing large collections of Chinese art. Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aesthetic taste, geopolitics were critical to this transformation www.sup.org/books/as...

Getting into some #goodtrouble with a few thousand friends in Lower Manhattan

"...graduates in computer science, computer engineering and graphic design all have unemployment rates at 7% or greater; young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable."

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Speaker Mike Johnson wants you to know, "I'm grateful to God for being able to get this Bill done. Our rights did not come from the government; they came from God himself." On behalf of Democracy loving Americans, I say this to Speaker Mike Johnson: Go F*ck Yourself.

Apparently that agenda is for people to die needlessly

CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS! THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE here's the number: (202) 224-3121

Imagine being more concerned about being primaried and possibly losing your job than about killing thousands of your constituents.

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Every single Democratic elected who represents NYC should be proudly endorsing Zohran Mamdami, who won the primary fair & square. They should be helping him however he & his team ask. If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

SCOTUS just gave the Trump Administration the green light to deport immigrants to countries where they have no ties. This inhumane ruling puts lives at risk and runs counter to due process rights—and our values as Americans. We need a just immigration system, not one driven by fear and cruelty.

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

The authority to wage war rests with Congress. This impeachable action is the reckless behavior of a man granted near-total immunity who feels unleashed to do anything.

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history. This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.

It was really just a concept of a parade

Cuomo? Worked for him once. Definitely wouldn’t recommend. 0/5 stars (and rankings)

Slow going in Manhattan. So many people marching that it took us an hour to go a block and a half #nokings

F train is so packed with people going to the protest on Midtown that no one’s been able to get on since Jay St. #nokings