Quick reminder that in typical years, extreme heat kills more Americans than all other so-called natural disasters…combined.

How can New York City sustain the joy we're feeling this week, build stronger communities, and give everyone the sense that they belong? In @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social, Julia Day and I propose an answer: New York City needs a Social Infrastructure Agenda.

Sustaining the Joyful City: A New York City Social Infrastructure Agenda

Mamdani needs a comprehensive strategy to connect New Yorkers in the physical spaces where we interact.

vitalcitynyc.org

Open streets and sidewalks are public goods, and public space is what makes a great city joyous, affordable, and fun. That's what makes New York City so special. Never let them take it away.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo ago

Mamdani is Mayor and the New York Knicks are NBA champions. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of! 🧡💙

As the planet gets hotter, cities around the world are experiencing rain storms with record-smashing intensity. I spent the last few months visiting places -Copenhagen, Hoboken, & NYC- that have adopted a counterintuitive idea: the safest city is one that can take water in. In @newyorker.com

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods?

As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

newyorker.com

Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?

*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.

Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place

Trump’s cornerstone economic policy faced another challenge as a federal appeals court ruled he did not have the authority under an emergency powers act to impose them.

washingtonpost.com

“Drill baby drill” is a climate policy. Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy. Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy. Taxing renewables is a climate policy. Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy. Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel

One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

browndailyherald.com

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure.

Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥@lainenooney.bsky.social · 2y ago

Someone just sent a photo of their dog, Onions, to an 11,000 person faculty listserv, adorable