The more I sit with this commentary, the more convinced I am Caroline Soler is an actual idiot. He never had a “lead.” Nothing “shrank.” Do you understand how vote counting works? This isn’t a baseball game.
Steven Romalewski
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Director, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center. More here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/steven-romalewski Some posts are work-related, some are personal. Photo credit: Alex Irklievski
Currently running an unbroken multi-decade streak of getting through everyday without any of these tools and haven't identified a single use case for them so it'd be pretty easy for me
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
I think on top of this the New York Times largely agrees with the Manhattan Institute’s agenda and has made no secret that it despises Mamdani and will weaponize its ostensibly straight-news coverage against him
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...
Staten Island’s immigrant population grew from 20.4% of the borough’s overall population in 2013 to 25.5% in 2023, with China becoming the island’s top country of origin among the borough’s foreign-born residents. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/28/s...
'We Can Hear Chinese Anywhere Now': Behind Staten Island’s Immigrant Boom
China is now the top country of origin for foreign-born Staten Islanders.
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Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars
Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress
The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.
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Heat doesn’t affect every NYC neighborhood in the same way. The NYC Urban Heat Portal lets you compare heat exposure, air temperature, surface temperature, tree canopy, and other conditions across the city. Explore the map: urbanheat.nyc #UrbanHeat #NYCData
Absolutely love this interview of @aoc.bsky.social biking around NYC! She talks about the importance of transportation infrastructure built on the human scale while stressing the need for far more investment in walking, biking and transit. youtu.be/s1-jM1SuZR0?... @nyc.streetsblog.org
We went on a bike ride with AOC
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
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www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/a... Great exhibit & review. Captures depressing aspect of a world that’s retreated into headphones earbuds & small screens. “…no one w/Wi-Fi lacks the music they believe they want &, safe in that belief, none need speak to another person or engage in risk to consume it.”
When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.
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This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoGeorge Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
What Does "Coarsening" Look Like? New data privacy/confidentiality blog and assessment tool from @mmather.bsky.social federaldataforum.prb.org/blogs/mark-m...
What Does
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This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoOSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
With 42nd Street closed to private vehicles on World Cup game days, how much faster are bus riders making it across town? youtube.com/shorts/VM-wU...
Do Buses Move Faster On 42nd St When Private Cars Are Banned? #nycbus #transit #nyctransit
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📌Just in case a MAGA in your life is lecturing you about respecting Lindsey Graham and the dead. Have a good day, everybody.
every lecture about respecting the dead in the wake of Graham's (or McConnell's presumed upcoming) death from the mainstream media should be taken as what it is: a declaration that they respect power more than they respect our democracy or constitution and that they will collaborate in enslaving us
Richard J Laya@richardlaya.bsky.social · 3w agoLindsey Graham used his power as a US Senator in an attempt to overthrow a legitimate election, all in favor of an authoritarian pedophile. He literally called the GA Secretary of State in an effort to change the certified results. His heart attack should have occurred in a prison cell, not at home.
A distinguished professor and founder of the Graduate Center’s Gotham Center, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his exhaustive, populist, and popular account of New York City history www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria... @gothamcenter.bsky.social
In Memoriam: Mike Wallace
A distinguished professor and founder of the Graduate Center’s Gotham Center, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his exhaustive, populist, and popular account of New York City history.
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Congratulations to our newest distinguished professors: Colette Daiute, Cindi Katz, Gary Wilder, Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria, @paisleycurrah.com, Ramona Hernández, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, and Richard Steinberg
Introducing Our Newest Distinguished Professors
Graduate Center Professors Colette Daiute, Cindi Katz, and Gary Wilder achieved CUNY’s highest faculty rank, along with five colleagues who hold joint appointments.
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For the better part of a year, I've been looking into the night LaGuardia Airport was bombed. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...
It’s One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Cold Cases. But What Happened Next Is Almost a Worse Crime.
When I began contacting the survivors, they thought I was a prank caller.
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Most of the comments are about why truncating the Y axis is bad (which it is!). But I wonder if the "data vis" team at this Fox station just thought, "let's make 94 seem *really* hot compared to everything else", and made those two bars insanely big vs 92. Either way, amusing/terrible decision.
turgut keskintürk@tkeskinturk.bsky.social · last mo.data visualization is my passion.
I also wrote about Enten's creepy reliance on Kalshi, for @columjournreview.bsky.social last year www.cjr.org/laurels-and-... 3/
Check out real time neighborhood flood sensors! seagrant.sunysb.edu/floodinfonyc... Pairs well with this boundaries map to find out which local officials represent areas with flooding. boundaries.beta.nyc @asrc-gc.bsky.social @beta.nyc
The nice things about books: once you own them, you own them, forever. No one will be eye tracking your reading habits. No one will make money of you reading the book as many times as you'd like. And the very same book can be read by generations to come. It can last centuries, literally. It's great.
If you’re in NYC and want to buy a book IRL this is a great tool. bookpile.org
Bookpile
Find the book you want at a bookshop or library near you. No affiliate links, no cookies.
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The tall ships are so graceful and beautiful. It was wonderful watching them sail up the Hudson (and even the smaller ones the day before on the East River).
Manhattan Bird Alert@birdcpk.bsky.social · last mo.The Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy, one of many tall ships visiting lower Manhattan as part of the Sail250 celebration.
Today’s Parade of Sail on the Hudson River was stunning. I’m so proud to be the Mayor of New York City — our nation’s first capital — and to be celebrating America’s 250th anniversary on its historic shores.
