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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 5h

A wonderful thread about Angel Island and how it separated, segregated, and classified immigrants, mixing the historical, the sociological, and the personal.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 16h

Just returned from SF where I went with my cousins & their kids to explain the history of Angel Island immigrant landing depot. It's an island off of SF, look how close it is to SF, yet for detained immigrants who were there, it was a world away to getting to the US. Was in operation 1910-1941. 1/

Angel Island in the distance in the water, photo taken from a San Francisco scenic point with a few other tourists.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 7h

Bass guitar flamingo, my belovéd.

A guitar with the head of a flamingo wears Crimson kitten heels next to a guitar with a giraffe for head also wearing Crimson kitten heels. There is a piano in the background with kitty cat paws.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 13h

Damn, D'Angelo. No, just no. Damn.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

"Ahead of our Oct 16th edition... the Media School directed us to print no news in the paper, an order blatantly in defiance of our editorial independence and Charter... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Urban politics continues to have the most interesting coalitions, policy proposals, and characters and I am still glad that I decided that I was going to study it when I was 21 years old

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like the increasing rapidity of the global move away from free trade and neoliberalism in recent 10 years really should be a bigger story, no? It's an epochal shift, and a rejection of the last 50 years or so of international economic doctrine. www.politico.eu/article/dutc...

Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

The move could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union.

www.politico.eu

Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great chart; it shows the decline of affordability quite clearly.

Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d

Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States)
www.datawrapper.de/_/27AUY/

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

this is a further sign of weakness, not strength, imo. It's not the red state publics that they needed to set off a general stampede. It's places like MIT. Turning this into a red state thing makes it _less_ likely to spread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 2d

Annual reminder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZyT...

Columbus (2002 Remastered Version)

YouTube video by Burning Spear - Topic

www.youtube.com

Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 2d

Folks reposting this today: Check twice. The article says it's part of the compact, which none of those universities have agreed to; in fact, MIT publicly rejected it over the weekend.

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 2d

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15% - BusinessToday

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at regulating academic admissions and funding, and it is set to have significant repercussions for colleges and universities across the United States.

www.businesstoday.in

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 4d

That right there is all hat and no cattle.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Newsom signed SB79! So, so huge. Enormous props to all the people who worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen, above all @scottwiener.bsky.social. It's going to change California, and the country.

Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Landmark Law To Build More Homes Near Public Transit

Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

sd11.senate.ca.gov

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 4d

Ooooh, I love pocket doors.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lovely story. Won't change the world or nothing, but it's still worth a calm, ruminative few minutes of your time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/a...

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

www.nytimes.com

Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 4d

Graffito of the Week, No. 028: No eres sin mi; Ecuador, 2010. I have always loved this one. #GotW

Written graffiti in blue spray paint on an off-white stucco wall:
"Tú no eres sin mi
Yo solo soy contigo!!"

Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 4d

Big news in Philly-area academia. www.inquirer.com/education/te...

Temple University receives record $55 million gift from an alum who almost didn’t get accepted

Christopher Barnett made his money in real estate and healthcare and now heads ABA Centers of America, which provides services to children with autism.

www.inquirer.com

Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 4d

Read the memo in the next part of the thread. Weiss admitting that she doesn't know how to manage an organization, delegate, use her organization's performance review process, or construct a survey. It's just amateur hour, with boldness as a substitute for competence.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 5d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 6d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 6d

Public funding of child care is expensive at the time, but it has substantial economic/social benefits too, both at the time of expenditure (more parents being able to work for pay) and years later, in schooling and when those kids grow up. So tax rates might not need to go up much.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 6d

There should be more sports journalism like this. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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