Rebecca M. Bratspies

Rebecca Bratspies, Author

@rbratspies.bsky.social

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Professor, CUNY Law | award-winning scholar, author, speaker
scuba diver | environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, NYC history, urban policy, comic books | mom | optimist (mostly) www.RebeccaBratspies.com

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Apr 28

hey friends. Guess what . . .my book Naming Gotham just won the 2024 American Legacy Book Award for US History!!! #history #NYC #newyorkcity #historybuff #historylovers #historypodcast #NewYork #awardwinning #books #booklovers www.amazon.com/Naming-Gotha...

Good seal. Words Award Winner 2024 emblazoned across the seal

cover of Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues, and Heroes Behind New York Place Names. Title in a central red box with white type Photos (in clockwise order) of Peter Cooper, Henry Bruckner, NYC view from Hells Kitchen, Jackie Robinson, at bat, Shirley Chisholm, and Bryant Park

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 13h

THANK YOU!! Have you read the Thursday Next series? The Pro-Caths in the second book alone are worth it.

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 13h

Grrrr

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 6d

had to share this one.

screenshot of an email. This is the text: "Hi Author, my friend suggested your book and that's why I messaged you.
Please, can you tell me what it’s about? Because I'm also A book promotion consultant. "

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Birthday Langston Hughes. Your greatness can never be erased or suppressed. Particularly feeling this right now (from Let America be American Again)
poets.org/poem/let-ame...

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land whereeveryman is free.
The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!

Reposted by Robert C. Richards

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 7d

‘With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike’. Wow.

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Mmm hmm. @hamburglarhimbo.bsky.social · 7d

The opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...

storage.courtlistener.com

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 7d

Today is Jackie Robinson's birthday. No amount of lies or obfuscation can ever erase his greatness.

Jackie Robinson poised with a bat. He has a Brooklyn Dodger hat on and the 2 is visible on his team jersey (his number was 42)

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 8d

tell me five classes you took in college:

Developmental Neurobiology
Self and Society in Ming Thought
History of African American Music
Marine and Benthic Ecosystems
The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

#letsgoWes!

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology

Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 8d

tell me five classes you took in college

shakespeare in the 20th century
international relations theory
the making of the american national myth
biochemistry + molecular modeling lab
wines

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 8d

Just sayin . . .

graffiti on the side of a building: Ice Are The Terrorists (in red with white edging)

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 8d

also, the "death of the author" theory makes a whole lot more sense when the author is actually dead, and not cashing in on your consumption of their problematic media

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology

Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 8d

tell me five classes you took in college

shakespeare in the 20th century
international relations theory
the making of the american national myth
biochemistry + molecular modeling lab
wines

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 8d

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 10d

As we're about to start Black History Month, let's remember that the same principles that ground Black liberation have also always grounded the resistance to other ethno-nationalist policies, including racist immigration restrictionism.

Douglass, as always, is instructive

I submit that this question of Chinese immigration should be settled upon higher principles than those of a cold and selfish expediency.

There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here. It is this great right that I assert for the Chinese and Japanese, and for all other varieties of men equally with yourselves, now and forever. I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity, and when there is a supposed conflict between human and national rights, it is safe to go to the side of humanity. I have great respect for the blue eyed and light haired races of America. They are a mighty people. In any struggle for the good things of this world they need have no fear. They have no need to doubt that they will get their full share.

But I reject the arrogant and scornful theory by which they would limit migratory rights, or any other essential human rights to themselves, and which would make them the owners of this great continent to the exclusion of all other races of men.

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 10d

WTF???

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 14d

I moved the stuff myself. I may be old and weak but I did a better job than the 4 strong men I hired

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 14d

TFW your movers quit mid-move.

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 17d

hell no! This zoning change ended the build a "hotel" to rent to the city as a homeless shelter scam. People deserve housing built for living in, not for hotel guests, and neighborhoods deserve not to be flooded with these sketchy, poorly constructed fake hotels

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Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 17d

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained

Reposted by Rebecca M. Bratspies

KindLivesMatter @bekindforthefuture.bsky.social · 22d

RESIST THIS CORRUPT REGIME

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 23d

Happy to cover any property class lectures. Or any environmental law topics . For law school, grad school or undergrad. Hell happy to teach AP history or other high school class sessions if it will help Hit me up

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 24d

Thinking very hard about all the centrist pundits and "legal experts" nitpicking that transgender grad student in Oklahoma giving the student a zero; remembering how they told me I was overreacting by saying that there is no reality in which the administration would support her.

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 27d

this was mine www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8uo...

I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler

YouTube video by Arlo Guthrie - Topic

www.youtube.com

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Jan 8

lol. Forgot to get any photos of my #AALS panels. So, instead enjoy some of my favorite people talking about technology optimism. ( I really need some optimism right now)

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Jan 8

can I reboot this timeline please

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Jan 6

book is available here. We have a pretty good teacher's manual and are always adding to it. cap-press.com/books/isbn/9...

Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation, Fourth Edition

Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation, Fourth Edition (9781531033538). Authors: Clifford Villa. Carolina Academic Press

cap-press.com

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Jan 6

Consider this a reminder that Environmental Justice is Social Justice! Delighted to announce the publication of the latest version of Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation. Thank you to my co-authors and to the many advocates whose work we highlight. So much more to do!

Front cover of Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation(4th ed). Beautiful southwest themed artwork. Stylized cactus, mountains and sky

Reposted by David R. Miller, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Timothy D. McBride

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Jan 6

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Jan 4

Thank you for sharing your voice. It really matters

Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Jan 4

Sit next to people and say hi. Tell them it is your first AALS. In general, people are very welcoming.

I will keep my eye out for you.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jan 3

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

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