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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 1d

That right there is all hat and no cattle.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

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 · 1d

Ooooh, I love pocket doors.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jack O’Brien @jackphillyre.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: a 36-floor, 620-unit tower is proposed at 1321 S. Columbus Blvd. in Pennsport. There had been big plans here in the past, but this new proposal (which already has permits), would change the area completely - and add better trail connections.

jackphillyre.substack.com/p/breaking-3...

BREAKING: 36 Floors, 620 Units Proposed in Pennsport

A mixed-use, 382' tower called Wharton Piers and trail improvements are planned along the Delaware River

jackphillyre.substack.com

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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 5d

Every quarter, in every undergrad class, I talk with students about what should be included in our LLM AI policy.

For the first time, most of the class decided that we should not allow AI at all.

Here's how we got there . . .

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 5d

Soooomebody really earned that block they received from me this morning.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 5d

transit officials, cyclists, straphanger/bus rider coalition

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 6d

There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d

May his memory, like his cannoli, be a blessing

Vincent Termini Sr., 86, patriarch of Termini Bros. Bakery, has died

Mr. Termini, known as "Mr. Vince," was a familiar figure at the family bakery in South Philadelphia, especially on Christmas Eve.

www.inquirer.com

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 6d

To me, this is the single best post ever made on this app. It's deeply funny, absurdist, and true all at the same time.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 6d

For 20 years now, I have thought of Mason & Dixon as essentially a novel about male friendship; nice to see that feeling seconded.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 6d

Having just finished Against the Day, and been moved by its elegiac tone again and again, despite its bagginess, it was great to stumble across this thread. It - and Pynchon's novels - are well worth your time.

Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 6d

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Image from the Simpsons of Pynchon with a bag over his head on a cell phone. He's standing in front of a house with a neon sign advertising it as his home.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 6d

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 8d

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Office of the President
Dear Dartmouth community,

As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.

You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.

Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 8d

Demography is science, but it's not rocket science. Journalists and related professionals could understand crude birth rate, general fertility rate, and total fertility rate - and use the terms consistently. So I made this annotated table: familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 8d

Well, well, well www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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