Mark Rice

@markricehistory.bsky.social

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Associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Making Machu Picchu/Destino Machu Picchu. Fulbright scholar. Department chair.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/markrice1/

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Hoosier Homer is reading For God and Kaiser by Basset @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 3h

This might be one of the most interesting shots of the attack on Pearl Harbor that I have ever seen!

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

It is hard to incorporate small businesses (especially the ones Maguire discusses) into anything resembling a social democratic coalition. Above average income + below average education is the core of populist radical right electorates. Wouldn’t be stupid for Labour to focus elsewhere.

Patrick Maguire @patrickmaguire.bsky.social · 3h

I've written a Substack about what I've been reading and writing recently – on the voters who make populism happen, and why Labour isn't speaking to them.

maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/the-voters...

The voters who make populism happen

And why this government isn't speaking to them

maguirepatrick.substack.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

An interesting profile of a liberal white woman who I wasn't aware of until she interviewed Cory Booker and grilled him on his support for Israel. The piece devotes a few paragraphs to this, and how support for Palestine is now a mainstream position among liberals, but not Democratic congresspeople.

Is This Former Bravo Star Democrats’ Toughest Critic?

www.nytimes.com

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 4h

A quote from Soviet cyberneticist Victor Glushkov: “The danger is not that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will think like machines.” This is my biggest fear about widespread commercial gen AI - not in a sense of tech panic but of the impact of human-computer interaction.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5h

Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.

If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.

Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men

The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 5h

Last week, high school students in Campbell formed a human swastika on the school’s football field. They posted it, along with a 1939 quote from Hitler about “international financial Jews … plunging nations into a world war” which requires “annihilation of the Jewish race.” 🧵

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

www.currentaffairs.org

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Farah Mendlesohn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

BASH: If ICE says it doesn't arrest US citizens, why do we keep seeing incidents of them aggressively pursuing citizens?

HOMAN: I can't tell you how many times an illegal alien claims to be a US citizen. It happens all the time.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 8h

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

But Elon Musk said it would be easy to fix it if they went too far. Can't imagine why people are rushing back.

The shortages have put strains on employees, who were hopeful the job postings would offer a reprieve from difficult working conditions.

One Weather Service employee in an East Coast office, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said his office was already slightly understaffed before Trump’s second presidency, but lost several more people to resignation or retirement amid DOGE’s push to downsize government

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

www.dailynebraskan.com

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Chart du jour:

With an increasingly hostile environment in the U.S., a growing number of Chinese scientists working at American companies or institutions are returning home or moving to third countries.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 1d

Five roads in New York City made INRIX’s list of the top 25 busiest corridors in 2024, but only one remained on this year’s list. “The congestion pricing program, no doubt, played a role,” Pishue said.

www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/inrix-t...

Traffic congestion grew this year in U.S. cities, but NYC saw no increase

Baltimore and Philadelphia saw the largest increases in traffic delays. Congestion pricing may have helped keep New York City traffic in check.

www.smartcitiesdive.com

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Kirstin Munro @kmunro-econ.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”

Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI

“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”

www.texasmonthly.com

Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

from a state party director

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

The open disregard for judicial decisions and orders is being normalized more every day

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

The Shitpost Cabinet. 🤡

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 2d

"Vanity Fair," the novel by William Thackeray, centers on the ambitious and amoral female protagonist Becky Sharp who overplays her hand. In that, it is similar to the male protagonist Barry Lyndon in Thackeray's "The Luck of Barry Lyndon."

Both were products of greed and class stratification.

Reposted by Robert Black, David R. Miller, Mark Rice , and 1 more Robert Black, David R. Miller, Mark Rice, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d

I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 2d

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

An AI prompt says “long stockings a red headed girl with braids sticking straight out”

Four sexually suggestive images of a Pippi Longstocking type in various states of undress.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Mark Rice

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is

The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.

paulwaldman.substack.com

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Sandie Holguín @buleriasfan.bsky.social · 2d

Very heartened to see so many people show up at noon to the student-led protest against the administration's handling of the "religious freedom" essay-grading scandal. People are shouting "protect our professors." Other chants included, "OU, shame on you." Excuse the last few secs. of bad video.

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Viewer Discretion Podcast @viewerpod.bsky.social · 2d

“I can get all the information in the world from AI, but am I actually learning from it?”

- @daviddennisjr.bsky.social on the deeper meaning behind Pluribus and the avocado toast scene

Reposted by Smith, Mark Rice, Christina Pagel

Ken Tegtmeyer, MD @pccmdoc.bsky.social · 2d

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

QUESTION PRESENTED
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those “born * * * in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” are U.S.
citizens. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, § 1. The Clause was
adopted to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves
and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens. On
January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive
Order No. 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of
American Citizenship, which restores the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause and provides, on a prospective basis only, that children of temporary visitors
and illegal aliens are not U.S. citizens by birth. The Citizenship Order directs federal agencies not to issue or
accept citizenship documents for such children born
more than 30 days after the Order’s effective date.
The question presented is whether the Executive Order complies on its face with the Citizenship Clause and
with 8 U.S.C. 1401(a), which codifies that Clause.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

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