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Steven Romalewski

@sromalewski.bsky.social

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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.

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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · Jul 24

Some NYC RCV 2025 mayoral primary map updates from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. We've published our interactive map of round-by-round (non-batch-eliminated) vote patterns at www.urbanresearchmaps.org/nycrcv2025/ For each election district we display a vote transfer diagram for all candidates. (🧵)

Screenshot of CUNY interactive map of NYC 2025 mayoral primary ranked choice vote transfers. https://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/nycrcv2025/

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID?

And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina.

Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

YouTube video by tennesseejed93

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t want to say they stole the idea from you (it’s probably not a copyrighted thing), but I wanted to make sure they knew that you (likely) had it first!

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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the local NYC version via @beta.nyc cc @noneck.org

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · Jun 14

Happy No Kings day!

@beta.nyc is offering these great donation gifts as a thank you for supporting our public programs.

www.beta.nyc/support-us-n...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 4d

Now that’s a size-comparison map that I hadn’t seen before: Hawaii 🌺 overlayed on top of the contiguous US shows just how far spread out the Hawaiian islands are. Big geopolitical importance for a lovely corner of the world.

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New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 4d

NYC school cellphone ban ushers in shocking reality: Kids are talking to each other

A month into the school year, a clearer picture of how New York City public schools have implemented Gov. Hochul’s phone ban is coming into focus — with students, parents and teachers reporti…

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 6d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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dataindex.us @dataindex.us · 7d

Senator Banks recently called the 2020 Census a “fraud.” In our latest blog post, we break down the facts.

Yes, there were challenges, but overall the count was remarkably accurate. The one thing we can all agree on is that Americans deserve a fair and accurate decennial census.

Census 2020: Fraud or Fairly Conducted? | America's Data Index

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prithi @prithik.bsky.social · 7d

“Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency” ~Mike Wallace

Congrats to Mike Wallace, NYC historian extraordinaire, for a lifetime of work & his new book Gotham at War. Gotham Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - what a rich legacy 🗽

Screen that reads “Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency.” A quote by Pulitzer-prize winning New York City historian Mike Wallace. Photo taken at Gotham at War Book Event — a celebration of the culminating book in Mike Wallace's Gotham series and of his contributions to understanding NYC's history, organized by The Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 2025

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7d

When are we going to start seeing stories like this @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

NYT Screenshot:

'How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
“Your biggest issue is the perception of age,” Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime strategist, told him in 2022, according to people who heard him."

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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 10d

One of the few places he hasn’t yet visited via a connecting flight from Istanbul?

Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 10d

When do we get that apology from Maureen Dowd? cc @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Idiotic NY Times opinion headline from Maureen Dowd: “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk”

Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 10d

Flying there via Istanbul, or is that not the vibe anymore?

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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 14d

How newly registered NYC voters are helping fuel Zohran Mamdani's campaign https://gothamist.com/news/how-newly-registered-nyc-voters-are-helping-fuel-zohran-mamdanis-campaign

How newly registered NYC voters are helping fuel Zohran Mamdani's campaign

Monice Small became a U.S. citizen earlier this year. Winning the primary on the single issue of affordability comes with pressure. Voters expect Mamdani to deliver. [ more › ]

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 17d

Not a map. MTA itself calls it a "subway diagram".

Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 18d

At first I thought (among many other things) that Adams dropping out will make our election result map(s) less interesting but more focused (just 3 candidates). But he may still get enough votes to make a difference in some election districts. We’ll see!

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18d

To the voting booth on Election Day to vote for him because he’s still on the ballot and he was a protest vote to begin with

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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 19d

Has the NY Post ever, once, referred to Don Jr, Eric, or Ivanka with the “silver-spoon” qualifier? Or what about Trump himself, Fred’s silver-spoon son?

New York Post @nypost.com · 19d

Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s filthy-rich parents rent posh Uganda estate with monkeys, lake views on AirBnb

Silver-spoon socialist Zohran Mamdani is longtime Airbnb opponent, yet the NYC mayoral frontrunner's filthy rich parents have been listing their ritzy, secluded Ugandan compound on the short-term rental site the past eight years, The Post has learned.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20d

People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers.

Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.

Surprise Floof (she/her) @surprisefloof.bsky.social · 20d

Who's the audience for a paper dictionary these days? (Serious question.)

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Laura Tamman @lauratamman.bsky.social · 21d

Hey cord cutters: you can get your @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social fix and watch #InsideCityHall live on YouTube tonight: www.youtube.com/live/aE7BW0V...

LIVE: Sliwa alleges bribery attempt, Cuomo team denies | Inside City Hall

YouTube video by Spectrum News

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20d

2025 as a South Asian political moment in New York City.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...

As Mamdani Rises, South Asians Emerge as a Political Force in New York

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 22d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22d

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 22d

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

www.cnn.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 23d

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

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