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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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2h

A Chinese dissident filmed Uyghur detention sites and then released the video on YouTube after fleeing China. He sought asylum in the US. Now the Trump admin wants to deport him to a country with strong ties to China.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

He Recorded China’s Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda.

www.nytimes.com

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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 2h

Anything for a Reichstag Fire

Anything for a Reichstag Fire - Lawyers, Guns & Money

It so happens that the shooter at Brown University killed the VP of that campus’ College Republicans. There is a 99.9% chance this was completely random. When you walk into a classroom and just start opening fire, presumably you are just shooting everyone and there’s nothing particularly ideological about an intro economics class in any […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?

Summarize this document. (I wrote it)

Find key insights and questions. (I wrote it)

Prep me to discuss this document (No thanks, I am literate. Also, I wrote it.)

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 4h

Professor's pro-tip for anyone with college-age kids: Tell your kids go to class. It's really that simple. If you show up, you'll do okay. You don't have to be smart, you just have to be there. Maybe stay off your phones for 50 minutes. Just listen. You'll absorb something. I have data to prove it.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

Watching far-right figures on Twitter instantly pivot from "You won't see us mock Reiner!" to openly celebrating Trump mocking Reiner makes it clear how much the modern far right relies on communication being remote and often anonymous. Because if you said this in a room, you might not ever leave it

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 6h

RFK Jr. is making sure that recent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough get worse—and might even add some more contagious diseases to the mix. This is what happens when, as Trump promised, RFK Jr. goes “wild on health.” From @ryanlcooper.com:

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The Kennedy Center of Contagious Diseases - The American Prospect

Measles and whooping cough are spreading around the country. The man in charge of American public health is making everything worse.

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Vox @vox.com · 6h

America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?

We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.

What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?

www.vox.com

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Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️ @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social · 7h

Remember, Mr. Rogers' original comment was intended for CHILDREN. Children need comfort, and their power is obviously very limited.

We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 8h

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 9h

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

utterly incapable of grace

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

utterly incapable of grace

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

This is nuts. Sounds fairly close to a horrific midair catastrophe tied to whatevet the fuck trump thinks hes doing in venezuelan air space. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela

A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.

abcnews.go.com

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 11h

"To do populism effectively, politicians must not only focus on problems that the public cares about; by and large, they must also accept the public’s framing of those problems. This creates a dilemma for the left, because that framing, in a complex modern society, will usually be incorrect.

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What the Left Fails to Understand About Populism

The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions

www.theatlantic.com

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 11h

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12h

Straightforward case of "I didn't think the 'cut vital government services party' was going to cut the services I rely on".

That said, these angry Montanan Trump voters should invite Trump and Musk to personally fell trees. Let them use those chainsaws correctly.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

In March, Trump signed an executive order to increase logging on public lands. But DOGE cut many of the agency employees needed to administer the timber sales for logging, and for thinning and fire mitigation. If there’s no one to administer the sales, then private forestry contractors like the forester I spoke to can’t execute those projects. In addition, the U.S. no longer has the infrastructure to process the increased timber mandated by the executive order, and the government doesn’t appear to be investing in resurrecting it.

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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 12h

To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue

A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...

www.reuters.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.

We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...

newrepublic.com

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 13h

As his failed mayoral campaign played out, the former governor’s lawyers ran up the bill contesting the claims of a former state trooper on his security detail.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...

Taxpayers Forked Out Another $1.3 Million for Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Defense

As his failed mayoral campaign played out, the former governor’s lawyers ran up the bill contesting the claims of a former state trooper on his security detail.

www.thecity.nyc

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.

We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.

Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.

Spoiler: That's not true.

@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:

www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

www.propublica.org

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d

Also, just realizing I've accidentally invented an incorrect word. However, in my defense, a "meataphor" does sould delicious...

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 1d

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d

Political commentars who use the term "faculty lounge" are so clueless, they're even out of touch with their own meataphors. 90% of higher ed DOESN'T HAVE faculty lounges.

Common area alonside the copy machine with a fridge, sink, and microwave - yeah we've got that; "lounge" material it ain't.

geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting

“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.”

While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

*Literally all investigations of firms with ties to Trump crypto businesses or involving Trump donors have been dropped.
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Removed from anniversary coins for being too "woke":
-the end of slavery
-giving women the right to vote
-the civil rights movement

Added:
-Trump

Nothing subtle about what's happening here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint

www.nytimes.com

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Purdue is reportedly suspending and resending all admissions offers to graduate students from “adversarial nations”, including China and Russia. Some thoughts:
www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

Purdue Allegedly Rejecting Chinese, Other Grad Students

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party investigated the university regarding its Chinese students. Some say the institution is implementing an unwritten new policy to exclude them.

www.insidehighered.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.