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Mark Rice
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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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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 7h
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 · 8h
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.

x.com/uaw7902/stat...

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 8h
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.
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h
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 · 8h
*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 · 8h
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 · 8h
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.

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi, Mark Rice

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 9h
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 · 9h
"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 · 10h
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.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org

Reposted by Jonathan M. Gilligan, Mark Rice, Seth Masket

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 12h
So Joe Manchin doesn't understand the history of the filibuster - or the metaphorical use of "holy grail"
Joe Manchin: Abdication. They’ve abdicated their responsibilities. The Senate is the most unusual body in the world. Our framers designed it to be that way, and it was ingrained in me that the filibuster is the holy grail, keeping us talking and working and becoming friends. They’ve abdicated that type of responsibility.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
Elon pinned tweet: Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end

Reposted by Adrian Vickers, Mark Rice

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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 16h
Many of the accounts on X that are now opportunistically spreading anti-immigration content in the wake of the Bondi attack are *not even located in Australia*

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 1d
Eric Foner, in Second Founding (2019), notes that the only exclusions discussed in the congressional debates on the 14th Amendment citizenship language were newborns in independent Indian nations and those of foreign diplomats, exactly consistent with the traditional understanding of the Amendment

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
> @amysiskind.com

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
As a Border Patrol boss, Bovino has repeatedly cited the threat of undocumented immigrants who’ve killed U.S. citizens while driving drunk. The Trump administration said Midway Blitz was launched in Chicago in honor of one of them, a 20-year-old DUI victim. In 1981, Bovino’s father, Mike Bovino, killed a young woman after drunkenly crashing his truck head-on into her car in the hilly little resort town of Blowing Rock, N.C., near the Bovinos’ home. Newspaper accounts described the victims’ car as “bowled over by the impact.” There were no skid marks. Bovino was uninjured. (Chicago Sun Times)

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
What actors facial expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?
Still of Jonathan Pryce portraying Sam Lowry in the film Brazil.

Reposted by Jared Yates Sexton, Christine Kooi, Mark Rice

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 2d
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d
“[Foucault] struck me as completely amoral, I’d never met anyone who was so totally amoral [...] I mean, I liked him personally, it’s just that I couldn't make sense of him. It’s as if he was from a different species, or something.” – Prof. Noam Chomsky
A photograph of Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky together.

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rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
iansociologo.bsky.social Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.

Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
iansociologo.bsky.social Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 26
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.

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Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Reposted by Philip Nel, Sarah Roberts, Mark Rice , and 2 more

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.

That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.

I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 2d
Crypto setting itself up for a public bailout when it (inevitably) goes bust...
grahamsteele.bsky.social graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 2d
Crypto can only survive long-term if it gets access to the publicly backed banking system.

In one fell swoop, the OCC—the regulator for national banks—just approved five (5) bank charter applications by crypto companies.

www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 2d
Crypto can only survive long-term if it gets access to the publicly backed banking system.

In one fell swoop, the OCC—the regulator for national banks—just approved five (5) bank charter applications by crypto companies.

www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2d
In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.