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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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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 9h
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Reposted by David R. Miller, Mark Rice

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.

Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 1d
The Erika Kirk townhall was:

A. more legwork
B. unexpected stories
C. overlooked topics
D. all of the above
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Reposted by Peter Thorne, David Rosnick, Mark Rice , and 1 more

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d
“Like prime, but with human beings”
A box car used in the holocaust to transport human beings to the camps.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 2 more

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d
Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Mark Rice

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d
Kash Patel made the FBI buy a custom fleet of armored BMW X5 for him to ride around in. trib.al/9pBbwTB

Patel’s FBI spokesperson claimed—without evidence—that this is actually saving the American taxpayer money. The standard version of the X5 costs about $70,000.

Reposted by Roger A. Pielke, John McLaren, Philip N. Cohen , and 11 more

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:

⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year

Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d
I think the only way this wasn’t going to be a big thing is if Trump were smart enough to not hire people (like Bondi) who were loudly promising to expose Epstein collaborators (like him!)

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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 2d
This image will always stick with me. (And the name…)

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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 2d
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov

Reposted by Steve Peers, Victor Pickard, Mark Rice

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Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 2d
Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan
Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy
www.theguardian.com

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 2d
Yo sé que no es el argumento central del libro de Asensio “El Terremoto de Cusco” pero me encanta esta anécdota…

…y quiero tomar lo que mezclaban en los cocktails del Country Club de Lima en 1949!
Texto del libro, El Terremoto de Cusco, de Raúl Asensio, “…en noviembre de 1949 en el Country Club de Lima en honor de una delegación Argentina. Tomato por sorrows a sus invitatados, in alto functionaries peruano concluyó su discursive con un estentóreo llamado à la unidad antiimperialista: Perón en el Atlántico y Odría en el Pacífico pondrían fin à la usura de los Estados Unidos.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 2d
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d
By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 2d
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 17 more

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 2d
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Mark Rice

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d
His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...
abc7chicago.com

Reposted by Edgar Morgenroth, Gerald Friedman, Mark Rice , and 3 more

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2d
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020

'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Reposted by R. M. Wilson, Mark Rice

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NPR @npr.org · 3d
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity. n.pr/4pNYnVN
U.S. regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.
n.pr

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 3d
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Mark Rice

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 3d
"China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634%" 🤔 share.google/yxJk9FytGMTY...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 3d
Grades submitted. Final time I get to make this walk to the subway in 2025.
Photo of Madison Square Park decorated for the holidays.

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 3d
It is again time to post the real tree my dad put up in the late 80s
A very fat Christmas tree

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 3d
Watch @jamellebouie.net's video, which is very informative, but also note that there are many good reasons for Supreme Court expansion apart from trying to achieve progressive political outcomes. It would be a better, more defensible institution if it were bigger. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....