Mark Rice

@markricehistory.bsky.social

1.5K followers 550 following 680 posts

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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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 2h

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Mark Rice , and 2 more Stephen D. Murphy, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Mark Rice, Aviel Roshwald, Colin Woodard

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE

In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

newrepublic.com

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Ian Campbell , and 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Ian Campbell, Scott A. Imberman, Mark Rice

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 16h

Hate him all you want, but Bill Belichick at least gave us exciting Super Bowls…

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 17h

Next halftime show we just play the marsellesa aprista.

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 17h

Haya de la Torre needs an apology! 😂

Historic postcard showing the Pan-American flag of the APRA party.

Reposted by Stacy D. VanDeveer, Mark Rice

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17h

This was a little over a year ago

New York magazine cover “the cruel kids table: out late with the young right as they contemplate cultural domination”

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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 17h

This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.

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okpoke.bsky.social @okpoke.bsky.social · 18h

We used to be a country

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Jacob T. Levy, Mark Rice

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

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Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 18h

In the past, Super Bowl commercials were snapshots of the cultural moment. The past few years they've felt like projections of a future elites want to force us into against our will.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Mark Rice

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 18h

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

Reposted by Tom Clark, David R. Miller, Mark Rice , and 1 more Tom Clark, David R. Miller, Mark Rice, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Steven White @notstevenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

So close to setting up a chess board correctly, but the black king is on the wrong square

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18h

The Senate version of the new SAVE Act would require Americans to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate not just to register, but every time they vote. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote:
bit.ly/4tmVIor

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 19h

Jon Bon Jovi introducing the Patriots? Yikes. Jets fans have suffered enough, guys.

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 20h

Being the two countries in Europe where people still have a personal memory of living under fascism is a not-unimportant factor in explaining this.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 21h

science is so dope!
(….wait for it….)

Reposted by Erol Akçay, Anne Norton, Dean Eckles , and 6 more Erol Akçay, Anne Norton, Dean Eckles, Nancy Langston, Mark Rice, Daniel Kuehn, Andrew Rudalevige, Aviel Roshwald, Stuart Shapiro

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 22h

What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails.

Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.

Graph showing that policies blocking ICE access to jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Reposted by R. M. Wilson, Mark Rice, Greg Linden

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Reposted by Mark Rice, David R. Shumway

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Even with the so-called "drawdown," many Minneapolis area activists say little has changed since hundreds of agents left and they're preparing for prolonged resistance. The anxiety remains palpable after two fatal shootings of US Citizens by federal agents in January. https://cnn.it/4rAFZ34

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 1d

25 years after its launch, Wikipedia remains hugely influential. Its open editing model now faces coordinated "edit wars", where Kremlin-aligned actors rewrite history and cement distorted narratives on one of the world’s most trusted reference platforms.

Read more: euvsdisinfo.eu/the-wikipedi...

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Jessica Vitak, Mark Rice , and 1 more Linda J. Skitka, Jessica Vitak, Mark Rice, Anne Hilborn

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern

Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.

www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Melanie C. Green, Mark Rice , and 3 more Brendan Nyhan, Melanie C. Green, Mark Rice, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dana Howard, David Darmofal

Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 1d

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says

The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Mark Rice, David Darmofal

Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1d

oh dear.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Cohen @repcohen.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is killing, lying, and covering for itself.

We must abolish ICE—and we need to make sure that no federal officer can ever kill and hide behind a would-be badge, a mask, or a lawless President and DHS Secretary ever again. That's why I introduced the Deadly Force Independent Review Act.

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Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 2d

Could you even imagine if President Obama made the troops sit through a a doc about Michelle??

Religious freedom group says US military members were 'pressured' by commanders to see 'Melania'

An active-duty enlisted member of the US military said their unit was "pressured" into seeing Amazon's "Melania" documentary about the first lady.

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