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Rebecca Bratspies, Author
@rbratspies.bsky.social
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Professor, CUNY Law | award-winning scholar, author, speaker
scuba diver | environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, NYC history, urban policy, comic books | mom | optimist (mostly) www.RebeccaBratspies.com

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · Apr 28
hey friends. Guess what . . .my book Naming Gotham just won the 2024 American Legacy Book Award for US History!!! #history #NYC #newyorkcity #historybuff #historylovers #historypodcast #NewYork #awardwinning #books #booklovers www.amazon.com/Naming-Gotha...
Good seal. Words Award Winner 2024 emblazoned across the seal cover of Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues, and Heroes Behind New York Place Names. Title in a central red box with white type Photos (in clockwise order) of Peter Cooper, Henry Bruckner, NYC view from Hells Kitchen, Jackie Robinson, at bat, Shirley Chisholm, and Bryant Park

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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 18h
Yall—
Elmo : That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny!

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 18h
My Belize feed is going nuts over the Belizean flag waved during Bad Bunny’s halftime.

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 18h
❤️❤️❤️
Liam Ramos after Bad Bunny gave him the Grammy

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isaac @sevier.io · 18h
Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org
LO QUE TENEMOS
queremossolpr.org

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
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This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 18h
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 19h
Everybody: That show was beautiful.

Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 19h
Wow. Benito for the win!! Energy injustice at half time!!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h
"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 1d
THANK YOU!! Have you read the Thursday Next series? The Pro-Caths in the second book alone are worth it.

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 1d
Grrrr

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 7d
had to share this one.
screenshot of an email. This is the text: "Hi Author, my friend suggested your book and that's why I messaged you. Please, can you tell me what it’s about? Because I'm also A book promotion consultant. "

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 7d
Happy Birthday Langston Hughes. Your greatness can never be erased or suppressed. Particularly feeling this right now (from Let America be American Again)
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O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land whereeveryman is free. The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME— Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again. Sure, call me any ugly name you choose— The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives, We must take back our land again, America! O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 8d
‘With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike’. Wow.

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Mmm hmm. @hamburglarhimbo.bsky.social · 9d
The opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...
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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 9d
Today is Jackie Robinson's birthday. No amount of lies or obfuscation can ever erase his greatness.
Jackie Robinson poised with a bat. He has a Brooklyn Dodger hat on and the 2 is visible on his team jersey (his number was 42)

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 9d
tell me five classes you took in college:

Developmental Neurobiology
Self and Society in Ming Thought
History of African American Music
Marine and Benthic Ecosystems
The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

#letsgoWes!
niais.bsky.social Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 9d
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
mdaware.org Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 9d
tell me five classes you took in college

shakespeare in the 20th century
international relations theory
the making of the american national myth
biochemistry + molecular modeling lab
wines

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 9d
Just sayin . . .
graffiti on the side of a building: Ice Are The Terrorists (in red with white edging)

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 9d
also, the "death of the author" theory makes a whole lot more sense when the author is actually dead, and not cashing in on your consumption of their problematic media

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 9d
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
mdaware.org Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 9d
tell me five classes you took in college

shakespeare in the 20th century
international relations theory
the making of the american national myth
biochemistry + molecular modeling lab
wines
emayfarris.bsky.social Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11d
As we're about to start Black History Month, let's remember that the same principles that ground Black liberation have also always grounded the resistance to other ethno-nationalist policies, including racist immigration restrictionism.

Douglass, as always, is instructive
I submit that this question of Chinese immigration should be settled upon higher principles than those of a cold and selfish expediency. There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here. It is this great right that I assert for the Chinese and Japanese, and for all other varieties of men equally with yourselves, now and forever. I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity, and when there is a supposed conflict between human and national rights, it is safe to go to the side of humanity. I have great respect for the blue eyed and light haired races of America. They are a mighty people. In any struggle for the good things of this world they need have no fear. They have no need to doubt that they will get their full share. But I reject the arrogant and scornful theory by which they would limit migratory rights, or any other essential human rights to themselves, and which would make them the owners of this great continent to the exclusion of all other races of men.

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 11d
WTF???

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 15d
I moved the stuff myself. I may be old and weak but I did a better job than the 4 strong men I hired

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 15d
TFW your movers quit mid-move.

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 18d
hell no! This zoning change ended the build a "hotel" to rent to the city as a homeless shelter scam. People deserve housing built for living in, not for hotel guests, and neighborhoods deserve not to be flooded with these sketchy, poorly constructed fake hotels

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Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 19d
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained

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KindLivesMatter @bekindforthefuture.bsky.social · 23d
RESIST THIS CORRUPT REGIME

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Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 24d
Happy to cover any property class lectures. Or any environmental law topics . For law school, grad school or undergrad. Hell happy to teach AP history or other high school class sessions if it will help Hit me up

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 25d
Thinking very hard about all the centrist pundits and "legal experts" nitpicking that transgender grad student in Oklahoma giving the student a zero; remembering how they told me I was overreacting by saying that there is no reality in which the administration would support her.