Andrew Needham
@andrewneedham.bsky.social
Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
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Who are we to challenge that a former top state budget official needs to use ChatGTP to get up to speed on the single biggest issue in the state for the last 20 years, that the Cuomo campaign couldn’t bring for a typist to help said one-armed man out, and also couldn’t be bothered to proofread it
April 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Who are we to challenge that a former top state budget official needs to use ChatGTP to get up to speed on the single biggest issue in the state for the last 20 years, that the Cuomo campaign couldn’t bring for a typist to help said one-armed man out, and also couldn’t be bothered to proofread it
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greg byrne, nate oats, and kalen deboer should field questions about this at their next media availabilities. make the best-compensated and most visible employees of the institution submit their no-comment if they don't want to weigh in
April 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
greg byrne, nate oats, and kalen deboer should field questions about this at their next media availabilities. make the best-compensated and most visible employees of the institution submit their no-comment if they don't want to weigh in
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The gist of all these people “coming to their senses” now is that they wanted to go about their daily lives while engaging in their licentious special interest without public censure but failed to comprehend that a coalition of the all societal resentment results in shredding society as a whole
Steven Pinker agrees with @theunpopulist.net's assessment of The Free Press.
April 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The gist of all these people “coming to their senses” now is that they wanted to go about their daily lives while engaging in their licentious special interest without public censure but failed to comprehend that a coalition of the all societal resentment results in shredding society as a whole
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I think we should be looking at the Cuomo endorsements by electeds, unions, and plutocrats in the same way as similar forces are cutting deals or holding their tongues with Trump - it’s anticipatory obedience.
April 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think we should be looking at the Cuomo endorsements by electeds, unions, and plutocrats in the same way as similar forces are cutting deals or holding their tongues with Trump - it’s anticipatory obedience.
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A+ work to certain of the New York City media outlets that participated in the multi-year subway crime panic that led us to this moment.
Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"
April 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A+ work to certain of the New York City media outlets that participated in the multi-year subway crime panic that led us to this moment.
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congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit
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Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
March 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
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There’s a vote for the REI Board! If you’re an active member you can vote at vote.escvote.com/REI/
The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.
The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
There’s a vote for the REI Board! If you’re an active member you can vote at vote.escvote.com/REI/
The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.
The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.
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1. Short everything
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat
Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat
Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?
BREAKING: US Commerce Secretary Lutnick has said: Trump may roll back Canada and Mexico tariffs tomorrow
March 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
1. Short everything
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat
Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat
Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?
Teaching Walden this week
Me (to 17 year old son): “R, ‘most men lead lives of quiet desperation’”
R: “Yep.”
Me (to 17 year old son): “R, ‘most men lead lives of quiet desperation’”
R: “Yep.”
March 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Teaching Walden this week
Me (to 17 year old son): “R, ‘most men lead lives of quiet desperation’”
R: “Yep.”
Me (to 17 year old son): “R, ‘most men lead lives of quiet desperation’”
R: “Yep.”
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And before you ask, yes, there are better solutions. Canada could do this as easily as Europe:
pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/o...
pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/o...
March 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And before you ask, yes, there are better solutions. Canada could do this as easily as Europe:
pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/o...
pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/o...
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less than eight years ago she said what Al Franken did goes beyond party, beyond friendship, and that what he did disqualifies him for public office
the New York Democratic Party is completely broken. everyone needs to be primaried
March 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
less than eight years ago she said what Al Franken did goes beyond party, beyond friendship, and that what he did disqualifies him for public office
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2 things can be true at the same time:
1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis
2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face
1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis
2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face
March 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
2 things can be true at the same time:
1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis
2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face
1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis
2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face
On thing Trump has long known and that he’s conveyed to his administration is that the legal system acts so slowly that it basically conveys impunity.
I’ve got a piece in today’s @nytimes about Elon Musk as walking/talking violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | There Is No Musk Clause in the Constitution
Trump is on shaky ground when it comes to the way he has empowered perhaps the most important figure in the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
On thing Trump has long known and that he’s conveyed to his administration is that the legal system acts so slowly that it basically conveys impunity.
“Than expected” is the key phrase here. It indicates the kinds of just so stories about public sector work that politicians and pundits have been telling for a generation, stories that bear little resemblance to the reality of public sector work.
Key takeaway from DOGE:
There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.
There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.
March 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Than expected” is the key phrase here. It indicates the kinds of just so stories about public sector work that politicians and pundits have been telling for a generation, stories that bear little resemblance to the reality of public sector work.
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Huge tariffs, likely to cause economic havoc in the United States are a “flex”? What kind of headline is this? Once again, it is a framing along the lines that the White House communications team would put out there.
![America’s Flex [title of article on Trump tariffs]
He believes he can’t advance his `America First’ agenda without rebalancing trade with other countries. This, he says, will make them do things that are in the US’s interest. With these latest tariffs, he had demanded that Canada, Mexico and China do more to stop drug trafficking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6xbkw7bucg6ws3vqwnxqewp/bafkreihsfgoiwcx2n7sqjbzbruqapkqgyjn5zhlpzrjsmiu63apj2psvea@jpeg)
March 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Huge tariffs, likely to cause economic havoc in the United States are a “flex”? What kind of headline is this? Once again, it is a framing along the lines that the White House communications team would put out there.
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Andrew Cuomo’s comeback from what seemed like a set of career-ending scandals is one sign of the weird amnesia that some Americans have about the recent past, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
The Great Forgetting
Andrew Cuomo has come back from scandals once seen as career-ending.
www.theatlantic.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future."
- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020
www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...
- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020
www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...
March 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future."
- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020
www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...
- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020
www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...
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I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.
March 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.
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Andrew Cuomo's 20-page 'affordability plan' for New York City has precisely two pages on housing: Come for the taking credit for 421-a (no mention of letting it die), stay for extending the property tax cap to New York City homeowners -- drive.google.com/file/d/1HyUV...
The Crisis of Affordability in New York City .pdf
drive.google.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Andrew Cuomo's 20-page 'affordability plan' for New York City has precisely two pages on housing: Come for the taking credit for 421-a (no mention of letting it die), stay for extending the property tax cap to New York City homeowners -- drive.google.com/file/d/1HyUV...
Should have named it "Whiteboard"
February 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Should have named it "Whiteboard"
I'm writing a thing and it just struck me that this is almost the same trajectory that modern Republicans have followed in regard to global warming.
one under-appreciated (by lay audiences) aspect of slaveholder ideology, in fact, is how it transitioned from "isn't it kind of fucked up that we own people" to "owning people fucking rules"
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm writing a thing and it just struck me that this is almost the same trajectory that modern Republicans have followed in regard to global warming.
REBNY seeking sectoral coalition in its recognition of mutual interest. University presidents could draw some lessons.
The prospect of steep cuts to federal housing assistance is creating an unlikely alliance in New York City: Tenant advocates and the Real Estate Board of New York, whose members include developers close to President Trump.
Uncertainty over federal cuts to NYC housing forges unlikely allies
City leaders and housing groups plan to focus on how cuts would not only affect people directly benefiting from assistance, but also the entire economy.
gothamist.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
REBNY seeking sectoral coalition in its recognition of mutual interest. University presidents could draw some lessons.