Steven Romalewski
@sromalewski.bsky.social
Director, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center. More here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/steven-romalewski Some posts are work-related, some are personal.
Photo credit: Alex Irklievski
Photo credit: Alex Irklievski
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Giovane, in affitto e di ceto medio: le mappe della New York che ha scelto Mamdani
Under 30, in affitto, e di ceto medio. Questo l'identikit approssimativo dell'elettore newyorkese che ha consentito al democratico-socialista Zohran Mamdani
lavocedinewyork.com
La Voce di New York, the "First Italian English Digital Daily in the US", reported on the results of NYC's 2025 mayoral election & made great use of our @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social map: lavocedinewyork.com/new-york/202... Love the main graphic.
Woo hoo!!!
looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
The new mayor is now able to appoint a majority to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him the numbers for a signature campaign promise.
www.thecity.nyc
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Woo hoo!!!
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A great interview of my colleague & journalist Coralie Carlson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Coralie is a recent grad of theCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism! Listen in to our convo on why media literacy & how disinformaition is fluencing our world. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/journal...
A Journalist’s Instincts Power the CUNY Graduate Center’s Social Media
Graduate Center social media coordinator Coralie Carlson reflects on her journalism career, her media literacy teaching, and how both shape her work on “The Thought Project” podcast.
www.gc.cuny.edu
February 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
A great interview of my colleague & journalist Coralie Carlson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Coralie is a recent grad of theCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism! Listen in to our convo on why media literacy & how disinformaition is fluencing our world. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/journal...
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
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That’s what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
That’s what’s up.
The new “smallest violin sad sounds” meme. 💯
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
The new “smallest violin sad sounds” meme. 💯
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Stop having liars on national political talk shows. Why is this so hard??
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Stop having liars on national political talk shows. Why is this so hard??
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Adding a citizenship question serves no purpose except to discourage census participation.
The 14th Amendment says to count everyone. Allowing the ruling party in a census year to change who gets counted would be yet another assault on democracy.
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...
The 14th Amendment says to count everyone. Allowing the ruling party in a census year to change who gets counted would be yet another assault on democracy.
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...
Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census
The Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Adding a citizenship question serves no purpose except to discourage census participation.
The 14th Amendment says to count everyone. Allowing the ruling party in a census year to change who gets counted would be yet another assault on democracy.
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...
The 14th Amendment says to count everyone. Allowing the ruling party in a census year to change who gets counted would be yet another assault on democracy.
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...
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raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
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I don’t consider the Bill of Rights “unrealistic.”
Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic"
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I don’t consider the Bill of Rights “unrealistic.”
Ugh
My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration is proposing to include a U.S. citizenship question in this year's field test of the #2030Census in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps
Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census
The Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Ugh
💯💯💯
TAKE YOUR BACKPACK OFF ON THE SUBWAY
February 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
💯💯💯
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"This is how men behave."
Nope. Don't drag the rest of us into your world, creep.
Nope. Don't drag the rest of us into your world, creep.
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"This is how men behave."
Nope. Don't drag the rest of us into your world, creep.
Nope. Don't drag the rest of us into your world, creep.
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Money can buy happiness. If Elon Musk built a rocket and shot himself into the fucking sun that would generate massive happiness.
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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I mean, how is this even a negotiation. This is just collapsing for absolutely no reason. Have a spine! Just abolish the ICE terrorist organization already. At least demand that.
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I mean, how is this even a negotiation. This is just collapsing for absolutely no reason. Have a spine! Just abolish the ICE terrorist organization already. At least demand that.
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Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."
February 5, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."
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May he be the first of many
Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations
Files released by US Department of Justice detailed his relationship with the child sex offender
ft.trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
May he be the first of many
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People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
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These people are terrorists. Full stop.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
These people are terrorists. Full stop.
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If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s #2030Census field test and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with postal workers, raising concerns about the Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count
A major census test faces cutbacks — with postal workers tapped to help count
The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year's field test of the 2030 census and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff.
www.npr.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s #2030Census field test and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with postal workers, raising concerns about the Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count
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Revised plans for critical 2026 census test raise some 🚩
🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado
🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only)
🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations
Details in 🧵
🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado
🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only)
🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations
Details in 🧵
February 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Revised plans for critical 2026 census test raise some 🚩
🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado
🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only)
🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations
Details in 🧵
🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado
🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only)
🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations
Details in 🧵
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Peter Baker of the NYT can't find it in himself to write "he's mad no one likes him so he'll destroy the place so no one can have it" even though everyone with eyes and a working brain could add this shit up. They think you're stupid.
With ticket sales plummeting and artists pulling out, Trump decides to close the Kennedy Center for two years, promising to renovate it and try again to find an audience and performers when it reopens in 2028.
February 1, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Peter Baker of the NYT can't find it in himself to write "he's mad no one likes him so he'll destroy the place so no one can have it" even though everyone with eyes and a working brain could add this shit up. They think you're stupid.
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The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.
February 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.
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Donald Trump and Ric Grenell want to do to the Kennedy Center what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to do to America: Crush everything about it that is pure and good and remake it in their distorted, hateful image.
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Donald Trump and Ric Grenell want to do to the Kennedy Center what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to do to America: Crush everything about it that is pure and good and remake it in their distorted, hateful image.