Tom Strand
@tomstrand.bsky.social
a man of limited talents from a small town
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
ugh Neal Katyal is representing the businesses opposing Trump’s tariffs???
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
ugh Neal Katyal is representing the businesses opposing Trump’s tariffs???
We saw this yesterday at Angelika Film Center. Great film. Highly recommend.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We saw this yesterday at Angelika Film Center. Great film. Highly recommend.
the new Indian sandwich shop in West Village is 💯
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
the new Indian sandwich shop in West Village is 💯
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If you're not reading the New York Times you're missing out
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you're not reading the New York Times you're missing out
this is how @scottjshapiro.bsky.social responds to most of my arguments
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
this is how @scottjshapiro.bsky.social responds to most of my arguments
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NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland.
In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland.
In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
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Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
considering framing this
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
considering framing this
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CBS NEWS: Huge story out of New York is the surprise victory and upset win in Sunday’s marathon.
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
CBS NEWS: Huge story out of New York is the surprise victory and upset win in Sunday’s marathon.
I don’t care who Chuck voted for; I need to know who Joe and Eileen Bailey voted for!!
For anyone in NYC waiting to hear who Chuck Schumer voted for to see how to vote, apparently he isn’t saying so you’ll just have to pick for yourself.
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I don’t care who Chuck voted for; I need to know who Joe and Eileen Bailey voted for!!
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Don't know the cause, but...the 2019 shutdown ended when only TEN air traffic controllers refused to work. They can continue to get off their rocks firing federal bureaucrats, and Mike Johnson can go on TV and play disappointed dad all he wants: the GOP aren't bigger than the free flow of capital.
My partner saw a giant black plume drifting over our neighborhood here in Louisville. Five minutes later, a shelter-in-place warning went off on our phones.
A UPS cargo plane crashed. At least 3 people are dead, if not more. The air smells horrible, and big pieces of ash are falling in my yard.
A UPS cargo plane crashed. At least 3 people are dead, if not more. The air smells horrible, and big pieces of ash are falling in my yard.
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Don't know the cause, but...the 2019 shutdown ended when only TEN air traffic controllers refused to work. They can continue to get off their rocks firing federal bureaucrats, and Mike Johnson can go on TV and play disappointed dad all he wants: the GOP aren't bigger than the free flow of capital.
I’ve been up since 3 AM but still going to election watch party tonight
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’ve been up since 3 AM but still going to election watch party tonight
I was in line for ~40 minutes and two people heckled the line during that time (both telling people to vote for Cuomo)
quite a long line at my early voting location
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I was in line for ~40 minutes and two people heckled the line during that time (both telling people to vote for Cuomo)
quite a long line at my early voting location
November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
quite a long line at my early voting location
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Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.
I was picking up exams this morning at the university printing services and they had a massive fake rat right inside the door. Got me lmao 🐀 👻
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was picking up exams this morning at the university printing services and they had a massive fake rat right inside the door. Got me lmao 🐀 👻
Rashid Khalidi this evening finishing the fifth and final lecture of his public ‘Short Course on Palestine’ at the People’s Forum
so grateful to live in nyc
so grateful to live in nyc
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Rashid Khalidi this evening finishing the fifth and final lecture of his public ‘Short Course on Palestine’ at the People’s Forum
so grateful to live in nyc
so grateful to live in nyc
Instead of trying to automate legal reasoning or whatever, @scottjshapiro.bsky.social should’ve just started a Chotiner interview survival consultancy
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Instead of trying to automate legal reasoning or whatever, @scottjshapiro.bsky.social should’ve just started a Chotiner interview survival consultancy
Chotiner claims another victim.
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Chotiner claims another victim.
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New publication from me, in a special issue on Buchanan and public debt. I look at Buchanan and two other early critics of Hansen and Lerner and talk about how their close familiarity with the Southern public debt experience made "we owe it to ourselves" tough to take seriously.
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New publication from me, in a special issue on Buchanan and public debt. I look at Buchanan and two other early critics of Hansen and Lerner and talk about how their close familiarity with the Southern public debt experience made "we owe it to ourselves" tough to take seriously.
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages