Mark Rice

@markricehistory.bsky.social

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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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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 3h

Make a Bond movie academic:

Dr. No, Not Mr. No

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Make a Bond movie academic

Tenure is Forever

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15h

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 4h

Basically half of the male characters in any Vargas Llosa novel (some of which have entire plot points about extortionary prostitution networks).

Reposted by Mark Rice, Aviel Roshwald

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Make a Bond movie academic

Tenure is Forever

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15h

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 19h

Make a Bond movie causal

The World is an Insufficient, but Necessary, Part of an Unnecessary, but Sufficient, Condition

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

ICE agents spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves.

A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused. trib.al/FwqJZki

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

merry Christmas everyone

zeteo.com/p/trump-nige...

Trump Bombed Nigeria for Christmas, Went on Fascist Online Posting Spree

The president also spent some of the Christian holiday drawing further attention to his Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

zeteo.com

Reposted by Mark Rice, Jeannette Sutton

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 4h

From a recent interview with the eminent social scientist Theda Skocpol
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

TS: Well, let’s talk about what Trump II quickly turned into. The one thing I didn’t anticipate was the huge — absolutely outsized and quick — infusion of money into ICE, and the ability to turn ICE and the Border Patrol—actually the Border Patrol more, because the Border Patrol is now taking over—into a secret police operation. I reread what I wrote, and I said he would pardon the January 6th people, and they would be recruited to these organizations. And I think that’s exactly what’s going on. So it’s a secret police operation, and I don’t think we’ve seen anything like the full extent of its deployment. And that is terrifying.

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Micah Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

Is it possible that the instability and (gestures broadly) loss-of-luster we have experienced over the last 10-15 years is the result of widespread access to specialized knowledge (INCLUSIVE OF ALL SHORTCOMINGS!) without normal prerequisites thanks to the world wide web? Keep reading as I muse 1/? 🗃️

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Will Jennings, Jon Green , and 7 more Anna O. Law, Will Jennings, Jon Green, Edgar Morgenroth, Aaron Sojourner, Nazita Lajevardi, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 10h

The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.

Reposted by Mark Rice, David Darmofal

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21h

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Reposted by David R. Miller, Mark Rice, Manisha Sinha

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21h

Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.

Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Steve Peers, Mark Rice , and 3 more Anna O. Law, Steve Peers, Mark Rice, Catherine J. Frieman, Klaus Oschema, David Lay Williams

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

www.publicbooks.org

Reposted by Mark Rice

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2d

The Erika Kirk townhall was:

A. more legwork
B. unexpected stories
C. overlooked topics
D. all of the above

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Reposted by Peter Thorne, David Rosnick, Mark Rice , and 1 more Peter Thorne, David Rosnick, Mark Rice, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

“Like prime, but with human beings”

A box car used in the holocaust to transport human beings to the camps.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Kristina McElheran

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses

The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Eric Goldman, Gernot Wagner , and 7 more Anna O. Law, Eric Goldman, Gernot Wagner, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Bessma Momani, Mark Rice, Manisha Sinha, Andrew Perchard

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

newrepublic.com

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Mark Rice

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Kash Patel made the FBI buy a custom fleet of armored BMW X5 for him to ride around in. trib.al/9pBbwTB

Patel’s FBI spokesperson claimed—without evidence—that this is actually saving the American taxpayer money. The standard version of the X5 costs about $70,000.

Reposted by Roger A. Pielke, John McLaren, Philip N. Cohen , and 12 more Roger A. Pielke, John McLaren, Philip N. Cohen, Paul E. Johnson, Juan Cole, Smith, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Els Torreele, Brian Keegan, Aurélien Mondon, Mark Rice, Richard M. Carpiano, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:

⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year

Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

I think the only way this wasn’t going to be a big thing is if Trump were smart enough to not hire people (like Bondi) who were loudly promising to expose Epstein collaborators (like him!)

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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 2d

This image will always stick with me. (And the name…)

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers , and 8 more Joanna Bryson, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, David H. Kaye, Fabián Muniesa, Robert C. Richards, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Kate Starbird, Victor Pickard, Mark Rice, Juanjo Medina

Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 3d

In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...

Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State

The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....

www.state.gov

Reposted by Steve Peers, Victor Pickard, Mark Rice

Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 3d

Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan

Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy

www.theguardian.com

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 3d

Yo sé que no es el argumento central del libro de Asensio “El Terremoto de Cusco” pero me encanta esta anécdota…

…y quiero tomar lo que mezclaban en los cocktails del Country Club de Lima en 1949!

Texto del libro, El Terremoto de Cusco, de Raúl Asensio, “…en noviembre de 1949 en el Country Club de Lima en honor de una delegación Argentina. Tomato por sorrows a sus invitatados, in alto functionaries peruano concluyó su discursive con un estentóreo llamado à la unidad antiimperialista: Perón en el Atlántico y Odría en el Pacífico pondrían fin à la usura de los Estados Unidos.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, David S. Cohen, Aaron Sojourner , and 4 more Linda J. Skitka, David S. Cohen, Aaron Sojourner, Stephen J. Ware, Michael Jones‐Correa, Mark Rice, Nathan Richardson

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 3d

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Reposted by Mark Rice

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3d

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

www.brennancenter.org

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 11 more Marc Lynch, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, Fabián Muniesa, Daniel W. Drezner, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Michael Jones‐Correa, Kate Starbird, Alfie Kohn, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Jack Stilgoe, David Darmofal

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Benjamin Mason Meier, Eric Goldman , and 10 more Axel Bruns, Benjamin Mason Meier, Eric Goldman, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jacob T. Levy, James Goodwin, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Greg Linden, Charles T. Mathewes, Farah Mendlesohn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Stuart Shapiro

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 3d

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

www.nytimes.com

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 3d

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Mark Rice

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'

A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...

abc7chicago.com

Reposted by Edgar Morgenroth, Gerald Friedman, Mark Rice , and 3 more Edgar Morgenroth, Gerald Friedman, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Colin Woodard, David Darmofal

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3d

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020

'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Reposted by Tom Clark, Eric Goldman, Alan Richardson , and 9 more Tom Clark, Eric Goldman, Alan Richardson, Stephen Ryan, Peter Jacobsen, Mark Rice, Andrew Rudalevige, Richard M. Carpiano, Simon Lester, Joanna L. Grossman, Nicole Guenther Discenza, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."

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