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Claudia Calhoon
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Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC.
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A Zohran Mamdani style political poster that says Retirement for Chuck Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Omg I cannot with these people and their Dems in Disarray nonsense.
The Democrats Just Took a Big Step Toward Getting Their Groove Back Victories in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere were decisive, but new political tests loom for a party still rebuilding its brand.
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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The accuracy here is uncomfortable.
Headline: Costumes to scare scientists. Six drawings of Halloween costumes with figures wearing a board and saying something. 1) yellow rectangle “a grant proposal due tomorrow” saying “I still need a Gantt chart” 2) orange circle “unaccounted for variable” saying “you can’t catch me” 3) blue rectangle “unfinished manuscript” saying “it’s me your thesis” 4) ivory square “reviewer 2” saying “you should be ashamed” 5) green circle “p>.01” saying “I’m insignificant” and 6) a grey headstone “your imposter syndrome made flesh” saying “they know”
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Beautiful day for poll visibility lets freaking go #zohran #mamdani #wfp
A stack of Working Families Party literature with a backdrop of trees w autumn leaves.
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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A protest sign with a stylized image of of a frog with a blue bandana around its neck that reads “Ribbit. Resist. Repeat. No hope without Hop”
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Could we NOT get Dem establishment consultant-approved messages that promise “try this one simple trick to save democracy” please and thank you?
Text message that reads: “MIRACLE IN CALIFORNIA. Experts just revealed: If this one thing passes, Dems win the House and Trump is TOAST! WOW: ammar-ca.com/l/0H8yJw AFC Quit2End”
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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All summer I’ve had this low level ambient broadcasting noise outside my window and kept wondering who is watching tv in the alley. Today i finally investigated. On one hand this is super annoying but on the other, respect to this dude for making summer work in NYC for him 🗽 🍎 🏝️
A man on an nineteen eighties-style apartment balcony with a beach umbrella wedged between his chair and the railing, watches a small tv that is bolted to the brick exterior wall.
September 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Say what you want about Bluesky but the idea I “shrunk my audience” is not borne out by the data here. I feel like by 7-fold increase in 2 years suggests kinda the opposite.
X/Twitter profile of Claudia Calhoon: “Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC. @claudiacalhoon .bsky.social New York, NYJoined March 2013 2,121 Following 704 Followers” Bluesky profile of Claudia Calhoon “Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC. @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social New York, NY 4.2k Following 9,4k Followers
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Cruelty plus incompetence, classic Trumpist mashup
Charles Kuck, an immigration attorney at Kuck Baxter in Atlanta, represents 11 individuals arrested in the raid and pieced together what happened at the facility. ICE did not bring Korean language interpreters—proof Koreans were not the intended target—but managed to determine that the South Koreans at the facility entered on B-1 visas or the Electronic System for Travel Authorization known as ESTA. “Not thinking that B-1 and ESTA allow ‘after-sales service and installation,’ which is what the Koreans were doing in setting up the equipment to make the batteries at the facility, ICE agents decided on the spot to arrest all the South Korean workers,” said Kuck in an interview. One of Kuck’s South Korean clients had just arrived the night before and was sitting in a conference room in a business suit, attending a meeting, when arrested by ICE.
September 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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An outdoor stage at night surrounded by pine trees and flanked by an illuminated castle with giant red letters that read “what you will”
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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My mom, Doris, would have been 91 today and I’m honoring her by waiting for tickets to Twelfth Night with Shakespeare in the Park.
A walking path in Central Park and a line of seated people with umbrellas
September 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I’m sorry wtf is this headline
A NYT headline that reads Snubbing Kennedy, States Say They Will Offer Their Own Vaccine Guidance California, Oregon and Washington said they would work together to review scientific data, saying the C.D.C. could no longer be trusted. But Florida said it would abolish all vaccine mandates.
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Late afternoon visit to Long Beach, New York
A beach at sunset photographs from a boardwalk with sunset peeking out from behind apartment buildings and deep green sand dunes and purply blue ocean
August 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Sunset bike ride just to where I could see the Atlantic beyond the Rockaways. 20 miles. If you look closely in the horizon you can eee NYC glittering in the setting sun.
A sweeping horizon of Jamaica Bay and Manhattan at sunset with dramatic cloud formations
August 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This weekend is the pre-semester- loading-into-Brightspace push and we are off to a dubious start. Guess what didn’t meant to do twice.
A cluttered desk with two patterned coffee mugs next to a laptop
August 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The Montreal subway is a freaking delight and that’s all I’ve got to say about that
A dramatic work of fused glass art affixed over a subway tunnel and a blue subway car below it.
August 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Me, yesterday on the streets of Toronto:

It is so nice there are no cyber trucks anywhere

Toronto:
A silver cyber truck turning left at an intersection
August 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Cool cool cool.
A photo of a white man in a military uniform from 1938.
August 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This was a massive visual Cheers reference for those old enough to remember.
A blond woman sits at a bar talking to a white haired bartender in a button down shirt
August 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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@schumer.senate.gov how’s all that alliance building in the gym going?
July 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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If you want to check how well you’re doing on this front

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July 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The answer is 🔥
Seriously, 90% of your problem comes down to “I am narcissistic which probably developed from being socially isolated and alienated all my life and developing a me against the world mentality.” These are the things you should be working on, because I can promise you, women can sense this on you. There’s a lot of entitlement and resentment that’s radiating off you like stink lines off a cartoon character. That’s gonna make sex vanish like it got Thanos-snapped out of existence, no matter how yoked you are.
July 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Happen to be watching the last episodes of the Good Lord Bird with Ethan Hawke about John Browne’s raid at Harper’s Ferry this morning as these SCOTUS decisions are coming down and it is too on the nose about our times for my taste.
Joshua Caleb Johnston portraying Onion and Ethan Hawke as John Browne in the Good Lord Bird
June 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Have these people ever been to NYC? Do they understand how many different tiers of grocery stores we have here? Do they not get that people buy groceries every 2-3 days, wherever is most convenient in the moment whether they are coming from work, staying near home, doing something else?
Screenshot of newspaper piece reading: “Meanwhile, the grocery business operates on thin margins, and his plan for city-run stores would probably lead to fewer options, poor service and shortages, as privately run stores closed rather than try to compete with city-subsidized shops.”
June 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Everyone just needs to calm down.
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal alert that says “The epicenter of global capitalism may soon have a socialist mayor. How Mamdani’s primary win is sending Wall Street into a panic.”
June 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM