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Joel Steven Kuszai

@anonstuniva.bsky.social
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Baseball optimist #LGM Blog: Beyond the Valley of Ashes - anonstuniva.substack.com More about me: cuny.is/kuszai

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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 30m
Spent half of my life in university towns, and as a student and youngin around the housing cooperative scene in places like East Lansing, Madison, and Ann Arbor. Many these big beautiful houses on the lake, or on so-called frat-row, were converted greek fraternity and sorority houses. Just sayin-
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A trip to Montgomery, Alabama, with colleagues from Queensborough Community College changed my life and the course of my research. anonstuniva.substack.com/p/an-unboxin...
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An Unboxing of Ghosts
For my sister Christine (1964-2024) who first showed me the “unseen threads”
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My sister passed away two years ago today. For most of that time, I've been struggling with what I discuss in this piece. The sky opened today and I was able to finish something I needed to say. anonstuniva.substack.com/p/an-unboxin...
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An Unboxing of Ghosts
For my sister Christine (1964-2024) who first showed me the “unseen threads”
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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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CUNY Beyond education and career initiative expanded to two Queens colleges, directly connecting students with job opportunities – QNS
CUNY Beyond, an initiative that directly connects students with career opportunities, has been expanded to two Queens college campuses as the public
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
which of Harvey’s cabinet was a leader of a local kluzkluck unit is teased here anonstuniva.substack.com/p/hillside-t...
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Hillside Temple
Once the home of Jamaica 41
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Even while I have three unfinished longer pieces, I wrote this this morning after a walk late yesterday. In my head, I've already moved onto mapping and exploring where they lived. anonstuniva.substack.com/p/hillside-t...
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Hillside Temple
Once the home of Jamaica 41
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Poetics Program at University at Buffalo is officially graveyard dead. Another case of administrations turning what had been a strength in the humanities into a smoking crater. To do it, UB liquidated several chairs in ways I suspect violated donor agreements. RIP big weird angsty thing.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
South Jamaica was centered there. On Merrick, New York Blvd and Sutphin. Douglas was one of the busiest streets in all Jamaica. It had more houses at the turn of the century. By the time the 1940s tax photos were taken, most of the houses were taken for the industrial corridor it has been since
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I used to joke about a Klan walking tour but now, with the time axis exposed like a glacial lake that suddenly reveals what it has taken, all that is now visible if you look. The old South Road, like the short road called Douglas Ave, was where the Green stood.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No street has erased more history than Liberty Ave in Jamaica. That section was known as South Road, and to the north of it and south of the tracks was The Green. A freedmen’s village, the last traces of it were gone by the time they drew up the first maps. Likely it was always already unmapped
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Go to where the Raunt was, get on the water where it once stood. Tell me that despite the vast absence nothing is there.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In my ten year exploration of the old Fourth Ward in Queens, I have reached the point where it is no longer possible to deny that the past doesnt survive, embedded in the present
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thinking about 21st Century psychogeography really has to engage the possibilities of how modern explorers might engage the time axis
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Someone asked about Flushing, so I added information that I have about Flushing No. 36. I had neglected to do so in this major update of the list of KKK chapters in New York.
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Some Klan Meeting Locations (mostly Queens and Long Island)
An update to the List of Klan Units in New York State 1921-1946
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I updated the list of NYS Klan Units 1921-1946 and included information I have about meeting locations, mostly in Queens and Long Island open.substack.com/pub/anonstun...
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
checking where SunRa is I accidentally fell into the pit of hell where an aging David Brooks is given the last word on Jesse Jackson on what's left of PBS NewsHour
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The mass adoption of AI in schools and universities threatens to render what they think moot
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 30/01/2026
MAYOR MAMDANI: "Albany's decisions shape what the city can do " ZOHRANESE TRANSLATION: "Do everything you can to pressure your state reps—esp. Gov Hochul—to tax the rich." Action items: 1️⃣ Join an @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social canvass / phone bank 2️⃣ Support @delgadoforny.bsky.social in the primary.
Screenshot from the video showing Zohran speaking with an image of New York State to the side. The subtitles show him saying, "because Albany's decisions shape what the city can do."
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@ilhanmn.bsky.social is a contribution to your reelection campaign the best way to support your work and needs for added security?
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 15/01/2026
Three questions for Grace Meng (NY-06), from challenger @chuckforqueens.bsky.social: 1️⃣ Will you publicly retract your support for ICE? 2️⃣ Will you join the next peaceful action against ICE? 3️⃣ Will you call to abolish ICE?
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Considering how many have called for raising taxes for the rich, this framing ("if Mamdani gets his way") seems designed just to make him look like a big, bad Socialist mastermind. Nope, he's just trying to fulfill the will of the people.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.david4queens.com
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David Orkin for Queens
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Woodhaven (Queens) folk: Sunday is the campaign kickoff event in Woodhaven for DSA-endorsed candidate for NYS Assembly District 38 David Orkin. Don't miss it! Now is our chance! More info in comments secure.actblue.com/donate/dwq-l...
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RSVP to David for Queens’ Woodhaven Campaign Launch
RSVP to David for Queens’ Woodhaven Campaign Launch
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 22/12/2025
Southeast Queens is too often neglected by the Left, but change is coming here too—through Oster Bryan. I've known Oster since 2017. For decades, he's been rooted in principled Leftist + Black liberationist struggle. Friends, please join me in becoming a Day-1 supporter of @osterforus.bsky.social.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I saw that @socialists.nyc is considering endorsing David Orkin, formerly of CUNY Clear and a lawyer at Make the Road, for District 38 NYS Assembly. I live in this district and a challenger is sorely needed to un-elect one of the most useless elected officials in American history
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 17/12/2025
@votejgr.bsky.social is WFP's first state senate primary endorsement for 2026. SD-13 is a battleground between the Left and the neoliberal establishment. JGR is committed to co-governing with the organized Left. Donate link: secure.actblue.com/donate/jgr2026
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Donate to Jessica González-Rojas
Show your support with a contribution.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
When is that casino coming? Only 3 years until the Juan Soto opt-out drama begins #SotoOptOut #CasinoSteve
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
independents rate him lowest 😂
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I’d say the space was already full but agree
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Mets fans should listen to Joe Benigno, what he has to say about the sketchy owner of the #Mets. Everyone else already knows all this..starts at hour 2, so 4pm. www.audacy.com/stations/wfa...
audacy.com
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It’s public employee compliance training season but this year the scene and the script are different
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 05/12/2025
So true. I'd just add: the ascent in influence—from the lowest rung on the proverbial ladder of engagement to the many of the most powerful organizational roles in the city—is much flatter than many tend to assume. But the catch, and the key, is to engage consistently and as part of an organization.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I don't know retiring CUNY Vice Chancellor Jeff Rodus, but I much appreciate what he says to NYC Council Higher Ed Committee Chair Eric Dinowitz about paid internships and faculty sovereignty over curriculum. Happy Thanksgiving to VC Rodus and happy retirement, too! youtu.be/phPRRv8B9y4
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CUNY Vice Chancellor Jeff Rodus goes out with a bang
YouTube video by J Kuszai
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
uh oh
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I don't know but where I come from, if you act alone you are not a leftist, regardless of what you believe.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Jonathan C @jonathancornick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
"We're building this plane as we fly it" - @sarahchinn.bsky.social Join us and have a real say in developing strategy and actions. @cadhe.bsky.social Tell your #CUNY and #SUNY affiliated friends. Parents, alumni, teachers, NY State faculty.... #CADHE #CUNY #SUNY #MADC cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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Jonathan C @jonathancornick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Follow us: @cadhe.bsky.social then read what we do and how to join us: cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
Acyn
@Acyn
X.com
RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Health & Human Services Secretary
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From CSPAN
C-SPANG*
15:04 • 8/27/25
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
So you’re telling me it’s common in Chinese culture to gift cash to reporters but no one knew about this until @katiehonan.bsky.social got one? 😂
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mrspanstreppon @jamiepeppard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” Abbie Hoffman Fuck you, Miller. Us old white hippies are out here rocking & rolling with nothing left to lose. Discount our institutional knowledge at your own peril.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
People lol @ tabloids &fer good reason incl the New York Evening Graphic, published by Bernarr McFadden "Physical Culture" founder. I saw the Graphic, which launched Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan, described as the "pornoGraphic" but know also that FH LaGuardia ghost wrote for it while in congress
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Jonathan C @jonathancornick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
#MADC
nytimes.com
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
100 years ago a violent and racist fraternity could give a flag to a school and everyone would have to drop everything to acknowledge it in a ceremony.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I love that Queensborough Community College (where I teach) is a sponsor of the #Mets broadcasts on @snytv.bsky.social . These broadcasts are picked up internationally through the @mlb.com app. They aren't running ads: the college is mentioned by Gary, Keith & Ron during broadcasts. 🔥🔥🔥
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A right-wing lunatic from the Five Towns placed IEDs in Manhattan and on a subway line after tagging the president in a tweet about bombing New York City. The Post (predictably) and Times do not feel that these are details that their readers should know. Weird! www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me...
techargeaole nal gun to shoot into steal.
3. On or about March 27, 2025, MICHAEL GANN, the defendant, posted the
following message on X and tagged @POTUS, the official X account for the President of the United States: "Dear @POTUS, I'm thinking just now here in NYC that it's too bad that the wall
wasn't built before the National Guard would have to come here for the Protests and Riotation or would you just drop a bomb on this place while and because they seem to be coming and coming?"
4. On or about June 5, 2025-just hours before MICHAEL GANN, the defendant,
was arrested with one of the IEDs on his person GANN posted the below message to Instagram:
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
One of the brothers who joined the Klan from Woodhaven lived in the neighborhood until 1971, the other moved up to Vermont perhaps in the 1940s. I'm looking at these people for a technical research-oriented reason, as there are hundreds of people from Woodhaven and Richmond Hill who joined.
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The grandson looks nice and is around our age.
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