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David Huyssen

@davidhuyssen.bsky.social
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Historian (political economy, class, culture), writer, editor, teacher. Author of: www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isb…

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026
On this week's Hell Gate Podcast, Nick discusses his new reporting on how NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch keeps transferring cops with misconduct on their records to the NYPD's most problematic and secretive unit. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXc...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 23/09/2026
Sad/funny/predictable to see the FT deploy the Corbyn playbook against the only party chalking up wins against the far right.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/09/2026
Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.
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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm guessing we can still depend on mainstream news outlets to cast GOP candidates as fiscal hawks while peppering progressives with "pay-for" questions about their bleeding heart proposals to keep electrical grids from failing or bridges from collapsing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms
In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress. The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.
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Aaron Jakes @aaronjakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wrote for @nplusonemag about Angela Buchdahl, head rabbi of the synagogue in which I was raised, and her role in helping to lead the Reform Jewish movement toward a seemingly limitless accommodation with the political right in both Israel and the US. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...
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The Right Reform Rabbi | Aaron Jakes
When Buchdahl professes that she can understand “how even white men in America are feeling,” she unwittingly reveals a structuring affinity between the politics of white reaction and her own anti-anti...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For years the far-right sets the discursive agenda & the mainstream endorses it by promising better 'solutions' for the same 'issues'. It does not take long until a fascist solution is preferred for dealing with what is nothing but a fascist problem.
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Aunty Em 💅 @unhingedauntyem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Louder for the people in the back
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles
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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The dream of "be your own boss" meets the reality of "be your own scab." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...
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Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty (Gift Article)
To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors.
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm begging people to realize that since Irish & Germans immigrants in 1840s, there has always been attempts to say the current wave of recent immigrants are unassimilable and prone to crime--and fighting petty crime necessitates deportations and immigration restrictions. I wrote a book about it:
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Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York
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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
NYC political organizer extraordinaire, Alex Marinides, laying out how talking and, more importantly, listening to people in person is key to building democratic power. jacobin.com/2026/07/demo...
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Socialists Are Winning Using Old-Fashioned Democratic Means
Too many explanations of socialist electoral victories have ignored the democratic politics at the heart of the socialist movement today: employing many volunteers to engage face-to-face with voters a...
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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 22/07/2026
🕘 Retour sur l’année du Collège de France !  ⚒️ « L’idée de #socialisme moral » 🖥️ Découvrez la leçon inaugurale de Lea Ypi, professeure invitée sur la chaire annuelle L’invention de l’#Europe par les langues et les #cultures ! 👉 f.mtr.cool/sojvuptgic
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/07/2026
#OtD 14 Jul 1970 the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital's main administrative building in response to New York City's indifference to the needs of Puerto Ricans and African Americans in the South Bronx and the hospital's deplorable conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8579...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:
Cecelia Humiston, 22, lives on Chapel Street. She was asleep with her two-year-old son when she woke up to the sounds of a commotion on surrounding streets.

When she went to investigate, she saw what appeared to be a person lying on the ground on Pool Street.

She remembers hearing an older woman with a distressed family, yelling, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

“They were with a little girl, she couldn't have been older than three,” Humiston said. “She was still in her Bluey pajamas.”

Humiston described law enforcement as “rude,” and said they barricaded family’s car from leaving. Another yelled at the little girl, who was trying to smell flowers.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Mamdani wants to make it easier for consumers to cancel gym memberships and magazine subscriptions…so, just like Trump’s authoritarian overreach.
But the appearance of overreach could also spook the business community, much of which is still uncertain about Mr. Mamdani. It could also invite comparisons to other executives, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom Mr. Mamdani has cited approvingly, and President Trump, whose Justice Department has aggressively pushed the limits of the law in seeking to achieve the White House's agenda.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/07/2026
In New York City, if you break our worker protection laws and shortchange your workers, we will make you pay back what you owe.
Yesterday, we recovered $2.3M for 1,600 workers from Walgreens, Calzedonia, and Kinship Coffee. Since January, we have recovered more than $10 million for New York City workers. Because our City is not a billionaire's playground.
New Yorkers have the right to a regular schedule and protected time off. If your employer violates our laws, file a complaint at nyc.gov/workers and we will fight to put money back in your pocket.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 03/07/2026
So Isabella Weber was right, and all the serious economists who lost their minds over her were wrong? Got it.
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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It’s all so brazen.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026
The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.
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U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments
The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Some very smart observations from the very smart Michael Kinnucan in this week’s New York City primaries. (thread, all quotes from him)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
With the rent freeze achieved, this excellent @jwmason.bsky.social piece is more urgent and illuminating than ever. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
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After the Rent Freeze | JW Mason
The cost of affordable housing in New York City
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026
in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As we all know, getting a degree means you’re no longer black. The only way to count as black is if you don’t take jobs white people think only white people should be able to get bsky.app/profile/edro...
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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If only there were any prominent Republicans producing social media posts that say anything as inflammatory as “all deportations are wrong.”
From NYT: Democrats aligned with Mr. Jeffries, who fought hard to defeat Ms. Avila Chevalier, have privately raised concerns about her victory in particular. They fear that Republicans will weaponize a trove of her inflammatory_old social media posts, including her saying that "all deportations are wrong" and using crude language about Kamala Harris, against more moderate Democrats running in swing districts that will decide the fate of the House this fall.”
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Despite bad-faith accusations of antisemitism, Mamdani and Lander’s joint campaign is one of the most prominent examples of Jewish-Muslim solidarity in the US in recent memory.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
But I was told it was inevitable.
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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...
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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Went to the Rent Guidelines Board hearing on the Upper West Side yesterday evening and stayed for the first hour. The support for “Freeze the Rent” was tepid. The calls for “Rent Rollback” were thunderous.
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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is a thread that ed policy people should read, and sit with.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly. newrepublic.com/article/2115...
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How Gordon S. Wood Shaped the Idea of America
The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
HELL YEA
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...
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“The Most Awful Scenes”: The Tulsa Massacre and Racist Violence in the Yiddish Press | In geveb
Uri Schreter traces attitudes about race in the United States evident in Yiddish newspapers' coverage of the Tulsa massacre — often simultaneously denouncing th
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There is too much focus on Musk and too little focus on how British politics and media have created the conditions for the pogroms in Belfast. Yes, Musk and X should face consequences but it‘s too easy the externalize the reasons for an empowered far right.
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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @iliasalami.bsky.social and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I had the great pleasure of reviewing @dygottlieb.bsky.social’s excellent new book YUPPIES for @newrepublic.com, AND I also had the great pleasure of meeting Dylan at the American Political History Conference last weekend. Congrats again, Dylan! 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/2112...
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The End of the Yuppie Dream
The urban professionals who transformed American cities and tastes and pulled the Democratic Party to the right are a dying breed.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Ah but you see strangers on the internet told me no landlord would do this gothamist.com/news/57000-r...
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57,000 rent-stabilized apartments sat empty in NYC, housing agency says
The new tally constitutes about 6% of the city’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This produces losses that Bezos uses to offset his income and lower his federal income tax bill. In other words, you and I are subsidizing this.
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