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Jake Anbinder

@jakeanbinder.bsky.social
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ACLS Leading Edge Fellow @equitablegrowth.bsky.social. Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). U.S. historian and Visiting Scholar at Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Data centers, not long ago just the vague description for a network of massive structures needed for an emerging industry, are now the subject of the 'NIMBY' rallying cry." poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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Generic Ballot For Control Of U.S. House: Dems 51%, GOP 39%, Dem Party Ahead On Key Issues, Boosted By Independents, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 71% Prefer Candidates Who Support St...
"A warning light flashing red for the GOP scrambling to stay in power. From the economy to international conflicts to AI, independent voters are siding with Democrats, even though a vast majority of t...
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Delighted to announce I have started a new role as @acls1919.bsky.social Leading Edge Fellow and Manager of Academic Engagement and Impact at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did you know: cities used to have balloons that would just follow children to school, until General Motors bought all the balloons and scrapped them
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Curry truly a Bay Area type of guy: moved there after college and under no circumstances will he ever leave
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Richard Scarry predicted this
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
something you realize if you spend any time in online comment sections is a substantial number of people are completely unable to conceptualize historical changes in purchasing power
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“No I said ‘Union Bomber.’ Union. U-N-I—yes I know I know.”
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
can't believe the car that runs on millions of tiny explosions transmitting energy through a complex series of oily metal parts doesn't last as long as the one that's four wheels attached to a battery
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The only thing I’ll say about the Globe story is you encounter a lot of businesses in Ithaca that don’t seem particularly interested in making money and more often than not they convince you that the profit motive is not the worst thing in the world
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TIL the NYU Department of Politics is endowed by the Wilf family who are best known for owning the Minnesota Vikings, which leads me to conclude the Wilfs just like giving money to purple things?
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the weirder internet myths is that the Oklahoma panhandle exists because Texas ceded it in order to keep slavery legal, and it's weird because it requires knowing several different things about the sectional crisis but kind of mashing them together incorrectly
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have the same esteem for Zojirushi as a brand that our parents' generation once had for General Electric
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
you just don't get it. transplants are bad, unless they are immigrants in which case they are good, unless they work for tech in which case they are bad, unless their work involves content creation in which case they are good, unless the content creation involves AI in which case they are bad
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mamdani obviously a skilled politician but it certainly helps re. his relationship with Trump that their pools of potential voters have little overlap. Mamdani lost independents. Mayor is basically the highest level of office where that can be the case and you can still win.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was a virtually certain outcome of the 2023-2024 discourse that revealed substantial differences among disciplines on whether borrowing text that other people wrote still counts as original scholarship
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not to harp on this but can you imagine the reaction from Mamdani’s base if, say, a New York Times editorial said this
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"criterion collection"...don't you just mean criteria?
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“it just means more”
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Surprised no state has decided to borrow from Brunei and use the nickname Abode of Peace. Would look sick on a license plate.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I identify intrinsically with Josh Allen as someone who lived in Laramie, Wyoming, yearning for something more and that something turned out to be upstate New York
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Marcy Kaptur did something I don't like" ah you sweet summer child, I see you are new to knowing who Marcy Kaptur is
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine telling someone in 2016 that a decade in the future of Brady, Belichick, and Kraft it would be Brady who enjoyed by far the best public reputation
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I like the implication that the second charity supports mediocre tennis players
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
if your Bo be Nix, he be throwing some picks if your Bo be French, he be emitting a stench
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People are saying Canada will join with the EU for the political ties, but it's clearly because of the EU's lucrative TV contracts and historical reputation with the bowl selection committee
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❗New Article❗ The Great American Property Tax Freakout! Since 2024, many states have radically reshaped their property tax systems.The changes are an example of a national trend of carving out influential groups from taxation, in this case a majority group: homeowners papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Great American Property Tax Freak Out
There has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's absolutely true and much of it is downstream of changes in the way politicians interact with the press
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Brings me no pleasure to admit that the Giants beating the Cowboys in week 1 feels as good if not better than the Knicks championship
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No symbolism there, no sir
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Death, taxes, and Oregon being over-ranked
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is essentially history right
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Francis “Fukuyama” Tiafoe
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
incidentally the "were Americans united after 9/11" debate is a good illustration of the limits of oral history
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There’s been so much increase in cost of living since the ‘90s, people forget we used to fund the entire public school system with cereal box fragments
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know the poli sci job market is in decline too but TIL that some departments have a "placement director" which is completely inconceivable in history at this point.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I like when the TikTok comment section nostalgia gets so unhinged that it just starts describing things one could do today
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Didn’t Christine Todd Whitman get in trouble for the 9/11 air quality stuff like 20 years ago?
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Champaign wishes and Urbana dreams
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Power Broker: this is an intricate portrayal of one man's mastery of power and bureaucracy reader: wow, sounds great TPB: he remade the cityscape in his image and forever affected the way we live reader: amazing, let's go TPB: ok, so the key thing to start with is, he was not circumcised
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Did you know it is New York law that no less than 70% of the teachers at your kid’s preschool must be named Becca
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It brings me no pleasure to announce that in the extended universe of "The Wire" Nicky Sobokta is arrested at the capitol on J6
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The thing I really don't get about the notion of there being an era of "millennial optimism" is our formative years were conditioned by the worst financial crisis in a century
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🤔
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labor historians had a whole field and they just tweeted it out
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bizarrohran
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
lolsob
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
meanwhile, the most heated the US history jobs wiki got in recent years was when someone suggested it was bad form that a department hired one of its own graduates
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
he thinks too much like a lawyer to win the presidency
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Scion xB was my go-to Zipcar to move stuff in and out of my dorm
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
those old enough to remember Arlen Specter know that it's actually Pennsylvania law that they must have one senator where you're like "hmm what is his deal"
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