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Steven Romalewski

@sromalewski.bsky.social
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Director, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center. More here: www.gc.cuny.edu/people/steven-romal… Some posts are work-related, some are personal. Photo credit: Alex Irklievski

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
The Plot to Enslave America is real and this is it. They're going for it unless we stop them
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 7h
All I can see is the @tomtomorrow.bsky.social caricature (complimentary to Tom Tomorrow).
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is how you write a headline about the Eric Schmitt hearing debacle. @rollingstone.com
MAGA Senator Humiliated After Attempt to Corner Jack Smith Backfires Comically
Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he was nailing the special counsel on a conspiracy theory — but he mixed up his basketball teams

By Jack Crosbie

September 29, 2026
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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting analysis.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026
Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yoooo read this banger from Marie French at Politico exposing a right wing lying fraud of a NY-based social influencer who attacks renewable energy. Great exposé work. Go read! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
An unlikely power player in the fight over solar on farmland
Alexandra Fasulo's attacks on New York solar have reached Washington and the governor's race. The state has struggled to counter her claims, even when they don't hold up.
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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
cc @mhkeller.bsky.social
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a podcast with Ezra Klein, Jensen Huang suggested learning basic math was basically unnecessary. This is a bad and disingenuous take. Read more in my latest article: cinqpersonnes.substack.com/p/long-divis...
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Long division is important actually.
On learning, and simple skills.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've posted an analysis of what we can learn from early voting so far michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/early-voti...
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Early Voting Underway
And what might you draw from it?
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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just picked up my copy of Networks of New York, 2026 edition, by Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com. I’m already using it in the field! Order yours at www.seeingnetworks.in/product/netw...
Networks of NY 2026 in the field!
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The window to comment on Trump's illegal and damaging census plan is closing October 13. For guidance on submitting your comment, see this comprehensive and easy-to-use site from our partners at @civilrightsorg.bsky.social, @dataindex.us, and others: handsoffourcens.us
handsoffourcens.us
Hands Off Our Census
The Census Bureau has proposed unprecedented changes to the 2030 Census. Public comment closes October 13, 2026. Here's what's proposed and how to weigh in.
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CUNY Institute for Demographic Research @cunydemography.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Census Quality Reinforcement (CQR) Task Force is organizing a response to proposed changes affecting the 2030 Census. A sign-on letter, public comment resources, and additional materials are available for researchers, practitioners, and organizations. 👇
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 25/09/2026
Unsurprisingly @petesikora.bsky.social nails it.
But Co-ops and Condos United has deeper ties to the real estate industry than its grassroots branding suggests. The group is a rebranding of Homeowners for a Stronger New York, a prominent critic of Local Law 97. Until its renaming last fall, Homeowners for a Stronger New York received all its funding (over $750,000) from a lobbying group run by the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY, which represents some of the city’s largest developers.

Pete Sikora, the director of climate advocacy at New York Communities for Change, said he believes REBNY is using CCU as political cover in its campaign against Local Law 97.

“Everyone hates billionaire landlords,” said Sikora, “so the landlord lobby pays for front groups to try and shift the focus from them to more sympathetic homeowners.”
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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Proposed Changes to Demographic Data Collection in the Census Could Impact Efforts to Address Health and Health Care Disparities www.kff.org/racial-equit...
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Proposed Changes to Demographic Data Collection in the Census Could Impact Efforts to Address Health and Health Care Disparities  | KFF
This issue brief provides an overview of the decennial census and discusses potential implications of the changes outlined in a September 2026 proposed rule to prohibit the collection of race and ethn...
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm also embarking on a crazy book tour. Come out to see me! More info can be found here: www.danah.org/data-are-mad...
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you missed the briefing on Friday, you can watch the recording here: youtu.be/Dmal8RMRCIM?...
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The Census Is in Trouble: What You Need to Know About Proposed Changes
YouTube video by dataindex-us
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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kieren @kierenhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Map-making is world-making..” Alex Moulton “What’s being foregrounded and what’s been hidden..?” Nerve Macaspac Great to see @eesgccuny.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social faculty quoted in @apnews.com on cartography & power! cc: @blackgeographies.bsky.social apnews.com/article/map-...
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This truth emerges as political situations change fast: Maps show us our world, but not neutrally
Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. But while the physical geography of our world can be set in stone, maps aren't.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No, Outlook and every other mail app, I don't want a fucking recap of the day, I don't want email summarized, I don't want a goddamn thing except to get my 99% worthless emails in peace and leave over 10,000 unread ones in my inbox before I decide to mass "mark as read." Let me be human.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's as if Trump says lies that paint him in the most favorable light. Media organizations with investigative journalists to uncover the facts would never fall for that, right? RIGHT?!
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Steve Jost @jostman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Census Bureau did not do this. The OMB and Commerce Dept imposed it upon them
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This new @laylaayanna.bsky.social article has a very easy to understand explanation of the problems with shifting the 2030 Census’s residence rule from “where you live and sleep most of the time as of April 1” to your tax return address or ”where you spent most of your time January through March.“
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And, of course, excluding non-citizens from the census would harm the whole country and break the law. The latest from @lmillerkaralunas.bsky.social: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s the presidency that’s fake, not the news.
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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The level of politicization in this administration is beyond anything I've seen," says Denice Ross, former U.S. chief data scientist and currently director of the Data Policy Institute at the Federation of American Scientists. "I've been doing this work for 25 years." www.axios.com/2026/09/16/t...
axios.com
Trump escalates war on federal data
The administration is actively reshaping or ending collection of government data.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/09/2026
"These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves.." Cry more asshole
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States
Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting "disaster," which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM.
Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling. It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left "Dumocrats," on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so! The Supreme Court has really let our Country down! Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totallydepraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America. Their horrible decision on Tariffs will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars. They didn't even state, "money paid does not have to be paid back," much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our Country, and have been RIPPING IT OFF FOR YEARS, unnecessarily costing us, immediately, Billions of Dollars. Likewise, the Supreme Court's Decision on Birthright Citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption with respect to
"citizenship" in our Country. The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does - It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm!
The Court's inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History. This Supreme-
the annals of History. This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a
hundred years. These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won't be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal. It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country's history. It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love! Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. God bless the U.S.A. President DONALD J.
TRUMP
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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Do you use census data? Do you use *any* survey data? Do you vote, drive, ride transit, run a business, care about public health or education, expect your community's emergency response plan to work? If you answered yes to any of these, then the changes proposed for the decennial census affect YOU.
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NYC
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Rep. Geoff Smith @missinglynxnh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Well, yes, however Kushner wasn't elected to anything. The point being, yeah you gotta work with other elected to pass bills to do things. Kushner isn't one of them. And he should be under investigation the moment you get the gavel, dude.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Last week the broken old man threw a two day party in Texas while it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, and power your home ... they spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 13/09/2026
The most amoral people on the planet would like you to know that they're concerned their work might be dangerous and you can trust them to slow it down.
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Rachaele Raynoff @thoughtsin2type.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This article is spot on. www.bolde.com/11-things-pe...
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11 things people raised in the 60s, 70s & 80s do that make younger generations look soft
Late boomers, Gen Xers, and the older millennials who remember life before the internet don’t agree on everything. But they can agree on this: the things they do without thinking twice tend to make yo...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sheesh. The bots aren't "asking" about anything. They are pattern-repeaters, so output grammatical sentences that repeat what every AI in every science fiction story does, ever. Talk about machines like they are people, and you do the tech bros' propaganda work for them.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 10/09/2026
Who needs a folding phone when we’ve got bending buses
MTA articulated bus
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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just got a call from an intern with the "Suozz-o for Congress" campaign. Do you mean "Suozzi" as in Tom? Ah, yes, that's it. Do I plan to vote for him in the election? Nope, I'm not in his district. Sounds like the campaign may need some better lists & callers who know the candidate's name.
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Todd Graham @metrogram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reading this, we should all assume malicious intent on the part of Trmp Administration. And this WILL cause chaos in planning uses and demographic study uses of #censusdata. So... bottom line... Not Good 😕
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/09/2026
Today, I had the honor of meeting members of the Emergency Service Unit, the most elite tactical team in the NYPD. ESU is called to protect New Yorkers during our gravest emergencies.
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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This right here. Thank you, @hellgatenyc.com! hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-9-11...
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Asking Whether Mamdani Belongs at the 9/11 Memorial Isn't Discourse—It's Islamophobia
Plus, more news for your Tuesday.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
I live for the ferocity of human connection, not content for the content god. You should try it sometime.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great piece about a changing NYC, by Harry Siegel in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social , with context and insights from John Mollenkopf @jomoko.bsky.social www.vitalcitynyc.org/how-nyc-chan... cc @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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A City Forgets. Maybe It’s Supposed To.
The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.
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Fair Count @faircount.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day, we salute the dedication, resilience, and strength of those who labor to build, heal, teach, and serve. Their contributions deserve not just our gratitude, but our commitment to fair treatment and opportunity for all.
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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy #LaborDay! ⛏️ Today, we’re celebrating the thousands of workers, past and present, who built our transit system and keep it running 24/7.
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