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Tom Sugrue

@tomsugrue.bsky.social
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Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.

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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great roundtable.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A century ago, white nationalists were saying the exact same things about Rep. Rulli's Italian ancestors -- they weren't white, they were criminals, they could never assimilate to "our" country
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is a beautiful essay about the intellectual and personal ties of father and son.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
New collection of Arnold Hirsch's work, edited by @tomsugrue.bsky.social. Must-read for anyone who cares about racial inequalities in American cities.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings (Philadelphia)
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
The Gang Says #NoKings.
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join IPK on March 4 for an event with @benchansfield.bsky.social. They will discuss their book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, with Ingrid Gould Ellen and @tomsugrue.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Join IPK on March 4 for an event with @benchansfield.bsky.social. They will discuss their book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, with @jfernandez1202.bsky.social and @tomsugrue.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Join IPK on February 2 for a book talk with @sjccorn.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit with @tomsugrue.bsky.social and Iddo Tavory. ipk.nyu.edu/events/16279/
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
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Jordan Hirsch @mrjordanhirsch.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Segregating Cities
Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto.   Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark b...
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Must read. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
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Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New York area friends: Join me for the gala for The Remedy Project, the amazing prison justice nonprofit that my daughter Anna founded. Tickets are cheap, great food and drinks, and a live auction too. If you are further away, you can make a donation instead. secure.everyaction.com/POPZB2QrHUeD...
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Join me at The Remedy Project Fall Fundraiser
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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
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Adding Value | Phenomenal World
Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
RFK must go. Please contact your congresspeople about this. Ask them why RFK was allowed to unilaterally fire a senate appointee because she contacted senators – the appropriate oversight body – after the HHS secretary demanded that she break the law & betray Americans’ public health.
As long as he stays in office, the American public has to assume that their public health is being actively threatened. A current CDC employee put it starkly:
People will die because of this. We won't be able to get out guidance or get out funding for public health departments or get out vaccines.
We're going to be sicker as a country, not as effective, waste resources. And for what? I don't understand.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Not the Onion, but @wsj.com. Forward toward a data-free America.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Trump is stuck in 1989 when it comes to crime and policing.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and @oah.org president David Blight offers a rousing call to fight the administration's war on history: "Now we have to mobilize to defend our profession not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion. And we cannot surrender!"
newrepublic.com
What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This from NY'S lieutenant governor is maybe the best take on the Democrats I've read yet (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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Opinion | Democrats, This Is Our Moment to Lead. We Can’t Blow It.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year. “Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”
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Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping
The report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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Bob Libal @blibal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Donald Trump's immigration policy (essentially to have masked men disappear 4-6% of the population) is morally reprehensible *and* deeply unpopular, a second poll this week finds. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is why we need the National Guard and Marines on the ground in Los Angeles? The administration is using military force to silence dissent. Stand up for the right to protest.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
There is no substantive case that can be made—none—that this is just or that this is moral. Or that this is good for the United States.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15/04/2025
Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tariffs = economic Ivermectin.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
With our two greatest presidents--George W. Bush and Donald Trump--at the helm. 👊 🇺🇸 🔥
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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Let us pause there. Since 1965 NEH has distributed in grants… $6b. The FY24 budget for the National Science Foundation alone was $9.06b. (And for NEH in FY24, $211m.) "Perhaps more tellingly, the NEH funding rate for scholars is 7% whereas for NSF grants at last report it was 25 or 26%. "
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/04/2025
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
2025 in one easy diagram.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
For those of us who use public data for our research, DOGE's shredder is devastating. So far the Census Bureau is untouched, but given the administration's allergy to facts, I fear that it will be next. www.economist.com/united-state...
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DOGE comes for the data wonks
America may soon be unable to measure itself properly
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Breaking democracy: Donald J. Trump, the American far-right leader, was not disqualified to run for President by providing aid & comfort to insurrectionists, nor banned by the Senate after inciting insurrection, nor convicted for conspiring to overturn election results. Every institution failed.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Damning: "the Court is left with little confidence that the defense can be trusted to tell the truth about anything." This from Judge Amy Berman Jackson's injunction preventing the dismantling of CFPB. (quote on p. 65). ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has *blocked* the dismantling of CFPB. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The shame of Columbia University
In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Must read: a sweeping analysis of Trumpism, the presidency, and the law, spanning the New Deal to the present. Rana's article is the best analysis of our current constitutional crisis that I have read.
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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar
Trump and the law.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So it seems Columbia gave the Trump administration everything they wanted and more, including a new "vice provost" who will review curriculum, hiring, and leadership. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Let’s be very clear about Trump’s higher ed cuts: hospitals and medical research centers are taking, by far, the biggest hit. Everyone will pay.
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Trump to Freeze $175 Million for U. of Pennsylvania in Latest Federal-Funding Threat
The pause is connected to an investigation into transgender athletes’ participation in sports. As of Wednesday afternoon, the university said it hadn’t heard anything from the federal government.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Wise advice from Hungary: The only way university leaders have a chance against Trump is forming a broad alliance with other institutions and enlisting "American families, employers, unions," + more. Going it alone won't work. Hiding and appeasing (duck and cover) won't stop systematic "vandalism."
chronicle.com
How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime
Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
NYU announces cuts in response to Trump threats. Admin. hiring freeze; lower pay (TBA); and "contingency plans for more cuts at several levels, so we can respond nimbly should additional budget adjustments be required." Time to speak out, not just for us but for the entire system of higher ed in US.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is outrageous www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Brown University professor held by customs officials at airport after travel to Lebanon
Serving the Brown community since 1891
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Read up @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and NYU and the other 60 universities now in Trump's line of fire: "Cowering does not stop bullying, and no matter how much we wish it were otherwise, Harvard and other universities are not going to be able to hide in plain sight."
thecrimson.com
Neither Silence nor Compliance Will Save Harvard From Trump. Resistance Might. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference.
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