ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I’m at the Military Complex I’m at the Triumphal Arch I’m at the Combination Military Complex and Triumphal Arch 030
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I found a juvenile American Golden-Plover a few miles from my house this morning. They’re a scarce migrant through the Northeast ok their way from the arctic to Argentina and Uruguay, and it’s always great to see them. 030
Reposted by ZSWjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/09/2026students said “Maybe our university should not profit from this” and then donors, faculty, and staff called them terrorists and organized to deport them 014537
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Worse than that, our universities (never ours) colluded to have people detained and deported for opposing this. 120348
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A Least Sandpiper, the world’s smallest shorebird, in a small puddle yesterday morning. 051
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Being mad about wages and working conditions is a principled stand. (Being a cop is not.) 031
Reposted by ZSWlevweinstein.bsky.social @levweinstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This was brutally hard in a fun kinda way, picking 10 songs outta 20 rekkids to string together a narrative 142
Reposted by ZSWEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight. 121752332
Reposted by ZSWProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026NEW: Major League Baseball has long known about teams making handshake deals with Dominican players as young as 11 — and the predatory industry that has grown around this system. But it’s never publicly warned or penalized a team for making an early deal.propublica.orgHow the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False PromisesTeams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it. 321273
Reposted by ZSWShaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 10/09/2026It's like a religion to these people: "Some set of A.I.-enabled devices and processes would surely allow a hotel maid to clean more rooms faster with less hassle and physical strain." Motorized carts and more efficient vacuum cleaners relieve physical strain, not some mystical spreadsheet. 291
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Fun Fact! Hudsonian Godwits are named for William Godwit, father of Mary Godwit, later Mary Shellfish, author of Franklin’s(Gull)Stein 030
Reposted by ZSWMike Rosenwald @mikerosenwald.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A self-described “anarcho-confectioner,” he led the International Patisserie Brigade, a gang of custard commandos who referred to their assaults as entartements. They deployed pies with soft crusts to ensure that their caloric projectiles would only injure pride www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/w...nytimes.comNoël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest. 39326
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Birds like this are why you spend a Sunday morning in a landfill. (Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, Clarkstown Landfill, West Nyack, NY August 30, 2026) 030
Reposted by ZSWAbbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026@minorcompositions.bsky.social @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social @touchfaith.bsky.social @zsw.bsky.social 022
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Another photo of the Buff-Breasted Sandpiper at the Clarkstown Landfill from yesterday. All my prior encounters with this species were either too distant for photography or prior to my owning a camera, so it was nice to get some up close shots of this bird. 020
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Rockland County’s first eBird record of Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, found yesterday by John Dow, continuing this morning. 060
Reposted by ZSWAbbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Shameless self promotion, but my book on noncitizen students, the university, and immigration law comes out on Fordham in October and I'd be happy to share proofs and talk to students!share.googleDegrees of Empire - Abigail BoggsA sweeping history of how noncitizen students shaped U.S. universitiesFrom colonial missionary schools to the globalized university of the twentieth century, U.S. higher education has long depended on... 13520
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Semipalmated Plover, the roundest shorebird in the western hemisphere. 161
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New England slaveholders in the 18th century would just name their children things like “Eliphalet” and “Jabez.” 000
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Yes, but not discussing the potential Implications of it not yet having been subject to peer review is not 2560
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Empire State of Mind is the treacly and vacuous anthem of Bloombergism. He is right to go a different route. 060
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026TFW your four year old starts drawing on your iPad and accidentally discovers Russian constructivism 060
Reposted by ZSWDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026jesusfuckingchristkptv.comOregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arsonA public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson. 741709617
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If they can have both Juice and Judgement Night, they can have both Singles and Reality Bites 110
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The two Paul Westerberg solo tracks on the Singles soundtrack are great though 110
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think the fact that he is describing his stool to a journalist is more striking than the fact that he is publicly admitting that he does not wipe himself, which is in turn more striking than the apparent fact that he does not wipe himself. 021
Reposted by ZSWAaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft." www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/e...valleynewslive.comAll of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolenLost cameras valued at about $24,000 36016
Reposted by ZSWChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/07/2026The slur "tonks" is used by Border Patrol to describe migrants. It's derived from the sound a baton or heavy duty flashlight makes when hitting a migrant over the head. 331265505
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Congrats - I was listening to the New Books interview on my way to teach this morning and it sounds like a book I very much wished existed when I was putting together my exam list in grad school. 010
Reposted by ZSWMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:thehandbasket.coExclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assaultA spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation." 26873472016
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This looks really good: www.versobooks.com/products/312...versobooks.comControl ScienceWhether on Caribbean plantations in the seventeenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so... 111
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026An incredibly tough week so far, and it is literally only Monday. 030
Reposted by ZSWMatthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral systemwashingtonpost.comBrazil denies visas to U.S. delegation aiming to impugn election system, officials sayThe U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a presidential election this fall, officials said. 621866440
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I’m driving from prison to campus then with somewhat spotty service, and I have a meeting at 1:30, so probably can’t do it, but sorry to miss it. I’m teaching it starting Wednesday AM and continuing into next week. 110
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I watched “The Mandalorian and Grogu” yesterday, and besides the absurdity of swole Jeremy Allen White hutt pit-fighter with a heart of gold, and the underwhelming plot and pacing, my main takeaway is that Andor is a tough actor to follow. 010
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Going to pretend that Forster’s Terns are named after Robert Forster of the great Australian proto-Indie rock band The Go-Betweens. 021
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Just watched a large rat flush two semipalmated and two least sandpipers off of the rocky tip of Piermont Pier. 000