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Eric Klinenberg

3 months

Four years ago today, the @WHO declared COVID a global pandemic. We were wrong about what happened to America in 2020, and we've yet to register how much it has changed us, as individuals and as a society. 🧵

Opinion | We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020

The answer, only now coming into view, explains why that awful year still has us in its grip.

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Library just opened in a working class neighborhood in Barcelona. It’s magical. It’s real. And it’s the kind of place that makes you wonder why every city doesn’t give its residents palaces for the people. #library

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2 years

I'm getting a lot of calls from European journalists and officials who want to know how to survive the searing heat. Here's the answer: Stop burning fossil fuels.

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8 months

Hundreds of thousands of New York City residents live in basement apartments.

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Major flooding in Brooklyn today. Trains shut down and the only way out of the station is through this.

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2 years

THIS. WAS. THE. TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION'S. PLAN.

2020 Census Undercounted Hispanic, Black and Native American Residents (Published 2022)

The Census Bureau said that the overall population total was accurate but that counts of minorities were skewed. Advocacy groups threatened to go to court.

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1 year

Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the greatest non-fiction writers of our time. Also, the College Board just purged his work from an AP test because a governor wants to erase Black history. Think about where this is heading if the leaders of higher education don't fight back.

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

Every American should think about the sacrifices we’ve made so that the Trump family can live out their fantasies of dominion.

The Recount

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4 years

Donald Trump Jr. is holding a packed indoor event in Florida.

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6 years

Now, more than ever, we need to rebuild civil society and restore democratic culture. It won’t be easy, but there’s no better place to start than the public library. It’s precisely the kind of social infrastructure we need.

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8 months

Everybody's saying: "New York City is not prepared." It's true. It also raises the question: What will it mean to be prepared for the Anthropocene, for life on a planet where the climate, the weather, and our use of land are unlike anything we've known? Unchartered waters here.

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Eric Klinenberg

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6 years

Dear US media, Since you know the Trump administration released this chilling, science-based report on the impact of climate change today for the sole reason that no one is reading news, please cover it on Monday, like our entire future depended on it.

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Eric Klinenberg

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1 year

Watching the votes come in and can't help thinking about how much of this fiasco stems from failures by Democrats in New York.

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Eric Klinenberg

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5 years

I could watch this ⁦ @MarcusRashford ⁩ free kick over and over and over again. #Golazo #CHEMUN

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

A reporter just asked @PressSec if Trump is glad that the South lost the Civil War, and she refused to answer.

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Eric Klinenberg

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6 years

A cowardly, misogynist umpire just ruined the #UsOpenFinal for everyone, including the amazing champion @Naomi_Osaka_ and especially @serenawilliams He truly is a thief. What a horrible moment for sports.

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

“Murder by public policy,” is what critics called hundreds of heat wave deaths in Chicago some 25 years ago. This - in Florida, Arizona, and across the US - is homicidal state action on a different scale.

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@paulkrugman

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America's disastrous pandemic response, in one picture

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

Is there going to be a column where the @nytopinion editors admit they were wrong about hiring Bret Stephens?

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Eric Klinenberg

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8 months

For instance, which city is preparing for underground fires during a 1-in-100 year rainstorm?

“holden” “seidlitz”

@jock__derrida

8 months

contrary to all the flooding greene ave is on fire

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3 years

Heat waves are deadly. Cold societies make them far more lethal. This week will be brutal. But it's not just about the weather. It's about social isolation, racial segregation, and poverty. It's about climate equity, and the underlying conditions we work so hard not to see.

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Eric Klinenberg

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3 years

Extraordinary. The Trumps got vaccinated in January, in the White House, but did it privately, away from cameras and out of view, missing their last best chance to promote public health among their followers.

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Eric Klinenberg

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5 years

Something insane is happening in the sky above Manhattan right now.

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

This is what policy failure looks like.

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4 years

“This is not creeping authoritarianism...The authoritarianism is here.”

Federal Agents Push Into Portland Streets, Stretching Limits of Their Authority (Published 2020)

Federal agents are venturing blocks from the buildings they were sent to protect. Oregon officials say they are illegally taking on the role of riot police.

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Klinenberg

@EricKlinenberg

3 years

Can't stop thinking about the tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers who live below street level, in "garden" (aka basement) level apartments. Tonight we're learning what happens when the housing crisis and the climate crisis meet.

R A W S A L E R T S

@rawsalerts

3 years

🚨 #BREAKING Shocking video shows flood waters ripping through apartments in New York City 📌 #Manhattan I #NYC Reports of catastrophic flash flooding happening across in New Jersey and New York City as millions of people brace for this devastating floods

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

@ProjectLincoln @realDonaldTrump Maybe someone (with covid) can drive him around in the backseat of an SUV until he falls asleep?

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

New design competition: Transform Hudson Yards into a humane, 21st-century, post-pandemic Hooverville. Affordable housing. Food co-ops. Communal dining. Convert retail space into schools, play spaces, libraries, community organizations. We need the space.

Neiman Marcus to Close Its Store at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards

Neiman Marcus Group Inc., the luxury retailer that’s making its way through bankruptcy proceedings, said it will permanently close its store in New York City’s Hudson Yards along with three other...

www.bloomberg.com

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Eric Klinenberg

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6 years

So, to survive as a species we could: A) Convert to proven sources of renewable energy, recommit to international climate treaties, gradually reduce CO2 emissions. B) Spray untested chemicals into the atmosphere to block the sun. Continue, forever. Hmmm?

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Harvard and Yale scientists are proposing that we tackle climate change by dimming the sun. It sounds crazy, but according to their research, it could actually cut the rate of global warming in half:

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Eric Klinenberg

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8 months

What's frightening about this flooding on the FDR is that ALL OF THIS WATER IS FROM RAIN. There was no storm surge today. Zero. In the coming storms, we'll get massive rain plus a storm surge and the border between the river and the land will disappear.

David Lennon

@DPLennon

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Pack a life jacket for the FDR. #NYC #Flood

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

On subway when the #KobeBryant news broke. Everyone on my side of the train looked up and started talking. Stranger to stranger, across the usual identity divides. Some in disbelief, one close to tears. All of us brought together, if briefly, by the sense that life is too short.

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

@ASlavitt And in yesterday's Congress, representatives who helped plot a failed coup refused to participate in a memorial for the officers their followers killed, then condemned those who did attend for "politicizing" their attempted political insurrection.

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Eric Klinenberg

@EricKlinenberg

3 years

Being American is seeing Menlo Park Mall trending on Twitter and immediately thinking there was a mass shooting event there. We need #GunControlNow

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Eric Klinenberg

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1 year

Great question. The answer comes from sociology. It's a concept called ***the will not to know*** and it characterizes the American approach to a number of problems: climate change, homelessness, poverty, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Eric Reinhart, MD

@_Eric_Reinhart

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It's been nearly three years. Why does the US government still not have a Covid app for reporting test results and tracking contacts, ED and hospital capacity, ordering free rapid tests, locating available supplies of Paxlovid and other therapeutics in local pharmacies, etc?

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

So Trump's gambit here is: You can't lose a debate if you destroy it. Pretty much the same strategy he is using for the election.

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@EricKlinenberg

2 years

In Barcelona, the #library is part of a larger social infrastructure. I spent the afternoon in a new “superblock,” which the city created by converting busy streets into places for people. They reduced air and noise pollution, cut carbon emissions, and supercharged social life.

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4 years

I hadn't understood just how many university presses have made digital books available for free while schools and libraries are shut down. @publicbooks has compiled the list and published it as a database. It's an amazing resource.

Public Books Database

The Public Books Database is collecting the resources being offered for free by academic presses during the COVID-19 crisis.

www.publicbooks.org

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Eric Klinenberg

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5 years

Today someone asked me for the sociological idea everyone should know. My reply: Individuals make choices, but they don't get to choose the choices available to them, and some people have far more choices than others. Curious to hear which idea you'd, um, choose. @ASAnews

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6 years

Please watch this @BBCNews interview of @seanspicer , who’s grilled w serious questions abt ethics, conduct, and consequences. And ask: Is there any good reason that American journalists don’t do this to members of the Trump administration every single day?

BBC Two - Newsnight, Sean Spicer: I became the story too often

Sean Spicer opens up about Donald Trump and the White House

www.bbc.co.uk

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Eric Klinenberg

@EricKlinenberg

4 years

Sickened to see calls for @chrislhayes to be fired. He's an extraordinary journalist. His TV show is a reliable source of hard-hitting news coverage, from Trump's corruption to inequality to #climatechange . Biden has to address the accusation. And we need Hayes's voice on @MSNBC

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

I understand that some folks here want more explanation of why the heat is so lethal and also some practical advice about how to save people's lives this week. As it happens, I wrote an entire book about it. *Heat Wave.*

Heat Wave

"A classic. I can't recommend it enough."--Chris Hayes On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which...

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Eric Klinenberg

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7 months

A society that drives away its #librarians is steering itself towards the road to darkness.

The librarian who couldn’t take it anymore

She loved books. And in a time of spreading book bans in public schools, that’s why this Florida librarian had to quit.

www.washingtonpost.com

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1 year

Sociologists have a good phrase for what’s happening in America: “the depacification of everyday life.”

Opinion | Making People Uncomfortable Can Now Get You Killed (Published 2023)

People who deem themselves judge, jury and executioner walk among us, and we have no real way of knowing when they will turn on us.

www.nytimes.com

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6 years

Can we all pause to consider the extraordinary and incredibly telling fact that Donna Strickland, the first woman to win the #NobelPhysicsPrize in 55 years, has not yet been promoted to full professor?

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2 years

I've also written a slew of articles about heat and health, with an emphasis on how everyday inequalities shape who lives and who dies. Here's one in @Slate from 2015. The story hasn't changed much, but the climate has.

It Hit 103 Degrees in Paris This Week. Climate Change Will Just Make Heat Waves Worse.

In late June a brutal heat wave settled over the Sindh province in Pakistan and remained there for one week. High humidity, and scorching temperatures...

slate.com

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@EricKlinenberg

7 years

Former employees of @IvankaTrump tell @nytimes she was reluctant to grant them maternity leave. #WomenWhoWork indeed

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

PSA: You're never going to reach that professor you want to speak to by calling their office phone.

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8 months

Or consider the current situation in Park Slope, Brooklyn, stroller capital of America, and the kind of place where everyone says climate change is a top concern.

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Park Slope, Brooklyn right now 😳

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

The great sociologist and public intellectual Todd Gitlin has died. Todd was a massive influence on scholar-activists and also one of my mentors and heroes. If you don't know his work already, reading it is the best way to appreciate his life. RIP.

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

This is not simply one individual’s failure to understand, nor is it about a generation. It’s what happens when states and societies fail to teach young people how to be citizens, why the common good matters, what goes wrong when individualism reigns.

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3 years

You will never guess who just tried to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of US citizens in...Pittsburgh.

Senator Ted Cruz

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By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.

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Eric Klinenberg

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9 months

The great sociologist Howie Becker died yesterday, at 95. Howie taught generations of us how to see the world differently. How to write. How to think. How to be. His books are the ones we pass down to our students. Here's how he became a sociologist. RIP.

The Book That Made Me: A Sociologist

A renowned American sociologist reflects on the book that persuaded him to abandon a career playing bar piano in Chicago ...

www.publicbooks.org

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4 years

In 2020 we need mobile morgues, mobile testing sites, and mobile polling stations in the same places, and they all look the same.

El Paso, Texas, Gets 4th Mobile Morgue As COVID-19 Deaths Rise

A spike in cases recently led El Paso's county judge to impose a shelter-in-place order closing many nonessential businesses. The Texas attorney general has sued to block that order.

www.npr.org

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Eric Klinenberg

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3 years

@JDVance1 Serious question: Can we get some journalists to follow @JDVance1 when he visits New York, so we can learn how he manages our “disgusting and violent” city? Which luxury hotel and fancy restaurants will he patronize? Will he avoid our dangerous parks? Or is he just posturing?

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4 years

Stop saying America doesn't have a leader. We elected one. He just happens to be an autocrat who regularly promotes violence, endorses White Supremacists, threatens women, attacks immigrants, separates families, bullies journalists, and sows chaos. He's taken us where he promised

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4 years

They’re not just delivering tax cuts for the wealthy and arch-conservative judges; they’re also getting America hotter and more polluted. Here are nearly 100 environmental protections we’ve lost, so that fossil fuel companies can be free.

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4 years

Excited (and slightly terrified) to announce that I just agreed to write a book about the social and political life of the #CoronavirusPandemic , based on a massive global research project at @nyu_ipk . It's tentatively titled *2020: A Social Autopsy,* to be published by @AAKnopf .

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7 years

Odious to see @POTUS & @SpeakerRyan say #NeverAgain on #HolocaustMemorialDay while banning Syrian refugees & considering Muslim registry.

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5 years

It's not just a #NewarkWaterCrisis or a #FlintWaterCrisis . It's a national infrastructure crisis. It's a failure of governance. A failure to invest in people, in our quality of life. It's hitting all of us, but it's hurting poor people most.

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3 years

Who knew that 2020 would be the year that the Pope became a voice of science and reason and the Supreme Court of the United States a hotbed of religious zealotry?

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4 years

They're coming for Chicago. SOS.

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2 years

It's impossible overstate the damage Americans did on November 8, 2016.

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Eric Klinenberg

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6 years

The @nytimes tax guide asks how the bill could affect you, as an individual. It neglects to ask how it affects all of us, as a collective. More uninsured, less money for infrastructure, public schools, rising inequality. We need a tax calculator for that.

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4 years

Biden is winning the popular vote by more than 4.5 million, beating an incumbent president by a margin so vast it outnumbers the population of 25 US states. It is a massive victory. But the Electoral College is distorting our perception. It needs to end.

Dave Wasserman

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New: the U.S. just surpassed *148 million* votes counted and Biden's popular vote lead is 4.56 million (3.1%). ?

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4 years

Can I suggest a big welcome home party in the Rose Garden, followed by a private reception for Republican Senators, and then a small strategy dinner with just the GOP members of the Judiciary Committee?

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6 years

What if, instead of #AmazonHQ2 , NY invested $2 billion in a big public university? We could call it @CUNY or @SUNY , and it could hire thousands of professionals who’d contribute to NYC. Its product - low-cost education - would benefit everyone, and help locals make a living, too.

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3 years

More libraries. Less Facebook.

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5 years

Chicago agrees to 16% salary raise over 5 years, $35 million to reduce class sizes, and hundreds of additional staff members by 2023. The #ChicagoTeachersStrike succeeded. But it shouldn't take a strike to treat teachers (and students & communities) right .

Chicago Teachers’ Strike, Longest in Decades, Ends (Published 2019)

Teachers in Chicago Public Schools, the country’s third-largest district, said they would return to school after an 11-day walkout.

www.nytimes.com

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6 years

“Her signature song was the anthem popularized by Gloria Gaynor: “I Will Survive.”” RIP Devah Pager. You lit up the world, and brought knowledge, joy, laughter, and soul to all of us. I will miss you for the rest of my life.

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This July marks the 25th anniversary of the Great Chicago #HeatWave . By #Covid19 standards, it was a small event. But it was a warning sign, a preview of what happens w/ runaway #GlobalWarming #Inequality & #Racism . The lessons are urgent. #Thread (1/17)

Heat Wave

"A classic. I can't recommend it enough."--Chris Hayes On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which...

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6 years

What if New York took the $1.5-$2 billion it offered to Amazon and gave it to local libraries? We could enrich and strengthen our existing communities, instead of replacing them with people who can live and work anywhere.

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2 years

And for those of you interested in reading more about the deadly blend - hot climate, cold societies - I wrote this for today's @libe as France braces for the historic #Canicule

Un climat brûlant dans une société glaciale

Spécialiste de l’impact social des canicules, le chercheur américain Eric Klinenberg nous met en garde: contre les vagues de chaleur meurtrières, la solidarité entre habitants est plus efficace que...

www.liberation.fr

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5 months

Preparing the syllabus for an Urban Ethnography doctoral seminar this spring at ⁦ @NYUSociology ⁩. It’s been a minute since I last taught this. What else needs to be here? #SocTwitter

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4 years

It's like he shot 200,000 people in broad daylight and here's the smoking gun. An ordinary, responsible Congress would impeach a president who knowingly did this much damage. Our Senate will not. It's up to American voters. Everything is at stake.

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I've been studying how social dynamics shape crises for a few decades. For the #CoronavirusPandemic , social distancing is essential. But social solidarity is what we need to promote public health and support the most vulnerable. We need it more than ever.

Opinion | We Need Social Solidarity, Not Just Social Distancing (Published 2020)

To combat the coronavirus, Americans need to do more than secure their own safety.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” - Michel Foucault, who had some ideas about why our solutions to problems look so similar, and understood who pays the price.

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I keep hearing about cities that are cutting their #library budget, furloughing #librarians & staff. But look at these numbers. Libraries are always vital infrastructure. In crises like the #CoronavirusPandemic , we need them - and use them- more than ever.

Libraries face more demand than during Great Recession: report

Despite building closures, libraries are creatively mitigating the effects of COVID-19 through efforts like virtual library cards and 3D-printed face shields.

www.smartcitiesdive.com

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It’s National Library Week! What if we punch up a bit and make it Library Year, Library Decade, or, heck, fought together to revive The Age of Reason? Here’s my manifesto. Please sign on! @ALALibrary @librarycongress @nypl @chipublib @LAPublicLibrary

Opinion | To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library (Published 2018)

This crucial institution is being neglected just when we need it the most.

www.nytimes.com

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6 years

This is not right. This is not fair. This is sexist and disgusting. Shame on the US Open. #UsOpenFinal #SerenaWilliams

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4 years

Because who needs clean air during a pandemic that attacks your respiratory system? Or after?

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Americans desperately need press briefings with vital information about #Covid19 - just not from the president, whose misinformation and horrible judgment has been lethal. We need to hear from Fauci @ASlavitt @CDCgov - better yet, we need them to lead.

Kellyanne Conway says Trump should resume coronavirus briefings because 'people want information'

Recent polling shows most Americans do not trust coronavirus information from Trump.

www.usatoday.com

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4 years

Please read @JaneMayerNYer 's clinical dissection (aka gutting) of @senatemajldr 's career as a public servant (destroyer of democracy). Essential political journalism. I thought I knew the depth of McConnell's corruption, and the GOP's. Oh my, I did not.

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8 months

@Alan_O1984 New York 2023. Scary city

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2 years

One disturbing thing about this moment in urbanism is that every beautiful project generates as much anxiety about gentrification and the loss of place for ordinary people as praise for making things better. An even more disturbing thing is that these anxieties are so justified.

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5 years

I was going to write an entire chapter for *Palaces for the People* about why generous urban sidewalks are such vital social infrastructure, fostering ties among neighbors and helping bridge our divided streets. Instead, I’m just going to link to this.

Simran Jeet Singh

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❤️❤️❤️

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Excessive Heat Warning in effect for...(checks notes)... the rest of our lives.

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It's #NationalLibraryWeek , and I still believe that now, more than ever, we need a a plan for rebuilding civil society and restoring democratic culture. Coming back from #COVID19 won’t be easy, but there’s no better place to start than the #library .

Opinion | To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library (Published 2018)

This crucial institution is being neglected just when we need it the most.

www.nytimes.com

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Yellowstone is flooded out. Soon there will be no glaciers at Glacier National Park. The cactuses in Saguaro National Park are dying of heat, as are the Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park. Lake Mead is nearly dry. We need a heat emergency plan.

Flooding Chaos in Yellowstone, a Sign of Crises to Come (Published 2022)

Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.

www.nytimes.com

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To all you guys who took the #SAT today: hope you aced that AC essay. And my advice for those of you who are anxious: chill.

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Eric Klinenberg

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2 years

Life in Barcelona is not all public space and palaces for the people. Sometimes, you have no choice but to sit by yourself and contemplate what to do with things like this.

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Eric Klinenberg

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5 years

So to be clear Trump wants to give "local communities" power to refuse immigrants and refugees but also insists that California and other states can no longer set their own emissions and air pollution standards. Plus, watch him stir up White Nationalism.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

Trump vows to crack down on Somali refugees in a city with one of the largest Somali populations in the country

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We could easily reduce mass shootings by shutting down parades, schools, movie theaters, dance clubs, concerts, religious services, shopping malls, grocery stores, and medical centers. Or we could have gun control.

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Eric Klinenberg

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Guarantee you the excess deaths will be much, much higher, because only a fraction of heat fatalities go to the coroner and most show up only when epidemiologists count after the event.

‘Never seen anything like this’: 100s dead amid Canada heatwave

At least 486 sudden deaths recorded in British Columbia since Friday as temperatures soar on Canada’s west coast.

www.aljazeera.com

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Eric Klinenberg

@EricKlinenberg

2 years

If you really want to revive democratic culture and open societies, forget about this website and invest in #libraries

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Eric Klinenberg

@EricKlinenberg

5 years

I speak on behalf of all scholars everywhere when I confirm that the Army did not take over a single airport during the Revolutionary War.

Terri2uus 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇹

@terri2uus

5 years

Did he say the army took over the AIRPORTS during the Revolutionary War? I rewound and play it twice. #TrumpParade

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Eric Klinenberg

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3 years

Don’t have an RCT but I can confirm that bursting into tears is a side effect of having your mother vaccinated against #COVID19

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3 years

Some days I like to imagine what the world would be like if they gave a Nobel Prize in Sociology instead of Economics.

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Eric Klinenberg

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4 years

DHS is a scandal & Biden should undo it. It was created by GW Bush & Cheney after 9/11 & quickly became a hub for no-bid contracts to politically connected defense & private security firms. It’s responsible for the horror show at ICE & FEMA. Portland should be it’s final act.

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Eric Klinenberg

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7 years

Good news in an excruciating week: After five years, drought ends in northern California via @usatoday

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Eric Klinenberg

@EricKlinenberg

5 years

@jiatolentino I was one of them. It was horrible and embarrassing and wrong. FWIW it was the moderator and a panelist who solicited audience questions before you a second question. I’ve never seen that happen before. I tried to steer the conversation your way. It wasn’t enough. I’m sorry.

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Eric Klinenberg

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5 years

Some happy summer news: @nyuniversity made me the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences. I'm not sure that gives me license to do anthropology, economics, and political science as well as sociology. In fact, I'd better not. But it's a lovely honor.

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Eric Klinenberg

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3 years

"If you want to map inequality in New York, you can just count trees. Or measure the temperature." Excellent @nytimes story on the politics of shade.

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In 2019, more Americans went to #libraries than to movies, pro sports, museums, or theater. In 2020, libraries have become even more popular, w/ expanded digital service. They're essential social infrastructure, daily & in crises. They need more support.

How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic - MindShift

Libraries have taken creative measures – such as hosting more conversations and camps online – in order to meet kids' needs during the pandemic.

www.kqed.org

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This week we could use something beautiful. Consider this new public #library near Reykjavik, Iceland. It has reading rooms and books. It also has a swimming pool, hot tubs, cold tubs, a water slide, and soccer fields. It’s a true palace for the people. A seed for peace.

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