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Bad Bunny makes history with Grammy for album of the year Bad Bunny’s 'Débi Tirar Más Fotos' was named album of the year at Sunday night’s 68th Grammy Awards — the first time a Spanish-language LP has won the Recording Academy’s most prestigious prize.

What a moment. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Opinion | No Child Deserves to Die Like My Daughter

"No child deserves to die like Hind did, just as no child should live under the constant threat of bombardment, starvation and displacement."
- Wesam Hamada, Hind Rajab's mother www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

State terror has arrived, by M. Gessen, NYTimes gift article link. "It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

I'm so far away right now. But thinking about folks in Minneapolis who have endured so much more than their share of atrocities in the past days, weeks, and years, and still show up with courage and conviction.

A year ago - Jan 7, 2025 - from Sunset Blvd and the 405 - the emergence of the Palisades Fire. A fateful first day of events that perhaps defined Los Angeles the last year.

The media are complicit by reporting what this administration says as a matter of they said - they said.

Kidnapping and plunder.

Absolutely deplorable shit being done in our name and with our complicity.

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!

The closest thing the left had to an answer to the question of what the future should look like (including aesthetically though with mixed results) was the green new deal. the petering out of that movement’s popular momentum in the Biden years has left a void that has yet to be filled

We grieve the loss of life in Sydney, Australia, where gunmen attacked a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah, killing at least 11 people. This was a terrifying incident of hate-fueled violence that no community should face.

After these terrible events at Bondi Beach and Brown University, Australia will probably move quickly to shut down even further mass carnage like this, the US will likely do nothing, knowing full well that more kids and many other innocent people will die again soon.

On wikipedia, mass shootings in Australia are grouped by century; those in the US are grouped by year, and these yearly groupings have links to more comprehensive lists with more events and detail.

Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their invetigati...

NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.

One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."

www.latimes.com/california/s...

In Taipei for just a few hours and naturally, predictably, I'm pretending that I'm in a Tsai Ming-liang movie.

Live Updates: At Least 13 Are Killed as Fire Engulfs Hong Kong Apartments

Hong Kong hasn't had a major fire in almost 2 decades. But when it's bad - damn. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Developing | Xi Jinping sends condolences as at least 13 die in massive Hong Kong blaze Police receive multiple reports of people trapped in tower where blaze started; elderly man says wife stuck in building.

This is a horrendous fire in Hong Kong right now - multiple 30+ storey towers in a housing estate fully ablaze. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.

The first home has been rebuilt in the wake of the Palisades Fire The first home to be rebuilt in the wake of the Palisades fire — a two-story home on Kagawa Street — received a certificate of occupancy on Friday.

Pretty disappointing to see this "showcase" home for Palisades rebuilding. This should be an opportunity to rethink how we've done things before, not double down bigger with more lowest common denominator design. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Incredible.

Fucking ironic that Trump recognizes real power in Mamdani that leading Democrats never did and still refuse to do.

An overwhelming event! Very grateful.

Governing a sub/urban planet - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Sean Hertel, Murat Üçoğlu, 2025 This paper evaluates Roger Keil's influence on the fields of urban and regional governance and suburban studies, underscoring his foundational contribution...

You know that you did well as an academic if these things happen: Excellent open-access article in a special issue of Urban Political Ecology, celebrating the breadth and depth of @rkeil.bsky.social’s scholarship while charting new directions for urban praxis and research inspired by his work.

One of a set of articles in @upejournal.bsky.social discussing my contributions to urban studies. Endlessly grateful!

Probably in the late aughts actually.

I may have seen the same talk! I saw Matias & Rahul Srivastava showing juxtaposed photos of Mumbai and Tokyo in the early aughts at Parsons in NYC. I was a much younger architect and sustainable design instructor then - not so much critical theory afflicted yet, LOL - and it was very eye opening.

Good fun fact! The questions might be not only whether planners as such can ever plan spaces like this but also how they/we might take more seriously informal and illicit practices as key aspects of planning.