Joshua K. Leon

Meat Consumption in U.S. Cities Produces as Much Climate Pollution as Powering Homes Researchers found emissions from beef, pork and chicken consumption exceeded the entire carbon footprint of Italy.

America’s city dwellers produce similar levels of greenhouse gas emissions when they eat meat and power their homes, a new study published in @natclimate.nature.com suggests. Sophie Kevany reports:

Por la ribolucion siempre! 🐸 😆

Lunchtime For Fascists: Nick Land And The Uses Of Incoherence Guest essay by Dr. Joshua Leon, reflecting on his lunch with a (seemingly) mild mannered travel writer who went on to become a neoreactionary hero

I keep getting feedback on this, since it posted in the Interesting Times.

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out. Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson.

What does he mean by “they” are going to “descend” on “our” capital?

WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation.

Columbia’s endowment rises to $14.8 billion, on pace to outperform peer institutions in investment returns Columbia reported on Sept. 27 an investment return of 11.5 percent on its endowment for the fiscal year of 2024—putting the University on track to outperform peer institutions in investment returns. T...

How could a strapped institution like Columbia ever have resisted the omnipotent arm of the Trump administration, and its $400m cuts? What power could poor Columbia possibly have? (Fun fact: their investment earnings in FY 2024 were $1.2 billion with a B)

Fair point...

A lucid, must read article about how we got here...

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Saturday tours to meet rescued animals at Woodstock Sanctuary in High Falls are happening through early November! 10am is the recommended time for younger kids. It’s the best time to visit and we bet your heart needs it 🐐🐄🍂

Tix still available for this Saturday! woodstocksanctuary.org/visit

Poll after poll shows corruption is THE issue voters care about. And Jeffries goes out of his way to praise Adams, whose public corruption charges were dropped after Trump’s DOJ unceremoniously shut the case down?

Democrats have the winning hand right in front of them. Wild that they won’t play it.

Good news, everyone! City's Issue 29.3-4 is out.

Editorial: Spanglish city limits -Ulises Moreno-Tabarez

Yes, it's fully in Spanglish; meant to spark up convo re: upcoming RGS panel on Urban Omissions: Untranslated Concepts and Debates in Urban Studies

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Sounds fantastic

Um, I think “assault” is the word you’re looking for, guys. Rampant euphemisms and are making the NYT a slog to read these days. Feels like they’re writing to avoid lawsuits and it’s just dull. #nyt

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Interesting thing I just noticed from the '24 Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) data. Moscow was an alpha city in 2020 and now, with sanctions, barely has "sufficiency" status, ranking below Hartford, Conn. for global connectivity. Can't think of a steeper de-globalizing. #gawc #worldcities

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

The Hellscapes of Their Minds ICE says it’s going to “flood” New York. Good luck with that

Gearing up to teach urban politics this Fall. Should we start by saying that everything the GOP says about cities is wrong?

Kirsten Gillibrand apologizes to Zohran Mamdani over ‘jihad’ claim New York senator had claimed that Democratic nominee for mayor had made ‘references to global jihad’

Democratic protocol: when you see a spark, throw a wet blanket.

Even if that means soaking your own candidate…

Will be missed…

What’s in Trump’s major tax bill? Extended cuts, deportations and more Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation boosts the wealthy, funds a border wall and risks $3tn deficit before his term ends

So much of the coverage of the absurdly titled bill is about process and performance, but there needs to be more discussion about what this legislation actually does…

Erasing Lincoln The capital city of Nebraska will have to change its name.

With malice toward some...

The Supreme Court's war on its own judiciary has just gone nuclear.

Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat is written by Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at @cunyslu.bsky.social. Purchase via Wiley Publishing: shorturl.at/BUQgW

Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness Will he be a good mayor? Nobody knows. But the hysteria is revealing.

“Oh, and centrist Democrats often urge leftier types to rally behind their nominees in general elections. I agree…But this deal has to be reciprocal. Mamdani will be the Democratic nominee, and anyone calling themselves a Democrat should support him.”

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"Iran is a country which, in the eyes of a liberal establishment, is never fully sovereign because it has diverged from western interests. ... Its people have no right to expect a careful consideration of their future, or indeed the entire region’s."

With Andrew Cuomo, Democrats are doing a disastrous imitation of Trump | Moira Donegan The former governor, now a New York City mayoral candidate, marks the party’s drift into boorishness and cruelty

The NYT's effective endorsement of acknowledged predator Andrew Cuomo was a sad business. Hard to see how a party can survive and eat its young at the same time. Mamdani and Lander promise a shake up, which the party desperately needs...

Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people.

I believe people will win.

NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.

Why not erect more monuments to Du Bois?