Sophie Gonick

Sophie Gonick

@professorsophie.bsky.social

urban studies prof at NYU. Currently studying migrant popular economies of housing and labor in NYC

1,024 Followers 381 Following 167 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Thrilled to announce the world premiere of our new documentary, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, Sat., Apr. 11, 2026, 4:00 pm, Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, PA. Please help us spread the word by social media/personal contacts. Tickets ($10) available here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-b...

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5 hours ago
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Wunmi Mosaku in Louis Vuitton at the #oscars. More red carpet later on our site.

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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13 hours ago

He also got to Stanford for grad school on an NSF grant - his success is literally due to public funding

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15 hours ago
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Zionist Institutions Spread Antisemitic Propaganda Linking Jewish identity to war and atrocity harms Jewish people

wrote about how Zionist efforts to link all Jews to the brutal policies of a violent ethnonationalist regime in Israel effectively functions as antisemitic propaganda, endangering Jewish people everywhere. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/zionist-in...

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Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

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2 days ago

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"

got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

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3 days ago

The idea that the White House didn't figure Iran might try to cut off oil out of the Gulf is comical. They didn't figure for what has now become the fulcrum point of the whole conflict. Iran's leaders are now showing that regime change can work in both directions.

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2 days ago
Mar Espinar criticized Isabel Diaz Ayuso for her alignment with Trump during a government hearing: (English translation in the post)

“Cójase al mafioso de su jefe de Gabinete, tire para Mar-a-Lago y déjenos aquí — que somos más de los valientes de Minnesota”

Mar Espinar, Spain’s PSOE deputy, on Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s support for Trump:

“Take your mafioso chief of staff, go to Mar-a-Lago, and leave us here — because we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”

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3 days ago

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

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3 days ago
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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5 days ago

This has 100% happened. The DOGE boys have an unmonitored, unsecured Signal chat where they make their plans and openly exchange data that are completely illegal for them to have viewed, let alone exfiltrated.

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6 days ago

Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today.

Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st.

You're going to pay in for 298 more days.

This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us.

Scrap the cap.

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"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

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1 week ago
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Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH
youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

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Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday.
Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Renters, Owners, and the New York City Left's Mayoral Ennui How class struggle between renters and owners explains the left's fluctuating political fortunes in New York City

this on the 2021 mayoral primary seems relevant! alex-yablon.ghost.io/renters-owne...

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Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

WSJ: To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country’s intelligence agency...He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic | Eoghan Gilmartin The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad, says journalist Eoghan Gilmartin

Resisting Trump's crimes can be both a moral and pragmatic political choice.
Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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1 week ago

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

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The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

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From FT comments

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what a depraved country we inhabit

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Sooner or later, the costs of disinvesting in state capacity become apparent. If you put more money into bombing places you need foreign service capacity more, not less

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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

It just doesn’t stop with Platner. Lying about a Nazi tattoo; dogwhistling Protocols of Elders of Zion; retweeting a Holocaust denier; and now this. Dont tell me this is converting MAGA. It is MAGA. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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2 weeks ago

Some of us can't afford to give people who blatantly & clearly demonstrate that they're white supremacists the benefit of the doubt to move on to what's important. What's important is their immediate threat to our lives. So get that through your privileged brains cosplaying working class struggle.

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the Platner stuff makes me feel like I'm going insane. How is each revelation not totally disqualifying?

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people are conflating a war powers resolution with a resolution to strike iran, but these are different things, and the first necessarily has to come before the second and is no guarantee that the second would pass, the whole *point* is putting congress back in the driver's seat and on the record

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> @covie93.bsky.social

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You can just say things.

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