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Jake Anbinder
@JakeAnbinder
Author of NIMBY NATION (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
Far Above Cayuga's Waters
Joined June 2013
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    Thrilled to announce that my book NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics, is under contract with Bloomsbury and slated for publication in fall 2027. Please spread the news to anyone and everyone!
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    The "I will get two covid shots, but not three covid shots" crowd remains perhaps the strangest of them all
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    Something interesting I've noticed teaching is Gen Z just does not use Microsoft Word, period. When you ask them to submit .doc files they're all converting them from Google Docs or Pages.
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    "bucket list" was invented in 2007 by the writers of a very forgettable movie
    finding out the term β€œDebbie downer” was coined on SNL is one of those real facts that do not seem congruent with the world
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    Occasional reminder from an American historian that "voter registration" originated as a voter suppression tactic
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    We're at this weird part of the vaccine push where depending on where they live people are either like "the vaccine man came down my block today merrily tossing out vaccines" or "the state estimates I am in category 6QΞ² with estimated appointment date June 2073"
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    people: lol why would anyone get a humanities degree also people: ugh why does the CDC seem to struggle with articulating a synthesis of a handful of complex concepts
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    If you're worried that your historiographic claim is too bold remember Lin-Manuel Miranda said "America forgot him" about a guy who is on the money
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    Replying to @JakeAnbinder
    Have you tried creating a footnote in Google Docs? Your computer catches on fire.
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    If a college describes itself as "Judeo-Christian" I can venture a guess as to how many Judeos it has
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    ah yes MIT, that notorious feeder school to Barstool
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    The key to understanding the "Maus" thingβ€”and I really do mean thisβ€”is that these are people for whom Jews mostly exist in theory, the same way that in third grade you learn there's a thing called tectonic plates
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    My view on academics' photos is the same as my view on academics' websites: the fancier they look the more suspicious you should be
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    It really is worth repeating that 500,000 deaths is beyond what basically any model predicted except for the insane Imperial College one that we all lost our shit over