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Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science at NYU. Director Books: Heat Wave, Going Solo, Palaces for the People. Next: *2020: A Social Autopsy*

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Joined January 2012
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Sep 2018

    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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  2. 3 hours ago

    "There’s no more natural nature," says the landscape architect . "Now it’s a matter of design." I wrote about her, and the idea of building with nature as we adapt to climate change, in this week's

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  3. 19 hours ago

    I can’t decide if 4 am is super early or super late.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jul 19

    “Pensions represent more than their economic value. They carry a powerful moral recognition: workers deserve financial stability and the freedom it brings.” A powerful essay by Caitlin Zaloom on the decimation of America’s pension system .

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  5. 23 hours ago

    "Family firm" "CEO President" "Organization kid" America has lost sight of its values and fallen for a fantasy of value. It's exacted quite a price.

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  6. Jul 31

    Okay, NYC neighbors, let’s finish the job.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jul 30

    ***99.93% of fully vaccinated Americans have not tested positive***

    Breakthrough Covid cases: At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive
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  8. Jul 31

    Being a white guy in America has prepared me well for the Olympian event of issuing strong opinions about athletes in sports I’ve never played and don’t really understand.

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  9. Jul 30

    I may start wearing these when I teach.

    The Chicago flag batting gloves are a really nice move by Anthony Rizzo
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  10. Jul 30

    Remember when the Right used to call itself Pro-Life?

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    WATCH: A large group of GOP members of Congress are walking maskless to the Senate side of the Capitol to protest the House's mask mandate.
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  11. Jul 29

    Don’t mean to brag but we just got a copy of the book that you’re going to be reading and debating this fall and, yeah, it’s as good as everyone says. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

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  12. Jul 29

    And again, and again, and again.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jul 29

    The effort to separate Buckhead from Atlanta b/c of rising violence reflects the dominant American response to big social challenges: In the US we no longer try to solve problems; we give advantaged groups a set of ways to isolate themselves from problems

    14 replies 127 retweets 333 likes
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  14. Jul 29

    Guys...it's actually

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  15. Jul 28

    “The number of poor Americans is expected to fall by nearly 20 million from 2018 levels, a decline of almost 45 percent. The country has never cut poverty so much in such a short period of time.”

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  16. Jul 28

    "Scientists have found that Mexico and Central America, the Persian Gulf, India, Pakistan and Southeast Asia are all careening toward this threshold [of being too hot to inhabit] before the end of the century." The time to reverse this is now.

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  17. Jul 27

    It's worth emphasizing that the main job of the Capitol officers who were attacked by insurrectionists and then abandoned by Republican members in Congress is...to protect those members of Congress. Also, they were attacked while doing exactly that.

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    “Nothing, truly nothing, has prepared me to address those elected members of our government, who continue to deny the events of that day. And in doing so, betray their oath of office.”
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  18. Retweeted
    Jul 27

    Getting universal child care for Americans

    Name something that 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 an Olympic sport, but 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 like an Olympic sport 🤔
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  19. Jul 27

    Those long stretches of extreme heat that climate scientists have been warning about for ages...they're no longer future scenarios. They're here, and now. It's time to figure out how we can protect the people & places who are most at risk.

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  20. Jul 27

    "Seniors spent the most time alone. But it was young people, especially teenagers, who saw the biggest shift in their social lives. Teenagers 15 to 19 spent six hours a day alone in 2020, up from four and a half in 2019."

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  21. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    “The deepest challenge is the intersection of the ecological crisis and the social justice crisis,” said sociologist Eric Klinenberg, an expert on climate disasters. “If we’re not responsible for one another, that’s a recipe for mass fatalities.”

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