Joseph Baroz

Staten Island. Notre Dame. Red BMW. Currently Brooklyn. NYU. The R Train.

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

Congrats to the ND Club of Staten Island on 25 years of giving to our community and inspiring many others https://t.co/On1fzP15Ye

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@nicolegelinas This is one of my favorite insights from your book - since I've been able to share it 3 or 4 times since I read it

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@createcraig X should force this scumbag @unionGustavo to change his handle

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@NYCMayor You are the ongoing threat

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@KelseyTuoc I took an American Studies class called Hip Hop is Dead senior year as an elective. Day 1 there were 6 football players. Day 2 there was one left since it was obviously going to be a "real" class.

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@NYCMayor This is ones on you asshole

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@MiriVinni Also incredible food that is regularly mentioned on NYC food and travel sites

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@MiriVinni I'd say they probably thought it was too close to the Little Africa enclave, but it would be no different than the Brooklyn Chinatown / Little Mexico design for Sunset Park.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’ve always found people who bristle at “American exceptionalism” kind of… weird. Not because I lack self-awareness — I’ve spent my career cataloging every way this country fails to live up to its own rules. But that’s exactly why I love it so damn much. We built a system designed to be shamed by its own founding documents, and it still delivered one of the most spectacular, world-altering runs in human history. A genuine force for human flourishing.

I also found the argument against American exceptionalism to be historically illiterate. Here’s a sample of what we were first at:

• The first large-scale democratic republic in human history — not a city-state, not a monarchy with a parliament bolted on, but a bold continental experiment in self-rule, popular sovereignty, and ordered liberty.

• A written Constitution (1789) with separation of powers and checks & balances — still the oldest national constitution in force anywhere.

• The Bill of Rights (1791): the first time a nation wrote “the government cannot touch these” into supreme law and actually meant it. A dare the world copied — from later rights charters to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Public land-grant universities and mass higher education (Morrill Act), opening college to ordinary people no aristocracy would have let near the gates. (but don’t get me started about what happened after we started. Massively federally funding it.)

• Kitty Hawk, 1903 — first controlled powered flight.

• The Moon, 1969 — still the only ones who’ve been there.

• The world’s largest economy since ~1890, powering unprecedented prosperity through grit and genius.

• The assembly line, skyscraper, transistor, personal computer, ARPANET — the backbone of the modern world.

• Telephone, phonograph, GPS — connecting and powering daily life.

• Surgical anesthesia, polio vaccine — saving and transforming millions of lives.

• Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll — brand new American art forms that conquered the globe.

• Hollywood’s dreams, blue jeans, bourbon, and a culture so open a kid like me could devour sushi, burritos, stuffed cabbage, and tabouli in the same week and rightfully think of it all as American.

That’s the part that fills me with genuine love and pride: not just the power or the wins, but the appetite for freedom, creativity, and reinvention. The audacity to say “We the People” and keep trying to live up to it.

What do you love most about this truly exceptional country? 🇺🇸

[Kate Hyde @KateHydeNY]

Are we as offended by Mamdani using George Washington's desk to make a speech once we realize he doesn't even know how a desk works?

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@Delta @Airbus I'm once again asking why the changing table in the lav of an A321neo is virtually unusable?

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

The changing table in the lav of the A321neo maybe the most useless one I've seen on an aircraft - including regional jets. Does anyone in France have kids @Airbus?

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

The changing table in the lav of the A321neo maybe the most useless one I've seen on an aircraft - including regional jets. Does anyone in France have kids @Airbus?

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

Jack, you're great, but you're no St. Hildegard of Bingen.

[Variety @Variety]

Jack Antonoff slammed people who use AI to make art and music as "godless whores":

"So to everyone who is gassed up about the new ways you can fake making art, by all means drive right off that cliff. We're genuinely happy to see you go. Generations coming will be engaging in the ancient ritual of writing, recording and performing as it comes to us from God." https://t.co/K5XI8DbKse

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@jessesingal How does a Stern student make it through 4 years there without at least becoming aware of who Haidt is?

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@jbarro A woman followed the instructions, leaving her belongings on the plane, and got totally screwed because that included her ID and Frontier/NTSB would not allow her to retrieve it. Coming around to team @asymmetricinfo on this one.

https://t.co/5SzHiDqwR0

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

You idiots who think Trump is staging assassination attempts. You think he would agree to a plan wherein someone STOPS HIM FROM TROLLING A CAPTIVE ROOM OF THOUSANDS OF JOURNALISTS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF? This is his dream scenario.

[Holtz's Heroes Foundation @HoltzHeroes]

Coach Holtz implored us not to chase success, but rather we were to pursue significance. When you’re significant you positively impact the lives of others. There is no great example of significance than our dear friend Joe Delaney.
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[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@JustinBrannan @UrbanCourtyard @sfchronicle Make the staples development a courtyard block you Coward!

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@CartoonsHateHer My wife gave up Twitter for lent but she says Sam Hartman

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@TheStalwart The dril tweet about ISIS but this one is definitely up there

[Joseph Baroz @jbaroz]

@nicolegelinas Put all leases on the blockchain (I kid).