Sociologist @ Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times https://tinyurl.com/bdep3r4a and Approaches to Mixed Methods Research https://tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8. she/her | queer | radical, apparently
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I also think it’s the social experience of lockdown, remote schooling, etc. Which I realize wasn’t as complete across the country as is often portrayed, but there is a different experience of being in a social world with COVID protections and without.
This is terrifying.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
This is so grim. Our society is becoming more unequal, more dystopian, less responsive to the non-elites’ concerns, and the Dems want to distract with shady, unethical contracts with influencers.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
I don’t have kids but some fun stuff I can share from blue, Silicon Valley adjacent Bay: -billionaires staring charter schools and then closing them when they get bored -wait i thought that “our payroll software can’t pay teachers” scandal was in 2020? oh this is a new one? -ICE policies
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
This headline is really confusing because for some silly reason CNN won't say that he won RE-ELECTION. He won the seat in 2020 (unopposed) and that's when white residents locked him out
Six years ago today, August 31, 2019, Brooklyn Center Police officers fatally shot Kobe Heisler-Dimock, an unarmed 21-year-old autistic man, as they responded to a mental crisis call. Kobe's mother, Amity, said her son “was never a threat to anybody but himself” when the police killed him. 🧵
HISTORY IS BEING MADE TODAY Today, the largest civilian flotilla ever assembled has set sail from Spain, carrying hope and humanitarian aid to Gaza. People from 44 nations, united on dozens of boats, are defying the blockade with solidarity and courage. (From #GlobalSumudFlotilla on IG & Twitter)
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
Read the entire thread. The govt tries to illegally deport several children and blatantly lies about the circumstances.
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Your dad was Mario Cuomo.
This joke is one of my favorites
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I would argue that the group with the most lasting impact in the Civil Rights Movements was the Black Panthers. They really have a lasting playbook from feeding kids to monitoring the cops. It’s all still useful and practiced.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Anyone saying "It's Newsom or Trump" - Are you just so inured to picking the lesser evil that when a vacuum opens up, you immediately reach for the first lesser evil you can find to fill it? You have literal years to push for better candidates. If you're saying this now, you *are* the problem.
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
UNC-Chapel Hill administrators have removed a student- and community-created mural depicting Palestinian resilience from Hanes Art Center. NC AAUP & UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP call on the Chancellor & Provost to restore the mural and publicly explain how the decision to remove it was made and by whom. 1/3
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
This headline is journalistic malpractice. What is the actual issue at hand here? Commuter opinion polling or the threat of an illegal federal takeover???
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
Them characterizing support for BDS as conformist is WILD. Roughly three-fourths of states have laws or administrative orders barring some form of BDS. No colleges have enacted BDS that I’m aware of and students and faculty have been suspended for supporting it.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
We don't have to live like this.
100+ "U.S. groups [are] demanding that Israeli officials release 16-year-old Palestinian American Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim from imprisonment." "[L]ost over 30 pounds due to Israel denying him food and medical treatment." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #EthnicCleansing
Worth a read:
I guess for no reason at all, I'm reposting a piece I wrote two years ago, entitled "it's the fucking guns, you fucking fucks."
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
The Pod Save America bros are setting up a "debate" about trans rights featuring anti-trans ghoul Matt Yglesias, apparently! No clue who the "pro-trans" side will be repped by, but I'm really worried that they're going to just find someone to get steamrolled.
Reem Hamadaqa is among 70 Palestinian students accepted into Canadian graduate programs who are unable to leave Gaza due to the Israeli siege and genocide. The students are calling on the Canadian government to defend their right to education. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/70-p...
Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.
Yes! Both because it’s the right thing to do and they are supposed to be leaders! The polls obsession is ridiculous.
Despite what some Democratic consultants suggest, the pro-democracy party’s first question shouldn’t be, “Does stopping fascism poll well?”
Friedland looks horrified and disgusted, as he should, and Torres looks mostly confused. And I think his confusion is why anyone would care about human lives that, to him, are worthless. What a hollow shell of a person.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
I think a lot about how in the book “Empire of AI” by Karen Hao, Hao wrote that female researchers at OpenAI pointed how OpenAI’s models reinforced bias & tried to put in guardrails…but were told that it wasn’t important & their concerns were dismissed
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
the first grand jury in the history of the country to NOT indict a ham sandwich
I don’t know if the parallels are fully there but this is reminding me of the discussion about queerness of the early SS on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
Yaaaay I’m in The Guardian. Can’t wait for the nativist and/or finger-wagging hate mail 🌈
Not at all shocking, but still infuriating. truthout.org/articles/for...
of course what he means isn’t “don’t use these words” but “don’t talk about this stuff”
The goal of “message advice” discourse is not to provide messaging advice (data suggests that GOP politicians use this jargon more frequently than Democrats). Instead, “messaging advice” provides a plausibly deniable frame for stereotyping, and enlists people to unwittingly participate in it.
Hearing that the U of Chicago cuts come from the university taking out loads of debt to expand over the past two decades and being unable pay the interest. The problem with the Chicago School of Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money?
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The press is looking for large marches as a sign of resistance. What we’re doing in DC is community defense.
I would like to quibble with the new part.
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
Please call your reps if you live in WA!!
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
Good morning to everyone who needs reminding that Gavin Newsom, despite everything, is a transphobic dick! 😘
This feels like she’s trying to imitate those 2010s feminist frequency videos by Anita Sarkeesian.
I also love that her lawyer tries to pass it off as cultural differences. She passed the money to a reporter IN A BAG OF CHIPS and ran off.
He’s a terrible mayor but I’m going to miss the slapstick incompetence of him and everyone around him. Highly recommend this article for the unintentional comedy.
Are we doomed to a demographic destiny of decline because ladies aren't having babies? No. We've been here before. It turns out that population projections only describe one of many possible futures. Our actual future is still to be written.
Clearly, the solution is counter-invasion. Men should become menstrual product influencers. The word "men" is right there, beckoning them. Men should invade the space of childcare. Hold timed competitions for changing diapers. Endurance events based on keeping a house with children spotless.
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Also, as @danahoule.bsky.social points out, one clear theme of ICE's little reign of terror is that they are EXTREMELY sensitive to murals, signs, and other displays criticizing ICE. Which means that one of the most effective ways to attack the agency is to produce those things in great numbers
It’s also like… you’re the ones in least need of saving?!? You’ll probably be fine, actually! The fascism is mainly targeting others!
There was no “debate” until Trump broke the law and cowardly mainstream journalists decided not to report the truth.
I'm beginning to think the solution to violent crime is banning conservatives from visiting cities.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Grateful for this resource that outlines the myriad of harms (oligarchy and cognition problems to environmental and labor aspects) from large language models/AI/chat bots. Don't believe the tech hype! Will link to website in my syllabus. UIC United Faculty colleagues rock; thanks Anna!
I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.
It is great to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won their lawsuit against the Trump administration.
I’ve said this before but it remains true- I have the hardest time raising for older men and they also are the ones who wait the longest to ask for help
Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms.
The cruelty is horrifying
Please share, Nema needs to raise $100 chuffed.org/project/1382...
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
The first semester/year I taught Race & Science at the Univ of Oklahoma, I taught a module on medicine and slavery. And a White student told me the lectures made him feel uncomfortable, that the history I presented made him "feel bad about American history." I told him the discomfort is the point.
I am begging y'all to stop calling the militarization of a major city a "distraction". If *YOU* would rather think about Epstein--- and not about the forced mass displacement of human beings--- then just say that.
The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.
Unreal. Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” filmed himself being killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi. Levi was freed from house arrest because the judge said there was no “causal connection” between him shooting & Awdah’s death.
Come to our session on mixed methods today at 10am! #ASA2025
So the Hyatt Regency oversold their rooms and had to send me to another hotel 15 minutes away (just for tonight) which is a pain, but on the plus side I walked into a gathering of DSA folks in keffiyehs at the new hotel so I feel pretty at home #ASA2025 🇵🇸 🌹
But the keffiyehs!!!
Presenting at #ASA2025 about why scholars should engage in public and media discussions. Because meaning-making around US politics & policies is a multilingual & transnational process, & because misinformation spreads through different channels, it has to be corrected in many arenas simultaneously.
1) Andrew Cuomo's book deal was $5 million. 2) His net worth is estimated at $10 million. (Forbes) 3) Cuomo's scandals have cost NY state taxpayers $60 million in legal fees. 4) Andrew Cuomo's own father was governor for three terms.
It’s about fairness in women’s sports.
Trans people have been telling us over and over again, what the stakes are. If ‘the vast majority of Americans’ still don’t know; it’s more to do with those Americans than trans people.
Very easy slam dunk issue for Dems that will be ignored because their consultants are scared of trans athlete polling.
