While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

"If you tell people often enough that your product is going to upend their way of life, take their jobs, and very possibly pose an existential threat to humanity, they just might start to believe you," @chaykak.bsky.social writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

We need more sociologists, because learning about the challenges we face is the first step towards overcoming them. I wrote about the critical role sociologists play in our quest for a more equitable future and how anyone can think like a sociologist. #talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences

“I don’t know where Renae picked up measles. It’s one of the most contagious viruses that exists…That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”

We need more sociologists, because learning about the challenges we face is the first step towards overcoming them. I wrote about the critical role sociologists play in our quest for a more equitable future and how anyone can think like a sociologist. #talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences

So let’s have universal health care and help people live in dignity.

I love it when we refuse to settle for the way things are as the way they have to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest: defector.com/the-trump-ad...

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

With all due respect, it's utterly dismaying to see the leader of the AFT saying that we should embrace AI as a solution to the crisis of overburdened, under-resourced teachers instead of leading the charge against this project to make them do more with less.

It is astonishing that humans are able to do these things. This is what happens when we act collectively to solve extremely difficult technical problems. (It works with many other kinds of problems, too.) You can follow Artemis II's encounter with the Moon starting at 1pm EDT. 🧪🔭 plus.nasa.gov

One of many reasons to study soc: refusing to accept our moment as final “threatens fascists, who use fear of change to mobilize followers, pretending…that current arrangements are the only ones possible. Sociology says that’s not how the social world works; what humans have made, they can change.”

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Anytime anyone says we can’t have [some social policy] because of how much it would cost, it’s just not true. The money is there. It’s how we choose to use it

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

If we want people to eat "healthier," we have to make it easier to find joy in things other than food. Like, by guaranteeing paid time off, increasing wages to reduce overwork, lowering housing costs to reduce commutes, and providing healthcare to ensure that bodies/minds are strong enough for fun.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who’ve worked on U.S. immunization programs. They shared a pit-of-the-stomach dread that future American children will fight for their lives against infections that have long been preventable. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Turns out that being told you’re wrong is a big part of being human: “after engaging with chatbots on a social or moral quandary, people were less likely to admit wrongdoing — and more likely to dig in on the chatbot’s version of events, in which they, the main character, were the one in the right”