At #ASA2025 I was asked to be on the opening plenary on the state of sociology. I prepared some remarks, and didn't get to say all of them - so, here's what I think about where we are as a discipline and also just where we are in terms of higher education & democracy. daniellaurison.com/519-2/

We are already an authoritarian country. We’re not working to prevent it; we’re now working…to get out of it.

just looping back on this october 2024 warning and yep we have ticked through them all

I know we keep saying this but it really is fascism.

I wonder if there will be any negative outcomes from everything turning into a predatory and exploitative scam and the state doing nothing with any ethos of care to protect people from it all

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

Thank you Greyhound!

the orcas have discovered Duolingo and they're using it to radicalize woodpeckers

An important message.

This has proper made me chortle. The poor eagle 😬😂

Re: U.S. CECOT detainees, the main q is NOT 'did they ever allegedly commit a crime?' Rather: Is the US allowed to deliver them into lifetime imprisonment in a notorious Salvadoran prison camp without charge, trial, sentencing, or consideration of international/asylum/anti-torture law? Clearly no!

AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

It really bothers me that all the arguments I am reading about why Venezuelan migrants should get due process is that 70-something percent of them are not even criminals. It’s become controversial to argue that even criminals have a right to due process.

I will be honest: I could not believe the WH press secretary herself used the phrase "bend the knee" but she did. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

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