The #1 thing you can do for displaced people is contribute money, either to GoFundMe requests or relevant mutual aid efforts. The #2 - # nonillion things you can do are to see #1.

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Yeah, the story here isn’t that a state court proceeding is being allowed to continue normally, it’s that there are four Supreme Court justices prepared to shamelessly rubber stamp any demand Trump makes.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

January is National Poverty in America Awareness Month – sadly, the carceral system is infamous for perpetuating poverty According to 2017 data, nearly half of people with multiple arrests had incomes below $10,000/year Time to support our communities instead of locking them up

"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility" New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003... #sociology #demography #econsky

“If people are not feeling the fire and are just seeing it, they might think it’s not getting closer and not getting more dangerous. During the day we were like ‘Oh my god, it’s so far’, but then suddenly it was so close. I’ve never seen something like this movie. This is like a horror movie.”

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

it is so important to remember that IN THE MOMENT there was no one who thought jan. 6 was some innocent protest gone awry. everyone recognized it for what it was.

Teaching my first graduate seminar today! Please send positive vibes and any cute animal gifs you can think of.

Scenes from a pro-life country

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Firaxis—the studio behind the Civilization series—is hiring a historian. An *actual* historian. And note, when they ask for "4+ years as a Writer, Narrative Designer, or other position with commensurate duties," that includes teaching, writing, and research—i.e. your Ph.D. in History.

Still the best two sentences on climate action.

BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the longest-living chief executive in U.S. history, has died. He was 100. apnews.com/article/jimm...

In case they skip over it in the obituaries, Jimmy Carter was the first and so far only US president to name the oppression of Palestinians as apartheid. He even wrote a whole book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

1 year ago, @chrislhayes.bsky.social: "There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific - and truly October 7 was horrific - that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza, and what we as Americans, and our government, are abetting. It must end. We must stop it." Reader, we did not stop it yet.

Just as holiday delivery frenzy hits its peak, Amazon workers are striking. The union says it is the largest strike against the company U.S. history. apnews.com/article/amaz...

My response below to Qs for this article on “Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event” in which my talk was one that made four Jewish students feel threatened bc I used the word genocide. Let’s unpack since they gave ADL the last word. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...

Interesting findings on how social services—like housing—end up giving way to more policing. Many scholars have highlighted how police seem to increasingly be cities’ first-line response to social problems like homelessness. This study helps tell that story as a function of funding decisions.

i came out over 40 with access to informed consent HRT. still took months to get meds. had time & resources to find multiple shrinks to write clearances but despite best efforts over 2yrs, i couldn’t book surgery in time to beat a second trump term. i played on “low difficulty”; kids play on high.

the way we're socialized to see violence exclusively as interpersonal—& not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same with panics about "crime"/shoplifting vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us

The ongoing genocide in Gaza has resulted in nearly 100,000 individuals sustaining life-altering injuries and disabilities. One. Hundred. Thousand.

Let that sink in: in the occupied territories, ru has destroyed “750 libraries, 120 museums, 38 theaters, cinemas, and philharmonics, as well as more than 1,179 cultural heritage objects. Additionally, Russian forces have destroyed over 200 million Ukrainian books.”

Oh, so he’s a cutie patootie AND on the right side of history??? Love to see it.

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Project 2025 polls at 6% approval. Voters didn’t believe Trump was actually going to do—he lied and the press bought it. But now he’s actually doing it. He’s appointed key authors to admin positions. If Democrats can’t make that an issue, what is the point of the Democratic Party?

ADHD saturates the American prison system. While only 4.4% of the general public has ADHD, as many as half of adult prisoners and two-thirds of children in juvenile facilities have the condition. Yet no state in the country prioritizes ADHD treatment in its prisons. theappeal.org/adhd-treatme...

That "intellectual diversity" and "free speech" were trojan horses for right-wing power-grabs has been obvious from the start and I remain disappointed how many supposedly rational folks took bad-faith actors at their word.

The new issue of Theoretical Criminology is out in the world with a terrific special issue on Dismantling the Shadow Carceral State, edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, & April D. Fernandes. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/28/4

Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The charges include the war crime of using starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

One thing this article would have benefitted from was a discussion with the Time's expert Masha Gessen, whose book on Russia's descent into authoritarianism describes the conflicted relationship would-be authoritarians have with sociology. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

Historic but not enough: Bernie Sanders and 18 Senators took a stand to block U.S. arms sales to Israel—the most support ever for such a move. Yet the Senate still voted to fund genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/sena...

The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”

We got a million stories like this during the first Trump Admin, anonymous quotes from GOP electeds expressing "concerns" about his actions and "weighing" whether they could vote for his agenda. It's access journalism at its worst. In the end they supported everything.

Want the geeky backstory on that article some crimprof made you read? I’m delighted and a li’l embarrassed to share this interview with the amazing Sarah Shannon for the Oral History of Criminology Project. Big thanks to Sarah & OHCP Director Brendan Dooley www.criminologystories.com/christopher-...

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