In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️

reposting now that I’ve found @leahegose.bsky.social!!

Fantastic op-ed from an excellent sociologist, Leah Gose, on the critical importance of SNAP and the challenge food pantries face in closing an uncloseable gap. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Guys. The Democrat got the highest votes in Pocatello’s mayoral race last night. We are looking at a runoff in December since no one hit 50% (five candidates ran) but that’s never happened in our almost-12 years here.

This is such a disappointing management decision. Not just because @leximcmenamin.com and their colleagues are excellent journalists, but because they never, ever underestimated what teen girls might find interesting or care about.

“Bring It On Home to Me” is probably the best song I’ve ever heard. I will never get tired of it, that “if you ever, change your mind, about leaving — leaving me behind”

Want to speak up for an affordable, inclusive Princeton? Write to us, and get a yard sign! princeton4all.org

Slow Horses. What an utter treat it is.

Pretty heartbreaking stuff to get a massive email from my kids’ school counselor about the resources available for those families that will be hungry starting on Monday.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Slow! Horses!

Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.

I’m hard pressed to think of a greater kitchen table issue than abortion.

A huge swathe of my community is mobilizing to fund our food banks & ensure people will be able to eat when SNAP benefits lapse on Friday. Even some of our local conservative megachurches are getting involved. This crisis has definitely broken through to those who aren't terminally online.

Many food banks also accept & distribute cat and dog food. Many rescues & shelters also have food pantries. (This is also important, because many people will cut back on quality & volume of food they eat. In order to keep their pets safe at home.) ❤️

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash. For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

The apples are really so so good. We bought 70-some pounds today — after having bought 50-some pounds a few weeks ago.

I’m in hiding.

I often share that Idaho is a bellwether for the rest of the country, but is often overlooked because of our small population and (once) fringe politics. But increasingly, as @propublica.org details week after week, Idaho is at fore. Idaho has some dang good journalists too, as ProPublica knows.

We got live tv for the series and if the Mariners don’t win, please leave me alone for a very long time.

Portland was at its weirdest and most glorious and its most powerful and its most peaceful this afternoon. Sometimes the best run isn’t a run at all. It’s a march. This is about running. This is not about running.

2000 people, maybe the largest protest in Pocatello history.

Update: newspaper says 2000 PEOPLE IN POCATELLO!!

Somewhere around 1000 people (heard whispers of 1200) in Pocatello, ID.

I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us

Allison Daminger #published "What's on Her Mind?: The Mental Workload of Family Life" with @princetonupress.bsky.social The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/09/24/w...

I can still remember my childhood best friends’ phone numbers.

In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. The reviews are split.

The first high-elevation snowfall visible from our living room windows does something to my heart. I’m wrecked for warmer climes.

Exciting developments at @princetonupress.bsky.social!

I watch and rewatch Felicity with pretty decent regularity and am absolutely convinced that show shaped a significant part of my life. It may well be my favorite show.

Guy who did not get any of the birthday cake at New York Times named senior editor at CBS News

Another incredible opportunity! So many profoundly smart and thoughtful people on this panel (and who doesn't love getting to hear from @dawnd.bsky.social?!?)!

A fantastic opportunity to learn more about publishing!

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves. @lauragarbes.bsky.social's Listeners Like Who? is out now. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

So much wrong this week, but today, before the sun rose, my eleven-year-old and I ran sharing earbuds and listening to the new Taylor album. There was some dancing.

Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.

Just like the most unhinged Ted Talk of all time.

Did you unexpectedly call me? Was I supposed to unexpectedly call you? If so, I took no further notes and need help.

Listen to Laura Vanderkam’s interview with Allison Daminger, author of What’s On Her Mind, for the podcast Before Breakfast, highlighting ways we can share and reduce the mental load in our home lives: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h....

Listen: Allison Daminger, author of What’s On Her Mind, speaks with Jo Piazza about the mental load of family life for Under the Influence:

Most days I think about an acquaintance who, after the 2016 election, told me, "It's going to be fine, though, because Republicans will provide all the necessary checks and balances. They won't just give up."

Idaho is really out here like "yeah, we're still all in"

From a renowned extremism expert, Man Up shows how misogyny drives mass violence, offering strategies that we all—including parents, teachers, counselors—can use to quell this rising tide. @milleridriss.bsky.social Out now. Learn more about this important book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

what if we didn’t care why people were in poverty or homeless but instead only cared that they weren’t?

we're one week away from our next PAGES meeting! if you haven't signed up yet, here's your reminder

My daughter has always used a tablet-based platform for standardized testing here in Idaho and most weeks they do some work on it, with monthly metrics testing and an annual exam. It sucks and we talk a lot as a family about standardized testing, but that's not what this is about. It's about AI.

Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please

Thanks to Simón Escoffier for a very generous review of URBAN POWER in the newest issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S153...