I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Today in intro to sociology through dnd I had to explain to people that yes, sometimes the bard in your party will try to seduce the dragon

Did not expect to be demanding something needs to be *more* Orwellian

Today in teaching sociological theory "this is the last class where I know someone who wrote the readings because everyone else we read is long dead"

THIS

New in Social Movement Studies 🔔 Check out Nathan Katz's (@nathankatz.bsky.social) "Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On the one hand I'm not looking forward to teaching on zoom for the next few weeks due to a broken shoulder. On the other hand: I start teaching Soc theory and introduction to sociology through dungeons and dragons this quarter! Time to log all the weird experimental shit I'm trying to pull!

Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions: How's that book coming? Oh, you are still working on that book? Does it usually take that long? How much money will you make?

Woo! It's been a long wait but my new article is now published in @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning and I can't tell if it's a post-surgery drug induced fever dream or not

Melanie while we are prepping in the kitchen: Hells Kitchen Tech edition: you thought Dr. Katz was tough on your writing wait until he tries your cooking

Apparently Morrissey is canceling the rest of his tour dates this year The blue tsunami continues! wokeness is back!

Last night I was rear ended, setting off a 5 car crash on the highway and broke my shoulder. Naturally I told my students/canceled a few days of classes. The influx emails from students saying they are praying for me has been both heartwarming and a real "oh right you're in the south" moment

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines. Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

1 million percent chance George Santos will start his own crypto currency in the upcoming months. 50% chance it will be called jailcoin

He got out after writing a flattering letter!? To paraphrase @mollyereynolds.bsky.social "I always tell people Washington DC isn't like Veep, except for George Santos"

Well this explains a lot. And also makes a lot of stuff more frustrating

Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”

And so my interests collide once again

Just like prominent Nazi war criminals such as Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

Even for universities desperate for funding with conservative leaders, the inability to raise tuition and the potential cutting of very prestigious departments and programs would seem to be a nonstarter. Also the fact that it’s “five years” certainly is ominous.

🚨🚨🚨 The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else… This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.

So as Trump starts talking about "the enemy within" I wanna point out that wrote about the GOP using this rhetoric in the 2016 primary. It's not just a trump thing they've been trying to normalize violence against America for years

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

We are looking for another socilologist!

So I'm reviewing an article for a journal and they talk about how one of the strengths of their Ai-based analysis is that it takes away "researcher bias" in category construction. That's a fun way to speak out against human understanding

Affirmative action for conservatives strikes again! Remember folks there is no such thing as a neutral policy but there is such a thing as going out of your way to make the partisan elements more extreme and to squash civil liberties

Again and again the Supreme Court has issued barely written emergency injunctions, overturning lower courts, on the notion that Trump suffers some irreparable damage by abiding by the constitution. Meanwhile, real victims with real harms can expect no help. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

My drive to work took longer than normal due to traffic. Some rapture we're having

Gotta love how Klein's vision for democratic victory is "chase what's popular by abandoning the winning issues you have to replicate the failed strategies of the 2010s."

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Happy birthday to postpunk Johnny Cash! Guess I gotta listen to let love in tomorrow

I do like the idea of university admins having to read all the 1000+ pages of History of Economic Analysis

A bit late to the party but the issues comparing Roseanne and Kimmel are: 1) Roseanne made racist tweets. Kimmel was doing his job (commentary on current events) 2) ABC firing Roseanne was in response to public backlash. ABC firing Kimmel was to make the presidential admin happy

49 years ago today "Cherry Bomb" is a punk-influenced hard rock single by the all-female band the Runaways from their self-titled debut album, released on this day in 1976 #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #therunaways #cherrybomb #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Donald Trump's Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

#nowspinning the demon and the devotee by the love me nots. So thrilled to finally get my hands on this

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

Well this is the most terrifying thing I've seen in the last 24 hours

@msnbc.com Now that you have a better understanding of how you hastily and wrongfully fired Matthew Dowd, you can apologize to him, and quietly reinstate his job. It was a mistake, clearly you can see this now.

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...