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you should care about people and be a fucking adult.

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The @nytimes.com broke down how DC became a testing ground for ICE and their conclusions are exactly what organizers have been screaming about at the top of our lungs: “One key to the strategy: ICE’s close partnership with both [MPD] and the U.S. Park Police.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Let us all resolve in our personal lives to be significantly less tolerant of people that deploy racialized rhetoric. Shun people that do this. Mock people that laugh at it. There is a proper way to conduct yourself in public office and if you can’t meet that standard you should resign.

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"Many people still have an elderly relative who survived a bout of severe childhood illness; not one of us has an elderly relative who did not." This is the best and perhaps most important illustration of sample selection i have seen in a good long while.

USDA’s shutdown plan says that #WIC “shall continue operations during a lapse in appropriations, subject to the availability of funding.” www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

Looks like someone sank the BLS mark.

Trump pulls nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics, AP source says: thehill.com/homenews/ap/...

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Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity? 🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured! 🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM #ImpactfulData #EarthScience

"...the People’s Patrol, one of many rapid-response networks countering a Trump administration deportation blitz in #Chicago. The idea is to locate immigration enforcement activity, record it, document abuses and, right on the spot, voice community opposition." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

As online attackers push to get workers fired for online speech, there's a lot a steward can do: ✅Make the employer present the case ✅Ask how the episode is relevant to the workplace ✅Mobilize members around defense of free speech labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...

Just discovered a neat little #QuartoPub trick for formatting a range of dates. Quarto doesn't support start/end dates, but you can modify the date formatting string to fake it quarto.org/docs/referen...

Striking figure. But inventory is not what's usually meant by supply. To me, this looks more like a story about people's aversion to selling at a loss.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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This new article by the excellent Sara Farris looks like it will also be relevant to Environmental Humanities, where there is an increasing turn to theoretically shallow invocations of 'care' as one of the answers to our environmental predicament.

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

the type of context a lot of people already know on here, but I think can get lost over time to a broader audience. Also going to plug @victorerikray.bsky.social, @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social's work on #RacializedAdministrativeBurdens academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

This is an important investigation and the context I’d add as a sociologist is how hard-to-use these programs already are for many—from years-long waiting lines for section 8 or housing, to lack of landlords willing to rent to Section 8 households, and ongoing loss of public housing units

And there it is: "Thune says farmers will need a bailout this year from tariff money" share.google/ud2ExrnUtZ4V...

On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, and as attacks escalate and mis/dis-information spreads, a reminder: this starter pack can help get you started in finding some excellent Bluesky accounts sharing data & information on sexual and reproductive health. go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj

This is a SOS cry out for help. We can’t be any clearer than this. People if you can donate pls do or share with your friends. Your donation is life saving for us. PayPal.me/blacktranstexas Cashapp $bttconnection see us now, hear us now, let us live now #trans #transallies #mutualaid

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

According to the National Alliance To End Homelessness around $10 billion to house everyone who's homeless at the start. To sustain it, more would be needed. If it's $10 billion yearly, $100 billion would cover ten years of keeping everyone in a home. endhomelessness.org/resources/re...

US import taxes are ramping up more slowly than they are announced, suggesting that the impact on the economy will arrive at a delay. Numbers released yesterday indicate that the collected US tariff rate climbed to 11.2% in August, below the 16.5-17.5% terminal level expected under current policy:

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To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) reminds us that the students, staff, and faculty at any of California's 116 community colleges can get free immigration legal services through #FindYourAlly. To find out more and book an appointment visit FindYourAlly.com

Finally some good news out of UCLA… Our program has been elevated to an official Department of Labor Studies, the first labor studies department in UC history! newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...

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❗️DONATIONS NEEDED❗️ Recently housed neighbor being held in ICE custody in VA. We need $1k to cover his bond & bring him home. C*shApp: $RemoraHouseDC or givebutter.com/remorahouse Love & solidarity 🖤🖤

Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

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I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

It turns out I have been #rstats blogging continuously for 10 years. I reflect on how and why in this post. Key message, probably unsurprising, is that blogging primarily meets my own needs to play around and learn with code and data. Audiences second, I'm afraid. freerangestats.info/blog/2025/09...

Mexico City Evictions Violate International Law, Experts Warn Mexico City has been plagued by evictions involving irregular hours, separated families, violence, and property theft by unidentified persons who act in concert with police and civic officials.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I play this logic game in bed every morning to make sure the first thing my brain takes in isn't whatever bullshit the regime is doing

The things that get me about this episode is that their ideological hatred of civil servants and technocrats leads them to torch obviously-valuable research, and what’s even dumber is that they believe poverty, joblessness, etc will not exist if it is not measured

Don't forget your mandatory Coltrane on the equinox! John Coltrane - Equinox

Is anyone else having issues with #ggdark when using #ggplot2 4.0? #rstats I get errors like “-@family must be NULL or character, not double” that I’ve never received before. Just wondering if it’s because it hasn’t been updated yet, or I have a USER issue.

Food insecurity won’t go away just because the Trump administration has apparently decided to stop measuring it — especially with food prices rising & the deepest cuts to SNAP in history beginning to go into effect.

Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed: - socks - bug spray in summer - hand warmers in winter - batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios) - water Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside