The U.S. government wants to ban TikTok out of concern that user data is going to China. They demand TikTok be sold to a U.S. owner. This would mean instead of data possibly going to China, it would be in U.S. hands. How about making sure user data is private, period?

If you want to smell of anus, and armpits:

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How does one get a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research about Ukraine when a war means no such funding is possible? You apply to teach and research in Moldova, instead - just a three-hour road trip to Odesa. Made it through Round 1 and now it heads to Chisinau for further review.

In my sociology classes, I use Santa as an example of a cultural ritual that is creepy out of context.  An old man obsessed with children sitting on his lap, who laughs strangely, asks if they've been naughty, and then breaks into their houses is cause for legal action, not treats. The kid knows.

UI students are raising their voices, pushing back on state board and legislative proposals to close UI Black Cultural Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs, LGBTQ+ support services, and UI Women’s Center. More below: www.spokesman.com/stories/2024...

I'm a social scientist, so I get it. But it still strikes me as depraved when I see a survey question gambling on the rights of the most vulnerable.

All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

Who woulda thought? Let's hug Republicans and the "center" more. Fire all these high paid out of touch consultants. Just useless.

Florida is coming after sociology, as GOP across the country tries to control (higher) education within constraints of First Ammendment. Some (non-)expert thoughts on this piece 🧵

Ironically, posting on social media. Do we return to face-to-face communications to strategize and organize? New documentary reinforces my sense we should:

Rep Jasmine Crockett bringing the fire.

The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Cascade PBS is airing a documentary tonight that details the abuses of Hurst and Son, LLC a corporation owning over 70 mobile home communities in WA state & 6 mobile home communities where I live and teach in Moscow, Idaho. I am quoted in the accompanying article. www.cascadepbs.org/investigatio...

As an introduction, thought I would let folks know that my book Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-class Communities has been out for close to a year. It is an environmental, community action story about slow violence in a mobile home park that eventually closed.

A lot of people responsible for poor decisions are on a press tour right now because if they didn’t, people would rightfully be questioning THEIR leadership and they know it. It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

The Trump admin is shaping up to be the biggest dumpster fire in history. If this was being done by the Dems, the Republicans would be hysterical on Fox and clutching pearls. BTW reps; enjoy, power will change hands someday. Better hope they are bigger men than you.

I know we live in a corporate Oligarchy, but I've never seen it so transparently so.