there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

Congratulations to Vivian Shaw @vivianshaw.bsky.social (2018-19) and Kanoko Kamata (2017-18) on their co-authored article, "Compartmentalizing Intersectionality: Feminist Translations in Anti-Racist and Anti-Rape Activism in Japan," in Gender & Society. doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Hedged Out featured in @wsj.com in a piece by Matt Wirz on how private-managers influence the U.S. economy and politics in alarming ways that should concern us all—and especially students, workers, and retirees. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

More than 350,000 noncitizen healthcare workers keep our system afloat—many serving in underserved areas. Yet they now face possible deportation. These workers aren’t just essential—they’re irreplaceable. Let’s protect and uplift those who protect our health. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

In 2017, the Trump administration tried to kill >$200 million in federal grants for teen pregnancy programs bc it wanted to prioritize abstinence-first approaches. The courts prevented them from terminating w/o cause, so the admin inserted the “effectuates” language into OMB guidance on grants.

My new paper is “The Autumn of the White Patriarch: Identity and Inequality in American Capitalism.” This is the key chart. It shows how white men’s share of national income has fallen since the 1960s. Imho, this is why we have such identity politics on the US right today. 1/11

This is the most controversial graph from my new paper. It suggests that Piketty’s “golden age of social democracy” after World War II only really existed in the United States if you were white and male. 1/5

Some good news that may have gotten lost amid the headlines: Costco is raising the average hourly wage to over $30 after negotiations with their workers’ union. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Trump's budget will starve the poor to feed the rich. The Republican Party are creating a true oligarchy. To fight it and build wealth and power for working-class communities, we need economic democracy. Read the op-ed I wrote with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for The Guardian.

The U.S. economy favors billionaires over families. The GOP’s $4.5tn tax giveaway proves it—paid for by gutting Medicaid & more. @itsmccarthy.bsky.social & Rashida Tlaib on building a democratic economy that puts power in workers’ hands @theguardian.com ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/commentis...

What does it mean to make AI pro worker? “Give workers a seat at the table in that transition.”

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Biden Administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the US Government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain. open.spotify.com/episode/6u7l... youtu.be/Btos-LEYQ30?...

Musk’s billions are in heavily illiquid and indebted capital. He has long borrowed against his shares in SpaceX and Tesla, of which the declining stocks accounts for most of his wealth. Investors must be concerned. How long until this house of cards collapses? www.forbes.com/sites/johnhy...

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Ever find yourself wishing sociology books had more pictures in them? Or maybe you’ve recently found yourself spending more time…um…thinking about the hidden curriculum in US public schools? If so, check out Michael Messner’s newest book, The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens!

I have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...

Write to your Congress-critters and Senators today (especially in red states) and urge them to contact the White House and let them know your thoughts. Mine are that the purge yesterday likely did considerable damage to the US biomedical research and public health capacity. con'ted 3/n

Checking in with sources this morning... The total from NIH was apparently slightly more than 1500 people (out of 5200 HHS Department-wide) 1/n

Here’s a short interview I did about the hidden human labour behind AI. www.context.news/ai/eu-law-la...

Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

This is horrifying. And must be stopped.

A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!

1. The state department has removed transgender people from its website and just reads "LGB Travelers," as reported by a number of journalists. However, on further investigation, it is also removing trans-specific directions for individual countries. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

DOJ Urges Staffers To Rat Out Civil Rights Supporters DOJ Attacks Civil Rights At Key Agencies DOJ Accused Of Bigotry In Attack On Civil Rights not DOJ Pursues Anti-DEI Agena DOJ Cracks Down On Woke, DEI DOJ Wants Snitches To Report On DEI Violations

The biggest tech and social media companies have consolidated behind Trump.

Pay attention to America's infrastructure of wealth, secrecy, and tax avoidance, and you might find yourself asking an uncomfortable question. “We talk all the time about Putin and his oligarchic friends," Bernie Sanders told us. “But for obvious reasons, we don’t talk about oligarchy in the US.”

(That's Mark in the back, holding the cake) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My latest from the Hamilton Project and @brookings.edu makes it clear that work requirements in safety net programs do not make sense given the reality of low-wage work in America.

Thank you Meg!! Yes, the H-1B and H-4 is one of the most egregious manifestation of U.S.’s gendered and racialized visa regime.

@pallavib.bsky.social wrote an award winning book about this—the gendered and radicalized implications of the dependent visa programs. Check out The Opportunity Trap @nyupress.bsky.social

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

Braun et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

“Is Contraception Under Attack?…Intentionally or not, the Dobbs decision and the state-level bans that are its progeny have exerted a chilling effect on birth control. “ @amandajean.bsky.social has been warning of this for years… www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Jane's Due Process has always supported both pregnant and parenting young Texans (for example representing young people who wanted to stay in public school while pregnant and parenting!), but I'm so grateful to see them stepping up materially - no just legally - in these times. ✊

I co-directed this special issue of the Canadian Review of Sociology celebrating the work of Viviana A. Zelizer with Jeanne Lazarus. Zelizer is one of the most recognized economic sociologists; the issue highlights her significance for family and intimacy scholars. Links to all the articles below👇

One way to analyze the 'Harris Flop' from the perspective of the political sociology of emotions might be through the concept of 'emotional capital', the lack of which is having a negative effect on his political capital. See my paper on this if interested: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GE24

Random advice for social science grad students: It takes a very long time to read even a portion of what "everybody has read" in your field, and of course this is one of your biggest jobs in grad school. But I have also seen that there is huge benefit to reading what few around you have read. 1/2

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Devastating. At last week's criminology meetings, James Densley, David Pyrooz & Jillian Peterson shared results of their nationally representative YouGov survey of exposure to mass shootings (w/ 4+ shot). 7% of US adults reported being present on scene at a mass shooting 2% reported being injured

What's happened to X proves the need for Bluesky. The future company is a possible adversary. We make decisions knowing that we won't always be here or won't always be able to control the company's decisions. It's why we've given you the freedom of exit to go elsewhere w your followers and data.

Ok, so I typed down some definitional thoughts on what makes an Influencer Intellectual so unique. I consider this my academic contribution of the year, thank you. pardoguerra.org/2024/11/14/i...

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality