Cass Sunstein?

How about we make police carry liability insurance so the city doesn't have to cover the millions a year ($100 million in 2024, I believe) in lawsuits against the CPD? Nah, let's just raise property taxes again.

Really, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? The guy who said gays should be stoned to death and Black women don't have the brain power of white men was practicing politics the right way? You're trash, Ezra. Be quiet. We don't have to respect a guy's bigotry just because he's dead.

Fired for teaching facts… www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

So tired of being told that sexualities work is “better suited” for speciality journals. Do better, editors.

The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.

New newest article "Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People" is now available open access in Critical Criminology. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New piece from #PolicingTheRainbow out now in Criminology! We show that LGBTQ people have a much bigger appetite for police reform than non-LGBTQ people. Check it out (it's short!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Article acceptance to brighten up this dreary Wednesday!

Very excited to finally get to announce that next spring I will be a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study at Uni of Illinois where I will start writing for my second book based on #PolicingtheRainbow. So grateful to those who helped me in this endeavor and excited to get started!

One of my students just wrote me the best note a teacher can get, and I'm bawling. Amidst all the ChatGPT generated papers, sometimes students remind you exactly why you love teaching, so I couldn't resist sharing a little piece of what they wrote ❤️

Woohoo!

While I don't disagree, I also have a new paper coming out soon that shows that when you tell people what "defund the police" actually means (i.e., move money from police to social services), there is much higher support for it.

The thing is, the reason we don't trust conservatives in sociology is because the empirical evidence rarely supports conservative viewpoints. The reason many sociologists are "liberal" is not because we are ideologues; it is because we follow the evidence.

out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️

SCOTUS right now.

There's a really fascinating thesis to be written on the far right's cooptation/weaponization of antisemitism

What could have been the story of Trump if the US were sane.

Thankful to have this guy as my governor right now and to see at least one Dem not seeking to appease Trump or find "common ground" with a fascist. apnews.com/article/jb-p...

Dems could just put "RICH SHITTY MEN STEALING YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY" on hats and tshirts and I think it would be more effective messaging than whatever they're doing now

A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.

Look what came in the mail! So grateful to have my work with Rocio Rosales recognized by the Division on Queer Criminology!

@maddow.msnbc.com I appreciated you calling out @msnbc.com for their racist firings of nearly all their anchors of color. But take it a step further. You *are* MSNBC. It barely exists without you. So walk away. Cut ties. Go to a podcast format. People will follow you. I'm personally done with MSNBC.

Hey, DOGE, the IRS says it could take 21 days for me to get my refund. What happened to government efficiency? You sure took the money I owed you last year real fast though.

“It appears, however, some legacy systems could be on the chopping block, like F-35 aircraft and armored vehicles.” Armored vehicles—like the ones Musk is getting $400 million for thru the State Dept? I see.

It was bound to come, but we just got the official email from NIJ saying that we cannot collect gender identity information on our project on anti-LGBTQ violence. Luckily, we just wrapped data collection, so we're in the clear. But how is this not a violation of the 1st amendment?

Oh look, more compliance in advance 🙄 www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

That's the thing: courts have no enforcement power. If Trump chooses to ignore them (as he is doing), we have little recourse other than mass mobilization. popular.info/p/trump-main...

And this is why I no longer read the @nytimes.com

Okay, so keep walking. Make them arrest you. You’re a f*cking Senator. Do your job.

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

People are dying because Trump illegally cut off foreign aid. He’s purging civil servants and law enforcement officers deemed insufficiently loyal. He unilaterally suspended Medicaid and froze trillions in funding. All of this is unlawful! And Democrats are … touting areas of bipartisan compromise?

Completely unsurprising, but just got word that my presentation to NIJ's Civil Rights Division on LGBTQ people's experiences with police is officially cancelled. At a time when it's the most needed.

This is crazy, y'all. The Trump admin appears to be literally deleting important sources of data on LGBTQ people.

What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading

So, this is clearly illegal, right? Congress appropriated the money. Trump doesn't get to unilaterally decide otherwise, right? Why are people just rolling over on this? Smh www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

I've had a nearly year and half drought in publishing. Finally got an acceptance today and an R&R last week! Come on, 2025!

Y'all, this stuff makes me terrified to fly anymore. We need major investments in air safety that are highly unlikely to come in the next 4 years.

I've had a paper under review for nearly 7 mths. Emails to the editor get the same reply: "Waiting on other review." Doesn't seem they went to editorial board or made other efforts. Is it time to pull the piece? I need pubs badly rn (review upcoming) so a little scared to start over w/ other journal

Come see me discuss some new work from Policing the Rainbow on January 16! You can join virtually or in person.

I usually post about work on here, but Appa is too cute not to share with the world 🥰

When people promise to run a government like they would run a business, they are promising to wring every penny out of it for themselves and leave everyone else underpaid and underinsured.

Final grades entered. This was a tough one, but officially done with my third semester on the tenure track.

As peer review requests pour in, I'm constantly torn between the urge to read cool new work and the need to, myself, do cool new work #academicproblems

Hi all! A quick intro to say hello here: I am a sociologist of gender, sexuality, law, crime, and knowledge. Currently studying LGBTQ people's experiences with police. Check out www.policingtherainbow.com. Also the author of Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification.