Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words. www.swarthmore.edu/u...

My tribute to and critical analysis of Michael Burawoy, published as the lead article in Sociologia. The heart of the piece is a discussion of 1) why/how Burawoy transitioned from his early, “labor process”-focused research programme to a “counter-market” one; ++ ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/So...

Check out this important new research from Daniel Laurison et al on low-income and working-class Pennsylvanians about what politics means to them.

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

When the people lead the fight against tyranny, the opposition politicians follow.

As ICE tries to tear our communities apart, we must elect Democrats who will fight back. @analiliafornj.bsky.social will stand strong, build solidarity, and push back against ICE’s violence. Join @sanders.senate.gov, @workingfamilies.org & me in supporting Analilia in the NJ-11 special election.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

dear @facethenation.bsky.social @meethepress.com 🇨🇦 we all saw 2 executions.Renee Good. Alex Pretti. interviewing known liars of the criminal regime without calling out their lies is wrong. insults the dead and their families. 💔 #ICEout #MinnesotaStrong

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

People magazine with a more accurate header than most of the "papers of record."

Nurse-murdering terrorist thugs.

Referring to ICE as "federal law enforcement" is pro-terrorist propaganda.

Abolish ICE. Primary any Democrat who votes to fund Trump's Gestapo.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

"What can Democrats actually do?" - Vote against funding for ICE and DHS - State that any ICE officers who commit crimes under Trump will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law - Encourage cities and states to refuse to cooperate with ICE - Explain ICE is part of Trump's tyranny

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Our article on populism, emotions, and boundary work is out in the The Sociological Quarterly.

Our article on populism is published in @socquarterly.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Based on 52 interviews with populists and anti-populists during Trump’s first presidency, we make the following contributions 1) We demonstrate the centrality of emotions in anti-populist politics

The theory of populism needs to be reconstructed by attention to some of the cases neglected in generalizing debates: India, Turkey, South Africa, China, and Iran. I point out in this article that the dominant theories of populism are based on the West 1/ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Minneapolis city Council member tells Chris Hayes that Ice has been posting up at recess at schools and surveilling the kids. This shit is just outrageous.

Honestly this makes me feel even more clear that he doesn't have a plan and is doing this because he's an authoritarian who has backed himself into a corner, so he's going for broke and throwing spaghetti at the wall. apnews.com/article/denm...

If he were eligible to run for President, he'd be incredibly hard to beat.

@schumer.senate.gov refuses to say whether he thinks @democrats.senate.gov should vote against DHS budget without constraints on ICE. Replace this man as soon as possible.

Minneapolis.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

💔 Renee Good, 37. murdered. by ICE. #nowords

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

That ICE agent was itching to shoot someone.

Abolish ICE.

Interesting piece calling for democracy reform and renewal in France that’s directly relevant to US. In both nations, the answer to political dysfunction and public frustration is deeper democracy and enriched citizenship, not strongman rule and ever more concentrated power. #democracy

Thrilled to be working with @jonathansmucker.bsky.social on this book. He's the rare writer who can balance theoretical concepts, practical lessons, intimate storytelling, and a healthy dose of class rage.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

The armed services are currently led by an alcoholic white nationalist who is murdering foreign civilians without a fig-leaf of congressional approval. If we had an opposition party, they would be calling for his immediate removal from office and seeking to impeach him.

Just announced in @publisherslunch.bsky.social: Rutgers University Press will publish @jonathansmucker.bsky.social's THE MANY VS. THE FEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO POPULISM, a vital conceptual roadmap for a path forward in the high-stakes, bottom-vs.-top contest already well underway in America.

Most interesting topic for 2028 candidates, followed by what they'll do on immigration. You can't say "we have Medicare for All now" with an executive order. But you can declare emergencies, browbeat companies into lowering prices, all stuff the Tea Party pretended to be against.

Elon Musk:  "You know, I've generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly." Interviewer: "Do you think that's true for all businessmen?" Musk: "Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah."

I got a sneak peak at this new research on low-income (potential) voters in PA. The study is non-partisan but the implications for the Dem Party corroborate what reformers have been screaming at the old guard for years: Prioritize working people. Talk to them. Fight for them. Be in their corner.

Those who want our democracy to truly represent all its citizens, who care about the concerns of low-income and working-class people need to create and sustain real connections with people and communities who do not currently feel represented. The report concludes with recommendations for how.

In a report out in January, we describe findings from interviews with 144 low-income and working-class Pennsylvanians who rarely or never vote. Electoral politics seems disconnected from their lives and communities; a game played among the privileged, rather than a means to solving problems. +

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing. That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy. It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them. In a report out in Jan +

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment. There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.

Hakeem Jeffries, along with every Dem who voted today to condemn socialism, looks like an unlikeable loser right now

Excited to share that THE MANY VS. THE FEW: A Practical Guide to Populism will be out in 2027, with @rutgersupress.bsky.social. Stay tuned.