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When I first came to this country, almost 10 years ago, this thing was incomprehensible. Was there really a link between racism and anti-semitism? Yes, the same people shooting up synagogues in Pittsburg were also the ones driving 650 miles to hunt down hispanic populations in El Paso.

I think people will be commenting on this speech for decades.

One of the many differences between Trumpism and past mainstream conservative movements and even far-right movements is that Trumpists make minimal to no attempt to claim and use traditional American symbols, aesthetics, and texts. Mostly, it's straight-up monarchical and Nazi messages.

Once again thinking of all those articles I read back in the day—about “amoral familism”, “transactionalism”, “crony capitalism”, etc—regarding the dysfunctions, depredations, and corruption suffered by those benighted countries who were not blessed with the Rule of Law and Rationalized Bureaucracy.

Yes it can, because the Court is no longer staffed by people who adhere to professional norms and conduct their business with integrity.

stolen valor

people who did sociology of science used to be interesting

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Professionals.

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Genuary Day 11: Quine. A Quine is a form of code poetry, it’s a computer program that outputs exactly its own source code. 🎨 made with #RStats #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary11 #ggplot2

I have reviewed 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by @omarlizardo.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @michaelstrand.bsky.social 👇

Realism in international relations is a self-fulfilling ideology. When enough powerful actors believe in it, it becomes true. And right now, they mostly do.

I had the exact same reaction Mr. @jackbalkin.bsky.social

I wish this was true

"[C]aseworkers were unlikely to modify their decisions so that they aligned with risk scores." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Gender Affirming Foreign Policy

being called "clever": oh thanks 😊 being called "too clever": who do u think u are 😡

unprecedented levels of monitoring the situation in display

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I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

im not joking, i think a huge reason theyre doing this is bc in their minds war is masculine and penis and being against war is feminine and vagina

jfc

Reflecting on the year and I think this was my greatest achievement

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearljam, soundgarden or alice in chains

Just heard an Amy Coney Barrett interview. She talks about the Court in the same my cousin talks about Santa Claus ✨✨ to her babies.

I am also on team use your brain before pushing buttons

Nice to see an ASA amicus curiae on same sex marriage in my dataset.

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You can't wait for a "perfect victim" to come along so it's safe to oppose tyranny. I don't care what KAG had done; he didn't deserve to be sent to a concentration camp. And a party that's afraid to say so is useless as an opposition.

New experimental paper on intuitions about whether people have obligations *to themselves* From philosopher Laura Soter (@laurasoter.bsky.social) in JPSP psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

"[S]ome countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

this guy needs therapy

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

The article this refers to is a nice read, both about science and the sociology of science, from a personal perspective www.ejpe.org/journal/arti...

On Monday the FIFA Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel will be awarded to Larry Summers

The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:

It’s “racial discrimination” only when minorities benefit; otherwise it is “sparkling gerrymandering.”

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This is such a useful distinction 😮

Yes! The lack of a causal identification strategy doesn’t give you license to ignore questions about how the world works. Say what you mean. Bear witness. Etc.