So post-Brexit Britain?

If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All. Dream big.

Just in case you missed it:

Unfortunately it’s in the US.

If you read the article, you can get the gist.

Nuzzi is cultivating sources in the right way.

I hear Michael Wolff is available… oh, wait.

Somebody put me on a group text called “Yurt Time Feb 2026” and you have no idea how upset I am.

Congrats to the UCLA AAUP chapter, and I really feel like it's time for Pomona faculty to unionize. #sharedgovernance

Did the bat have COVID or was it, like, a regular bat?

Prices are getting so out of control that Sabrina Carpenter is buying Nespresso.

Times like this I hate living in SoCal.

Great, Friedman has finally discovered world risk society.

Primary them all.

I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.

George W. Bush: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again. Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.

@padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov please walk over to your colleagues‘ offices and tell them surrendering now is the dumbest thing they could do and you’ll endorse their primary challengers.

Some days I wish it to be just me and Chuck Schumer and a high stakes game of poker.

A CS colleague and students just announced that they made an AI tool for undergraduate advising and I can‘t even. Dude, bruh.

Does anyone know what happened to regular sessions for the 2026 ASA annual meeting? @asanews.bsky.social

I open every class with a joke. Yesterday: Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory. They walk into a bar. The first one says “ouch!” The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”

Hear me out: maybe free social services, taxing the rich, and supporting the oppressed is actually popular?

Ross Douthat is doing commentary in the right way.

Ezra Klein is doing punditry the right way.

Lost bigly.

I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.

Halloween at our house.

My hot take is that Roman Coppola is Wes Anderson’s weakest collaborator.

Uday Hussein managing a Ramada is a deep cut and I’m here for it.

Hey, social scientists. Before we start spouting off about the size of yesterday‘s protests, let’s wait for the @crowdcounting.bsky.social to weigh in. It’s really the gold standard of real time protest data. (Sucks to your @acleddata.bsky.social; cf. @gelliottmorris.com)

So they’re qualitative sociologists? @crowdcounting.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

George Santos has the chance to do something epically funny today #NoKings

Sure. But how did it work out for the English?

So he’s a distinguished professor?

They killed the elves!

A sociologist.

Wasn’t this the plot of that TV show Jericho?

We should probably be teaching this history.

He’s winning like Charlie Sheen was winning.

I can imagine that @stanforduniversity.bsky.social is chomping at the bit to sign onto Trump's extortion. As an alum, I've asked for the president of our junior university to take a stand and his comms people have studiously refused.

Vance is Mr. C.

Benny Johnson is doing politics the right way 🙄

About time.

This is the world @pomonacollege.bsky.social and so many other institutions has wrought.

Democrats, your messaging is pretty easy here. "Republicans control Congress, but they can't agree on a budget. And we won't support their proposal that would hurt so many people. Now Trump says he'll shut down the government, and cut benefits you depend on. We won't be part of it."

Just got a Theory & Society new issue alert and I’m so embarrassed for everyone who published there.

The anarchists have a group!?