I’m very proud that an article I published in the old Theory & Society won an ASA award. I’m very sad that I will never submit there again. Sociology can do better than this.

We all know never to start a land war in Asia. But what about an island war?

Anecdata: I had two conversations today with another parent at kid pick up and my barber about rising prices with a focus on how the cost of gas has them cancelling plans.

What’s the German word for starting a war you don’t know how to end? Sumpfkampf?

All the Terrorism Fit to Print: a new dataset on media coverage of militant groups: Critical Studies on Terrorism: Vol 0, No 0 Critical Studies on Terrorism @cjbeck.bsky.social Eric Schoon Steven Bao www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I didn’t know anyone watched the Oscars anymore until tonight

@dieworkwear.bsky.social please do this suit

I didn't have this headline on my IR bingo card.

I loved that we are killing thousands and spending billions to replace Khamenei with Khamenei.

Mudde is correct, of course. One thing I find interesting about this though is how it varies by discipline. I’ve rarely heard the manel concern in soc, but we do have a whanel concern: not just white people on a panel committee.

One was a gold mine dredge operator, Alcan highway truck driver, logger, and longshoreman. The other was a high school teacher and principal. Guess I’m running on the pro-union, pro-education ticket.

I’d wait for a more credible source to confirm this before reposting.

Might be time to clawback that record funding of DHS.

Senior Senators don’t even know it’s Saturday until the dinner soup arrives.

Days like today make me wish that Ali Kadivar was on here. I’d so much appreciate his insight.

My hot take is that Jerry Brown is by far the best governor of California and I will fight you.

Pomegranate. Nobody has time for that shit.

We all know the best dinosaur is stegosaurus

I didn't know the NYT published parody. @nytimes.wtf @theonion.com

One would imagine having access to the rest of the world market would be financial incentive enough. But apparently not since other countries deliver health care not heath profit.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

This post sums up the current state of the world. No need to click through to see what it is a response to.

Hey SoCal peeps! Who’s up for a vax road trip to Tijuana?

My Puerto Rican neighbor reports it was mid. I’d hate for white people to see something on fire.

This is a good week to be teaching Che and the Cuban Revolution.

Why did the rabbit set the stadium on fire? Because it was a bad bunny.

God Bless America!

Kim Gordon’s father was a sociologist.

This is likely a gift to those Harvard faculty who have been trying to get the DoD off campus for years but didn't know how without getting smeared. Hegseth is really doing god's work here for academia. My college next?

The sociology tenure denial/unable to get a tt position to becoming a therapist pipeline is real.

Nominating MN for the Nobel Peace Prize is a great idea. Has to go to an org or person though. Remember professors, you are eligible to nominate someone.

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!

Funny (?) story. There exists a death chair at Pomona College. It was in DFW’s office at the time of his death and then bummed around the English Department and settled into the office of my late colleague and dear friend, Hilary Gravendyk.

Dr Glaucoma Is in the resistance? Couldn’t have seen that coming.

Can he have a courtesy appointment with the Sociology Department so we can all make fun of him?

Can the culture hurry up and cancel Ross Douthat already?

Just got a solicitation from these predators to be interviewed about a one page book review I wrote. No thanks.

This is the way.

I have a Facebook account I never use (only have two friends so I could join a group chat for a specific purpose), but I just logged in and the feed is 1/3 news from MN and outrage over ICE and links to the history of Nazism. So that's something.

Let's have a nation-wide university strike. Maybe on Lincoln's Birthday.

The word “homeland” is unAmerican.

But how will abolishing ICE help with affordability? @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

I like my ICE crushed.

And gives everyone a couple days to plan a nationwide demonstration.

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.

But did it make it into the Faculty Handbook?

It’s become very clear that our next president is going to have be like Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter