Off to buy my first pair of hockey skates. This is happening!

This week, thanks to @navajoprof.bsky.social, I learned of the life and work of Dr. Dwanna McKay, whose legacy of scholarship, advocacy, mentorship, and deep commitment to making the world better will sure carry forward for generations. Read more! www.integrityfuneralservice.com/obituaries/d...

Fourteen suburban mothers formed a silent circle outside the Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until the deputies forcibly removed them. 11/07/2025

Donated today to Farmlink's project to deliver 10 million pounds of fresh food to communities in need by the end of the month--with #SNAP on the line and foodbanks stressed, these deliveries are crucial to fighting hunger! Want to join me? Check out www.farmlinkproject.org

A letter from the editorial team: contexts.org/articles/a-n...

Strawberry rhubarb milkshake. That’s really it. Just wanted to make sure you knew about this possibility. It’s bringing me joy, filling my cup, and all the other word-art gerunds, even in the midst of *waves hands* everything.

🚨Academic friends: My editing schedule in October has opened up--and I have room for 3 journal article edits this month! Let me know if you or a colleague is in need of my services 📝

For those of you that like free samples, we put a track from our recent Dick Davy release up on our #soundcloud page (produced by @jasonklamm.com). We're particularly proud of this record, and hope that you pick up a digital, or even better, a #vinyl copy. Look to comments for guidance.

Donated today to @ienearth.bsky.social in honor of Simone Senogles, Indigenous climate justice and #MMIW activist. Founded in 1990, the IEN works on environmental and EJ issues; it'll make good use of your $ if you want to join me! www.ienearth.org www.startribune.com/simone-senog...

Saying “I got so many vaccines both arms hurt” is basically the new “I ate so much shrimp, I got iodine poisoning.”

Current projects: @contexts.org’s last 2 print issues, injection assistance providers, Catholic rebels, sovereignty in the Marshall Islands, social media polarization, Chicago and gangs, talking about guns, skulls and statistics. My job keeps it interesting! What are you working on?

Excellent earlybird vibes at Berlin for the Children of Incarcerated Caregivers fall fundraiser! Learn more and, if you’re inspired and able, join us in donating at cicmn.org

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Tiny writing tip: Avoid starting paragraphs with discounting words like while, although, and despite. They subtly signal that the reader doesn't need to care about the first part of the sentence/entirety of the paragraph, and avoiding them makes your writing more confident. #writeon

Human Rights Watch is hiring a senior researcher for its U.S. immigrant rights program. Not many non-newsroom jobs are this similar to the day to day work of journalism. If you’re a journalist and considering getting out, seriously take a look. job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

I met my dearest friend Shanna on the first day of the 7th grade. I was wearing a shirt that said, on one side, "Youth Against Fascism," and, on the other, "I Believe Anita Hill." Who ever would have thought the shirt would remain as relevant as the friendship in 2025?

Hot damn! @uchicagopress.bsky.social is now shipping @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's lively and incisive new book on the reorientation of US policing and punishment toward the relentless extraction of resources from America's most vulnerable. Only $26! tinyurl.com/LegalPlunderBook

What? This is super cool and super timely: on Monday, Trump signed EOs targeting jurisdictions curbing cash bail, a predatory CJ practice that makes billions for private industry but does nothing to increase safety or ensure court appearance. tinyurl.com/BailEO Glad you're running for office, Chris!

Can you believe there are even more @contexts.org editors ready to talk to prospective authors? And while @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, @lettapage.bsky.social, and @aminghaziani.bsky.social are the “exiting team”, our incoming editor David Grazian is also at #ASA2025 and eager to meet you! #sociology

These are the faces of @contextsmag editors who can’t wait to hear your ideas, #ASA2025 @sethabrutyn.bsky.social @lettapage.bsky.social

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Into books about social (in)justice and saying goodbye to landmark bars of Minneapolis's West Bank? Join me to celebrate the release of @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's book Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice at ‪@palmersman.bsky.social! #sociology #booksky

Since this was written, the "B" representing bisexual Americans in the remaining "LGB" acronym has also been removed from the national memorial literature. It is difficult to keep up with the damage being done. @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social @contexts.org @lettapage.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

Into books about social (in)justice and saying goodbye to landmark bars of Minneapolis's West Bank? Join me to celebrate the release of @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's book Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice at ‪@palmersman.bsky.social! #sociology #booksky

[email protected]'s latest is a novel, not a work of sociology, yet it's undeniably a love letter to the discipline, a Vegas noir about the shadowy dealings of a seemingly leaderless (and possibly rudderless) "marketing" outfit known as The Set Up. Fab summer reading! tinyurl.com/setupbook

Nothing like some fresh, free sociology and a companion playlist to keep their heads ringing...

Out of practice -- I forgot to tag this #sociology #publicsociology #booksky #crimsky and so many other terms besides. Please add your own!

Hot damn! @uchicagopress.bsky.social is now shipping @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's lively and incisive new book on the reorientation of US policing and punishment toward the relentless extraction of resources from America's most vulnerable. Only $26! tinyurl.com/LegalPlunderBook

Always fun to add a new publication to the special bookcase where I keep books I’ve worked on over the years. Third shelf is going to fill up over the next year!

🥺 🥰 A client thanked me for working my editing “magic,” and the P.S. was so affecting: “I know it is not so much magic as hard work, experience, and an amazing ability to understand what the story is and how to bring it to words, but what you do feels… magical to me.” Needed this!

Sneaks and peeks: Our latest issue is almost ready to bloom!

Hey! It's Juneteenth. May all living beings experience liberation, safety, joy, and flourishing.

What a hard day in Minnesota and in the U.S.

It's pub day for @jonwynn.bsky.social! We spoke with the @umassamherst.bsky.social sociologist about writing, character-building, and just how much sociology he smuggled into his highly anticipated debut novel, The Set Up, out today @beltpublishing.bsky.social! contexts.org/blog/novel-sociology/

It's finally here! Such a delight to work with my dear friend Annette Nierobisz @carleton.edu and the amazing @lettapage.bsky.social! Happy to see the book published but dismayed at the many new reasons for its relevance of late. #sociology #unemployment

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Tiny delights: meeting up with @chriswarcraft.bsky.social, watching a 5-year-olds' All-Star basketball game, hearing @jackiekashian.bsky.social on @thebugle.bsky.social (two great sounds that sound great together!), a 76-degree day followed by 32 and snowy here in MPLS 🥴

transphobes are always telling on themselves because they hate women so much they can't possibly imagine why anybody would choose to be one, except as a trick to hurt other women or take advantage of them.

Today's a national day of action for the National Parks Service! Please consider signing the petition below (at npca.org/1000jobs) and joining me in donating to the National Parks Conservation Association!

Tiny delights: kitchen tools that do their specialty tasks particularly well and the @centeronbudget.bsky.social making and freely distributing downloadable "Social Media Graphics for 2025 Policy Debates" about the House Republicans' budget plan: www.cbpp.org/research/res...

Y’all if your member of Congress won’t have a town hall, have one anyway. Invite the media. Just ask Indivisible North Metro and Wright County Indivisible in Minnesota. www.hometownsource.com/sun_patriot/...

A really humbling moment: our (@annamueller.bsky.social) book, life under pressure (Oxford press) was a finalist for the PROSE award! We tried hard to translate our work on #suicide to as broad an audience as possible. So this means a ton. #sociology @asanews.bsky.social

Will trashing the National Weather Service turn people against DOGE? Don't assume so. MAGA will say the government weather people were all corrupt climate zealots, that the forecasts were already wrong/fake, and anyway science can't really predict weather as well as a wizened old small-farm owner.

Tiny delights: Trader Joe’s stocking ranunculus and memories of screenprinting the Aaron Horkey/BRLSQ SunnO))) and Boris poster behind these flowers (the show was better than the printing, which required a redo when the dark brown shade turned out to be mixed with something translucent)

Yipes: anyone seen the Project 2025 Tracker? According to this tracker, Trump's already accomplished 36% of Project 2025's goals--despite denying he knew anything about it. Tracker breaks it all down by agency, type, and specific objectives: www.project2025.observer H/T @jesscraven101.bsky.social

And they love and trust him!

ICYMI a Montana bill would criminalize/imprison individuals who travel out-of-state for abortion for "trafficking" their fetus. This is the natural conclusion of fetal personhood / the rise of so-called anti-"abortion trafficking" bills to police abortion-related travel:

We will be boycotting as best we can tomorrow & I hope everyone else does too.

No tiny delights posts this week because of a tiny-ish non-delight: both spraining *and* breaking my hand! I suppose that makes ibuprofen my current tiny delight? 2025: Unsubscribe.

I grew up in HB and biked to the library as a kid. My family still lives there & loves the library. They’re furious about the MAGAfication of HB—but not surprised given HB’s history of reactionary politics & white supremacy. Thank you, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for standing up. You’re not alone.