A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

This is a 47% drop in SNAP recipients. They don’t have the capacity to implement new HR1 rules. Medicaid work requirements are up next—they’ll be even harder to administer and the outcomes will likely be even more catastrophic than what’s happened w/SNAP.

Well, one sociologist would say that to help men find work, we need to get "manly men" to let go of the idea that "girly" jobs are a threat to their masculinity.

In 2025, for the first time ever, it was more common to have a birth at ages 35-39 (55.1 per thousand) than at ages 20-24 (52.2 per thousand)

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

I’m so glad somebody directly estimated this. It’s even more extreme on a per capita basis. The average American retiree gets more than 10x more public spending than the average young person.

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

Hegseth's chief of staff "told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said."

Really enjoyed this conversation about applying the idea of "universal basics" to neighborhoods, why it it *is* possible to give every person access to good transit, biking, and walking options, and why we actually can't afford not to do it. It's like Blue Zones without all the secret pension fraud!

🧵Universal child care is the future. But the Mamdani admin's choice to repeat unintended consequences of deBlasio's universal pre-k implementation is a choice to prolong the struggle of child care educators for a dignified wage and will harm children and families.

I did not expect one of the most prominent socialists in the country to keep his promise with a policy that prolongs child care workers' struggle for dignity in their labor.

I have a new essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

The gender friendship gap turns out to be driven almost entirely by white men's uniquely low levels of friendship closeness. And among white men, higher socioeconomic class predicted even lower closeness. The most privileged group has the least close friendships. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

I'm going to be one of those parents who stipulate that their kids must take an accounting course in college, but for STS

"The parental rights project does not seek to dismantle state power but to reconfigure it—shielding families that reproduce a preferred social hierarchy while mobilizing governmental force against those that challenge it." www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rig...

“having and raising children is one of many ways we can spend our time, and whether we choose to do so depends on how it is valued, how safe and manageable it is, what kind of labor it entails and how much help we have, and what other choices are available to us.”

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.

hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war www.patreon.com/posts/152399...

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Child care workers earn less than 96% of jobs in New York State and it's Kathy Hochul's fault. There will never be enough child care for every family that needs it as long as this is the reality, but every year she does whatever she can during the state budget to keep them in poverty.

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs. Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I pull data in IPUMS I check my variables and sample selection I hit submit I forget to check the data format I pull data in IPUMS I check my variables and sample selection I hit submit I forget to check the data format I pull data in IPUMS

A remarkable feature of the SAVE Act is that Republicans are explicitly burdening their own voters--conservative married white Republican women. It makes sense if you think about it as a Christian Nationalist project rather than a Republican project. From me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

"The machines were coming in for the purpose of diminishing their income. They were coming in for that purpose. They were not coming in for the purpose of enhancing life or reducing the hours of toil or improving the products of the human hand. In fact the human hand is on its way out"

VA house setting up major wins for paid & unpaid caregivers this session HB 1207: Paid family and medical leave ✅ HB 5: Paid sick days ✅ & maybe my favorite HB 1263: guaranteeing collective bargaining rights for public sector home care workers!! ✅ @vasenatedems.bsky.social let's bring it home

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Romano's self-critique hits hard: sociology has trapped climate discourse in academic jargon while the planet burns. His call to break free from institutional silos and connect research to real action resonates beyond environmental studies. #AcademicSky #sociology iai.tv/articles/climate-pol...

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water. “The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter. By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

This is beautiful. Thank you, @laurajedeed.bsky.social , and thank you to everyone who was interviewed.

Shoutout @ipums.bsky.social for solving every problem in my life

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

so beaten down by the last few weeks in dc I’m eating lunch on my office rooftop pretending that I can feel my fingers in 45 degree weather

Last week's piece by @kwanetaharris.bsky.social was so impactful that we got a reprint request from @msmagazine.com -- our first reprint!! Read Kwaneta on how the state becomes you abuser in prison at the link:

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another. linktr.ee/twincitieste...

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government