It’s the Joe Rogan model (which I’d unfortunately note is wildly profitable): repeat people’s intuition right back to them but tell them, actually, your biases are right and you’re courageous for thinking that way. Exact opposite of informative. Curious how this plays out at a real news outlet.

A bit of a stretch but also reminds me of this: the responsibility to resolve conflict or redress harm is often one sided

President Trump has repeatedly made false claims that there have not been any murders in Washington, D.C., since he deployed the National Guard and took federal control of the police force in August. The people whose deaths get downplayed or wiped away in his telling are typically people of color.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

"Public meetings aren’t going anywhere, and citizen input will always have a place. But there have to be limits — and the views of nearby homeowners who show up for meetings can’t be the last word on whether Massachusetts gets the housing it needs."

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

There's one young woman identified as Hispanic who abruptly leaves the conversation midway through when the it turns to why Hispanics (and Somalians) don't assimilate into American culture.

A bunch of Jubilee debates with, in the best case scenario, a few flash-in-the-pan viral clips is not "[doing] the fucking news."

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Bombs painted pink are still bombs

New U-M research from ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds that women now earn about 85% of men’s hourly wages, up from 65% in the mid 1980s, and about 8% of that narrowing is linked to having fewer children. Learn more: myumi.ch/kPWeG

The federal government wants it to be illegal to desegregate.

Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.

Anyone who believes this is an idiot and a racist (not necessarily in that order)

📣 New Podcast from IRP: @rourkeobrien.bsky.social on the Impact of Spending by Different Levels of Government www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/rou...

Anyway, now that the FIFA Peace Prize ceremony is done, when does the bombing of Venezuela start?

This is disgusting, un-American, and evil. And the men standing there and grinning are pathetic pieces of dogshit

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Got a compliment from a stranger on my outfit while walking back from lunch. Can't tell me NOTHIN for the rest of the day.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Coverage of forthcoming collaborative research in Race & Justice: stateline.org/2025/11/12/b...

Wrote about the other big outcome of the NYC election and how Chicago moved in the other direction www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/o...

Doing an independent study for a student (because I am dumb*) on racism & freedom in America and we just read/re-read Lani Guinier's still relevant critique of Brown v. the Board: edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/defaul... *Dumb because I get 0 credit for this, but she asked & I'm happy she's learning

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

Take 2 positions of this government: Your American-ness is limited to birthplace, not the ideas of the nation + the attack on birthright citizenship, & you get a nakedly white supremacist government (to say nothing of the move to limit legal asylum to white South Africans).

A gunshot wound can change your life in seconds. For survivors, health care is nonnegotiable. We can’t talk about gun violence without talking about ensuring victims have access to affordable health care.

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1 of several reasons why I am opposed to a crudely consequentialist approach to public policy, where the outcome (will it increase low income people's access to loans, empirically?) is all that matters.

Duffy has talked consistently like he's still a Fox News personality talking shit about Democrats, but has been unable to figure out the PR when you're in charge. See e.g. when Steve Doocy was like "you say DOT sucks right now, but isn't it your job not to suck?" www.yahoo.com/news/fox-new...

The political economy of punishment in action

"The notices state that “Payment in full is due now” & list an array of potential consequences for failure to pay, including collection litigation & negative impacts on their immigration cases. Fines that aren’t paid in full will accrue interest." Children in detention can't work. And are CHILDREN.

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech. This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

A new analysis from @thetrace.org shows one of the greatest drops in gun violence ever recorded. It's happening in cities across the country, regardless of politics.

Sloppily written anti-trans policies, applied incorrectly*, harm everyone. *The school policy is "only biological females can play girls sports"; doesn't say trans boys can't play boys sports. So they're not even following their hastily written policies, on top of the fact that the kid isn't trans.

His high school is saying that a boy, who was born a boy with boy parts, must play on the girl's team to ensure "fairness." He's not trans. A doctor submitted a note that he is "a biological male." The school makes him use a separate bathroom. www.fox13now.com/us-news/birt...

There used to be a time when the government didn’t openly mock the people that didn’t vote for them. Everyone is 12 now

The Supreme Court hear oral arguments yesterday on a case that essentially boils down to whether restitution should be considered "punishment." Despite Alito desperately grasping at reasons to call it civil, it was unequivocally intended to be punishment www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/just...

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

There is no evidence that the man who murdered Kirk had any ties to any progressive nonprofits.

The last No Kings protest was my wife's first ever protest of any kind--and she's the one who initiated going. Also, lol at "the hardest of cores", might have to steal that one.

Man, watch this video of him fielding questions from Black Topekans when he was running for city council, and then read what he really thinks about them: www.cjonline.com/videos/news/...

Third bullet point would restrict access to any conservative, "heterodox" or explicitly ideologically diverse conference, too--though we know that's not how it will be deployed in practice.