the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

“Okay everybody tuck your pants into your socks”

Somewhere that translator who quit midway through a Muammar Gaddafi speech is having traumatic flashbacks.

I’m pessimistic, but I’d sure like to see a chorus of university presidents accord the country denouncing this and calling it what it is.

Hard to overstate how revolting and demoralizing this utter gibberish is, after growing up amid the war on terror and the steady desensitization to jingoistic violence-for-violence’s-sake that came with it.

So apparently he’s not dead. But we can still enjoy the best line reading in cinematic snd TV history anyway.

This is why the calls to “moderate” by abandoning trans issues etc. are bad strategy on top of being morally bankrupt. It cedes the entire political conversation to the right. You’d think Kamala was the vanguard of the revolution from the Trump campaign ads last year.

Remember when Bret Stephens imploded because someone made a joke about him being a bedbug?

Made my pilgrimage to the ASA book exhibit to see Bad Nature on display!

🧵 Strolled through the ASA book exhibit, and it is always great seeing new publications from ppl I know (IRL and virtually). Bad Nature by @ahmccumber.bsky.social

Very excited to present on this research and also Caleb read far more Fox News transcripts than than is recommended for safe human consumption for this, so please attend our preconference to make sure it wasn’t in vain.

The truth and reconciliation commission can’t come soon enough.

My only worry about Zohran is that he seems like he’s not nearly weird enough to be NYC Mayor.

Bad Nature is keeping good company with John Levi-Martin in London bookshelves. This account may just post images of shelved books for the foreseeable future until the novelty of finding my book in the wild wears off).

As an R user, I’m having a difficult time adjusting to all of the buildings in the UK using 0-indexed floor numbers.

How do they trot out the line about outside agitators or “people who aren’t even a part of the main protest” every single time.

I made a sociological pilgrimage yesterday.

Meanwhile, somehow both Massachusetts and Utah managed to elect Mitt Romney to office.

Dude should have been perp walked on 1/21/21

@grantbrisbee.bsky.social did you approve this

Really bares the stupidity of all those “be careful what you wish for” takes during the Biden era on this issue.

Received my first photo of Bad Nature “in the wild” today! At Book Culture in NYC.

SCOTUS might as well just swap the robes for hot dog suits at this point

It drives me absolutely crazy when people say “wow I never thought I’d miss the Bush admin” etc. The guy should be in The Hague and instead his image is getting rehabilitated.

I was just thinking about this. Trump may yet be a worse president - he’s got more than 3 years left! - but the damage W did is so hard to fathom even if his attack on American democracy was less full-throated.

I’ve got some news for you if you think tech giants like Google are politically neutral/irrelevant when it comes to geopolitics and global inequalities…

This political moment is horrifying but it really doesn’t strike me as that complicated. If you can’t make a winning political issue out of opposing a campaign of forced disappearance to foreign gulags I don’t know what to tell you.

I fundamentally don’t understand how this kind of thing is politically palatable, even to the true believers who generally think government regulations are tyranny or whatever.

The future prosecutors of the Nuremberg Trials 2.0 will have no shortage of evidence.

It’s so amazing to have this work funded and even more exciting that Caleb’s gotten this incredible recognition! We’re really excited to get this project out into the world.

*6. Support for the US invasion of Iraq. Again, this should be the only justification the world needs for not listening to this dude at all anymore (though he continues to do stuff like this and provide much more justification for good measure).

I like Chris, but this isn't "right-wing affirmative action," and people on the left should stop using this framing, which reinforces stigma against affirmative action (which is good). Rufo was promoted because white supremacy always elevates mediocre liars who harm nonwhites. That's the point.

My first book, Bad Nature, is officially published! The book examines themes of symbolic boundaries, the nature/society dualism, and the moral character of our relationships to the environment through the lens of rat extermination.

It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

This is the guy who went on TV to argue that the Angels should trade Ohtani for several first round draft picks, a kind of trade that doesn’t exist in baseball.

“Many Chinese cities have markets selling live animals; only one has a Virology institute that exists because the area is important for the spread of coronaviruses.” Really hits differently that way.

I got some much anticipated mail today.

Recruitment for my new project? It’s going great, thank you for asking.

We would all do well to read @lisahajjar.bsky.social’s work in this moment.

1) This is just not a funny meme. This is the best you can come up with for this story? 2) You voted for him. Let’s do better than this, Virginia.

*looks directly at camera*

Are you a sociologist who published their first book this year? @laurendolsen.bsky.social and I are planning a celebration to take place during ASA in August. Please DM either of us if you’re interested in being involved!

I think my biggest problem with the "debate" over whether Democrats should abandon trans people is how divorced from reality it is. Republicans are banning gender-affirming care because they think kids are being rushed into surgeries. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

Good god why can’t New York find one democrat that doesn’t suck (non-AOC division).

From Iraq to Eric Adams, has Matt Yglesias ever been right about ANYTHING? Like, did he go long on the Microsoft Zune?

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

Wild how when you post a quoted “statement” written in complete sentences on account from which you habitually fire off whatever insane, half articulated thing pops into your head, it makes it even less credible.

Still getting acquainted with the unique brand of feckless out-of-touch Democrat my new home state has to offer. What an embarrassment.

The right wing weaponization of “free speech” was such a thin facade and it’s honestly so embarrassing that anyone fell for it.

It’s baffling that this is casually described as “saving” the government money. I suppose that’s one way to describe sabotaging higher education across the country.