did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

Student emails: When are you going to have grades ready? I graduate next week. Canvas: Ransomware maintenance mode

We could use the "declining fertility rate" to rethink our relationship to capitalism and our human footprint on the planet. I keep seeing alarms about societies breaking down because of aging populations. "Five retirees for every worker!" That's not a fertility problem. It's a capitalism problem.

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

And not to put a fine point on this L.Louise Lucas, this is an FBI that refused to investigate—at all—the death of Renee Good, even though we all saw a federal employee walk up and shoot her in the head, and call her a “fucking bitch.”

The Supreme Court is basically copying the script that gave us Jim Crow and the New York Times and the Atlantic are running stories about “DEI” going too far and Kendi’s alleged over-reach. It’s almost like they are providing cover or agree.

Current status 😍

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation Monday into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

This is a scam and shouldn't be allowed here or anywhere. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/01/m...

+ I gave myself whiplash between grumbling about how much Brown has polluted the look of Brook St. to “OTOH, this place is nice” as I strolled here www.brown.edu/news/2025-07...

I really enjoyed this session today! Noted that PVD gets a mention in the book for trying to collect a PILOT from Brown et al. +

most redlined cities and sundown towns in the US are not in the south!

I continued: "Why do they feel compelled to use them? What material conditions do they face at school such that they are feeling so pressured? Is there a way to offer them another kind of pressure valve? … That’s likely a better place to begin from."

Fucking hell.

Sharing a cool thing from my day job: We made a model law for how to pass a local journalist employment credit in your state. If you want more local news, you need more local reporters. This makes it cheaper to actually do that. Pester your representatives! www.rebuildlocalnews.org/local-journa...

This sucks - I likeD Lucas Zelnick’s shtick.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

*frantically searching for a regulation that can stop people from making bland food jokes*

If I were a Gender Studies undergrad, i might kick myself for missing that. But w a PhD — still missed it — I’m just like “Damn,” appreciatively.

Damn.

Faculty everywhere should be incredibly concerned that our employers will steal our teaching materials just as Arizona State has. Absolutely shameless.

In news that absolutely everyone predicted…

This. This is what the #AI hype is fundamentally all about. It's sold with so many varieties of hype, but at the end of the day it's about replacing knowledge workers with an inferior substitute whose only advantage is that it doesn't need a salary or healthcare.

2/2 I remember hearing a similar critique of "homophobia:" it medicalizes, like "arachnophobia," in an unwarranted way for what is ~actually~ bigotry. \ Ditto "trans panic."

"Status Trauma." Neologism I think. \ It definitely says something, but I agree w the respondent who said that "trauma" prompts empathy in an unwarranted way. \ A parallel ... 1/2

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

Friday maydaystrong.org

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

My new paper out in Social Forces shows how competency microaggressions—like “diversity hire” comments framed as jokes—shape Black workers’ collaboration in teams. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

A good point - it’s a framing like Santa Claus for grown-ups.

This is an incredible piece of forensic analysis by @boxomcfoxo.bsky.social. Thank you for your service and for educating us. I don't know if I would have caught any of the signs. Part 1: boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3misaejnoqs2k Part 2: boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3mj42airv3s2o

1) You feed the machine a corpus accumulated from a racist society full of express bigotry and underestimation, 2) ⬇️

🧵MAY DAY IS FRIDAY! If you can: No Work. If you can: No School. If you can: No Shopping (or: necessities only). If you can: Attend/Plan an Event. Here's a participation guide ⬇️ Do what you can. Be willing to stretch your comfort zone. Then on Sat & Sun, shower ❤️ on good, local, indie businesses.

weird how anti-AI criticism is always treated as feminized -- shrill, unreasonable, fearful -- while AI evangelism is treated as masculine -- thoughtful, future-forward, inevitable, powerful.

This is dark, but I think there's a darker twist to this: Schools, Foucault tells us, are always about making the kind of people that capital and state have uses for. In his days, that meant a disciplinary schooling system. One that got kids used to rigidly timed days, synchronous movements, etc. 1/

Love seeing @lilrhodyvisbrigade.bsky.social on my way to work. 👊🏼

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

Also - to state the obvious - some parents absolutely SUCK, and the internet can help teens who are navigating that. But not if there's snitching.

1. Spied @davidcicilline.bsky.social in a restaurant. 2. “Why am I not already following?” 3. Fixed now. ✅🍸

Dismayed and angry my university has evidently allowed a Gemini pop-up on campus??? No doubt accepting Google money to support its for-profit brain dead soul and mind killing intellectual property sucking robot machines. Zoom in to read the poster

Happy Earth Day, friends! Regardless of what’s happening federally - this just makes our local work in PVD, in RI & our region that much more important. We all deserve clean air, clean water & a livable climate. 🌎 vimeo.com/687499909?fl...

Well, rural voters are REAL Americans, and urbanites are rootless cosmopolitans, so ... sounds about white.

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We’re hosting a May Day training on what “No Work, No School, No Shopping” means, and how you can tap into the day of economic disruption however is right for you. We’ll also dig into the strategy behind economic noncooperation and why we’re taking action now.