The @popassocamerica.bsky.social deadline is coming up on Sunday 📆 I welcome submissions to Session 708: Older Workers, Longer Working Lives, and Health. I look forward to reading your work in this area!

Super excited that Jisu (Jason) Park led not one but TWO papers from our Cisco supported project on Computer Science, Engineering, and Math (CSEM) Pathways to publication this week! 🎉

Our tax dollars being used to prop up a dying industry (that is well documented to be one of the key contributors to the climate crisis). Anyone have a good figure showing all the coal money that flowed into the Trump Campaign that they can post here?

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

🚨🚨🚨🚨Without explanation, BLS has indefinitely delayed a key data release used to calculate inflation. Annual Consumer Expenditures data is used to determine the weighting of specific goods and services in the Consumer Price Index for the year ahead. www.axios.com/2025/09/19/b...

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social

Fear of the truth

It is wildly unusual for lower-court judges to so publicly express frustration with the Supreme Court’s *behavior* (versus, say, a confusing ruling in a specific case). But the number of *different* examples is completely unprecedented—and pretty powerful evidence that something is seriously wrong.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

The State Department is making a self-serving attempt to hide evidence that the government retaliated against Rümeysa Öztürk for exercising her right to free speech. While there are legitimate reasons to shield personal information from public disclosure, this is not one of them.

What's making me pull my hair out is that Shor isn't even a data "scientist." He started on the 2012 Obama campaign as a 20-year-old, got assigned to the quantitative team, then started referring to himself as a "data guru." Zero formal education in methodology, survey design or policy analysis.

Last call for this survey, which closes next week! Men are currently under-represented in our sample, we'd love to hear your experiences!

Relieved to finally see some highlighting of the empirical flaws of recent COVID revisionist takes and an articulation of how dangerous these messages actually are. #episky #medsky #publichealth #covid #policysky

Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!

This morning, me in the @nytimes.com, discussing why the attacks on Governor Cook, the ONLY woman of color to join the Fed's Board of Governors, is a perfect example of how the individual costs women of color face TODAY become societal costs for everyone tomorrow. This is #TheDoubleTax. #blacksky

Excited to be published in Crime & Delinquency with Dr. Jeff Ulmer! Our study analyzes the age-sentencing relationship, finding that the supposed leniency younger and older defendants receive does not apply uniformly across gender and race. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate, report and publish at least once per month full and complete statistics on the volume of and changes in employment, as indicated by the number of people employed, the total wages paid, and the total hours of employment." US law--1913, 1930

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

Comrades, the grain harvests are above our five-year targets!

So many expect an authoritarian,.fascist government to end democratically. That's not how these things tend to work. This is just one example of their tactics. January 6, election interference, We need to learn from similar experiences in history.

🚨 We just filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after ICE unlawfully deported two families, including three U.S. citizen children, to Honduras. ICE denied them due process. We’re demanding accountability. Read more: nipnlg.org/news/press-r...

The former chief economist of the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee. 15 years at Heritage!

Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. #econsky

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

More evidence that the rot goes back to Reagan. He made "welfare" a dirty word. And he fueled the public perception that participants in welfare programs deserve to be surveilled, punished, and stigmatized.

I know it’s somewhat silly to even say this, but this should cause nationwide outrage, it should be a game-changing scandal. The fact that it is not - it’s barely a blip! - is itself an indicator of how far down that dark path to violent authoritarianism this country already is.

The regime is enlisting the help of violent vigilantes and militant extremists, elevating them to official positions, as it prepares to escalate its attacks on political opponents and anyone deemed the “enemy within.” Nothing is predetermined. But the trajectory the country is on is so dangerous.

2025 has meant watching the production of agnotology, or the lack of knowledge, in real time

They're building a security infrastructure far beyond what would ever be needed for basic immigration enforcement. They will eventually attempt to use it against U.S. citizens for non-immigration matters. Get prepared.

The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

It feels weird to talk about normal work these days, but I also firmly believe we need more sociologists in the world, so I'm sharing this piece we published in @teachingsociology.bsky.social arguing for ways to integrate career readiness into our programs journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong. Here, for @vanityfair.com, I attempt to do that.

Child care funding for the entire country is only $12.3 billion a year.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

I know the forcible removal and arrest of a US Senator for the crime of asking a question of a cabinet member announcing policy in his state is getting more of the attention, but this might be even worse

Literally describing themselves as occupying a blue state like hostile territory with the military and federal forces.

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV. To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

I appreciate this thread, and the concept of democracy framing.

SCOOP: Trump's political operation is pressing Texas Republicans to redraw House lines in the state, hoping to pick up 2-3 seats in the midterms and blunt Democratic gains. Some Texas Republicans worry it could backfire in a wave year. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.