From one of the candidates running to unseat Lawlor in NY-17: www.lohud.com/story/opinio...

Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words. www.swarthmore.edu/u...

We have been fighting these bills for decades, respawned with new names. The initial sales pitch is “age verification” but this is just getting you to opt into your own surveillance.

If you have a friend who is running for office and they are not a Nazi, will you please tell them to use something that's NOT a substack? Ghost, Button Down, Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc... lots of platforms out there people

My paper, "Metamimesis: Consultants as a Mechanism of Institutional Isomorphism in Higher Education" was selected for the 2025 Editor's Choice Award by the Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management: jbam.scholasticahq.com/post/3727-jb...

Let's try out Ranked Choice Voting and have some fun this week! The Candydates this year are a great mix of Valentine's candy. Check it out and vote here: buff.ly/ykAnuj6 Voting is open until 8 p.m. on Tuesday Feb. 10. In person voting @ State House on Feb. 10 3-4:30 p.m. @oceanstatercv.bsky.social

"without evidence of crowd out of native health care workers...a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide. We identify reduced use of nursing homes as a key mechanism driving this result..." www.nber.org/papers/w34791

100% this. This is a brilliant metaphor.

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so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

I miss when the US was a developed country. (This post brought to you by my 2 hours delayed Northeast Regional Amtrak train.)

It's time we ensured that all workers have the right to collectively bargain, regardless of where we live. Solidarity means collective action, not sympathy.

“Republicans be like, ‘it's totally appropriate to force a middle schooler to give birth, but I draw the line at high schoolers missing third period because they chose to participate in a walkout.’” Shannon Stamey

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.

Listening to a popular romance podcast featuring two millennial women. One says, “isn’t this plot similar to Anne McCaffrey’s Dragon Rider?” Reply, “I never read it” I know past famous women are culturally erased but how the fuck have you not read and discussed the foundational romantasy text?!

I propose we hereafter refer to tech company surveillance proponents as COINTELBROs.

Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?

You can lament "conservative incursions" into higher ed governance and curricula all you want, but you're the ones who opened the door to the bad-faith Right and silently cheered as they attacked those programs you thought 'went too far' with 'identity politics'. You sold the rest of us out. +

Know any folks who have worked as Chief Diversity Officers in higher ed and who identify as Black or African American? Here's a survey. www.linkedin.com/posts/ksbrig...

Surprised by the names listed for the agents involved in shooting Alex Pretti? I'm not. Because I'm reading Irene Vega's "Bordering on Indifference." Learn about her work at press.princeton.edu/ideas/irene-... & read the book on Hoopla or order at press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Surprised by the names listed for the agents involved in shooting Alex Pretti? I'm not. Because I'm reading Irene Vega's "Bordering on Indifference." Learn about her work at press.princeton.edu/ideas/irene-... & read the book on Hoopla or order at press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I have eaten the gerrymanders that were in the state election board and which you were probably saving for the midterms Forgive me they were delicious so risky and so conservative

Historically, it wasn't always this way (as Viviana Zelizer's work shows). But, in the contemporary US, kids are seen as more precious and thus more worthy of protection than adults are. Which means that if people stop caring about the children, there's little hope for them caring about the adults.

Recordings of class, other than those done as disability accommodations & kept for only personal use, should be understood as violations of intellectual property law just as recordings of live theatre are. It's time we changed the law to protect faculty intellectual property.

The origin story of our current moment in American fascism is the creation of white fraternities—which exempted a piece of campus from race and gender integration and allowed the most powerful students to bond over their hateful ideologies and group violence.

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five courses you took in college: *Yiddish 2 *Bonds of Intimacy in the Ancient World *Histories of World Theatre *Science Writing *Ethics and Public Policy

I was in a meeting recently where someone was wondering aloud about why sociology has faced more political scrutiny than econ and psych. And I think it's that sociology centers the social (i.e., systemic) causes of human outcomes, thus directly challenging the individualism on which fascism thrives.

Anyone know a RI bookstore that would be up for this?

Line-item vetoes don't actually save money, they just make it easier for governors to veto money for policies they dislike.

pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/dh... CFP--Special Issue on Women of Color in the Academy: Being the Lonely Only.

I guess their brand is "no analogies allowed." Maybe when they say "never again" they mean it in the metaphysical sense that events can literally only happen once. Needless to say, making antisemitism this precious does not serve the interests of actual Jews (nor immigrants persecuted by MAGA).

No small irony that many of the same people in RI right now saying that authorities should always be respected will issue paeans to those who burned the Gaspee come June.

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

This is seriously making me think about the French Revolution. One out of every twelve people in Bristol RI doesn’t have enough food to eat. How much do you want to bet one of the crimes police will report on their new radios, thanks to Gabe Amo, will be a hungry person stealing food?

One way to think about it is that the state has a "monopoly on the legitimate use of force." But if you can show that the state is illegitimately using violence, then the state loses one of its core functions. It ceases, in some sense, to be a state.

Rhode Island when? @govdanmckee.bsky.social

A question that also should've been asked in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... "They came with the wrong shoes for revolution. Still, they showed up.... These are your coffee-stained saints who rise not with trumpets but with Advil. They stand and wait creased like maps of a country that doesn’t exist anymore."

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

attention texans: are you a lawyer, do you know lawyers willing to file pro bono habeas petitions for Minnesotans that have been sent here? please reach out via DM (and not just with links to already swamped nonprofits though)

In NY and want to fight ICE close to home? Here's an ICE officer who is an elected school board member just 1 hour north of NYC. abc7ny.com/post/mahopac...

Maryland lawmakers have introduced The ICE Breaker Act, which would block ICE agents hired under Trump from later serving as state or local law enforcement. EVERY state should pass this along with getting the masks off. Frankly, these untrained thugs need to be stopped!

Folks saying this is just as bad, I need you to reread about reconstruction. Not holding people accountable is how we get into this position. Removing people who colluded with the administration in an authoritarian takeover of higher ed from their position is the most reasonable thing to do.

Happy to be stepping into the role of graduate director for our master's in Justice Studies. If you are, or have, an undergraduate student looking for a flexible & affordable MA program in New England, please reach out to learn more. calendly.com/abazovienric... www.ric.edu/academics/gr...

One of the many corrosive aspects of AI is how much it is doing to intensify the resurgance of ableism & reverse the gains disabled folks have made in higher ed. Screen bans reduce the ability of disabled folks to teach & learn, & exceptions don't work because of the intense impact of stigma.

One of the most drastic mistakes American liberals made over the past 30 or 40 years was to focus almost entirely on presidential elections, when so much power was right there to be taken in state houses.

Something sociologists know (and the general public doesn’t) is that most people don’t actually hold very firm political beliefs. They just follow political directives from people they trust—in large part, to seek social status and acceptance. Stigma is a powerful tool in shaping ideology.

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...