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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social |
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Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, infectious disease. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Toddler parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Sam Brody
@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
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No one: Really no one: Truly, absolutely no one: Me: guys he can’t be a king because the whole point of a king is that they stand above the contending factions in a society that would otherwise tear itself apart, unifying it through their sacred myth
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josh (oldfriend99)
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If you think Jaws is scary for not really showing the shark, you should check out spielberg's other films. they don't show the shark at all
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
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All of this is true but it’s also true that Biden’s unwillingness to really fight is so glaring in this context, and that’s what the (wrong) hypotheticals are speaking to The one that has really stayed w me is, he won’t even use his commander in chief power to ban Fox News playing at military bases
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Dan O’Sullivan
@osullyville.bsky.social
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Wallace Shawn is such a mensch. For years he came to a socialist conference I helped organize. He’d read one of his essays, or—thrillingly—once held the first table read of a play there. And he participated. You’d be at a talk on the German Revolution or something & he’d be next to you, to learn
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Fibble is better than straight Wordle any day
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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I love Elizabeth Rush’s book Rising, but I’m ambivalent abt her book The Quickening
But this interview is really good & captures much of what’s really worth thinking abt from the book (though it undersells the book’s BEST strength: its focus on the whole crew)
www.orionmagazine.org/article/eliz...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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I still don’t really understand tastemaking dynamics in soc, even after almost 20 years in the field (from grad school start)—which I guess makes me a bad sociologist Do you have a take on why this has happened? We ignored social class for decades while inequality skyrocketed, then ignored climate
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
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Oh, I love this!
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
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Local Scottish museum exhibit with culturally on-brand material by local schoolchildren on the Highland Clearances.
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Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
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Mayer's piece by no means exonerated Franken. She didn't even attempt to dispute or explain several of the allegations, and brushed past others. I discussed in detail in this thread:
twitter.com/studentactiv...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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I've read a ton of great books this year, but this might be my favorite of them all. I couldn't put down (literally, I was reading it at the gym) this novel set amid the Tamil Tigers in the 1980s.
(It's by a colleague of mine, but not one I've yet gotten to meet)
bookshop.org/a/1682/97808...
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Images That Could Be Album Covers
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Sardonicus
@sardonicus.eu
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San Francisco Fred Lyon, 1948
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
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What’s wrong with disagreement? Why frame it as high conflict instead of what it is, a divergence of opinion?
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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“The Supreme Court says the president can now do anything he wants — anything! — and Joe Biden won't even ban Fox News from military installations” —@brandonfriedman.bsky.social in the other place
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Brainworm Enjoyer
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seems like the right decision
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
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Release Thomas’s and Alito’s
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
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Oooh that sounds fantastic. Thank you!!
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Philip Bump
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Most Americans opposed presidential immunity. But then most voters opposed the presidents who nominated several justices to the court and most Americans were represented by senators who opposed their confirmations. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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I think an even simpler way to start is: know your neighbors, & make a special effort to know the most disenfranchised people in your neighborhood (whether, at one end of the spectrum, the unhoused people who spend time there, or at the other, the renters if you’re an owner who mostly knows owners)
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Mark Histed
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Move the Supreme Court back to their small old room in the basement of the Capitol, and give the SCOTUS building to DC Public Schools. (the first step in curbing the court is changing the way the public views them, and also the way they view themselves.)
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Ooh, I did not think I had a particular interest in this topic but I just read the conclusion and that is fascinating
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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lol that’s how I feel and why this piece is so hard for me to write 🙃
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Ooooh these are exactly the models I need. Thanks!!
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Thanks!! This topic is also substantively interesting to me and I haven’t read this before, so I’m doubly glad to know about it
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Here's an example of one that fits my bill of "pointed and idiosyncratic." It's so good!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Ooh I love that idea for conceptualizing what a lot of the best reviews are doing. I definitely tend to love the ones that are more pointed and idiosyncratic best. (Let’s hope other people feel the same, considering my plan for mine…)
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Thank you!! I haven’t read this one and it looks awesome.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Sociologists and similar: I’m writing a review article (for the Annual Review of Sociology) and one of my favorite parts has been reading others’ review pieces, on all kinds of subjects, to help me understand the possibilities of this genre. What are your favorites? (Bonus if you can say why!)
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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I shelled out for Kagi
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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How’s all the RGB hagiography looking these days?
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Mallory Harris
@malar0ne.bsky.social
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After 1.5 years, a Stanford Committee recommends continuing to take fossil fuel money for climate research. In a total own-goal, the report points out similarities btw this decision & Stanford's vote to keep taking tobacco $$ in 2007.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Biden’s other problem is that his only memorable line was that Trump has “the morals of an alley cat”, which fundamentally misreads how people feel about cats in 2024 vs 1954
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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If this sounds far-fetched today, it's only because the Democrats have passed on literally every opportunity to pound the drum on this point, so there's no momentum or mainstream public support (which Democrats then use as an excuse not to pound the drum on the point, because "nobody cares")
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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"We only fight battles that we know we can win immediately" is the exact defeatist attitude that makes the Democratic party perpetually ineffective.
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got
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jesse
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The Supreme Court's most radical move in the past two decades has been to assume power that was historically wielded by other branches and to place absurdly particular limits on the way those branches exercise the power left to them to the extent that the Court effectively takes that power, too
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Spencer Ackerman
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If you never read any other FOREVER WARS edition, read this interview with a US Army major who worked in military intelligence on the Mideast before resigning over Gaza.
www.forever-wars.com/harrison-man...
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Denali
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Just me wandering around the rest of the day whispering to myself "if wealth is the best proxy for power then time is the best proxy for freedom"
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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I feel like that is actually a very broad problem! It's true of all "years of life lost" measures, for example. And yet they get at something real and important. Would be fun to zoom about this with you two sometime
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Will Jones
@willpjones.bsky.social
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The University of Minnesota Faculty Senate just voted to "approve a vote of no confidence in the leadership of Interim President Ettinger and Provost Croson due to their unprecedented interventions into faculty hiring processes." @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Oh wow! If you have anything citable, please send my way this summer -- very relevant to something I'm working on
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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But if wealth is the best proxy for power, then, I argue, *time* is the best proxy for freedom -- and the theft of time is just as central to slavery as the theft of wealth.
What could time-based reparations look like? That's what my article starts to explore.
www.rsfjournal.org/content/10/2...
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