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David Bartram
@dbartram.bsky.social

Sociologist. Interests: inequalities, happiness, migration, & causal identification. Editor-in-chief of @socialindicators.bsky.social. PhD UW-Madison. AI-free teaching & research since 1998. Posts are personal.

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Political science 32%
Sociology 27%
ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.
SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”

ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

Via Alpha News
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

This is the video that EVERYONE needs to see...

And the NYT headline is (thankfully) unequivocal.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
The New York Times states it plainly in display type:

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com

A murder that helped cement the upward career trajectory of Cressida Dick.

Sticking to the lies is a strategy that often works.
Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station
Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station
"Marco Rubio, we salute you!"

A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.
trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.
Five years ago.
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

If OFCOM thought that CSAM on X was a violation of some sort, then they wouldn't be on X.

The fact that they're still on X likely means that they're content that CSAM on X is a-okay...

Tyler Loop, a 24 year old rookie kicker for the Ravens, missed a field goal last night and today there are *12,000+* death threats on his wife's Instagram post about their engagement. it's a profound social disease.
It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.

This particular social disease could be *treated*.

Social disease, yes -- but I think it's more important that a few billionaires refuse to fix their systems so that this sort of thing isn't possible.

And there's no political will to make them do it.
Holy [expletive] [expletive]
Tyler Loop, a 24 year old rookie kicker for the Ravens, missed a field goal last night and today there are *12,000+* death threats on his wife's Instagram post about their engagement. it's a profound social disease.

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Holy [expletive] [expletive]
Tyler Loop, a 24 year old rookie kicker for the Ravens, missed a field goal last night and today there are *12,000+* death threats on his wife's Instagram post about their engagement. it's a profound social disease.
It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?

And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?

No money for Musk, ever, please.

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Tyler Loop, a 24 year old rookie kicker for the Ravens, missed a field goal last night and today there are *12,000+* death threats on his wife's Instagram post about their engagement. it's a profound social disease.
It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.
I have neither thrown nor received a real punch in my life but I kind of think the root sin of the social internet is letting people just say and do things that in the real world would get the shit kicked out of them

Sometimes I figure I could in fact live on bread alone.

Perhaps they should "always hope" that I will pay my taxes.

Can't imagine Trump saying "Nazis are bad".

Great idea.

But: define "employ".
A lot of people here are are also still posting over there and I'm sorry but that you tolerate this shit is beyond my comprehension.
how the fuck can any journalist remain on this fucking website.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
Are you available today?

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Actually, it turns out that getting vaccines has some wonderful side effects.

Like lowering the risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and stroke
Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again

Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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this documentary about people in Kenya who write essays for UK and US students is jaw-dropping

there’s a part where someone in the US needs an essay for her course. she goes online to sell nudes to get the money to pay the essay-writer in Kenya to write it for her

www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
The Shadow Scholars: Fake Essay Scandal
In Kenya an Oxford academic explores the global multi-billion-dollar fake-essay industry
www.channel4.com