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Stephen Pimpare
@stephenpimpare.bsky.social
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Poverty and US social welfare policy, hovering awkwardly between the fields of political science and social work.

Host, New Books in Public Policy: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/aba1b96c-5ec5-4ab6-940e-08f426f74a37 .. more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h
Despite all the John Roberts claims that the courts are in good shape and accusations of partisanship are unfair, the reality is that the public intuition that the courts have become more politicized under Trump are correct.
Graph showing Trump judges support his policies 92% of the time, far more than judges from any other president

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 1d
They have destroyed the old order. We can now decide what we want to build upon it. As Paine wrote almost exactly 250 years ago, “we can build the world anew.” What is the world we want to see?

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Stephen Pimpare

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d
It may not seem like it, but right now is a great time to think about the different world we want.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Stephen Pimpare, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d
Look at the hundreds of people in that community in Minneapolis who ran TOWARDS the danger. Look at those who documented in their heads what happened so they could accurately recount it afterwards, look at those currently out protesting. Pay attention & do your part too.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Stephen Pimpare, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d
Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 5d
"irresistible creativity bolsters our hearts, emboldens our spirits, breaks through fear, dispels lies, makes the administration’s violence backfire on them and gives us a wildly diverse strategic power that can help us win." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/12/crea...
Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines — creative action was off the charts in 2025
In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.
wagingnonviolence.org

Reposted by Daryl Adair, Calvin Jones, Stephen Pimpare

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Carl Rhodes @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social · 5d
Is academic research experiencing the same ‘enshittification’ that Cory Doctorow identifies in online platforms?

Martina Linnenluecke and I say yes!

A summary of our paper is out today in The Conversation

Full paper at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
theconversation.com

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
But if the city just ignores the states directive?

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Are they generally understood to override state law? Sorry I feel like this is one of those things I should’ve known about long ago and yet it turns out I know nothing at all about

And I have an urban studies degree 🤷

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you!

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Constitutions?

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Like, how can this be the first time I’m asking this question?

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Right?!

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Fair to say the first time I’ve ever listened to a comptroller’s inauguration speech. Honestly, not bad. Maybe I should’ve been doing this earlier.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 10d
Why don’t cities have constitutions? Do cities have constitutions?

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 19d
"I think of this as a rock-bottom moment. If there was ever a real license for change, this is it. . . The destruction of this moment also creates opportunity. . . .What is our vision of democracy? What is it we’re really fighting for?" wagingnonviolence.org/2025/12/mars...
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz sees a path to power under Trump
The lifelong organizer diagnoses how we hit rock-bottom and identifies where we must go next, citing the Mamdani campaign as a model.
wagingnonviolence.org

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 22d
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Stephen Pimpare, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23d
I think the direction of travel matters. from 2020-22 we had a) the most generous welfare state in US history b) the tightest labor market in 60 years, and now both are gone and we are right back to ~2014 ish job market except interest rates are high

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28d
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
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Chart from The Economist showing the annual income in 1798 of various professions and of Jane Austen characters

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · Nov 25
Was a treat to get to speak with Mimi Abramovitz about the 4th (!) edition of her landmark book, "Regulating the Lives of Women." Listen on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social here: newbooksnetwork.com/regulating-t...
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025) - New Books Network
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · Nov 24
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · Nov 19
"When either laws or customs degrade, when the body politic begins to drift toward corruption, the only recourse — if the people hope to preserve a republic — is to build new institutions and with them new ways of political life." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Nov 18
Much in the same way people don’t even think about suggesting we fund universities at the levels we did when they were massive engines for mobility, people want to make it so any effort to redress systemic racism is unthinkable moving forward.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Nov 9
After nigh on a decade of collaboration across five states, ENACTing Change is finally out in the world.

A practical, no-nonsense guide to helping young people (and the rest of us) actually shape state policy instead of just yelling at it.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
ENACTing Change
Explains the ENACT model of student civic engagement, empowers instructors to implement it, and shows them how to assess its impact.   ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation ai...
press.uchicago.edu

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 9
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Nov 8
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com

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Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social · Nov 6
Amy Shea discusses her new book TOO POOR TO DIE: THE HIDDEN REALITIES OF DYING IN THE MARGINS with Stephen Pimpare (@stephenpimpare.bsky.social) on the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social):

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Nov 4
They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Reposted by Stephen Pimpare, Stella M. Rouse

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · Oct 30
This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.

This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.

This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 30
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵