Amanda Jean Stevenson
@amandajean.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.
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These people are stupid and have never met a baby. Every baby is the best baby, duh.
The Texas dude who searched Spokane, WA Flock camera data for a Texas woman who he thought had an abortion was not alone. There were 2.3 million searches of Spokane County's Flock camera data - only 4.8% of which were by local law enforcement.
And in just the first 6 months of 2025, 2,301,239 searches were made on SCSO’s Flock Network. Just 110,069, or 4.8%, of those searches were made by local law enforcement.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The Texas dude who searched Spokane, WA Flock camera data for a Texas woman who he thought had an abortion was not alone. There were 2.3 million searches of Spokane County's Flock camera data - only 4.8% of which were by local law enforcement.
Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
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This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex
Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.
www.prosocial.world
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
That Google ever even had the motto "Don't be evil" was a warning in itself.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
That Google ever even had the motto "Don't be evil" was a warning in itself.
One time a tech dude tried to convince me that in the future I’d regret failing to acknowledge the “fractional human rights“ of non-player characters in video games.
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One time a tech dude tried to convince me that in the future I’d regret failing to acknowledge the “fractional human rights“ of non-player characters in video games.
Stack your pies on top of each other. It really captures the chaotic energy of this holiday/lifetime.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Stack your pies on top of each other. It really captures the chaotic energy of this holiday/lifetime.
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The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it’s well on its way to qualifying for the ballot.
via @idahocapitalsun.com
via @idahocapitalsun.com
Ballot initiative to end Idaho’s abortion ban has more than 50,000 signatures, group says
The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it’s well on its way to qualifying for the ballot. Idahoans United for Women and Families announced last week…
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it’s well on its way to qualifying for the ballot.
via @idahocapitalsun.com
via @idahocapitalsun.com
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Advocates in South Carolina defeated a bill that threatened abortion patients with the death penalty, banned certain forms of birth control, and even criminalized speech like abortion referrals.
For Once, the Extremists Lost
11.19.25
jessica.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Advocates in South Carolina defeated a bill that threatened abortion patients with the death penalty, banned certain forms of birth control, and even criminalized speech like abortion referrals.
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Abedini posted on LinkedIn:
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
OU professor released following ICE detention while traveling to conference
OU professor Vahid Abedini detained by ICE while traveling to academic conference, sparking concerns over valid visa status.
www.news9.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Abedini posted on LinkedIn:
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
These are so obviously not for students, but they *could* be like ag extensions, useful public service! Imagine if you could call up experts from a university to get advice about dealing with your school board or whatever?
If only they weren't explicitly partisan entities 🤷♀️
If only they weren't explicitly partisan entities 🤷♀️
Centers for “civic discourse” and the study of “leadership” or “democracy” are one of academe's latest and most popular trends. Leaders at some of these centers say student interest is catching up to external forces. https://chroni.cl/4pzUP9m
Schools of Civic Thought Are on the Rise. Are Students Interested?
New, sometimes controversial, centers have been pushed as a way to emphasize civic and classical education. So far, students aren’t flocking to their courses.
www.chronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
These are so obviously not for students, but they *could* be like ag extensions, useful public service! Imagine if you could call up experts from a university to get advice about dealing with your school board or whatever?
If only they weren't explicitly partisan entities 🤷♀️
If only they weren't explicitly partisan entities 🤷♀️
What if they actually think Alan Dershowitz is wildly charismatic? Are they that unknowable?
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What if they actually think Alan Dershowitz is wildly charismatic? Are they that unknowable?
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Huge, stiff clothes (workwear is cut a lot like pajamas!) and the comfiest shoes forevermore.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Huge, stiff clothes (workwear is cut a lot like pajamas!) and the comfiest shoes forevermore.
Policies that try to modify population are bad because they treat people as pawns and because they draw on and feed antisemitic conspiracies.
Even if such policies achieved what they set out to do they'd still be bad. But they don't, so they're also stupid.
Even if such policies achieved what they set out to do they'd still be bad. But they don't, so they're also stupid.
The 'Great Replacement' story has always carried antisemitism at its core. It imagines Jews as the hidden architects of “replacement,” using migrants to undermine white, Christian societies.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Policies that try to modify population are bad because they treat people as pawns and because they draw on and feed antisemitic conspiracies.
Even if such policies achieved what they set out to do they'd still be bad. But they don't, so they're also stupid.
Even if such policies achieved what they set out to do they'd still be bad. But they don't, so they're also stupid.
If more rural Americans understood who the “extension lady” or “extension man” was and why they can help so much - IDK. We’d be in a different country.
the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If more rural Americans understood who the “extension lady” or “extension man” was and why they can help so much - IDK. We’d be in a different country.
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There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
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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.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Interlibrary loan (and libraries in general) is one of those magical good things we *do* have in this country and it would be so wonderful if we could keep it.
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Interlibrary loan (and libraries in general) is one of those magical good things we *do* have in this country and it would be so wonderful if we could keep it.
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I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!
The seriousness of what’s happening to university computing really isn’t braking through to the faculty like it should.
As my friend just said, “Getting the university to understand the threats not from russian cyberterrorists but rather federal investigations using subpoenas has been my main frustration.”
Because they’re putting spyware on all our computers at the moment. Which seems like fucking great timing.
Because they’re putting spyware on all our computers at the moment. Which seems like fucking great timing.
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The seriousness of what’s happening to university computing really isn’t braking through to the faculty like it should.
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The science is abundantly clear: Mifepristone is very safe and effective, whether provided in clinic, via telehealth and mailed, or by filling a prescription at a local pharmacy.
Any attempts to roll back access have nothing to do with safety. It’s about control.
Any attempts to roll back access have nothing to do with safety. It’s about control.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The science is abundantly clear: Mifepristone is very safe and effective, whether provided in clinic, via telehealth and mailed, or by filling a prescription at a local pharmacy.
Any attempts to roll back access have nothing to do with safety. It’s about control.
Any attempts to roll back access have nothing to do with safety. It’s about control.
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It's DAY NINE of our open-ended, national ULP strike - and we're not slowing down.
Show some love to our striking baristas in Newton, MA and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS while baristas are on strike! ✊ #NoContractNoCoffee
Show some love to our striking baristas in Newton, MA and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS while baristas are on strike! ✊ #NoContractNoCoffee
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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New subfolder under service: “Dangerous drivel”
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New subfolder under service: “Dangerous drivel”
Good things that surprised me when I first found them out keep going away.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Good things that surprised me when I first found them out keep going away.
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Your dues pay for these legal victories (and much more at the chapter level). Join AAUP today!
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Your dues pay for these legal victories (and much more at the chapter level). Join AAUP today!