Dan Seel
@danseel.bsky.social
Economic sociologist, PhD candidate, Wisconsin Badger, writing on: labor, elites, and power in the American South, also the transition debate.
"Above this ridge, new peaks will rise"
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"Above this ridge, new peaks will rise"
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Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
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drives me nuts that wealthy blue states are not moving to expand their own public university systems in response
We’re about to abolish R1s & regional universities through much of the country for a bunch of made-up reasons; geography is destiny for young people there
Conservative Iowa legislators are on a campaign to overhaul the state’s universities. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
February 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
drives me nuts that wealthy blue states are not moving to expand their own public university systems in response
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I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
People Think | Ben Tarnoff
Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.
www.nybooks.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
By its stated goals, DOGE failed. By its actual goals (shrinking parts of the state the Trump-Musk coalition opposed) it worked pretty much as planned. The deficit talk was just the sales pitch.
February 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
By its stated goals, DOGE failed. By its actual goals (shrinking parts of the state the Trump-Musk coalition opposed) it worked pretty much as planned. The deficit talk was just the sales pitch.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Inflatable Public Sculpture
2. Century of the Gene
3. Drugs in History
4. Food, Farms, and Famine
5. Science Fictions
We may not have had a lot of humanities at RPI, but we had a great STS dept and a great Arts dept
1. Inflatable Public Sculpture
2. Century of the Gene
3. Drugs in History
4. Food, Farms, and Famine
5. Science Fictions
We may not have had a lot of humanities at RPI, but we had a great STS dept and a great Arts dept
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Inflatable Public Sculpture
2. Century of the Gene
3. Drugs in History
4. Food, Farms, and Famine
5. Science Fictions
We may not have had a lot of humanities at RPI, but we had a great STS dept and a great Arts dept
1. Inflatable Public Sculpture
2. Century of the Gene
3. Drugs in History
4. Food, Farms, and Famine
5. Science Fictions
We may not have had a lot of humanities at RPI, but we had a great STS dept and a great Arts dept
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3-4:30 today at the monument fyi
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
3-4:30 today at the monument fyi
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BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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"SEIU has continued to steadily organize Starbucks stores at essentially the same pace for the last three years. The NLRB election data for 2025 shows that SEIU won 125 union elections at Starbucks and had an election win rate of 82 percent." www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-starbu...
January 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"SEIU has continued to steadily organize Starbucks stores at essentially the same pace for the last three years. The NLRB election data for 2025 shows that SEIU won 125 union elections at Starbucks and had an election win rate of 82 percent." www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-starbu...
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Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Great question!
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
January 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Great question!
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
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ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
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If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead
Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead
There are many complex social problems that feel impossible to solve, but I truly believe we can end the use of MATLAB by 2030.
Let’s save the next generation from the trauma of 1-indexed programming languages. We can do this!
Let’s save the next generation from the trauma of 1-indexed programming languages. We can do this!
January 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
There are many complex social problems that feel impossible to solve, but I truly believe we can end the use of MATLAB by 2030.
Let’s save the next generation from the trauma of 1-indexed programming languages. We can do this!
Let’s save the next generation from the trauma of 1-indexed programming languages. We can do this!
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The New School for Social Research is nuking all of its PhD programs for some reason! Yikes
December 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The New School for Social Research is nuking all of its PhD programs for some reason! Yikes
This isn't a photo of lake Superior, this an album cover for a black metal band called like Wintergrave or Frostveil
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This isn't a photo of lake Superior, this an album cover for a black metal band called like Wintergrave or Frostveil
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when the AI bubble bursts and we have hundreds of extra GWs of capacity on the grid, power will then be too cheap to meter and the hall–héroult process will be essentially free. i propose spinning up the aluminum industry and providing a weekly ration of aluminum billets to all americans
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
when the AI bubble bursts and we have hundreds of extra GWs of capacity on the grid, power will then be too cheap to meter and the hall–héroult process will be essentially free. i propose spinning up the aluminum industry and providing a weekly ration of aluminum billets to all americans
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Ken Burns Revolution documentary drinking game where you take a shot every time you recognize the author of a primary source before the narrator tells you.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Ken Burns Revolution documentary drinking game where you take a shot every time you recognize the author of a primary source before the narrator tells you.
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“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
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worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth
I've done a decent amount of historical research on documents turned over in litigation and it never ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to write out "hey would you like to commit a felony with me"
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've done a decent amount of historical research on documents turned over in litigation and it never ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to write out "hey would you like to commit a felony with me"
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
I do really appreciate that the ASA grant application form takes direct aim at Ohio State's weird affectation 🦡🦡🦡
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I do really appreciate that the ASA grant application form takes direct aim at Ohio State's weird affectation 🦡🦡🦡
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching