Mo Torres
@motorres.bsky.social
sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism
umich.edu/~motorres
umich.edu/~motorres
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Interesting: 17% of US Americans identify as "socialists".
(More than I would have thought!)
Also, American socialists are not class reductionists: they tack strongly left not just on economic matters, but also on immigration and race.
More in this study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(More than I would have thought!)
Also, American socialists are not class reductionists: they tack strongly left not just on economic matters, but also on immigration and race.
More in this study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Interesting: 17% of US Americans identify as "socialists".
(More than I would have thought!)
Also, American socialists are not class reductionists: they tack strongly left not just on economic matters, but also on immigration and race.
More in this study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(More than I would have thought!)
Also, American socialists are not class reductionists: they tack strongly left not just on economic matters, but also on immigration and race.
More in this study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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there is something about the nature of Asad’s work which makes this all the more devastating. not only was it impossibly sharp, but it was also deeply committed to using thought and theory to build an emancipatory politics. thepointmag.com/politics/pol...
Politics Without Guarantees | The Point Magazine
In the early years of our century I ran across the name of Stuart Hall, though I don’t remember where. I came to him by a circuitous path involving politics and theory but which, as I would eventually...
thepointmag.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
there is something about the nature of Asad’s work which makes this all the more devastating. not only was it impossibly sharp, but it was also deeply committed to using thought and theory to build an emancipatory politics. thepointmag.com/politics/pol...
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"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
Genuinely impressed with this reporting
Denver scaled back a street safety project after pushback from the family of Colorado's wealthiest man.
While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.
While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.
December 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Genuinely impressed with this reporting
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They have trapped all of us in their drug and sex cult. And we really are ruled by just this - their drug delusions and their sexual predation.
In case it isn’t clear.
In case it isn’t clear.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
They have trapped all of us in their drug and sex cult. And we really are ruled by just this - their drug delusions and their sexual predation.
In case it isn’t clear.
In case it isn’t clear.
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“The question remains: Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckoning with his serial failures as an economist. (They don’t throw you out of the AEA for that.)”
Former Economist Larry Summers - The American Prospect
The American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckon...
prospect.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“The question remains: Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckoning with his serial failures as an economist. (They don’t throw you out of the AEA for that.)”
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This is a very cool idea:
I'm excited to keep experimenting with this model, getting students to read a physical book cover-to-cover, seeing them reading in groups without me facilitating, and - my favorite part - having them deliver short lectures on content they've studied. I've been learning a LOT in their presentations.
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is a very cool idea:
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Very good idea:
I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Very good idea:
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Truly honored to see There Is No Place for Us included in courses like @motorres.bsky.social's Race, Place & Inequality. So grateful to faculty who are bringing the book into their classrooms.
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (2025) by Brian Goldstone (@brian-goldstone.bsky.social)
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Truly honored to see There Is No Place for Us included in courses like @motorres.bsky.social's Race, Place & Inequality. So grateful to faculty who are bringing the book into their classrooms.
I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
"In a post he published before taking his life, he said that his life was ruined on October 7, 'the date which ruined everything I had been,' he wrote on Facebook. 'I can't do it anymore; I'm all ruin and destruction… I did unforgivable things and can't live with it any longer.'"
IDF officer who fought on Oct. 7 dies by suicide
After the Hamas Attack, Tomas Adzgauskas Fought in the Gaza Strip and Was Discharged in April 2024. Haaretz Has Identified 15 Soldiers Who Died by Suicide Since the War Began, Due to Mental Health Iss...
www.haaretz.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"In a post he published before taking his life, he said that his life was ruined on October 7, 'the date which ruined everything I had been,' he wrote on Facebook. 'I can't do it anymore; I'm all ruin and destruction… I did unforgivable things and can't live with it any longer.'"
New ethnographic work highlights "class evasiveness" in a diverse suburban high school where "students, adults, and school policies... [displace] class onto race and [downplay] socioeconomic inequalities, [leaving] material inequalities [to] persist and go undiscussed" doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf075
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New ethnographic work highlights "class evasiveness" in a diverse suburban high school where "students, adults, and school policies... [displace] class onto race and [downplay] socioeconomic inequalities, [leaving] material inequalities [to] persist and go undiscussed" doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf075
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Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
funny enough, this is the same motivation i gave my students for breaking them up into small reading groups for the semester. they’re now presenting 20 min lectures on their assigned book + submitting written reviews. 2/3 through their lectures and this has been my favorite part of the term by far
Obviously I have a broad definition of legal history – but mostly I just wanted the students to have to read a whole book! Which is something very few law students get to do. Excerpts are obviously important and necessary, but I think there's a lot to be gained by reading all of something.
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
funny enough, this is the same motivation i gave my students for breaking them up into small reading groups for the semester. they’re now presenting 20 min lectures on their assigned book + submitting written reviews. 2/3 through their lectures and this has been my favorite part of the term by far
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The real con, says Director of Democratic Institutions @bilalb.bsky.social: A tax giveaway to billionaires while starving communities of healthcare, food assistance, and reliable public media sources.
Here’s some intel on the impact on the media: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Here’s some intel on the impact on the media: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The real con, says Director of Democratic Institutions @bilalb.bsky.social: A tax giveaway to billionaires while starving communities of healthcare, food assistance, and reliable public media sources.
Here’s some intel on the impact on the media: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Here’s some intel on the impact on the media: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Maybe it’s not that TOO MANY students are getting emotional/psychological related accommodations when they don’t really need them, & more that record inequality, growing authoritarianism, climate catastrophe, & massive debt together are actually having a fraying impact on young people.
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Maybe it’s not that TOO MANY students are getting emotional/psychological related accommodations when they don’t really need them, & more that record inequality, growing authoritarianism, climate catastrophe, & massive debt together are actually having a fraying impact on young people.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.
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Very honored to see Make Your Own Job recommended on the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2025" list www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Very honored to see Make Your Own Job recommended on the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2025" list www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
Another year as a loyal @thedigradio.bsky.social listener 🎧💙
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Another year as a loyal @thedigradio.bsky.social listener 🎧💙
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social