Norah MacKendrick
@nmackend.bsky.social
Sociologist—environment, health and gender.
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I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.
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BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown.
We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.
We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown.
We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.
We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.
When doing research for my book, I spoke to mothers who felt ashamed to use SNAP at farmers’ markets, because it’s perceived to be too posh for the poor. But it’s smart budgeting. #SNAP dollars often go further at these markets because of special programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | $149.57 Is Going to Have to Feed My Family Indefinitely
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
When doing research for my book, I spoke to mothers who felt ashamed to use SNAP at farmers’ markets, because it’s perceived to be too posh for the poor. But it’s smart budgeting. #SNAP dollars often go further at these markets because of special programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate.
Can't possibly imagine why this would happen to Gilfoyle. From S1E3 of Silicon Valley
September 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate.
Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greensky
A New Type Of Phobia Is Spreading Through American Households — And MAGA Is Partly To Blame
The fear tactic strikes a nerve with both conservatives and liberals alike. Here’s what you need to know.
www.huffpost.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greensky
It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.
Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public | CBC News
The Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive is...
www.cbc.ca
August 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.
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Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS
August 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS
It can be done.
‘Historic’: how Mexico’s welfare policies helped 13.4 million people out of poverty
Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It can be done.
Was talking to a friend about Chicago. She was there last year for the DNC. I’m headed there soon. 5 minutes after hanging up, my head exploded 🤯 when I realized that circus happened only LAST year. Not a decade ago, which is how it feels in my bones. 💀Dang, fascism moves quickly.
August 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Was talking to a friend about Chicago. She was there last year for the DNC. I’m headed there soon. 5 minutes after hanging up, my head exploded 🤯 when I realized that circus happened only LAST year. Not a decade ago, which is how it feels in my bones. 💀Dang, fascism moves quickly.
State & local programs make it easier for food pantries to access fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste. Some ingenuity and hard work at play after devastating federal cuts. #food #foodinsecurity #foodbank
Food Rescue Grows in Response to Federal Funding Cuts
Pantries providing free groceries to New Yorkers in need are increasingly relying on unwanted excess from wholesalers at the Hunts Point Produce Market.
www.thecity.nyc
August 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
State & local programs make it easier for food pantries to access fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste. Some ingenuity and hard work at play after devastating federal cuts. #food #foodinsecurity #foodbank
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UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla: “We cannot sustain the high levels of attrition, burnout, and turnover in our workplaces. This is a fight for justice for poor and working-class people all over New York City.”
More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...
More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...
July 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla: “We cannot sustain the high levels of attrition, burnout, and turnover in our workplaces. This is a fight for justice for poor and working-class people all over New York City.”
More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...
More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...
Solidarity with striking public defenders in NYC! They’re demanding a more manageable case load and pushing back against salary freezes. ✊ #UAW #NYLAG #publicdefenders
July 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Solidarity with striking public defenders in NYC! They’re demanding a more manageable case load and pushing back against salary freezes. ✊ #UAW #NYLAG #publicdefenders
Went home 🇨🇦 recently and got to try new products because of this boycott. Learned that it's okay to buy 🇺🇸 if:
1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it).
2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it).
2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Buy Canadian boycott still strong 6 months into U.S. trade war
Six months after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a trade war with Canada, the boycott of American goods and travel is still going strong.
www.cbc.ca
July 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Went home 🇨🇦 recently and got to try new products because of this boycott. Learned that it's okay to buy 🇺🇸 if:
1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it).
2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it).
2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
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So, a rising age at first birth & rising shares of people who childless at a given age - & thus low birth rates - aren't a *cause* of all these problems cited by pronatalists. They're a *symptom* that contemporary society is not functioning in a way that lets people achieve their family goals. 9/
The real fertility crisis
UNFPA State of World Population 2025
www.unfpa.org
July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So, a rising age at first birth & rising shares of people who childless at a given age - & thus low birth rates - aren't a *cause* of all these problems cited by pronatalists. They're a *symptom* that contemporary society is not functioning in a way that lets people achieve their family goals. 9/
Can’t read the news right now, so am going to do this instead (or throw my phone in the river?) ⬇️
If you need a mental break, go check out the thousands upon thousands of drawings of beautiful drawings of the sun at the SunDay website--and add one yourself!
sunday.earth/gallery
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July 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Can’t read the news right now, so am going to do this instead (or throw my phone in the river?) ⬇️
This morning, my kids—teenagers—who have grown up under Trump 1.0 and 2.0, were hopeful about political leadership. That’s a first! I don’t take these hopeful moments for granted. #mamdani #NYC
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Okay, I guess. If you reject feminism, then, yes, cooking all the family meals from scratch and having lots of babies while your man gets an education and goes out to work can be understood as "liberating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...
‘Less Burnout, More Babies’: How Conservatives Are Winning Young Women
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Okay, I guess. If you reject feminism, then, yes, cooking all the family meals from scratch and having lots of babies while your man gets an education and goes out to work can be understood as "liberating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...
Do something good for your mental health today by looking at this post and reading the amazing comments. 💚🧡
“Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.”
June 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Do something good for your mental health today by looking at this post and reading the amazing comments. 💚🧡
I teach this in my food studies classes. SNAP is a powerhouse social program. (Quiz: Guess who lobbies for SNAP? Corporate grocers like WalMart. They reap profits from SNAP spending in their stores and their workforce depends on those benefits because their wages are so low)
1 in 7 Americans relies on SNAP for their food benefits. Not only is it a critical program in promoting food security/health, but it has an outstanding return on investment: for every $1 invested in SNAP, there is $1.54 in economic activity as people go to local grocers. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I teach this in my food studies classes. SNAP is a powerhouse social program. (Quiz: Guess who lobbies for SNAP? Corporate grocers like WalMart. They reap profits from SNAP spending in their stores and their workforce depends on those benefits because their wages are so low)
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
May I present further evidence of how the Left has radicalized students in dangerous ways. Subversive graffiti in a bathroom at Rutgers University! #liberals #radicalleft #academiclife #empathy
June 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
May I present further evidence of how the Left has radicalized students in dangerous ways. Subversive graffiti in a bathroom at Rutgers University! #liberals #radicalleft #academiclife #empathy
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You love to see it:
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You love to see it:
SELF magazine has a great cover story on MAHA. This movement would love nothing more than for women to be back in the kitchen and away from public life. They’re gunning for a world of traditional gender roles for men and women, which they see as “natural”. www.self.com/story/how-th...
June 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
SELF magazine has a great cover story on MAHA. This movement would love nothing more than for women to be back in the kitchen and away from public life. They’re gunning for a world of traditional gender roles for men and women, which they see as “natural”. www.self.com/story/how-th...
Never would have guessed that my book would be relevant because of what's happening on the far right. I was happy to talk to Erica Sloan of @self.com who does a nice job here of tracing the problematic threads of #MAHA. MAHA + MAGA want to send women back to the 19th Century.
June 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM