Sarah Quinn
@sarahquinn.bsky.social
Sociologist who studies American politics, finance, and political economy. Broadly interested in cultural categories and power.
He keeps watch on the front door while I work.
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
He keeps watch on the front door while I work.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
What every new data point about the economy feels like
a person is laying on a broken glass table .
Alt: Julianne Moore nervously stares down at a pane of glass that is cracking beneath her, from the movie Jurassic Park: Lost World where
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What every new data point about the economy feels like
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My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious.
Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*
Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious.
Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*
Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
Fascinating!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Fascinating!
A thread that reads as a kind of call and response about facing cancer, loss, and death
I've been waiting for this article open from behind a paywall since it was published.
Reading now:
Reading now:
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CLpbsb
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A thread that reads as a kind of call and response about facing cancer, loss, and death
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And I tell you this:
I think our imaginal capacities are one of our most profound graces on this earth,
and leaning into them, imagining a more sacred world, is perfectly fine to do at end of life
belief - schmelief.
Do mind-art if you don't do religion.
It helps.
I think our imaginal capacities are one of our most profound graces on this earth,
and leaning into them, imagining a more sacred world, is perfectly fine to do at end of life
belief - schmelief.
Do mind-art if you don't do religion.
It helps.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
And I tell you this:
I think our imaginal capacities are one of our most profound graces on this earth,
and leaning into them, imagining a more sacred world, is perfectly fine to do at end of life
belief - schmelief.
Do mind-art if you don't do religion.
It helps.
I think our imaginal capacities are one of our most profound graces on this earth,
and leaning into them, imagining a more sacred world, is perfectly fine to do at end of life
belief - schmelief.
Do mind-art if you don't do religion.
It helps.
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And it has indeed come to pass.
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
And it has indeed come to pass.
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This was the look my high school girlfriend's grandma gave me when I told her how delicious her knishes were.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This was the look my high school girlfriend's grandma gave me when I told her how delicious her knishes were.
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The second Biscuit Makers' Union poster follows the workers of biscuit making from "from field to tummy." This journey is depicted literally in the poster: starting with farm fields, through harvest, and production. A closer look at the bottom reveals a fleet of trucks ready to deliver biscuits...
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The second Biscuit Makers' Union poster follows the workers of biscuit making from "from field to tummy." This journey is depicted literally in the poster: starting with farm fields, through harvest, and production. A closer look at the bottom reveals a fleet of trucks ready to deliver biscuits...
You will pry my animal spirits from my cold dead hands
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
You will pry my animal spirits from my cold dead hands
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I can’t explain it but I think we’re ready for a new chanting monks pop album.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I can’t explain it but I think we’re ready for a new chanting monks pop album.
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In a new post for the @lpeblog.bsky.social, @solomonctryls.bsky.social Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow Elle Rothermich reflects on the potential limits of antitrust law as a tool to improve health care for terminally ill patients. lpeproject.org/blog/hospice...
Hospice Commodification and the Limits of Antitrust
As hospice care is increasingly dominated by private equity firms, an antitrust response, while necessary, has the potential to normalize the language of the market as the default mode for discussing…
lpeproject.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In a new post for the @lpeblog.bsky.social, @solomonctryls.bsky.social Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow Elle Rothermich reflects on the potential limits of antitrust law as a tool to improve health care for terminally ill patients. lpeproject.org/blog/hospice...
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For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...
Small two-tone whistle by ACstudio MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models
Boost MeSe ho soddisfatto le tue aspettative donami un boost!ATTENZIONE!!!ESTREMAMENTE RUMOROSO!!!Micro fischietto bitonale. piccolo, ma molto potente e fastidioso!!!Il design di questo modello è conc...
makerworld.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...
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Gig economy vigilantes
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Gig economy vigilantes
"By turning these standing forests into a protected asset, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, as the new financial instrument is called, seeks to monetize their value as a global public good and give forested nations financial incentives to not destroy them."
Brazil propose a new fund (TFFF) that would pay countries to keep forests standing.
I don't know if this fund is perfect, but I know that it is important to protect tropical forests with their invaluable biodiversity, indigenous people and high storage of carbon 💚
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/c...
I don't know if this fund is perfect, but I know that it is important to protect tropical forests with their invaluable biodiversity, indigenous people and high storage of carbon 💚
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/c...
Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"By turning these standing forests into a protected asset, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, as the new financial instrument is called, seeks to monetize their value as a global public good and give forested nations financial incentives to not destroy them."
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I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich
March 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich
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As federal funding for states shrink, people are taking back control, building public banks owned by communities.
Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more!
Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET
bit.ly/PBC2C
Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more!
Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET
bit.ly/PBC2C
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
As federal funding for states shrink, people are taking back control, building public banks owned by communities.
Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more!
Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET
bit.ly/PBC2C
Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more!
Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET
bit.ly/PBC2C
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Haymarket Books are amazing, 80% off is such a bargain, please go browse
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Haymarket Books are amazing, 80% off is such a bargain, please go browse
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In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. www.wired.com/story/welcom...
Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State
In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. www.wired.com/story/welcom...
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This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.
Bari Weiss's website is being about as normal as I expected
www.thefp.com/p/mamdanis-r...
www.thefp.com/p/mamdanis-r...
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.