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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 2d

adding to my "what the hell is danielle allen doing" file alongside that book promo event she did with curtis yarvin

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 3d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact

Now we have a chance for collective action

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · 18d

“plant languishing plant purchases” hits home 💀🪴

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Michael A. Nees @michaelnees.bsky.social · Sep 3

Four panels of dialogue from the show Arrested Development modified to make the point that replacing humans with robots usually does not work.

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Sep 1

Always show this to my intro soc students as an example of urban soc, symbolic interaction, observation as opposed to participant observation, etc.

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spookie @okie.gay · Aug 25

related: for Texas friends, H-E-Bs (at least across Austin) have open vaccine slots and don't ask if you're high-risk

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · Aug 25

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.

Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’

A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · Aug 27

We're in the worst and stupidest timeline www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...

FDA ends broad Covid vaccine authorization as RFK Jr. limits access to immunizations

It's unclear how easily patients without high risk factors will be able to get a Covid shot, and whether insurance plans will still cover them.

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 27

I love Zach Pepper's cooking videos.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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Mara @lordxelizor.bsky.social · Aug 21

There are no sociologists named Mark

There are only sociologists named Marc

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 19

Last chance for FREE Pol Soc grad student section memberships!!! DM or email me for details! Time is running out! @asapolisoc.bsky.social

Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Jul 30

It's membership drive time! Sociology grad student ASA members who aren't pol soc members yet, Ziggy's looking at you! We're gifting FREE grad student political soc section memberships in return for cute pet pics. DM or email me for details. #ASA2025 Pls reskeet!
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black and white beagle/dachsund mix wearing a crab costume and eyeing the camera

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Antonucci and Zhirnov find that "more than a third of the effect of insecurity on populist outlook is through social status." Cultural backlash "contributes in part to the devpt of populist attitudes but not the only (or most determinant) factor."

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Lorenza and @elenaah.bsky.social are coediting a BJS special issue on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity, deadline coming soon! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Lorenza Antonucci @unibirmingham.bsky.social ‬presents her and Andrei Zhirnov's @exeter.ac.uk SEM work on the intertwined effects of insecurity and social status on populist attitudes in Europe.

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Fascinating work in the WWI era on the weaponization of this new nonpartisanship. Nonpartisanship is a "capacious category and can be exploited by different actors."

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

@uwsoc.bsky.social team @bwitkovsky.bsky.social and Carter Burg present on the production of nonpartisanship in Prog Era Wisc. Benny's dissertation sheds even more light on how "nonpartisan local governance was always the product of political parties, partisan conflict, and partisan institutions."

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · May 20

📄 Grad student Benny Witovsky and undergraduate research scholar Carter Burg had a paper accepted to #ASA2025!

Catch their presentation of "Stalwarts, Socialists, and Reformers: The Contested Meaning of Nonpartisan Politics in Progressive Era Wisconsin" this August in Chicago. @asanews.bsky.social

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Bruxelles and Rouen team ask "God or Cash?" in the paper and find "God is more powerful than cash." Evangelicalism was a significant predictor of support for Bolsonaro.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 11

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 11

Oh Jesus Christ.

CNN host right now asks Rep. Jamie Raskin, "We know that statistics show crime is down in DC. But does it 'feel' like crime is down?"

Raskin: "Oh, definitely, if you compare it to other periods in DC." (He grew up there, and knows.) But obvs still a problem.

FYI it's Kasie Hunt.

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Run, don't walk, to grab Jacinto's brand new book from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The Edge of the Law: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Edge of the Law

How street vendors tangle with the law in São Paulo, Brazil. With a little initiative and very little startup money, an outgoing individual might sell you a number of delights and conveniences famil...

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Jacinto Cuvi, Frédéric Louault, Margaux De Barros on how cash transfers affected support for right-wing populism during Brazil's 2022 presidential elections based on exit poll surveys in low income neighborhoods that included questions on multiple dimensions of religion.

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Team led by Heather Harper at NMSU with @toocold115.bsky.social and Mackenzie Dybvik argue that racial resentment is a significant predictor of opposition to green energy policy, only partly explained by conservatism and negative partisanship.

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

@martinlukk.bsky.social presenting on territorial identities in European cleavage politics argues that the "scope of polarization is overstated," and "globalists are nationalists, too"

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Another outstanding @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Electoral Politics. #asa2025

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ASU Center for Work and Democracy @cwd-asu.bsky.social · Aug 11

Today, the CWD's Ben Case spoke at #ASA2025 (@asapolisoc.bsky.social ‬) about direct democracy, the popularity of egalitarian and redistributive ballot measures, and our report, "Majority Rules 2025."

We’re proud to have you on our team, Ben!

Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Terrific @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Political Engagement at #asa2025 this am. Overall takeaway, conventional understandings of engagement are far too restricted to voting. E.g. Case's research says egalitarian and redistributive ballot initiatives are hugely popular, esp. in red states.

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