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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 1h

Second screenshot does say “everyone eats,” after all!

Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 4h

A student once asked what professors do, if not teaching. I interpreted it as a leading question. Among other answers, one thing I found important to note is, who do you think produced the articles, books, and reports you are being taught in this class? dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Workload report shows breakdown of time UNC faculty spend teaching, researching

It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for, but some professors are confused about how the data was calculated.

dailytarheel.com

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on, thanks for reading and promoting!

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 4d

Home page of U.S. Department of Justice: "Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice’s contingency plan for more information."

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 5d

Oh we're FUCKED fucked, huh?

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5d

University of Texas leaping to the top of the rankings of higher ed institutions most eager to cozy up to the authoritarian, taking over the top spot from previous leader, Columbia University. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 5d

I half-joke, half-seriously say I am generally pro-vice, with gambling, especially sports betting, being a major exception. (The half-joke part is that I am pro-vice. Very serious about my anti-sports betting stance.)

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 6d

Same idea, but wittier: bsky.app/profile/olen...

Peronism with American Characteristics @olenargy.bsky.social · 7d

These are all funny to me because it reminds everyone that the government is in control of partisan Republicans

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7d

someone please check on every government website because the banners are killing me

HUD:

Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe it's cope, but I wonder if these messages have an effect opposite of what's intended, where it prompts people to ask follow-up questions about the very unpopular administration that they otherwise wouldn't, like how it's Democrats fault when Republicans have a trifecta, etc.

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 7d

Because Trump is an all aesthetics guy, who doesnt get that doing nakedly obvious bullshit like this instead of actually figuring out a way to end the shutdown wont really work for him the way he thinks it will

WIRED @wired.com · 7d

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 7d

Reminds me of the woman in TN a few years back that was initially prosecuted for “deceiving” her probation officer (who didn’t know the law) and told her she could vote, when she couldn’t because of her criminal record. (Case was eventually dropped because prosecution hid evidence IIRC)

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 7d

That, and I also think sometimes they are sitting on higher chairs so their legs are stretch out more (at least on College Gameday, for example). Regardless of reason, I definitely notice it on TV.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d

Academic economists forming connections on social media show a bias toward certain races, genders, and elite institutions, say researchers at @mcgill.ca, Sao Paulo School of Economics, and MIT. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Bias in academic networking

A social media field experiment suggests that gender, race, and university affiliation influence the formation of professional relationships among economists.

www.aeaweb.org

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Social Service Review @socservreview.bsky.social · May 1

New article ahead of print!

Read Matthew Clair and colleagues' latest article -- Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses

How does space shape access to state institutions and deepen inequality?

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 8d

My suspicion is that this partly comes from the fact that he's a TV guy, inherently (Trump is too but he never buttons his jacket). Not sure if you've eve noticed but on political & sports tv the guys almost always keep their jackets buttoned. It's weird.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 8d

At least Melania had the sense to copy Michelle Obama!

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 8d

Also, because I'm feeling petty: His suit doesn't fit at all. Jacket at least 1 size too short, pant rise about 4 inches too low. Shoes are significantly too light, should be much darker or black. He looks like a child/college student (ironic given the whining about grooming standards).

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 8d

Like this. Setting aside substance, it's pleading and desperate, not inspiring. He's just whining about fat troops and if you actually wanted to inspire people to change their behavior, this isn't going to do it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 8d

Also interesting that, for a space that supposedly values leadership a ton, the way he speaks does not convey authority or leader-ly-ness. He does this thing with short, declarative sentences after pausing that he thinks sounds strong but it has the opposite effect IMO--sounds desperate, grasping.

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 8d

god man this is the most pathetic weak beta male shit I've seen from an American defense secretary in my lifetime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 10d

Oh no, now I hope I didn’t oversell it! (Also, thanks🙏🏻)

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 10d

It’s a remarkable blind spot, I learned while engaging with activists when I wrote my first book. Just a fundamental ignorance to the fact that “the community” *also* means NIMBYs, Moms for Liberty, lynch mobs etc etc

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10d

did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 16d

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

press.princeton.edu

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19d

New paper in the Journal of Politics uses data from Berlin to evaluate how renters feel about new development after the implementation of rent control.

Researchers find that rent control results in renters being more willing to accept new construction in their neighborhood + more immigration.

Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 20d

It would be more accurate, but equally stupid, to suggest vocational schools for electricians need to do a better job fostering open debate on contentious issues.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20d

I'm always ready to agree about the value of speech. But this is just the well-meaning version of ppl blaming higher ed for Kirk's murder. His killer was not in a conversation or space shaped by campus actors. Campus cannot fix political violence in America.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Path Forward After Political Murder

The solution to violence isn’t less speech — it’s better dialogue.

www.chronicle.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 20d

A free society is not one in which the government can use its power to silence critical speech. Decent people must oppose this.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 20d

yes and also: if you have to say it, you don't have it.

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