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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is disastrous. There has to be a better option.

Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 25

I think about Heidi Hartmann’s work on the intricate relationship between patriarchy, racism, and capitalism multiple times a day at this point.

Others theorize this, too. Hartmann was just my first really clear dive into how these structures hold each other up.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 17

They must assign this snippet day 1 of “dehumanization 101.”

Pulling in the gendered aspect is just icing on the cake.

Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 13

I would much rather someone tell me that a book didn’t work for them and why they think that was.

We may be looking for something different! Low-star reviews for books I really liked can be illuminating.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 11

The book The Mountain in the Sea plays around with this idea!

It is not pretty.

Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 11

This is a great post about some of the cultural resources (shorthand/shared meaning) we are seeing in Republican claimsmaking.

#socialproblems
#teachingsoc

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Jul 10

It's interesting how the 35-y.o. guy playing video games in his mom's basement has now joined the childless cat lady in the right's pantheon of bogeyman scapegoats.

Women who don't become mothers, sons who won't grow up, and Daddy on his menacing way home.

Such a dark oedipal imaginary.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 10

Steve Scalise: "Disabled people will get better Medicaid under this bill because all of the fully able-bodied -- the 35-year-old guy sitting at home playing video games in his mom's basement -- he's gonna have to go work. And so he will not be crowding out disabled people in Medicaid."

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 11

This is a really interesting series of posts about empirical evidence of political shifts over the recent past.

#teachingsoc

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · Jul 10

Instead of their older mix of anti-labor Dixiecrats and northern liberals, Democrats have shifted significantly left in the last generation to fit comfortably in the same political family as socialist-oriented parties in Europe. /1

nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-democr...

The Democratic Party is as Socialist as European Social Democratic Parties

Democratic voters have shifted dramatically to the left in the last generation - and both federal policy and blue state governance reflects that

nathannewman.substack.com

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · Jul 11

Great cover, too!

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · Jul 10

"I left to rehabilitate myself for 16 years while the world got worse. People are more angry, bitter, and judgmental about people and things they have no vested interest or even having the right information."

I Left Prison a Better Person, But I Returned to a Worse World

I went to a transitional house and entered back out into society. In prison, we watch the news to see what the world is. But to experience...

prisonjournalismproject.org

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Terry @tenntuxx.bsky.social · Jul 2

A small example of what America is becoming

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 1

Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her.

When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Jun 14

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.