Liana Sayer
@lsayer.bsky.social
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Sociologist/demographer @ University of Maryland studying inequalities in time use over the life course and how those relate to relationship quality and stability.
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed
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It is easy to frame what is happening now through the usual filter of politics, and the White House is eager to do so, making the critique of RFK Jr. just another partisan battle. But I want us to go back and sit with Caroline Kennedy’s letter:

His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.

Forget the drugs. Reflect on the pathology, the cruelty, the “perverse scene of despair and violence.” Ms. Kennedy paints a chilling picture. This isn’t a political critique of our HHS secretary; it’s the origin story of a new American psycho. And before you reduce this to name-calling on my part, read the letter again. Then juxtapose the portrait Caroline Kennedy provides with the man today, the enormous power he has to do damage, to inflict suffering and death upon us all, and what he has done thus far. The case is clear: He should never have been let anywhere near public health, healthcare and biomedical science in this country. Congress needs to act. And we need to make them do it. RFK Jr. needs to go. Now.
lsayer.bsky.social
Starts with questionable assumption married women are happier than other women?
philipncohen.com
Never peer reviewed, data and code never shared, always straight to press release and reports by credulous media friends (coming soon to the Atlantic and Deseret News)
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philipncohen.com
Never peer reviewed, data and code never shared, always straight to press release and reports by credulous media friends (coming soon to the Atlantic and Deseret News)
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trevondlogan.bsky.social
This style of reporting is atrocious. Governor Cook has not been fired. The President has “purported” to fire her. Governor Cook knows the president has no such power to do so—see her statement for details. We need a better media who does not accept every half baked narrative from the White House
lsayer.bsky.social
We're living in a Dual State per Fraenkel's Dual State theory of fascism. Who's written about effective mobilization against Dual States?
volts.wtf
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.

ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
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christinajcross.bsky.social
I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.

Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ...
TikTok video by Harvard University Press
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
This
acyn.bsky.social
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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markwarner.bsky.social
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.
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ipums.bsky.social
We are already off to an amazing start! lcc.umn.edu/DIRC
umnlifecourse.bsky.social
So excited to be kicking off day 1 of our Data-Intensive Research Pre-Conference Workshop! @ipums.bsky.social
A seminar room filled with workshop attendees
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kwcollins.bsky.social
Maybe it's time for the Fed -- which already runs a number of surveys through its regional banks -- to start running its own surveys to monitor unemployment and prices, the two components of its dual mandate.
lsayer.bsky.social
I'll feature this insightful take on fertility this fall in Social Demography seminar.
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censussdc.bsky.social
via @minnpop @ipums.bsky.social Support the ATUS - Submit a Comment to the Federal Register by Monday (July 28)
Support the ATUS - Submit a Comment to the Federal Register by Monday (July 28)
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jesshardie.bsky.social
I think this article is correct that some of the lawyers feel shame but my suspicion about the balaclavas is that the agents wear them in order to look more intimidating.
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ncfr.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that Family Relations, an official journal of NCFR, has released its special issue with the theme "Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Family Life." Discover the impact that these technologies can have on families and relationships. #familyrelations #AI
Read the special issue of NCFR's Family Relations today!
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adambonica.bsky.social
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show:
	•	Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS.
	•	Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS.

Key takeaway box below reads:
“Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.”

Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.
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jesshardie.bsky.social
This is an excellent and clear-eyed indictment of how the New York Times and their ilk are collaborating in authoritarianism.
The Secret Police Are Here
While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls
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lsayer.bsky.social
Agree + we need from Democrats viral outreach about the positive outcomes government services and programs provide to people. Not the "Reagan Lite" offered during/post-Reagan.
jessicacalarco.com
How did Reagan get us here?
Essentially, Reagan gave us distrust in government, plus deregulation, plus belief in the benevolence of billionaires, plus trickle-down economics, plus precarity, plus scapegoats fueled by racist and sexist stereotypes.
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jessicacalarco.com
Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
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hmason.bsky.social
Incredible. I never thought I would see a poster session as protest. 💪
luckytran.com
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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datageekb.bsky.social
Submitting a comment in support of public data is simple.
We'll show you how!
apduorg.bsky.social
Did you know that the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is up for renewal?

APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:

🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?

Registration info in 🧵
Rapid Response Webinar:
American Time Use Survey
Wednesday, July 9
2:30-3:00 pm ET
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mabuice.bsky.social
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
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datageekb.bsky.social
I support the continuation of vital events data collection. These data have been published since 1937 and are the sole source of this information at the national level. The data are used by HHS and by other government, business, academic, and other organizations in tracking changes in trends of...