Roco Foucault
@rocofoucault.bsky.social
Soc PhD, CJ prof, indolence activist;
Metro Detroit
Metro Detroit
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December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Son of friends, Thijmen Weeda, 21, missing in Amsterdam. Last seen Sunday 14:30 at the Marnixstraat. www.facebook.com/share/1AVLiG...
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Son of friends, Thijmen Weeda, 21, missing in Amsterdam. Last seen Sunday 14:30 at the Marnixstraat. www.facebook.com/share/1AVLiG...
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Exactly what we expected
![Screenshot of article which reads: According to a report by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, minority-serving institution programs are unlawful because they award money to colleges and universities based on the percentage of students of a certain race. The report said such programs “effectively [employ] a racial quota by limiting institutional eligibility to schools with a certain racial composition” and should no longer be funded.
The report also deemed it unconstitutional that two scholarship providers, the United Negro College Fund and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, both of which award scholarships to students of a specific race, are given access to Free Application for Federal Student Aid data.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreiagwy5bp74avvsezakkesczbszl4sj2gdrzbclxkmdk6gyemdy22y@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Exactly what we expected
Why does Erika Kirk dress and bejewel herself like late-stage Elvis? Do we know? She kits herself out like someone who was married to a way older man than Charlie. She reminds me of a senior on NYE at a NW Arkansas country club ~1995.
Times like these make me wish there were ghosts and hauntings.
Times like these make me wish there were ghosts and hauntings.
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Why does Erika Kirk dress and bejewel herself like late-stage Elvis? Do we know? She kits herself out like someone who was married to a way older man than Charlie. She reminds me of a senior on NYE at a NW Arkansas country club ~1995.
Times like these make me wish there were ghosts and hauntings.
Times like these make me wish there were ghosts and hauntings.
Bari Weiss’s favorite people are going to be off-putting to the kinds of folks who watch CBS. My 89 y.o. mom is maybe not representative (her views align with her kids’), but she finds Erika to be “Kind of a tough egg!” (Not a compliment.) Pinker and Douthat will be weirdos. Bari herself: annoying.
All of that is to say: Pinker and Douthat sounding off on religion isn't new — they've both done so for a long time, and are influential figures.
But speaking as a religion reporter: for CBS to choose this particular pair for a major televised debate over "God" is…a choice I have questions about.
But speaking as a religion reporter: for CBS to choose this particular pair for a major televised debate over "God" is…a choice I have questions about.
December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Bari Weiss’s favorite people are going to be off-putting to the kinds of folks who watch CBS. My 89 y.o. mom is maybe not representative (her views align with her kids’), but she finds Erika to be “Kind of a tough egg!” (Not a compliment.) Pinker and Douthat will be weirdos. Bari herself: annoying.
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Hey sociology lovers! After losing our program to Hurricane Katrina and a 20-year hiatus, Tulane University is re-launching its PhD in sociology! If you'd like to learn more, please reach out at [email protected]. I'd be happy to chat to prospective students or faculty who might send some our way.
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Hey sociology lovers! After losing our program to Hurricane Katrina and a 20-year hiatus, Tulane University is re-launching its PhD in sociology! If you'd like to learn more, please reach out at [email protected]. I'd be happy to chat to prospective students or faculty who might send some our way.
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Yes, Michigan can get dark and cold in the winter. Jeeze, though. Detroit is sure magical this time of year.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Yes, Michigan can get dark and cold in the winter. Jeeze, though. Detroit is sure magical this time of year.
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I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me!
bit.ly/4aiUIKQ
bit.ly/4aiUIKQ
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me!
bit.ly/4aiUIKQ
bit.ly/4aiUIKQ
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"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
www.dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
@dsmilde.bsky.social doing a fabulous job speaking about Venezuela tonight on PBS News Hour. If you watch a replay, his segment starts around 33 minutes in. 🙌
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@dsmilde.bsky.social doing a fabulous job speaking about Venezuela tonight on PBS News Hour. If you watch a replay, his segment starts around 33 minutes in. 🙌
All the people running things come from the two worst groups in high school. It’s a bad mashup of the portion of the jocks who were homophobic lunkhead bullies and the nerds who were socially inept (yet annoyingly haughty and resentful). Worst of their archetypes.
Bovino/Leavitt and Miller/Bari W.
Bovino/Leavitt and Miller/Bari W.
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
All the people running things come from the two worst groups in high school. It’s a bad mashup of the portion of the jocks who were homophobic lunkhead bullies and the nerds who were socially inept (yet annoyingly haughty and resentful). Worst of their archetypes.
Bovino/Leavitt and Miller/Bari W.
Bovino/Leavitt and Miller/Bari W.
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One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
Every time I read about hooligans, their jobs are listed as “painter and decorator,” and this rings so funny in the US, because it conjures up an entirely different (much less performatively masculine) stereotype here.
I have to remind myself, “Roofers. It’s like a group of white roofers.”
I have to remind myself, “Roofers. It’s like a group of white roofers.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Every time I read about hooligans, their jobs are listed as “painter and decorator,” and this rings so funny in the US, because it conjures up an entirely different (much less performatively masculine) stereotype here.
I have to remind myself, “Roofers. It’s like a group of white roofers.”
I have to remind myself, “Roofers. It’s like a group of white roofers.”
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Happy to share insights on low fertility as part of @popassocamerica.bsky.social’s Congressional Briefing yesterday. To learn more, check out the recording and slides.
Congressional Briefing on U.S. Fertility Trends
www.populationassociation.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Happy to share insights on low fertility as part of @popassocamerica.bsky.social’s Congressional Briefing yesterday. To learn more, check out the recording and slides.
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JOBS (×2): Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland (UWS).
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
University of the West Scotland hiring Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice Job in Paisley, Scotland | Glassdoor
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December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
JOBS (×2): Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland (UWS).
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
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I 💯 agree with this. Positioning good things, like childcare and paid leave and a robust social safety net, to *maybe* increasing birth rates means we’ll lost those things when they don’t raise rates. And they still position women’s reproductive labor as the only solution.
New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I 💯 agree with this. Positioning good things, like childcare and paid leave and a robust social safety net, to *maybe* increasing birth rates means we’ll lost those things when they don’t raise rates. And they still position women’s reproductive labor as the only solution.
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this sentence alone, my goodness
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
this sentence alone, my goodness
I hate these “summit“ things that bring together folks like this (such as the NYT one, aside from Halle Berry, who’s okay by me)? They being out the worst, yielding up arrogant, uniformed pronouncements from dorks who know little about the world outside their own (tiny) bubbles. Bah!
i get madder about it every time i read this dude pretend that going to the movies is some elitist coastal affectation only the privileged few get to enjoy when it’s one of the most widely accessible ways for pretty much anyone to have a fun night out
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I hate these “summit“ things that bring together folks like this (such as the NYT one, aside from Halle Berry, who’s okay by me)? They being out the worst, yielding up arrogant, uniformed pronouncements from dorks who know little about the world outside their own (tiny) bubbles. Bah!
Of note for Detroit-area folks: The presence of Jim Farley of Ford and Antonio Filosa of Stellantis (the latter of whom seems like he wants desperately to escape, and his PR people should have warned him). Mary Barra of GM sent a (pro-Trump?) plant manager. Rep. Lisa McClain is a bad banana.
Ever mindful of the visuals, he gathers a giant group of old white people to surround him and support him while he spews his vile racist rants.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Of note for Detroit-area folks: The presence of Jim Farley of Ford and Antonio Filosa of Stellantis (the latter of whom seems like he wants desperately to escape, and his PR people should have warned him). Mary Barra of GM sent a (pro-Trump?) plant manager. Rep. Lisa McClain is a bad banana.
RFK, Jr.’s whole head has taken on odd, Barry Bonds-like proportions in a *very short* number of years, way fewer than the period of comparison used for Bonds. He also does nothing halfway.
Seems germane for health policy if he’s injecting anabolic steroids linked to mood and reasoning disorders.
Seems germane for health policy if he’s injecting anabolic steroids linked to mood and reasoning disorders.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
RFK, Jr.’s whole head has taken on odd, Barry Bonds-like proportions in a *very short* number of years, way fewer than the period of comparison used for Bonds. He also does nothing halfway.
Seems germane for health policy if he’s injecting anabolic steroids linked to mood and reasoning disorders.
Seems germane for health policy if he’s injecting anabolic steroids linked to mood and reasoning disorders.
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“During the holiday season, mothers are spending the equivalent of an extra work week on housework and shopping compared to fathers.”
Read Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Read Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“During the holiday season, mothers are spending the equivalent of an extra work week on housework and shopping compared to fathers.”
Read Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Read Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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5yo: "When I'm eating peas too fast, I say 'Peeeeeeasy does it.'"
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
5yo: "When I'm eating peas too fast, I say 'Peeeeeeasy does it.'"
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Residents of the Leland House received notice a day after Thanksgiving that the storied building would be shutting down in less than a week, leaving them frustrated and confused.
bit.ly/4pBGdGq
bit.ly/4pBGdGq
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Residents of the Leland House received notice a day after Thanksgiving that the storied building would be shutting down in less than a week, leaving them frustrated and confused.
bit.ly/4pBGdGq
bit.ly/4pBGdGq
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Looking forward to participating in this Congressional Briefing on U.S. birth rates with @econmsk.bsky.social & @prbdata.bsky.social's Jennifer Sciubba next week, sponsored by @popassocamerica.bsky.social.
If you're in the DC area, join us! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you're in the DC area, join us! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Looking forward to participating in this Congressional Briefing on U.S. birth rates with @econmsk.bsky.social & @prbdata.bsky.social's Jennifer Sciubba next week, sponsored by @popassocamerica.bsky.social.
If you're in the DC area, join us! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you're in the DC area, join us! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
He was second-to-last in his high school class (bootstraps apparently lost on the bus or something), AND, despite that abysmal display of non-effort and non-merit, his dad gave him $25k to start his business at age 19. As all white Midwestern 80s dads were prone to do 🙄.
We have to talk about how this glorification of overwork is driving care downstream.
To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...
To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...
Billionaire Jimmy John’s founder: Work-life balance for entrepreneurs ''is the biggest line of bulls--- that’s ever been created’
Jimmy John Liautaud says launching a successful business requires an immense amount of dedication and persistence, leaving no room for work-life balance.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
He was second-to-last in his high school class (bootstraps apparently lost on the bus or something), AND, despite that abysmal display of non-effort and non-merit, his dad gave him $25k to start his business at age 19. As all white Midwestern 80s dads were prone to do 🙄.