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Sumita Pahwa

@sumitapahwa.bsky.social

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Social scientist, religion and politics, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Book: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/5829/politics-as-worship/

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Men Explain Things to Me

<p>Before there was <em>mansplaining</em>, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.</p>

www.guernicamag.com

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 38m

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 39m

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 2h

What does "pulling in" mean in this context? Pressuring them to join the AKP?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 18h

Indian pickles straight out of the jar.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 18h

CC @ianmhartshorn.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Post food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down after 25 years — and is finally showing his face.

In his final column, Tom shares some tricks of the trade after decades of reviewing restaurants anonymously. https://wapo.st/4pWgp8K

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 21h

But it's feminized, home based piecework, and performing Good Wife-ness to the public has always been more important than living it at home.

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 21h

This line made me chortle: "The Atlantic risks getting addicted to these yarns because of their popularity among non-Californians, in the same sense that the first taste of human blood has been reputed to turn African lions into incorrigible man-eaters."

(Though I blame Joan Didion for starting it)

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 22h

LA, come on.

Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 22h

Great news from Portland Parks. They've made it easier and cheaper for mobile vendors to set up at local parks!

Food trucks & other vendors make public spaces sticky & build community.

Hope this gives momentum to @councilorgreen.bsky.social hot dog ordinance. www.portland.gov/parks/news/2...

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

There's some academic work on this...

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Dylan AND Prince? Wow. i only knew about the latter.

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Framing efforts work when you think people's views are changing, or your audience is changing.

Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Well Gandhi did target the American press (rising hegemon) for the Salt march. That was a LIFE magazine reporter depicted in the film. Also supposedly hoped that women having the vote/Labour govt would be more sympathetic. But it wasn't the definitive thing that overthrew colonial rule.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Trustee, Full Professor, Assistant Professor.

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh I don't even know how...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

For lots more context beyond Elliott's essay, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social & I have a forthcoming article in POQ on best practices for measuring & interpreting violent political attitudes, w/ tons of new evidence.

Pre-print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9blbj...

Appendix: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kc1i5...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

That too. There's extensive research about economic collapse, the effects of the war, and the growth of 'direct action' leading up to the collapse of colonial rule. I wish people wouldn't rely on one film for their history.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the importance of news framing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting - Volume 114 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

That depended a great deal on audiences, sympathy, and framing. And some audiences don't feel ashamed at the brutality, and media frames may be unsympathetic. Some academic work on this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance - Volume 116 Issue 1

www.cambridge.org

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

Anything but the crumpled khakis and navy blazer look...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 1d

On of the first funny email forward jokes I remember reading: www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~warrier/Gra...