Tori
@tlc-soc.bsky.social
sociologist. writing about safety nets, care, and debt. thinking about what we owe each other
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There's also this assumption that once POC have attained some elite credential, then a world of resources and privileges suddenly becomes easily accessible. But that's far from true. Racial discrimination persists!
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December 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There's also this assumption that once POC have attained some elite credential, then a world of resources and privileges suddenly becomes easily accessible. But that's far from true. Racial discrimination persists!
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For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The United States of Klarna
Want to understand the state of the economy? Just look to all the shoppers flocking to “buy now, pay later” services.
www.bloomberg.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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“Finalizing the rule would mean major hospitals will likely abandon their youth gender clinics, pushing trans youth to increasingly darker sources for their life saving medicine.”
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
Opinion | The looming disaster for trans health care
Katelyn Burns: How the GOP is using its anti-abortion playbook against trans health care.
www.ms.now
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Finalizing the rule would mean major hospitals will likely abandon their youth gender clinics, pushing trans youth to increasingly darker sources for their life saving medicine.”
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
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A key point in my book is that many sheriffs, in particular, believe that they are doing their job for a higher power. Law Enforcement Baronial Class -- not just a job, but a calling.
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Border Patrol, ICE and Christian Nationalism
Agents who believe they are fighting for God.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A key point in my book is that many sheriffs, in particular, believe that they are doing their job for a higher power. Law Enforcement Baronial Class -- not just a job, but a calling.
jennbudd.substack.com/p/border-pat...
jennbudd.substack.com/p/border-pat...
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Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.
Why So Many Organizations Stay White
Understanding how race is historically and structurally built into the workplace
hbr.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.
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For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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The real school crisis
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The real school crisis
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The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Break something indeed.
It's only tricky to elevate care work and caregiving while trying to lighten caregiver's burdens if you assume families in general and women in particular are preordained to do all or nearly all care.
It's only tricky to elevate care work and caregiving while trying to lighten caregiver's burdens if you assume families in general and women in particular are preordained to do all or nearly all care.
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Break something indeed.
It's only tricky to elevate care work and caregiving while trying to lighten caregiver's burdens if you assume families in general and women in particular are preordained to do all or nearly all care.
It's only tricky to elevate care work and caregiving while trying to lighten caregiver's burdens if you assume families in general and women in particular are preordained to do all or nearly all care.
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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TLDR: Racial trauma can become intergenerational economic trauma. #blacksky
Studying lynchings of Black Americans in the South between 1880 and 1940 finds that children of individuals who were exposed (as children) to lynchings see a reduction in their income relative to counterfactual individuals, from Condra, Jones, and Walsh www.nber.org/papers/w34523
December 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
TLDR: Racial trauma can become intergenerational economic trauma. #blacksky
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"But an estimated 30% of the direct care workforce nationally, such as Dawnie, Maria, and Diana’s colleagues, are enrolled in Medicaid themselves and could lose coverage temporarily or even permanently due to these measures." www.milbank.org/2025/12/no-s...
No Such Thing as Being Out of Harm’s Way | Milbank Memorial Fund
“Hi, Chris and John! How are you doing?” Dawnie greets us cheerfully, pushing a cart full of dirty utensils towards the elevator of the nursing home
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December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"But an estimated 30% of the direct care workforce nationally, such as Dawnie, Maria, and Diana’s colleagues, are enrolled in Medicaid themselves and could lose coverage temporarily or even permanently due to these measures." www.milbank.org/2025/12/no-s...
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"Market supremacy has shrunk both our understanding of what a civic information economy ought to provide in a democracy, and our imagination about how to better guarantee the public access to reliable, diverse information."
new from @rooseveltinstitute.org rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
new from @rooseveltinstitute.org rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Market supremacy has shrunk both our understanding of what a civic information economy ought to provide in a democracy, and our imagination about how to better guarantee the public access to reliable, diverse information."
new from @rooseveltinstitute.org rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
new from @rooseveltinstitute.org rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
"Community isn’t a sentiment; it’s a deliberately built social environment. It needs institutions–public health and social care, housing, childcare, schools, debt relief, neighborhood jobs–that give people time, stability, and proximity to be able to care for one another." - @eric-reinhart.com
Neither Culture Wars nor Big Tents Will Save American Democracy - New Global Politics
Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the...
www.newglobalpolitics.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Community isn’t a sentiment; it’s a deliberately built social environment. It needs institutions–public health and social care, housing, childcare, schools, debt relief, neighborhood jobs–that give people time, stability, and proximity to be able to care for one another." - @eric-reinhart.com
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If your marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than your marginal cost of forgoing domestic work, it's because you have more power than the person who ends up doing the domestic work that you've forgone.
Sociologists are trained to see everything through the lens of power imbalances. But what if it's simply that the marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than the marginal cost of the foregone domestic work?
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...
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If your marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than your marginal cost of forgoing domestic work, it's because you have more power than the person who ends up doing the domestic work that you've forgone.
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“To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
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November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
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“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.