Sociologist in an Apathetic Collapsing Society

@lisawade.bsky.social we met many moons ago, when we were both new sociologists. Im using your gender book and I wanted to let you know its fantastic and the instructor manual is the best I've seen.

Sad that we cant even trust @gallup.com anymore when educating students on how to read polls.

Bondi, Patel and the rest of the corrupt DOJ Trump lackeys made sure to protect as many pedophiles as they could while puting the victims in the Epstein files.

Going through the files has killed any hope in humanity I had left.

What Trump Aides Whisper About His Cabinet: Wolff Michael Wolff reveals how Trump’s aides point to the Cabinet as the root of the administration’s flailing incompetence.

Donald Trump’s aides describe top members of the president’s administration as a cabinet of “morons,” his biographer says.

Why are Trump and the Guardians of Pedophiles lashing out at this realistic ad?

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Sen. Angus King: "I can't vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances"

Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over Attorney General Pam Bondi said that ICE could be pulled out of Minneapolis if three demands are met, in a letter to Governor Tim Walz.

Deputy Fuhrer Bondi says ICE will leave Minnesota if the voter data is handed over.....🤔 sure sounds like this terrorist wants Minnesota to negotiate with her?

www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-ic...

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.

What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year."

He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.

Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.

Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

Media Matters, a courageous and trustworthy debunker of right-wing lies, leaves Twitter/X.

Misogyny, Murder and Renee Nicole Good It's been a week since we watched an ICE agent shoot and kill Renee Nicole Good and then mutter "f*cking b*tch" at her. It's time we talk about the misogyny that's baked into ICE enforcement.

He wasn’t afraid for his life. He didn’t think he was in danger. He shot her because she wasn’t afraid. He took her life because he was angry that she didn’t cower in his presence. Didn’t show him the deference he felt he deserved.

These are the men DHS gives unchecked power to:

Well said.

Homeland Security is a domestic terror group.

I was SO angry when I typed this post. Look at the typos. Im not fixing them. The hypocrisy is heartbreaking.

One death is too much in Iran, but Jill all you want woth 'absolute immunity' here in the states.

Trump takes umbrage at his own teleprompter: "In the coming weeks I will be laying out even more plans to help bring back affordability -- and again, remember that's a fake word by Democrats."

Someone needs to tell the corporations that the prices are *down*. They haven't been filled in.