Nathan Katz

This is nonetheless more favorable terrain for Trump than for the American system. As New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote (here in The Post), “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Trump has for years stoked the idea that actually, having your own facts is fine. And even as his base chooses facts that he finds inconvenient in the moment, he’s still pushing toward the next phase: Everyone is entitled to the facts that Trump presents. What institutions of power will be left to disagree?

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
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17 years ago today - gone but never forgotten 🖤

In memory of punk rock legend Erick Lee Purkhiser aka Lux ​​Interior, singer and founding member of The Cramps, who died on this day in 2009 at the age of 62

📸 Michael Grecco

#punk #punks #punkrock #luxinterior #thecramps #punkrockhistory

Some classics arrived in the mail today #hardcore #punk #altrock #germs #concreteblonde

Released 40 years ago

"A Date with Elvis", the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Cramps, featuring the track "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?"

#punk #punks #punkrock #thecramps #adatewithelvis #history #punkrockhistory

Seems like a good video for his trial

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

DHS says there is body-worn camera video from fatal shooting of Alex Pretti Investigators are reviewing video of the shooting from multiple angles, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told NBC News.

Yeah, they’re gonna edit it. 😏

#ThisRegimeIsCorrupt

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

And someone made our mascot Techie the Bulldog as a paladin armed with a club (a stick to play fetch with)

Durkheim as a cleric with spells like "command" and "hold person" to talk about solidarity/maintaining social order

Michel Foucault as a green dragonborn warlock because "every picture of him I can find shows him very hairless. Also green dragonborn resist poison which helps with the drugs

Both Marx and Patricial Hill Collins as Bards because of how Bardic inspiration works and how they inspired so much work after them. Also another person's Marx had mage hand to represent labor

Judith Butler as a gnome because she was known for being incredibly talkative as a child.

So amidst the crushing weight of ice (both weather and fascist) I graded my Intro to #Sociology through #DungeonsAndDragons class's research papers where they had to build a #DnD characters based on a theorist or someone tied to Tech's history. Here are some highlights

How much time do you have?

the thought did strike me last night that 2005 America would be clamoring for preëmptive strikes against the lawless and tyrannical government of 2026 America

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

So it turns out the rams don't want the hellmouth to close

omg the Ten Commandments "poster" that Louisiana intends to send to schools (which are required to display them in every public classroom, including at universities) includes images of Moses and Mike Johnson share.google/eoRiDvHsshEg...

The ICE agents literally are accessories to murder.

Logo of Studies in American Political Development with the acronym "SAPD" in large blue letters on a mustard background, followed by the full name spelled out in smaller font below.

#OpenAccess from @studiesapd.bsky.social -

Democracy Under Siege: The Demise of Successful United States Federal Campaign Finance Reform - https://cup.org/49dXiRv

- Robin Stryker & Olivia Neff

#FirstView

Wait there was a lawsuit about being forced to use explorer?

Anti-ICE protesters are having a rolling noise demo and protest in downtown Minneapolis targeting hotels where federal agents are reportedly staying -- starting at the Canopy by Hilton and going to the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel. Police have just arrived as we are posting this.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Tim Walz stepping down just continues to prove that Nick Shirley is the new James O'Keefe. I can't wait to see the next doctored video the right throws out that leads to a fake scandal and real consequences

Do those folks critical of dems and say Dems are the same as Trump actually believe that Harris would have also sent in the US military to Venezuela to capture Maduro? She might have used other means but this blatant empire-ing is surely more of a Trump/Repub thing.

We’ve now progressed from Constitutional crisis to International crisis.

The only way that this doesn’t ultimately end badly for the United States, is for our people to take care of that first problem ourselves.

I just woke up and am already exhausted.