Nathan Katz

Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning and I can't tell if it's a post-surgery drug induced fever dream or not

Melanie while we are prepping in the kitchen: Hells Kitchen Tech edition: you thought Dr. Katz was tough on your writing wait until he tries your cooking

Apparently Morrissey is canceling the rest of his tour dates this year

The blue tsunami continues! wokeness is back!

Last night I was rear ended, setting off a 5 car crash on the highway and broke my shoulder. Naturally I told my students/canceled a few days of classes.

The influx emails from students saying they are praying for me has been both heartwarming and a real "oh right you're in the south" moment

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines.

Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

1 million percent chance George Santos will start his own crypto currency in the upcoming months. 50% chance it will be called jailcoin

He got out after writing a flattering letter!? To paraphrase @mollyereynolds.bsky.social "I always tell people Washington DC isn't like Veep, except for George Santos"

Well this explains a lot. And also makes a lot of stuff more frustrating

Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”

And so my interests collide once again

Just like prominent Nazi war criminals such as Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

Even for universities desperate for funding with conservative leaders, the inability to raise tuition and the potential cutting of very prestigious departments and programs would seem to be a nonstarter.

Also the fact that it’s “five years” certainly is ominous.

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The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else…

This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.

Polling, Partisanship, and Promoting Violence: New Developments in Impression Management From Candidate and Super PAC Advertisements - Nathan Katz, 2024 Super PACs have become a pivotal force in U.S. elections, often working in tandem with political campaigns to create cohesive messages in advertisements that se...

So as Trump starts talking about "the enemy within" I wanna point out that wrote about the GOP using this rhetoric in the 2016 primary. It's not just a trump thing they've been trying to normalize violence against America for years

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

We are looking for another socilologist!

It's showing in the "analysis" too. Not a lot of actually wrestling with data. More telling than showing, etc.

So I'm reviewing an article for a journal and they talk about how one of the strengths of their Ai-based analysis is that it takes away "researcher bias" in category construction. That's a fun way to speak out against human understanding

Affirmative action for conservatives strikes again! Remember folks there is no such thing as a neutral policy but there is such a thing as going out of your way to make the partisan elements more extreme and to squash civil liberties

The "irreparable damage" that the Trump administration seeks to avoid, whether impounding Congressional funds or sacrificing its own employees in budget negotiations, is that anyone question that Trump's status as a sovereign King, rather than a President in a system designed with checks and balances. Actual harms to the victims of Trump and Vought's actions — federal employees losing their jobs, non-profits that may have to close, the public they serve, and ultimately the ability of Congress to respond to that public - are of secondary importance to protecting the grace and majesty of Trump under our new constitutional order.

Again and again the Supreme Court has issued barely written emergency injunctions, overturning lower courts, on the notion that Trump suffers some irreparable damage by abiding by the constitution. Meanwhile, real victims with real harms can expect no help. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

My drive to work took longer than normal due to traffic. Some rapture we're having

Opinion | Ezra Klein Is Worried — but Not About a Radicalized Left

Gotta love how Klein's vision for democratic victory is "chase what's popular by abandoning the winning issues you have to replicate the failed strategies of the 2010s."

A representative for GWAR pushed against the New York Post's article a statement: "Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a CWAR stage. CWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."

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they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements