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sociologist. writing about safety nets, care, and debt. thinking about what we owe each other
The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed
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This is the front page of the Chicago Tribune: On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
01.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
Segregation in public accommodations was second class economic citizenship. A dollar in the hands of a Black person did not come with the same rights to spend it that others had. Explore the history of this limited citizenship here: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
31.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 47 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
30.10.2025 18:06 — 👍 2795 🔁 1272 💬 59 📌 37
New: The Share of Mothers Who Work Is Shrinking – and Black Mothers Face the Steepest Declines.
nationalpartnership.org/report/share...
1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead.
Her death was ruled a suicide.
But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
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There's been good polling on what people know about inequality. (They think it's a LOT less than it is.)
This is over a decade old; I'd love to see an update
Segregation is NOT about expelling “other people” from your neighborhood/business/community— it IS about making sure that when “other people” are there that it is clear they are subordinate to you. It’s about power and control.
“You can be as close as your want, but never on the same level.”
“For this to flourish, a network of communications is needed, an echo chamber where the voices of far-right country bounce into far-right media, which bounce into far-right politics, all ultimately bouncing back to the country fans that finance them all.”
www.popmatters.com/trump-countr...
We don’t need protection from asylum seekers we need protection from the Murphy-Trump agenda. Disgraceful.
28.10.2025 22:08 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
28.10.2025 19:16 — 👍 11936 🔁 2731 💬 57 📌 67
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
28.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 17842 🔁 10051 💬 637 📌 567Wow—the federal minimum wage is so low in real terms that these days only ~1% of workers are paid at or below it, despite it still being the legal wage floor in many states
26.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 138 🔁 55 💬 4 📌 4
a bar chart depicting a huge bar Wealth of the Top 1% "$47.80 trillion" dwarfing bars for the Federal deficit ($1.83 trillion), tax revenue ($4.92 trillion) and Government spending ($6.75 trillion)"
from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
25.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 570 🔁 192 💬 15 📌 31I’m afraid it’s Redemption shit… The strategy of using voter intimidation is old one www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
25.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group.
Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.
Article excerpt with a section of the second paragraph highlighted: State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic. The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.” In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover. When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn’t feel shame and that the massacre’s perpetrators shouldn’t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.
Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm
Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
This is Jim Crow shit.
24.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 148 🔁 56 💬 6 📌 1This is torture.
24.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 158 🔁 61 💬 12 📌 3
screenshot of an instagram notification that says "Learn how Meta will use your info in new ways to personalize your experience"
feels like a threat
24.10.2025 01:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Food shortages in poor communities leads to ppl engaging in survival tactics. The State frames this as senseless crime. They criminalize poor, hungry folks for trying to live. They send in troops and put folks in prisons, lining the pockets of private prison owners.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
This paper has been in the works for about five years and is finally in print! It's about the work that formerly incarcerated Black women engage in to resist efforts to undermine their citizenship.
In this moment, when citizenship is becoming more and more precarious, I highly recommend this read.
In a complex society like ours, in order for many things to happen, many people have to play their role. That gives people a great deal of power, if they can act collectively.
17.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 185 🔁 47 💬 10 📌 3
“race & gender & sexuality, the forms in which wage differentials are organized––the most intimate level”
“it’s superstructure all the way down & structure all the way up we also need to theorize why there’s this constant forgetting of the gendered & racial dimensions of political economy”
family politics are economic politics. Or as @melindacooper.bsky.social might say, patrimony all the way down
17.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The scope of the Western AK disaster:
1500 displaced. High poverty rates and few backup resources.
25% of homes dislodged/destroyed. Even intact bldgs have no water, heat, power, or sewer.
Subsistence food stores spoiled.
No roads so building materials must be barged or flown in.
Winter coming.
