Stefan Vogler

a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show ALT: a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show

Cass Sunstein?

How about we make police carry liability insurance so the city doesn't have to cover the millions a year ($100 million in 2024, I believe) in lawsuits against the CPD? Nah, let's just raise property taxes again.

Really, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? The guy who said gays should be stoned to death and Black women don't have the brain power of white men was practicing politics the right way? You're trash, Ezra. Be quiet. We don't have to respect a guy's bigotry just because he's dead.

Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to removals After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description.

Fired for teaching facts…
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

Congratulations, Lauren!!

Def my favorite one yet!

So tired of being told that sexualities work is “better suited” for speciality journals. Do better, editors.

Show me any billionaire, and I'll show you a policy failure.

The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.

Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People - Critical Criminology Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are disproportionately incarcerated. Nascent scholarship has begun to explore this phenomenon, but we lack a comprehensive theoretical acc...

New newest article "Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People" is now available open access in Critical Criminology. Check it out!
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New piece from #PolicingTheRainbow out now in Criminology! We show that LGBTQ people have a much bigger appetite for police reform than non-LGBTQ people. Check it out (it's short!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Article acceptance to brighten up this dreary Wednesday!

Very excited to finally get to announce that next spring I will be a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study at Uni of Illinois where I will start writing for my second book based on #PolicingtheRainbow. So grateful to those who helped me in this endeavor and excited to get started!

One of my students just wrote me the best note a teacher can get, and I'm bawling. Amidst all the ChatGPT generated papers, sometimes students remind you exactly why you love teaching, so I couldn't resist sharing a little piece of what they wrote ❤️

Actually did have a student who I caught (and admitted to) using AI ask if I could come up with an alternative assignment for them to do to make up the points they lost for cheating on the first one 🙄

Woohoo!

But yes, I also know that's not what everyone means when they say "defund." That's another part of the issue: there was no widespread agreement on what activists meant when they said "defund," and it was therefore portrayed as a radical stance rather than a reasonable one.

While I don't disagree, I also have a new paper coming out soon that shows that when you tell people what "defund the police" actually means (i.e., move money from police to social services), there is much higher support for it.

I'm convinced some editors don't even read papers before sending them out for review. Some I get are so bad that there's no legitimate way they should have been sent for review. A big reason for reviewer burnout rn, I think.

Agreed, though I did think the finale was a little underwhelming.

Oops, I misinterpreted the chart! It shows that conservatives don't trust sociology. But my point still stands about conservatives within sociology (and conservative "scientists" outside of it, for that matter).

Oops! Read it wrong. My bad!

The thing is, the reason we don't trust conservatives in sociology is because the empirical evidence rarely supports conservative viewpoints. The reason many sociologists are "liberal" is not because we are ideologues; it is because we follow the evidence.

out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘

in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️

A two-panel meme using a cartoon flower character. In the top panel, the flower is angrily yelling, with the caption: "WHEN A BAKER IS ASKED TO MAKE A CAKE FOR A GAY COUPLE." In the bottom panel, the same flower is smiling calmly, with the caption: "WHEN PEOPLE ARE BLACK BAGGED AND SENT TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP IN EL SALVADOR." The meme contrasts public outrage over LGBTQ+ rights with apathy toward human rights abuses.

SCOTUS right now.

There's a really fascinating thesis to be written on the far right's cooptation/weaponization of antisemitism

What could have been the story of Trump if the US were sane.

Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...