@andycarr.bsky.social
he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere opinions mine, mostly bad site: andyjcarr.com SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
Diane Warren has lost her 17th consecutive #Oscars nomination, extending her record for the most losses without a win.
and this pain will not be equally shared across the university... social research and progressive scholarship are being targeted... and every decision leadership makes worsens the financial crisis as if by design. it doesn't have to be this way, these are choices by The New School top leadership
The American Association of University Professors seeks a Membership Specialist, Department of Organizing and Services to be based in Washington, DC (Hybrid). Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @aaup.org
this week’s newsletter is out today instead of friday because friday i will be attempting to steal every object that isn’t bolted down outta trotsky’s house! enjoy!
(Mara also just wrote this phenomenal piece, which gets at how abuse and violation are imbricated in AI at a fundamental level. it's a mix of personal reflection and researched, reported work – all difficult to grapple with, but an indispensable read for 2026.)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"I'm not a chaotic bisexual in a fun and sexy way; I'm a chaotic bisexual in a 'Beaker from The Muppets' kind of way–"
could have drawn many quotes from this great conversation about the film (and Amy/Hollywood generally!) but this specific quote was perfection.
Second Carceral Political Economy conference happening Mar 27 & 28 @ The New School. Free to attend! *Register at the link.* And I’ll be moderating a great panel on labor/the carceral state on 3/28, in the morning.
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After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”
And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.
they have taken all of that energy *outside* in their adorable tiny little *shorts and tank tops* ... all while I watch the clock and dissociate 😭
it is 4:25pm.
really, truly trying my best, stg 😩🫠🫡
incidentally: *also* me as I'm staring longingly out the window, watching people frolicking in 70º+ temps, as I continue waiting on a package expected to be delivered "between 12:30 and 4:30pm" today.
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need crowdsourcing help #polisky - if your department is not admitting PhD students this cycle, please respond with the department
i already know my department, GW, is not admitting students
NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."
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have signed this important open letter and you should too! www.instagram.com/p/DVbe1zZjstG/
Hey look urban sociologists (and urban scholars generally) City & Community journal is on here @cicojournal.bsky.social, w new editors at the helm:
in which i imagine the life of a spy at mar a lago, in a short story
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not that administrative law and bureaucratic reform efforts aren't exciting and fun subjects, of course...
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neck-deep in the final push for my own dissertation andddd
We are missing the International Owl Festival in Houston, Minnesota this weekend. But by a stroke of luck or twist of fate, the Airbnb we booked in Pflugerville, Texas has an owl theme going on. It’s like an Easter egg hunt finding them all.
Nice write-up from BingUNews on our research into the turmoil at Social Security under Trump/DOGE, and its impact on folks seeking disability benefits.
speaking of being grounded in love, you could read my book, it’s called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Part of the legendary American Music Series at @utexaspress.bsky.social .
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🧵: my latest draft paper ‘The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is still looking for a law review home 🤞🏽
Here are some brief highlights for anyone interested
Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...
Interesting: The D.C. Court of Appeals that ruled that the city's ban on gun magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets is unconstitutional. A majority of the three-judge panel said the magazines are common and used for self defense, and there's no history of such blanket bans.
If you're interested in learning about the history of American-Soviet agricultural exchange during the interwar decades, join Dr. Fedorova and I on March 24th from 11am to 12:30pm via Zoom. RSVP here: fresnostate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
LaTeX sort of, but far less than explicit instruction or anything like that. more of an implied “if you want to be a serious methodologist, you should probably learn that…on your own time/outside of class.” (pol sci at Penn State c. 2010-12, for reference, so that may be wildly outdated now.)
Happy Wednesday