Liana Sayer

Webinar Rapid Response Data Briefing 2026 Census Test February 23, 2026 4:00-4:30 PM ET Co-hosted by dataindex.us, Association of Public Data Users (APDU), PRB, The Census Project, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, and Fair Count

🚨 DYK that planning for the 2030 Census is underway? Unfortunately, a critical test has been scaled back.

Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn what's in the 2026 Census Test, why it’s important, the risks, & how you can respond.

🗓️ 2/23/26
⏰ 4 PM ET
📍 Register: tinyurl.com/2026-Census-...

Everyone in the White House involved in any way with that vile, sickening racist Trump post must be fired immediately: everyone in the communications department, everyone in the press office, every deputy chief of staff, everyone involved up and down the line. Not one more tax dollar for this filth.

Would subscribe to an employee owned and run WaPo that featured reporting

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis “are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special,” Ashley Parker writes.

anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.

I hate that Dems are just conceding the whole premise of mass deportation and instead dithering about techniques and the impact on US citizens

Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite.

It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite.
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Revised plans for critical 2026 census test raise some 🚩
🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado
🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only)
🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations

Details in 🧵

Bunch of uni admins are thanking their lucky stars today that their faculty's research was beneath Epstein's notice.

Still, I hope JE prompts all universities to reflect on how to fund research w/o compromising values, particularly as federal & state funding shrinks and donors play larger role.

Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.

People are worried about ICE or military activity suppressing Dem votes in midterms but I think SAVE Act is greater threat.

If it passes, millions of women & poorer Americans will be unable to vote.

Voting will be slower, depressing participation and widening race & income-based wait time gaps.

YouTube video by MinnMax Minneapolis - January 2026

This is well-done www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dy...

Exactly. There's must-pass funding legislation going through Congress right now. If Tillis et al. aren't willing to put a Greenland condition on that bill, this is all cheap talk. (And Dems need to be pushing Republicans by insisting on conditions to stop Minnesota-type abuses.)

Plenty of other things to panic about. Birth rates aren't one of them.

And, respectfully, what does staying accomplish? how will it change the misogyny and malice of those posting the images? And by leaving what do those left on XHustler "win"?

Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest.  Following are the most recent calls for nominations

Family books published in 2024 and 2025 sought for the ASA Family Section William J. Goode Book Award. www.asanet.org/communities-...

Why Black Families Fall Through the Safety Net For most of the last 20 years, policymakers and researchers have stressed the importance of a two-parent home for children’s success. New research complicates conventional wisdom.

Why do Black kids in nuclear families struggle to succeed while white kids in these families flourish?

What do these inequalities tell us about the power & limits of the two-parent family?

Check out my new piece in @harpersbazaar.com.web.brid.gy to learn more www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed

AOC: Schumer, Jeffries Setting a Bad Example by Not Backing Mamdani | Common Dreams "I believe that we must set the example of supporting the party's nominee," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said of Democrats—such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries—who haven't endorsed NYC mayoral cand...

"I believe that we must set the example of supporting the party's nominee," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said of Democrats—such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries—who haven't endorsed NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-zoh...

Starts with questionable assumption married women are happier than other women?

Never peer reviewed, data and code never shared, always straight to press release and reports by credulous media friends (coming soon to the Atlantic and Deseret News)

This style of reporting is atrocious. Governor Cook has not been fired. The President has “purported” to fire her. Governor Cook knows the president has no such power to do so—see her statement for details. We need a better media who does not accept every half baked narrative from the White House

We're living in a Dual State per Fraenkel's Dual State theory of fascism. Who's written about effective mobilization against Dual States?

The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ... TikTok video by Harvard University Press

I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.

Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/

This

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.

We are already off to an amazing start! lcc.umn.edu/DIRC

Maybe it's time for the Fed -- which already runs a number of surveys through its regional banks -- to start running its own surveys to monitor unemployment and prices, the two components of its dual mandate.

I'll feature this insightful take on fertility this fall in Social Demography seminar.