@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Interdisciplinary sociologist, law & society, transnational gender & sexuality. I research marriage, esp in S Africa. And I organize with colleagues to defend higher ed. Opinions mine not employer's. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
AV request! I want some headphones for doing audio cleanup on the podcast. Something lightweight, my ears already sweat too much from these crappy old ones. And *light*, not gigantic cans. What's good? What do *you* use?
Still true. Only getting more true!
I would add: even if you don’t call yourself a legal historian but study history involving law-ish stuff, you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and brilliant group of scholars at ASLH!
While bans on trans youth’s care have been numerous in recent years, this is the first to restrict care for transgender adults.
https://mrf.lu/dFkN
And it’s normal and healthy for teenage kids to start relying on friends and other adults first. That’s them becoming more independent and it’s what you want to see. They have to develop distance and privacy. This can be hard for parents but it’s necessary for well balanced adults
On Sunday, one of Germany’s largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germany’s industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. 🧵
18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director:
Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse
NYC teachers invited to apply by April 3!
Twenty-five NYC schoolteachers (K-12) will explore the history of local struggles for educational justice as part of a professional development institute.
No-cost summer institute hosted by TC’s Center on History and Education and nonprofit EduColor.
I'll be on Out-FM (@outfm.bsky.social) on WBAI 99.5 FM New York at 8 p.m. on Tuesday with Pooya Mohseni to get her thoughts on #DonaldTrump's war on #Iran; then Bob Lederer & I will interview a Holocaust scholar on queer resistance to the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people:
outfm.org/liberation/i...
WHAT: Chanel (fall 2026)
OCCASIONS: fast-talking damehood or in a powder room during a dull auction you find a door leading to a dryadic landscape. Birdsong. A shy silver animal hides behind a willow…
IF IT WERE A SCENT: roses in a speakeasy
EMOTIONAL RANGE: dazzling/mercurial
#MJMfashionGuide
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
Dalylight savings time is stressful for the brain - every year, a transient risk of accidents and illness. We should consider doing away with it.
Put this neuroscientist in Congress and we’ll take it up.
Sam Wang for Congress: secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4nj
IceBreaker is a free online resource that maps the activity of ICE within NYC. It provides key info such as time, date, the # of agents on sight and the number of people detained.
nycicebreaker.cargo.site
The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
The first draft of my book manuscript is completed and proofread. I’m now making the necessary edits. Keep your eyes out on @BloomsburyBooks for “Smalltown Urban: Performing the City in Rural America”. #intensemoments #smalltownfun
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
I share this frustration. So, if I suspect AI usage, I simply assign a minimum score and leave a comment that the student needs to come and talk to me. If they don't, the grade stands. If they do, then I investigate. This (more) aligns effort between the parties.
Congrats to @michellesphelps.bsky.social, whose book The Minneapolis Reckoning won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award. This urgent work describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition and why reform is so difficult.
Get your copy: hubs.ly/Q0453BKz0
HUGE payrolls miss, wow
Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev
Find one near you >>>>>>>
-92K jobs lost last month (mid-Jan to mid-Feb).
-69K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months.
The big picture
How does recent growth compare to recent years?
Economy added just 0.16 million jobs over 12 months to Feb 2026.
Job growth stopped.
And the Iranian ship was unarmed, which the US knew - and they made no attempt to rescue survivors. Mass murder.
The world health organization has found that the US and Israel have bombed several health facilities in Iran.
We have also bombed two ADDITIONAL schools this week, not counting the girls schools earlier. Making that 4 in total.
We are the bad guys in this illegal war.
#SheShed
New article in Global Studies Quarterly - the first academic piece developing my “materialized science fiction” framework. Thiel, Musk, and Andreessen don’t just love SF; they’re turning it into a blueprint for sovereignty. Fully open access: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.