The futures betting markets need a constrained range of options to easily yield wins and losses. Fossil fuels, with their choke points and opportunities for monopoly, better fit this approach than, say, solar does.
Step 1: dismantle Iowa higher ed
Step 2: draft newly-available young Iowa men
Career opportunities!
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
despite extraordinarily stiff competition from the Roberts Court, Citizens United keeps its place as one of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions of all time
I see you @victorerikray.bsky.social! (and many other sociologists I know!)
ASA Council members and staff are on Capitol Hill today, meeting with their congressional representatives to advocate for legislation that supports sociology and social science research! #ASA #hillday #sociology #advocacy
BREAKING NYT:
An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
the little jello puddings went a long way
They want this feeling, produced by a sycophantic bot telling them now they know kung fu
It’s incredibly painful to observe how long these battles take…but it also means the people involved have incredible institutional memory and knowledge of how these processes play out over time (which is basically invaluable since so many academics keep themselves blinkered to outcomes)
A lot of what people lump together with NIMBYism is actually built on the infrastructure created by environmental racism organizers
plantationstopollution.selc.org/memphis-tn/
“X is a distraction” guys have the liberty of choosing one fight to fight, instead of recognizing how these struggles are interconnected, and the painstaking (often women’s) work is to demonstrate these connections for coalitionbuilding.
this is a SEVERELY misunderstood element of people working against environmental racism: their technical and organizing expertise, and political analysis is transferable (and sometimes sought after when white communities realize they’re not safe either).
A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small.
www.datacenterwatch.org/report
yes I may delete for reasons, but I wanted *you* to know! lol
OMG this is a much funnier reason for why they’re walking around with too-large shoes
great piece by @bakerdphd.bsky.social on the direct line from faculty silence / anticipatory obedience to the collapse of academic freedom--and of universities into general social uselessness
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Making syllabi and CVs public puts instructors at risk of targeted harassment and invites political actors to attack free inquiry on our campuses.
Sign this petition to demand that the University System of Georgia abandon this policy.
“We are fearful that this is a prototype for other studies,” said @cdelawalla.bsky.social. My latest on the unlikely researchers at the heart of US vaccine policy:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A lot of parallels with Iowa here. Ignore a water problem for decades, when crisis hits, blame it on the weather. Giant corporations wrecking communities and the countryside with the help of R politicians
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...
"In the 21st century, data, digital labour, and algorithmic infrastructures have emerged as new vectors of accumulation. Here, Prince Ifoh argues that re-reading Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah, and Achille Mbembe reveals how digital capitalism reconfigures… Africa’s history of underdevelopment."
Meta’s response suggests what they’re doing to fix this = more underpaid people training data on that situation
Wow, this whole section.
"Earnings inequality has contributed to Social Security’s current trust fund shortfall, according to recent research from the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal think tank, student network and nonprofit partner to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum."
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/m...
“A recurring theme across histories of the Red Scares period is that if the faculty had shown solidarity, with a meaningful share of faculty within an institution refusing to sign things like loyalty oaths, the damage to academic freedom could have been averted or greatly lessened.”
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
not different, the article points out Iowa already has a 5-year standards review cycle.
Unions are by no means perfect (anyone who's ever been in one can tell you). But I would rather be part of one and push for change than be trying to go it alone.
The people who push back on silence-as-protection moves are usually the people with the least job security, which remains wild to me. Maybe we should use tenure to do something good?
You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote?
I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
