Michael Lee Wood

All the GM labels is the cherry on top

Now out in the American Sociological Review

We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?

Infrastructure week here we come!

It looks more and more likely that Utah will have a fair congressional map for the 2026 Midterms. Thanks to all who made this happen and who will keep fighting for fair representation.

Ropes save lives. Please don’t duck ropes at ski resorts and go out of bounds. And for goodness sake, don’t take your kids with you if you chose to go out of bounds. Heartbroken for this girl

Utahns: because the GOP waited until super late to drop signature packets, there’s a chance many of those signatures are from people who were deceived into signing. You have 45 days since the packets were deposited - til March 30 - to get your name removed if you were tricked.

I gasped when I saw how much faster she was today than her competitors (in a very tight race)! Truly la tigre.

Utah voter roll review finds no evidence of noncitizens casting a ballot, Lt. Gov. says An ongoing Utah review of 2.1 million voter registration records has found one noncitizen who registered to vote and zero examples of any noncitizens actually voting.

Utah's chief election officer, Lt Gov Deidre Henderson, has conducted a review of the state's voter rolls to identify any ineligible voters, including by running her rolls through the DHS SAVE Program. Guess how many non-citizens voted in Utah according to the review? Zero.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

19-TS of 020326 hearing - Segundo APG v. Bondi, 26-CV-603

The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ...
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Me and my homies caravaning to the ramen shop for an attack style infiltration (eat the soup)

March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7 Stand up for the entrepreneurs, innovators, and risk-takers who build our economy. February 7, 2026.

Please won't someone think of the oligarchs marchforbillionaires.org

More snow than we've received in salt lake... all winter.

‘Decline to sign’ volunteers and GOP-paid signature gatherers clash during Prop 4 repeal effort Utah Gov. Cox calls for respect for signature gatherers as ‘Decline to sign’ volunteers and GOP-paid gatherers clash during Prop 4 repeal effort.

GOP-paid signature gatherers are reportedly deceiving people into signing onto the Prop 4 repeal effort by telling them they are signing a petition to keep ICE out of Utah.

Some paid signature gatherers working to place a repeal of Proposition 4 on the ballot have misled or withheld info from voters about what the initiative would do, a KSL investigation shows. https://ow.ly/s77X50Y5Jyz

Rivera (2012) www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

When I pressed him on it he said he's just doing what he was paid to do.

There was someone on BYU campus yesterday for the UT GOP collecting signatures for the Prop 4 repeal petition. BYU is not a public forum and this violates its political neutrality policy.

In closing, it would be well to remind white America of its debt to Dr. Du Bois. When they corrupted Negro history they distorted American history, because Negroes are too big a part of the building of this nation to be written out of it without destroying scientific history. White America, drenched with lies about Negroes, has lived too long in a fog of ignorance. Dr. Du Bois gave them a gift of truth for which they should eternally be indebted to him.

Dr King also knew Black Reconstruction and recognized its importance:
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I make all my sociological theory students read Black Reconstruction and this is why: it gives a shockingly insightful analysis of past and present American politics. Bouie's done the work and it shows.

What better way to declare that ICE won't break your spirit than literally defying the cold with your collective heat.

Worth scrolling through the list of businesses to get a sense of scope. Awe-some.

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle.

No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

Headline image for an article showing the dismayed (tedious, libertarian) so-called artist, Nick Dwyer, standing in front of a display of Polaroid images pinned to the gallery wall. Many are missing and there's a mess of shredded, chewed scraps strewn all over the floor. An inset image shows Graham Granger in a white button-up shirt and brown jacket. The headline says Meet the Alaska student arrested for eating and A.I. art exhibit, by Colin Warren.

“AI chews up and spits out art made by other people,” said Graham Granger, the University of Alaska Fairbanks student who was arrested for eating AI generated art displayed in a gallery, an act he called both protest and performance art.

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Donate to Supporting Elizabeth & Family After Sudden Medical Emergency, organized by Elizabeth Converse Last Thursday, my life changed in a moment. While legally… Elizabeth Converse needs your support for Supporting Elizabeth & Family After Sudden Medical Emergency

I just learned a friend was hit by an inattentive driver while riding on the popular 9-Line trail in SLC.

She'll need surgery & a long recovery, which is bad enough on its own but this comes right after a layoff in which she lost her healthcare coverage. Here's a link if you can spare a few bucks.

Yes, anyone who's parked a car at Reams knows those spots are bait!

Big day for cow tools

Someone tell Reams

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)