Andy McCumber

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

“Okay everybody tuck your pants into your socks”

That was both the best and worst way for that stupid stupid season to end.

😬😬😬

Somewhere that translator who quit midway through a Muammar Gaddafi speech is having traumatic flashbacks.

The most hilarious aspect of this is the premise that this is a goal that needs a well-funded think tank to accomplish. The Democrats don’t seem to need any convincing to make them shut up about these issues.

And like … if I had to guess, he probably got some personal assistant and asked them to write something creepy for Jeff’s birthday and I’ll do a little doodle on it.

I’m pessimistic, but I’d sure like to see a chorus of university presidents accord the country denouncing this and calling it what it is.

Hard to overstate how revolting and demoralizing this utter gibberish is, after growing up amid the war on terror and the steady desensitization to jingoistic violence-for-violence’s-sake that came with it.

YouTube video by Will Perkins Twin Peaks (2017) He's Dead

So apparently he’s not dead. But we can still enjoy the best line reading in cinematic snd TV history anyway.

Lots of fantastic answers here but I’m going to say Shelley Duvall in The Shining because it was inexplicably given a Razzie.

This is why the calls to “moderate” by abandoning trans issues etc. are bad strategy on top of being morally bankrupt. It cedes the entire political conversation to the right. You’d think Kamala was the vanguard of the revolution from the Trump campaign ads last year.

I watched Michael Haneke’s Caché (or Hidden) last year and I think it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in recent memory.

Remember when Bret Stephens imploded because someone made a joke about him being a bedbug?

Thank you! They really did do a wonderful job on the cover. Still surreal to see it at the conference!

A photo of my proudly holding my book in front of the University of Chicago Press display at ASA

Made my pilgrimage to the ASA book exhibit to see Bad Nature on display!

Bad Nature by Andrew McCumber

🧵 Strolled through the ASA book exhibit, and it is always great seeing new publications from ppl I know (IRL and virtually).

Bad Nature by @ahmccumber.bsky.social

Very excited to present on this research and also Caleb read far more Fox News transcripts than than is recommended for safe human consumption for this, so please attend our preconference to make sure it wasn’t in vain.

One of the great sports villains of our time.

The truth and reconciliation commission can’t come soon enough.

My only worry about Zohran is that he seems like he’s not nearly weird enough to be NYC Mayor.

An image of a bookshelf with my book, Bad Nature shelved near John Levi-Martin’s Thinking Through Theory.

Bad Nature is keeping good company with John Levi-Martin in London bookshelves. This account may just post images of shelved books for the foreseeable future until the novelty of finding my book in the wild wears off).

As an R user, I’m having a difficult time adjusting to all of the buildings in the UK using 0-indexed floor numbers.

How do they trot out the line about outside agitators or “people who aren’t even a part of the main protest” every single time.

Me standing in front of the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery in London.

Karl Marx’s original grave in Highgate Cemetery in London, covered in tributes and mementos to him.

A sign in Highgate Cemetery in London indicating the way to “Toilets” and “Marx”

I made a sociological pilgrimage yesterday.

A photo of David Brunsma’s edited volume Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era in a display case. It has a handwritten note attached tha reads “Banned by the US Naval Academy”

This paper looks so cool! We are very proud of our colleague Dave Brunsma’s book being included in a recent defense department book ban here at VT.

I turned it off after the Giants loaded the bases in the first. Surely it wound up being a slug fest?

Meanwhile, somehow both Massachusetts and Utah managed to elect Mitt Romney to office.

Dude should have been perp walked on 1/21/21

@grantbrisbee.bsky.social did you approve this