Recently my boss told his students āyou can be anything! Just donāt be a coward.ā And that feels relevant here. Also, no one is going to see your first draft! If you showed your first draft to someone, youād be like Elon Musk trying to flirt! And thatās not you, honey!
I think both the original and the counterpoint are compelling (and Tim Burke's substack, I think he's not on here though?)
I do not have the bandwidth to blog a full rejoinder to Zeynep's latest NYT piece. So I'm gonna write it as a quick thread instead. Her thesis is that the effectiveness of mass protest (particularly campus protest) has waned, and social media is the main culprit. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/o...
Itās time for organizers to invent a new model.
If you're able to donate, North Carolina needs your help. One of the organizations on this list, Homeward Bound, is near to my heart. I used to volunteer there. It's a day shelter for the unhoused. And Buncombe County's homeless population just grew exponentially.
Hurricane Helene unleashed devastating flooding in the mountains of North Carolina. Here are ways to help local flood victims in Western North Carolina by donating relief funds or volunteering.
In his Wisconsin speech today Trump has positively referenced Lindbergh, and also said that we should let no immigrants in from dangerous countries, so while Iām not saying he definitely would have sent fleeing Jews back to the Nazis Iām not NOT saying that
hello political scientists & sociologists & political organizers/staff of any sort who might want to talk about US politics for a few days in Boston in March - Submit an abstract to People-Ing Politics - Race, Class, Culture and US Politics March 6th - 9th 2025 Boston Submit at ess2025.exordo.com
Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
I donāt think Iāve ever spent as much time thinking about my period as these guys have.
Currently cannibalizing some dissertation code, and man, 4 years later and I am still so proud of that work. Academia is so fucked I have no motivation to ever publish. So I'm gonna plug it Here. It's called *Tracking White Flight in Philadelphia Before WWII*. Look, there it is:
I will bite the bullet and volunteer. My day one actions: 1. Disband the NYPD and transfer $10 billion dollars to public libraries. 2. Ban all cars in NYC. 3. Make all public transit free. 4. Increase teacher salaries by 50%. 5. Pay all sanitation workers $250,000 each. 6. Close Rikers
