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Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com
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Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc. "Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women." www.jessicacalarco.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16m
I think the answer is actually that my husband and I are each half tradwife. Like, I do the baking and the crafting, but he pickles all the veggies from our garden and sews clothes for himself and the kids.
My husband sewing a dress for my older kidMy younger kid in the dinosaur costume my husband sewedThe snake zip Sweatshirt my husband sewed for our younger kidThe two tone zip Sweatshirt my husband made himself
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27m
I shared this in the family text thread, and my sister knew just how to put me on blast 😆
Text from my sister, saying "That lace is so pretty! It looks amazing! How do you somehow pull off liberal woman and tradwife simultaneously?🤪"
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h
Thanks!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h
No, but we should!
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Lisa who used to use her last name here but deleted it:) @amidprivilege.bsky.social · 19h
I mean, yeah you did. Yeah you did!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h
Thanks ❤️
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h
My 12-year-old was lamenting yesterday that "crush" culture is consuming her classmates. She told me she doesn't do crushes yet, because, in her words, "I think I need to figure out who I am before I think about anything like that." And man, I wish I had that kind of self-awareness at her age.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12h
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11h
This is so meek. It gets at none of the issues of power on the campus, and elides the comparisons the student journalists at Cornell pointed out between the consequences for sexual assault and those for protesting Gaze or plagiarizing an essay. Feeble.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026
"Check to seniors = money for midterms" the way media outlets treat Trump bribing voters like it's a no big deal is mind-boggling.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Thanks!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Thanks : )
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
We finished the mushroom fairy hat, and it turned out so good!!!
Front view of the mushroom hat with white felt dots on red velvet with ribbon trimTop viewUnder side view showing the blousy chiffon mushroom "gills"
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Thanks!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Thanks ❤️
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Thanks! That was definitely the hardest part, as I had to hand sew the chiffon to get the blousy effect (it was too gauzy to run through our sewing machine).
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
I think we nailed the mushroom fairy hat.
Top view of mushroom fairy hat with felt dots on red velvetFront view showing the dome shapeFront view showing the chiffon gills and lace trimming
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Thanks 😊 it was really fun to work on together.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
We finished the mushroom fairy hat, and it turned out so good!!!
Front view of the mushroom hat with white felt dots on red velvet with ribbon trimTop viewUnder side view showing the blousy chiffon mushroom "gills"
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Basically, my bet is that he's just trying to make as much bank as possible with the time he's got left (both politically and personally).
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h
I mean, think of all the money a vulture like Trump could've made in the wake of the Great Depression if he'd had Citizens United to prevent the election of FDR.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h
I'm getting "my concern follows the whims of donor outrage" vibes.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THIS! This situation is the perfect instance of WHY PEOPLE DO NOT TRUST HIGHER EDUCATION. Women’s lives are being destroyed, ruined, torn to shreds, but sweep it under the rug and compartmentalize it because the institutions have an agenda.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
See also: bsky.app/profile/tech...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
This country won't control its sex pests, so long as there's profit to be made.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
The school provides the app. But families need a device to use it.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
Thanks! Also I love the idea of long art.
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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is an extraordinary piece of long art.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
Thanks 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
Now, I'm proud of 9 for improving. And grateful we had the time and knowledge to figure out what 9 was supposed to be doing, and to help 9 navigate the app and practice at home. But it's also hard to know that not every family whose kid would benefit from such help is equally able to help this way.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
But 9 insisted that practicing at home was "cheating." Well, we checked with the teacher and learned that actually, 9 was supposed to be practicing with an app at home. So, we started practicing, and not just doing the app once, as required, but multiple times. And this week, 9 got 13/13 right.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
And one of the things 9 struggles with is spelling. But we didn't realize 9's class was taking spelling tests until a few weeks into the school year. At which point we learned that 9 was scoring ~5/13, despite working on the words all week at school. So, we suggested practicing more at home...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
Even as a sociologist who studies inequality in parenting, it's still jarring to see first-hand as a parent how effective concerted cultivation can be. Particularly for kids who need above-average levels of support. See, my 9-year-old is neurodivergent... 1/
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Ahana the Sun Goddess ☀️ 🌞 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn, being in middle school in this digital era must absolutely suck
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026
Thanks! The circle is 8.5 inches across. The smallest icons are about the size of a pencil eraser, while the largest are roughly penny sized. www.jessicacalarco.com/stitchthenews
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Stitch-the-News — Jessica Calarco
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026
We are now more than three-quarters of the way through what can only be described, at least news-wise, as a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
Embroidered icons representing news stories for each day of the year to this point
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026
Exactly. My grandfather wanted my dad to go to college because he didn't get to (flat feet+heart murmur=no military service=no GI Bill), and because working in a newspaper printing factory was destroying his body, the way it had for his father before him.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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