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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/09/2026

"A Reader’s Guide To The Rubin Report." John Levi Martin on @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's disciplinary report on sociology: "focused on whether she actually marshaled evidence to support her arguments, and whether she correctly represents her sources." osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social

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Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ACLU has filed a motion for preliminary injunction asking the Court to block Texas A&M's censorship policy until a final judgment is made. The Motion includes detailed allegations of how the censorship policy has been enforced throughout the A&M campuses. www.aclutx.org/cases/americ...

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American Association of University Professors, et al. vs. Albritton, et al. - ACLU of Texas

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, American Civil Liberties Union, and pro bono counsel Yetter Coleman LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Texas A&M University  Sys...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…

Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I spent the morning reading John Levi Martin's absolutely brutal takedown of the Vanderbilt report's assessment of politicization in sociology. I recommend it and hope it gets as much attention as the initial (crap) Vanderbilt report. A Reader’s Guide to the Rubin Report osf.io/preprints/so...

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New open access article on fear of crime in Chile. Check it out! academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A question for #SociologyHiveMind: I’m teaching a social class inequality (aka social stratification) class for the first time this fall. If you’ve taught a similar class before and have found specific assignments, activities, or interactive websites/datasets effective please let me know! Thanks!

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The end of Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile in 1990 led to a rapid decline in poverty and the dramatic expansion of the middle class. Our video of the week maps the politics and consumption practices of this varied fraction of the Chilean population. Feat. @jstillerman.bsky.social buff.ly/GZAIdpp

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My new chapter is out! This piece revisits longstanding debates about the relationship between middle classes and democracy through an examination of countries in the Global South. Check it out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum... #Middle Classes #Global South #Democracy #Development #Social Movements

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

New paper due out this fall in Social Problems. Check it out! Crime and Symbolic Boundaries in Unsettled Times: An Analysis of Middle-Class Responses to Fear in Chile osf.io/preprints/so...

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

*New Preprint Alert*: Will a Rising Middle Class in the Global South Reshape Politics? osf.io/preprints/so...

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Great idea: Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It.

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Joel Stillerman @jstillerman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So sad to see my Alma mater crash and burn. Horrible.

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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

He makes a persuasive case.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

the sobering detail here is that the Danes were prepared to fight while knowing exactly how that would likely end for them

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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Pam Bondi swore an oath to the Constitution—not to Donald Trump. She’s betraying that oath every single day. Impeachment is the only answer—the rule of law depends on it. Tell Congress now:

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Tell Congress: Impeach Attorney General Pam Bondi

Contact Congress today!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"The Peace President."

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

People in the US arguing that it ok for a country to bomb another country because the second one has an oppressive, autocratic regime that hurts vulnerable populations might want to rethink that.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court

String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

So the court that granted the guy presidential immunity ruled against him. So when he defies them, there will be no consequences.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I’m teaching about wealth inequality today and remembered this shameful story from 2022 about Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott’s home appraisal.

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Home Appraised With a Black Owner: $472,000. With a White Owner: $750,000. (Published 2022)

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Metro Weekly @metroweekly.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

LGBTQ athletes struck gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. Breezy Johnson made downhill history, while Amber Glenn helped secure gold for Team USA’s hockey team.

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LGBTQ U.S. Athletes Strike Gold at Milano Cortina

Breezy Johnson makes history in downhill while Amber Glenn and Team USA’s hockey stars add to the medal count.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In a country with a bad president, be a Bad Bunny. [Cartoon by Matt Davies]

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

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Wobbledance aka “Tony” @wobbledance.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If this doesn’t deep-six his Presidency I don’t know what will. This is vile. This is ugly. This perpetrator must be held accountable. No longer is this right versus left. It’s about right versus wrong. America’s morality will be tested like never before in nearly 250 years.

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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 10/02/2026

The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.

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Vance Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, Then Deletes Post, Igniting Outrage

By deleting the social-media post, Vice President JD Vance upset Armenians after a historic visit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2026

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein. He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse. Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million. Both men are alive. How come they've never been asked to testify?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/02/2026

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

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Mother's immigration arrest leaves Madison soccer standout reeling

Federal immigration agents detained a Madison soccer player's mother while she was in Minnesota for her son's games. Now, he's struggling.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

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