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Katherine Smock

@ksmock.bsky.social
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phd candidate at UCLA sociology / studying affordable housing development, organizations, and local governance / helping out at @cicojournal.bsky.social

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 20h
There's another reason that the Bass campaign definitely wants to discredit this "outlier" poll. Crosstabs are out and "fixing streets, sidewalks, streetlights and other city infrastructure" is listed first across the board as the top priority for LA voters. Even above homelessness and crime!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#CiCoSept Have you read our September issue yet? We have four great articles, starting with Niamh Costello's "Hustling, Hassling, and Performing Compliance: Waiting for Homeless Housing in Los Angeles" Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 15/09/2026
Of the many problems facing SRO Housing, Skid Row's largest homeless housing provider, one is familiar to many developers — market-rate and affordable — in LA. Its CEO told me that the opening of new building was delayed because the city-run utility didn't connect electricity.
Of the many problems facing SRO Housing, Skid Row's largest homeless housing provider, one is familiar to many developers — market-rate and affordable — in LA. Its CEO told me that the opening of new building was delayed because the city-run utility didn't connect electricity.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excited to introduce a fun little project I did for City & Community's upcoming 25th birthday :)
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hello I am the mayor of LA and I hate entertainment workers, taco vendors, and people who can’t afford our bonkers housing market. Was that good? Did I Mamdani it??
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ICYMI in the run-up to ASA: @cicojournal.bsky.social is hosting a conference showcasing the future of urban sociology! 🌟Graduate students and postdocs, submit by 11/15. 🌟 tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo Senior folks, please share widely! @asanews.bsky.social #sociology #CUSS
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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will sh...
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To commemorate the journal's upcoming 25th anniversary, we are excited to announce the Emerging Scholars Conference—an opportunity for grad students and postdocs to showcase their work related to urban sociology—at Georgetown on April 23, 2027. Call for submissions: tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
This is ... horrific
lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them usina industrial- grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors' books to train its Al
This process took advantage of a egal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder's say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physicak texts into digital ones - rather than redistributing them as new copies a iudqe found this to be "transformative." and therefore
protected by fair useOne small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds. and he's almost certain that the customers are Al labs. noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books. meaning that an Al company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found
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Hobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is very sad, albeit not surprising, news...the DDRIG was such a great moment in my graduate school experience, and it allowed me to hire two outstanding undergraduate research assistants to help me analyze and map some data related to my dissertation.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What they fail to appreciate is that you can reduce demand but you can't eliminate culture. People will continue to want a decent apartment/a nice house to raise their family in/etc. And they'll be angry that they can't have it.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16/06/2026
Are liberal communities more NIMBY than conservative ones? In new research, I examine how housing supply changed in US cities & counties from 2000–20. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... One key finding: Liberal places build *more* housing in their existing neighborhoods than do conservative ones.
City political ideology vs. percent change in housing supply. More conservative cities had higher housing growth overall from 2000 to 2020. But more liberal cities had higher growth in their already developed neighborhoods (those with at least 1000 units per square mile in 2000).Modeled effect of more liberal ideology on change in housing supply over two periods (2000–10 and 2010–20). In low-density neighborhoods (such as agricultural or natural areas), cities with more liberal residents had substantially lower growth than cities with more conservative residents. But those same liberal cities had substantially higher growth in higher-density neighborhoods.
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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
New report from the Family Housing Fund written by @curaumn.bsky.social based on a survey of over 1k tenants living in single-family homes in the Twin Cities. Big takeaway: Large landlords (inclduing private equtiy, and REITs) scored worse across all metrics even after controling for other factors 🧵
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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The Liebox That Wears Our Words - Boxo Barks
A call to hold the line against Claudeswallop.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I dare Karen Bass to do the same
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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How do eviction courts funnel tenants into settlements with landlords that often reproduce housing insecurity? Check out our new article in LSR on the organizational mechanisms that compel settlements in a California eviction court. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Many legal disputes are resolved through settlement. The dominant theory explaining settlements – known as “bargaining in the shadow of the law” – assumes that litigants are informed, rational actors inclined to bargain toward a settlement prior to court proceedings. Yet many settlements are negotiated after litigants have appeared in court expecting to go to trial. This article argues that court organizational mechanisms play an undertheorized role in facilitating settlement agreements. To build theory on organizational mechanisms, we examine the case of eviction settlements. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews in a California eviction court, we find that organizational rules and workgroup norms funnel mostly unrepresented tenants – sometimes, in coercive ways – into unregulated hallway conversations with landlord attorneys and/or participation in the court’s mediation program. Through relational interactions with legal professionals in these organizational spaces, tenants are taught the risks of trial and the benefits of settlement. As a result, most tenants in our sample come to recognize their legal culpability and view settlement agreements as legitimate, even as their negotiated settlements reproduce their housing insecurity. We discuss implications for bargaining theory and research on housing insecurity.
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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Newly published housing research! We find that the effects of new construction on rents varies by the quality of the existing housing. In the first 5 years rents went up 4.4% near low quality buildings and went down 1.7% near high quality buildings (1/x) 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Build baby build? Housing submarkets and the effects of new
construction on existing rents

Anthony Damiano and Chris Frenier
aUniversity of Minnesota; bHealth Care Cost Institute
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There is vigorous debate among scholars, and activists about the role that new market-rate apartments play in alleviating housing affordability issues at the neighborhood level. This study evaluates how new large (>50 units)
market-rate apartment buildings affect rents in nearby buildings. In contrast to other recent work, we posit that the effects of new construction may vary by the quality of existing housing. We test this hypothesis by using a panel of building-level rents from Minneapolis, Minnesota, observed between 2000
and 2018. While we find no effect of new high-end housing on the market overall, we find countervailing effects of new construction on different parts of the rental market when broken out separately. We find that lower-priced rental housing close to new construction had rents 4.4% higher than those in
other low-quality buildings farther away in the first 5 years after new construction. In contrast, we find that new construction had the opposite effect on higher-priced housing: rents were 1.7% lower near new construction. This study reiterates the importance of housing submarket theory and how focusing solely on average effects of housing interventions may miss important and nuanced effects across different parts of the market.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
this makes me feel crazy
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We'd love to review your article on sociological analyses of urban politics for @cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is at LA City Hall. Where are you enjoying our new issue? #CiCointheCity
The journal City & Community with its gorgeous new cover in front of LA's City Hall, a tall white building
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We have a few new features we'd like to introduce starting with City Books—our new way of highlighting recently published books in urban sociology. You'll start to see these in issues over the next year, but in the meantime, let us know if you have a new book we should consider! Info below. 📚
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
You may have noticed that City & Community has a new look 😎 We took what we love about cities—connections, networks, public transit—and rendered them in Georgetown’s blue and grey and UCLA’s blue and gold. It’s just one of several exciting new changes you’ll see in the coming issues, so stay tuned!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
With our March 2026 issue, we can officially welcome @annowens.bsky.social and Brian J. McCabe as the new editors of City & Community! They are excited to continue publishing the impactful research that the journal is known for. Their editorial introduction highlights the exciting changes to come.
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Editorial Introduction - Brian J. McCabe, Ann Owens, 2026
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
@cicojournal.bsky.social has a snazzy new look!
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I wish I had time for a whole nother research agenda because I want to spend many years studying why people assume AI will be good at things
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
These people are so evil and horrible, I truly have no words
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12/01/2026
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
What would be the real world impacts of the loss of federal funding for Housing First programs? We modeled it: an additional 44,590 ppl beyond anticipated growth due to economic factors. @jabarocas.bsky.social @kirkfetters.bsky.social @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Potential Changes in US Homelessness by Ending Federal Support for Housing First Programs
This decision analytical model estimates the change in the number of people experiencing homelessness in a year following termination of federal support for Housing First programs.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
NYT headline reads: "The Young People Fixated on Who Gets to Work in America

For some Gen Z conservatives, H-1B visas are a hot new topic."Excerpt reads: "Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview.

Today, he says he keeps three part-time jobs in Greenville, S.C., and grows his own food to cut down on expenses. Having abandoned hopes of working in tech, Mr. Boone says he is exploring alternative fields like construction or farming.

Mr. Boone, who said he voted for Mr. Trump in the last two presidential elections, spoke of his post-grad years with an air of exasperation. But he’s finally settled on an explanation for his bleak economic straits: the H-1B."On his LinkedIn, it says he spent one year at University of Missouri-Columbia, studying computer science from Aug 2022 to Sept 2023. He says he dropped out to join the workforce. Skillset includes Windows and attention to detail.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Me transcribing interviews with developers lol
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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
With the semester finishing, I wanted to give an update about building this intro statistics course for PhD students in sociology. Thanks to everyone who gave advice! I ended up having a blast teaching it, and students seemed to like it. Here's the syllabus: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Soc 500 Syllabus F25
SOCIOLOGY 500 Research Methods and Models: Statistics Fall 2025, Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:15 pm Location: Tarbutton Hall Room 206 Instructor: Nathan Hoffmann Email: nihoffm@emory.edu Office: Tarbut...
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
*taps sign*
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's really giving live, laugh, love
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
New on Knock: Getting up early to beat the crowds? LAPD and City Attorney Feldstein Soto sought court permission to use force against journalists ahead of the No Kings protests. City Council disagreed, unanimously voting to block the attempt. knock-la.com/lapd-city-at...
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LAPD, City Attorney want to shoot more journalists; City Council disagrees - Knock LA
"Shooting journalists with rubber bullets while they are covering protests is bad." - Controller Kenneth Mejia
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
my paper with my colleague and friend Victoria Tran is finally out!
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
New on Knock: the looming redevelopment of William Mead Homes in Chinatown raises fears in Mar Vista Gardens, the only public housing project on the west side of LA. Story from @marvistavoice.bsky.social knock-la.com/william-mead...
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William Mead Redevelopment Raises Fears for Mar Vista Gardens - Knock LA
Los Angeles is once again at a crossroads in its treatment of public housing, threatening communities like Mar Vista Gardens.
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Katherine Smock @ksmock.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
this may be controversial but maybe tv stars should NOT be the last word on urban development laist.com/news/climate...
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A former reality star is influencing LA's post-fires rebuilding
Spencer Pratt is best known from his time on MTV reality show "The Hills." But he's now using his social media presence to weigh in on rebuilding efforts after the L.A. fires.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
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The disappearance of Nory Sontay Ramos
Nory and her mother were following the rules. But as MSNBC reports from L.A. and Guatemala, U.S. officials deported them anyway — throwing their futures into jeopardy.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/07/2025
This is the fruit of a seed planted in the first Trump administration--a seed of skepticism around "social emotional learning" that, I'd argue, was planted to test whether fear-mongering around "too much empathy and not enough real learning in schools" could be used to justify attacks on DEI. 1/🧵
A New York Times opinion headline:

“Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left? How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.
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