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It looks like our library has it! So that’s good news.

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That’s outrageous, I’m so sorry. So infuriating…

Schools have banned the book? Wow. I know I sound naive, but I did not think that administrators would stoop that low…

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This will really help lower the cost of filling up a tank!

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“By lobbying to uphold strict state bans [on abortion], the church is demanding that the government use the threat of prison to enforce our specific theology onto citizens who hold entirely different, equally valid moral convictions.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The current [taxpayer-funded] ad re-promotes Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to ‘expel the warmongers from our government,’ at a moment when his administration continues a war against Iran, which has no clear resolution in sight.”

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There’s a lot that’s been written about the discourse of sex-positivity and how it’s tied to the history of white women — for whom sex was allegedly restricted (e.g., in the Victorian era) — whereas for women of color, sex was generally exploited rather than constrained.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a powerful example of how the alleged fight against “slut-shaming” often leads people—usually women—to be pressured into sexual situations. I saw this at my alma mater, Oberlin College, during our annual Safer Sex Night events. Not everyone feels “liberated” by the promise of promiscuity.

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @firinglineshow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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What should the next president do with Trump’s White House ballroom? “Knock it down” says @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. She argues the ballroom is about more than architecture: “It’s Trump seeking to remake the institution itself.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I agree with you on most things, but on this, there’s plenty of evidence that parental estrangement has increased dramatically in recent decades. It’s confined to more recent generations, but is still quite common according to the literature. Of course, the word “epidemic” is always debatable.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 27/09/2026

This betrayal might seem confusing. Some kind of aberration or mistake. A few bad apples. The reality is so much more disturbing and I implore every campus worker and student to read @nbedera.bsky.social. www.nicolebedera.com/_files/ugd/c...

I Can Protect His Future, but She Can’t Be Helped: Himpathy
and Hysteria in Administrator Rationalizations of
Institutional Betrayal
Nicole Bedera
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
ABSTRACT
It is well-established fact that sexual assault survivors who
report the violence they endured are retraumatized by the
reporting process, but there is limited research on how these
institutional betrayals are enacted. The current study draws on
ethnographic observation and interview data to explore how 24
administrators use gendered rationalization frames to justify
betrayal in Title IX cases. Specifically, administrators invoke
himpathy to define their primary role as protecting the futures
of young men. To defend this view from critique, they condemn
how survivors use Title IX by casting them as hysterical women
who are either mistaken in labeling an experience as sexual
assault or suffering from trauma too severe for a Title IX process
to repair. Taken together, these frames portray institutional
betrayal as moral, even as these ideologies reinforce gender
inequality.
ARTICLE HISTORY
Received 12 November 2021
Accepted 23 March 2023
KEYWORDS
Sexual assault; institutional betrayal; himpathy; hysteria; victim blame

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This headline — and the claim that “the world wants more children” — really highlights the gap between pronatalist movement among White people and the anti-natalist attitudes toward people of color, especially immigrants. Who says the “world” wants more children? And which children?

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Here are the relevant paragraphs.

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Pope has a great section reviewing the difference between egoism and anomie according to Durkheim vs. his (often conflicting )interpreters.

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Oops, I meant to say that the last chapter of Book II (the one that describes emotions tied to each form of suicide) is covered by Whitney Pope. For example, he describes the difference between egoistic suicide (which he ties to “depression, melancholy, or sheer apathy”) vs. anomic suicide.

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” —Max Planck

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This is a great essay! I find some of it unfair to Durkheim (e.g., “it begs incredulity to assume tight-knit, mechanical communities no longer exist” seems like a straw man). And I do think other theorists cover Book III of Suicide, notably Whitney Pope. But I appreciate your analysis here!

Correction: The report shows racial differences for some dimensions (like sleep) but not for the mental health section. And they've completely dropped the analyses for sexual orientation and gender identity.

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The new Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) report from the CDC shows dramatic improvement in the mental health of high school students. But because of the Trump admin, the report no longer shows disparities by race, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of inequality. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/yhif/fi...

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“As much as he professes to hate the mainstream media, Trump depends on it. He wants the constant attention. He loves being in the spotlight. … It will get through to him if that kind of attention is withdrawn.”

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