Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm also wondering if old tensions between Madrid and Barcelona from the Colau- and Montero-era of the PAH are playing on role... 120
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trying to follow along virtually from NYC, and it is breaking my brain 120
Reposted by Sophie GonickSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026US inflation is "entirely" due to Trump's tariffs. I am hard pressed to think of a worse decision by any President. The consequences were predicted, he did them anyway and here we are. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...cnbc.comInflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed saysTariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found. 5348103
Reposted by Sophie GonickErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 5456951753
Reposted by Sophie GonickWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...sltrib.comICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said. 14966438
Reposted by Sophie GonickLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October. 8659327
Reposted by Sophie GonickParkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is insane. 1763639903
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026How long until Andreessen Horowitz announce they've hired the Cornell 7?! 000
Reposted by Sophie GonickKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 767286805987
Reposted by Sophie GonickJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002199778
Reposted by Sophie GonickKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But I need to smile more. 717143696316
Reposted by Sophie GonickAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7835921380
Reposted by Sophie GonickSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1537747
Reposted by Sophie GonickPolling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump is sitting at a -28 approval in 50+1 and -21% in RCP Split it down the middle, say he's at -25% For context, his approvals at this point in 2018 was -11% 110622
Reposted by Sophie GonickErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's not just this bill--Newsom's entire administration has included vetoing dozens if not hundreds of good bills that would make people safer, increase their rights at work, etc. Anyone who cares about policy wants this person nowhere near the White House 314046
Reposted by Sophie GonickJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Don't get me wrong, Uruguay certainly has its share of challenges. But the fact that they chose the most politically and economically stable country in the Western Hemisphere underscores the degree to which their proposed alternative to the state actually depends on a strong and functioning state.nytimes.comTech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in UruguayAfter a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay. 414330
Reposted by Sophie GonickBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨 1413803584
Reposted by Sophie GonickFared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this. 5629461402
Reposted by Sophie Gonicktweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 453182751
Reposted by Sophie GonickErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This Day in Labor History: September 17, 2011. A group of activists started protesting in Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Soon gaining the nation’s attention and spawning similar groups across the country, Occupy Wall Street was the first grassroots protest against inequality in the New Gilded Age! 425090
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Interested in housing and mass movements? Mañana, Grad Center, 12 noon. 110
Reposted by Sophie GonickScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One of James Telerico or Ken Paxton will be the next senator from Texas. If you're telling people not to support Telerico, you're saying you want Paxton to win. That's it. You cannot select a different, third bespoke person to be senator like buying a tailored suit. 1660773
Reposted by Sophie GonickJosh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 1121872859
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Note the date: "Wednesday" Sept. 13. Unshakened! 000
Reposted by Sophie GonickBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026Votesafe dot org is an Elon Musk–run data vacuum, and under no circumstances should you click on it. 6489237
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Organizers must talk to supporters one-on-one and gather a core group, then send them out to talk with even more people, to persuade them to take action, to vote or rally or sign a petition or volunteer themselves... And they have to keep doing it, day in, day out." 000
Reposted by Sophie GonickGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 753080808
Reposted by Sophie GonickDemocrats @democrats.org · 03/09/2026BREAKING: New York City just saw its safest summer in recorded history under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Since Mayor Mamdani took office: —Major crime is down 6% —Murders are down 24% —Auto theft is down 13% Democratic mayors are keeping our communities safe. 55526162
Reposted by Sophie GonickSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"But in Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, & the state-imposed terror vs a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but [Trump's] proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be" - @swin24.bsky.socialzeteo.comInside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably. 11366179
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Now if only she could get booted from the board of my employer 000
Reposted by Sophie GonickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One thing I wanted to say at the time but couldn’t find the strength: regular people have no idea how academics publish books. We rarely have editorial or fact-checking support or services. Academic stars — overwhelming white men — get those resources but we almost never do. 766488
Reposted by Sophie GonickKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him. 4950691106
Reposted by Sophie Gonickdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/08/2026jews aren't responsible for others holding antisemitic beliefs nor acting upon them but the american jewish establishment reorienting itself around vilifying leftists for opposing israeli atrocities while giving nazis a free pass certainly is not helping slow the spread of antisemitism on the left 1368
Reposted by Sophie GonickKrazyTheeAlaskan™️ @krazytheealaskan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive 333304814611
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ostensibly cuz apparently (super corrupt) Seddio is the one who actually runs things 100
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I cannot believe this seriously unserious person is ostensibly in charge of one of the largest local county party orgs in the country. It's so embarrassing! 220
Reposted by Sophie GonickStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art 6342561314
Reposted by Sophie GonickCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/08/2026To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you. 6532136
Reposted by Sophie GonickJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 118313018380
Reposted by Sophie Gonickryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026AIPAC "seems to be cashing out the taboo-against-antisemitism account, as it were – cynically calculating that if it behaves like an antisemitic conspiracy theory, then people will hesitate to point that out; or if someone does, they can be smeared as a Jew-hater."zeteo.comIn Michigan, AIPAC Is Playing With FireAs an ostensible defender of Jewish rights, it is unwise to behave like the stuff of antisemitic conspiracy theories. 19515
Reposted by Sophie GonickNew Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Report from Brooklyn Democratic Party exec committee meeting is that Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's anti-democratic power grab has passed by 21-19 vote (1 abstention, 1 no-show) *All 8 District Leaders who lost in June voted yes* 516248
Reposted by Sophie GonickGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 226394937139
Reposted by Sophie GonickDemocratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all." 51811290
Reposted by Sophie GonickAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown. 352484739
Reposted by Sophie GonickMiguel A. Martínez @miguel-martinez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Back to school with this news: the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology that was published two years ago is now Open Access!! Authors and colleagues, please spread the word: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o... 094
Reposted by Sophie GonickThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/08/2026Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ellis Rosen. 4536166