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Tori

@tlc-soc.bsky.social
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they/them. sociologist writing about wages, caregiving, and debt. fighting for public care infrastructure and unions for all.

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The search was conducted by DHS. DHS has no business searching the home of a sitting congressional representative. We're way past 'troubling', 'disturbing', or any other adjective that obscures what this really is: authoritarian fascism.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...
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Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years
A Federal Reserve study found overall median net worth rose 2% between 2022 and 2025.
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This matters for after Trump too. Post-authoritarian reconstruction should not merely change who controls concentrated federal public power. It has to democratize where public capacity is located and the institutional forms through which it can be exercised.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
once again: you never had to hand it to Spanberger
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a death blow to social scientific research in the US
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"affordable" child care is not "universal." sliding scales and means tests are not universal. work requirements are not universal.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
even the corruption is racist
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”
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Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The plan is paid for by taking child care supports away from low income parents (mothers), just as they're requiring these same families (women) to *work* to access Medicaid and SNAP. The real goal is to punish poor single mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives
Some praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles.
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
no amnesty
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It literally caused lynchings appext.hks.harvard.edu/publications... (Paper by Desmond Ang, ended up in the American Economic Review)
The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate
Desmond Ang*
July 22, 2022
Abstract
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation, a fictional portrayal of the KKK's founding rife with racist stereotypes. Exploiting the film's five-year "roadshow" I find a sharp spike in lynchings and race riots coinciding with its arrival in a county.
Instrumenting for roadshow destinations using the location of theaters prior to the movie's release, I show that the film significantly increased local Klan support in the 1920s. Roadshow counties continue to experience higher rates of hate crimes and hate groups a century later.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the affordability crisis is a care crisis Whether you’re a working dad who has to unexpectedly take leave to help your mom recover from surgery or a new mom who only has access to unpaid maternity leave - needing to cover an extra ~$1000 in expenses over 12 weeks w/o a paycheck is out of reach
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Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families
We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Disability Voting Rights Week! In 2024, for @motherjones.com, I reported on accessibility issues for churches being common polling locations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Churches don't have to be accessible. That's a voting rights problem.
In 2024, millions of people will vote at religious sites. What if you're disabled?
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Don’t people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?”
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the problem with fb marketplace is it won’t stop showing me just slightly better apartment deals weeks after we signed the new lease
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of those things you were pretty sure was true but now you have causal quantiative evidence in the American Economic Review: business schools trained CEOs to pay workers less in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
its pretty concerning how islamophobia and racism seem like they're becoming more common as a way to attack left leaning candidates in democratic primaries
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
no amnesty
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
no amnesty
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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
These are concentration camps.
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Kate Gallagher Robbins @kfgrobbins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New BLS data out today shows that administrative support jobs are projected to decline the fastest over the next decade, due in part to AI. These jobs are overwhelmingly held by women: nationalpartnership.org/report/ai-em....
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AI and Emerging Risks for Women Workers | National Partnership for Women & Families
New data on how women workers are overrepresented in occupations where they may be particularly affected by AI in the workplace.
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"The hip fracture that shortens a woman’s life at 80 often has its invoice dated decades earlier, accumulated interest on a debt incurred when she was learning, at 11 or 22 or 35, that her body’s smallness was worth more than its strength."
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Disabled women workers are doing more with less - typically paid just 56 cents on the dollar to nondisabled men. That's $21,500 less per year to buy food, pay rent, and care for their families. My latest for @npwf.bsky.social explores the causes & consequences of this gap
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Disabled Women and the Wage Gap | National Partnership for Women & Families
Disabled women are doing more with less: they are typically paid 56 cents for every dollar paid to nondisabled men.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Great conversation with @devawo.bsky.social on BLM, social movements, and progressive politicians. newrepublic.com/article/2144...
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Transcript: What AOC’s ‘Woke” Comments Say About Her and the Left
Scholar Deva Woodly says progressive politicians shouldn’t distance themselves from the movements of the early 2020s.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The RAND HRS data products were SO helpful when I was getting into HRS for the first time
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RAND HRS Data Files Based on the Health and Retirement Study
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal survey of the U.S. population over age 50 conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. RAND has made several da...
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
OP has the same energy as going into a bookshop and looking through the “sociology” section my guy that’s not what it is but sure
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 12/08/2026
Wonderful thread by @tlc-soc.bsky.social! There IS a way to fund a robust economy of universal care—in particular, of child, elder, and health care, but also of things we've been taught not to think of as "care work," like providing housing to the homeless. That way is Democratic Public Finance.
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the question is not "can we afford" paid family leave, universal child and health care, home and community based services. It's can we organize the political power needed to use existing capacities to create further capacity to build the world the majority of Americans want to live in. (6/6)
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Affordability and care for all requires addressing the backwards and undemocratic system of public finance. We must fight to treat public investment in housing, health care, and education like the revenue generating engines they are. cc: @greenbackbetter.bsky.social (5/?)
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is borne out in the data. In the HRS, I find caregivers 50+ are more likely to be in debt than their non-caregiving peers as are disabled adults. (someday I will have a link to show yall this) To solve the affordability crisis we must solve the care crisis (4/?)
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For a century the US econ has run on indv. & families bearing the costs of society's need for care. the cost of care services have long risen faster than wages & inflation Add women pushed out of the LF & it's not a surprise families turn to the only safety net available: predatory debt (3/?)
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The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis
Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.
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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your mom gets sick, you have a baby, your husband is in an accident and you have to take 12 weeks off of work. For the typical American worker w/o paid leave this means covering at least ~$7,500 in expenses w/o a paycheck You have to eat and pay your rent so what do you do? take on debt. (2/?)
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Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families
We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...
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