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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

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DOGE Mismanagement Principles

Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is literally true. School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose. From my book WHITE FLIGHT:

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Looking for a community of Latinx/a/o scholars broadly throughout academia? With help from @larrylafountain.bsky.social I started this starter pack, now w/ 111/150 scholars. If you wanted to be added please reply to post. Dr. @jorgenleal.bsky.social also has a starter pack!! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

NYPD has been spending a lot of money on advanced surveillance systems for decades, and none of those seemed to help much here. I fear the post-mortem conclusion will be "see, we need to spend more on *even more* advanced tech." www.wired.com/story/nypd-s...

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The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools

Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Annabel Ipsen and I co-wrote this paper on how structural precarity was central to the meatpacking business model. COVID-19 made clear the role that necropolitics played in this model. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The paper's title is Worksites as Sacrifice Zones: Structural Precarity and COVID-19 in U.S. Meatpacking. The paper's authors are Ian Carrillo and Annabel Ipsen.

The abstract says:

As meatpacking facilities became COVID-19 hotspots, the pandemic renewed the importance of longstanding claims from environmental justice and agrifood scholars. The former asserts the perceived dispensability of marginalized populations sustains environmental injustices, whereas the latter stresses that decades of industrial consolidation created structural instability in the food supply chain. This article asks how industry and government leverage existing socio-ecological inequalities to ensure the continuity of the meatpacking supply chain during COVID-19, and the implications these actions hold for workers. To answer these questions, the authors perform case studies of meatpacking facilities in three Midwestern states. This article uses the critical environmental justice framework to expand research on sacrifice zones to include hazardous worksites such as meatpacking. We find that toxic employment flourishes through firms’ labor practices that pass socio-ecological risks onto workers in the name of efficiency, and through a complicit state that prioritizes accumulation and consumption over workers’ health.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ekow Yankah has a relevant paper forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review: "Deputization and Privileged White Violence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Deputization and Privileged White Violence

A number of high-profile and racially charged killings, such as Trayvon Martin's, Kenneth Herring's, Ahmaud Arbery's and Jordan Neely's, have been at the hands

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Here's a 🧵 of starter packs of social scientists that study race and ethnicity. go.bsky.app/GbS4DAs

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Katie Beardall, PhD @kbeardall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I know Bluesky is really here because my favorite cousin has finally joined 🤩 welcome @trochabeardall.bsky.social

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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

You must read this truly brilliant piece by @kmtani.bsky.social in the current Harvard Law Review. Her reflection on the Supreme Court, curation, narration, and history is one of the best pieces of scholarship that I have *ever* read. This will become a classic. I am in awe.

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Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme

Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.”Transcript of Oral Argument at 19, Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 144 S. Ct. 18 (2023) (No. 22-429) (statement of Kagan, J.), htt

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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Hard not to understand this as a structure of whiteness. (Which is not the same as saying that all the perpetrators are themselves white.) ‘if you don’t like the way we violate, we will structurally abandon you instead…’

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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).

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